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  Treasures of the Heart

  Oliver Forward

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  Remember, true love cannot be measured, when it has been emptied from the heart. These romantic poems composed by Oliver Forward, remind the reader about positive thoughts in their past with the hope those feelings recur in the future.

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  Grotty

  Izzy Tennyson

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  Grotty is a dark and savage play exploring the London lesbian scene.
  A couple of little sad old basements that drip with sweat and piss, with second-hand noise pulsating from some gay-boy night upstairs. The women sit there in their uniformed black… and they are looking at you. They are not nice girls. But Grotty is not a nice story.
  Izzy Tennyson's play was premiered by Damsel Productions at The Bunker, London, in May 2018.

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  The Old Bachelor

  William Congreve

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  The Old Bachelor by William Congreve is a sparkling Restoration comedy that explores themes of love, courtship, deception, and the social pressures surrounding marriage. First performed in 1693, the play is one of Congreve's earliest successes and showcases his signature wit, sharp dialogue, and keen observation of human behavior.
  
  The story centers on a confirmed bachelor who prides himself on avoiding romantic entanglements, yet finds himself increasingly drawn into a world of flirtation, manipulation, and emotional confusion. Around him, a cast of lively characters pursue their own romantic and financial ambitions, often using disguise, persuasion, and strategic behavior to achieve their goals.
  
  As relationships develop and misunderstandings multiply, the boundary between genuine affection and calculated interest becomes increasingly blurred. The play humorously examines how desire, pride, and insecurity influence decisions about love and marriage, revealing the contradictions beneath social appearances.
  
  Congreve's writing is marked by elegance, verbal wit, and finely tuned comedic timing. The dialogue sparkles with irony and intelligence, while the plot weaves together multiple romantic threads into a satisfying and entertaining whole. Each character contributes to a broader critique of courtship practices and the performative nature of social interaction.
  
  The Old Bachelor remains a key work in the tradition of Restoration theatre, admired for its humor and insight. Its enduring appeal lies in its lively portrayal of love, resistance, and eventual surrender to emotional connection within a society governed by expectation and appearance.

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  Voyager

  Heather Riches

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  This poetry anthology provides reflections on a variety of topics ranging from nature, family, and transformative experiences. The experiences contained are not earth-shattering or unique, but everyday stories that could be told by everybody. Heather Riches has encapsulated these in a thoughtful but respectful way, and they will strike a chord with all who absorb them.

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  Salomé - A Tragedy in One Act

  Oscar Wilde

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  Come join me in reading the one of Oscar Wilde's only remaining tragedies, based on one of the most notorious recollections of the Bible. A story of gruesome ends for gruesome desires that shocked many of the theater goers in the late 1800's. 
  Salomé, the daughter of Herodious, has become utterly smitten with John the Baptist due to his rebuke of her advances. This causes her to desire him and only him, even unto death. ... His Death. 
  Come listen to the play that was the inspiration for the opera of the same name written by Richard Strauss, and one of the very first embodiments of the femme fatale.

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  Frontlines and Lifelines -...

  Timothy Hodgetts

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  This work captures personal experience of the Army's Surgeon General as a military doctor in crisis and war, spanning 30 years from Northern Ireland; through Kosovo to the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns; culminating in the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukraine war.
  Poetry provides the ability to say what is otherwise difficult or unpalatable. Some of the poems are critical and challenging. Some are humorous, as dark humour is a well-recognised resilience tool of the soldier. All are observational—and all are grounded in the realities of crisis and conflict.
  It is likely you have read war poetry from the perspectives of the combat soldier: but this book is the alternative perspective of those who manage the consequences of war. The work exposes that saving lives in conflict, picking up the human pieces, takes a toll on the carers. Writing these poems has been a means for the author to sustain mental resilience and to cope with serial morally injurious events.

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