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  Ulysses's Cat - New Writing from...

  Alexandra Büchler

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  'A wonderful collection stemming from a hugely important project keeping young Welsh writers connected to Europe despite all attempts to sever these crucial cultural ties.' – Rachel Trezise
  'Anthologies such as this one are the footings of the recently-burnt bridges that we need to rebuild. They help to tear down the walls put up around us. Always important, they are now vital.' – Niall Griffiths
  Ulysses's Cat brings readers the work of some of the most outstanding authors of the younger generation from Croatia, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia and Wales who participated in a project of exchange residencies originally launched on the Croatian island of Mljet, where, according to legend, shipwrecked Ulysses found shelter. As Britain becomes metaphorically unmoored and drifts away from Europe, keeping connected through reading and dialogue provides us with new perspectives on our place in the world and on the tumultuous times we live in. The works of poetry, prose and essays included here offer a snapshot of the concerns and preoccupations shared by young writers from a region with a rich literature that rarely reaches English-language readers and at the same time confirms the vitality of the bilingual Welsh literary scene.

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  Shakespeare for Every Night of...

  Colin Salter

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  Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespeare, with one entry for every night of the year.
  Chosen especially by a Shakespeare fanatic to reflect the changing seasons and daily events, the entries in this glorious book include:
  Romeo and Juliet on Valentine's Day.
  A Midsummer Night's Dream in Midsummer.
  The witches of Macbeth around their cauldron on Halloween.
  Also featured is one of Shakespeare's only two mentions of football for the anniversary of the first FA cup final. 
  Beautifully illustrated with favourite scenes from Shakespeare's best-loved plays, this magnificent volume is a fun introduction to the well-known work and lesser known plays and poetry and is designed to be accessible to both adults and curious children.
  Keep this book by your bedside and luxuriate in the rich language of the greatest writer the world has ever known, for entertainment, relaxation and timeless wisdom every night of the year.

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  Casablanca & The Maltese Falcon...

  Mr Punch

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  MR PUNCH PRESENTS Casablanca, perhaps the best loved and most watched of all Hollywood movies. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), the cynical owner of Rick’s Café Americain helps his former lover Ilse Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and her underground leader husband escape from the Nazis in this powerful love story, featuring the classic song As Time Goes By. The Maltese Falcon stars Humphrey Bogart as the private detective Sam Spade. In this compelling thriller, Sam Spade is entrusted with the safe-keeping of the much-coveted black falcon statuette as he becomes involved in a classic tale of greed and illusion.  “You played it for her, you can play it for me.” 
    
  This high-quality audiobook has been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast. 
   
  Also available as part of the Hollywood Playhouse BOX SET, a collection of 14 Oscar winning ear-movies, adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. 
   
  "These radio dramas were….to become as popular as the movies themselves." Hollywood Movie Memories 
   
  "This is an excellent audio product that will appeal to the majority of audiobook listeners." Talking Business 
    
  "A lovely series to add to any film, audio or crime lovers’ collection." Audio World

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  Top 10 Poets The - Nature - Five...

  William Wordsworth

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  The world of nature is often the first resource a poet has for muse and inspiration.  Nature has infinite ways of both revealing herself and putting together landscapes of majesty and wonder in everything from a flower to the universe. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Poets - Nature - An Introduction 
  2 - To the Daisy by William Wordsworth 
  3 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  4 - The Kitten and the Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth 
  5 - It Was an April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  6 - My Hearts Leaps Up by William Wordsworth 
  7 - from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 
  8 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman 
  9 - Warble Of Lilac Time By Walt Whitman 
  10 - A July Afternoon By The Pond by Walt Whitman 
  11 - A Carol of Harvest for 1867 by Walt Whitman 
  12 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  13 - Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats 
  14 - Ode to Autumn by John Keats 
  15 - On the Sea by Keats 
  16 - Lines Written in the Highlands After a Visit to Burn's Country by John Keats 
  17 - How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  18 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson 
  19 - Angels, in the Early Morning by Emily Dickinson 
  20 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  21 - Two Butterflies Went Out at Noon by Emily Dickinson 
  22 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare 
  23 - All Nature Has a Feeling by  John Clare 
  24 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare 
  25 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  26 - Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare 
  27 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  28 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  29 - Woods In Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  30 - By the Seaside - The Fire of Driftwood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  31 - The Sound of The Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  32 - In Vision I Roamed by Thomas Hardy 
  33 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy 
  34 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Last Week in October by Thomas Hardy 
  36 - To Flowers from Italy by Thomas Hardy 
  37 - Where Go the Boats by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  38 - The Canoe Speaks by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  39 - Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  40 - The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  41 - The Gardener by Robert Louis Stevenson  
  42 - Berrying by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  43 - May-Day by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  44 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  45 - Water by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  46 - Threnody by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  47 - All Things Will Die by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  48 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  49 - The Owl by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  50 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  51 - Locksley Hall by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  Farm Hall

  Katherine Moar

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  'It was never about the Reich or the war. It was about physics.'
  Summer 1945. Hitler is dead, but the war in the Pacific rages on. When six of Germany's top nuclear scientists – including three Nobel Prize winners – are detained by Allied forces at a stately home in the Cambridgeshire countryside, they find themselves shut off from the outside world. Their only distractions are board games, a broken piano and a copy of Blithe Spirit. But as the months go by, their attention turns to the ongoing war and thoughts of their broken homeland.
  The scientists' tranquil summer is shattered by the inconceivable news that the Americans have succeeded where the Germans have failed: the United States has not only built an atomic bomb, but they have used one against Japan.
  Katherine Moar's captivating debut play Farm Hall dramatises the true story recorded inside the bugged walls of the actual Farm Hall between July 1945 and January 1946. It was premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in March 2023, before transferring to the Theatre Royal Bath, directed by Stephen Unwin. It transferred to the West End's Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in 2024.

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  Faust

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature.The earliest forms of the work, known as the Urfaust, were developed between 1772 and 1775; however, the details of that development are not entirely clear. Urfaust has twenty-two scenes, one in prose, two largely prose and the remaining 1,441 lines in rhymed verse. The manuscript is lost, but a copy was discovered in 1886.The first appearance of the work in print was Faust, a Fragment, published in 1790. Goethe completed a preliminary version of what is now known as Part One in 1806. Its publication in 1808 was followed by the revised 1828–29 edition, the last to be edited by Goethe himself.Goethe finished writing Faust Part Two in 1831; it was published posthumously the following year. In contrast to Faust Part One, the focus here is no longer on the soul of Faust, which has been sold to the devil, but rather on social phenomena such as psychology, history and politics, in addition to mystical and philosophical topics. The second part formed the principal occupation of Goethe's last years.

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