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  Lift the Mask - A short...

  Kristin Houlihan

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  Join Kristin in her poetic and heartfelt musings on life, parenting, and faith, told through the lens of a chronically ill and disabled mom. 
  The poetry and lyrical prose featured in this chapbook provide an honest look at Kristin’s journey with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and her growing commitment to writing as other parts of her life are stripped away by chronic illness. Inspired by one-word prompts, every piece tells a story in 240 characters or less. 
  Lift the Mask reminds those of us who live with chronic illness that we aren’t alone, and that creativity can sometimes be found in our greatest struggles.

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  Winter Dreams - Author of the...

  F Scott itzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died.  Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. 
   
  His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.   
   
  In 1913 he enrolled at Princeton but his devotion to his own literary pursuits resulted in him leaving and, rather bizarrely, joining the Army.  In 1918, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama he met and became infatuated and then inseparable from Zelda Sayre.  Initially though she refused to marry him but with the success of ‘This Side of Paradise’, the fame and the flow of money enabled them both to begin a gilded life.  For them this was The Jazz Age.  For Fitzgerald he was already an alcoholic. 
   
  He continued to write with great mastery and the titles of his novels and many of his 164 short stories are household names.  The Great Gatsby, often cited as The Great American Novel was published to mixed reviews.  As America moved from the Great Depression to the slaughter of the Second World War his works and himself were seen as far too entwined with the decadent twenties. The world had moved on and he hadn’t.   
   
  Further tragedy was never far from his life. Zelda after years of erratic and now intolerable behaviour was committed to an institution in 1936.  His own sales began to decline and he became a hack for hire in Hollywood, dependent on increasing amounts of booze and the weekly pay check.  His drunken state had often resulted in arrest or hospitalisation, further imperiling his talents.   Despite his contribution to many MGM films he received only one credit. 
   
  The end came all too soon for one of America’s greatest ever writers.  On 21st December 1940, at only 44 years of age in Hollywood, F Scott Fitzgerald succumbed to a heart attack. 
   
  In ‘Winter Dreams’ Fitzgerald carefully unravels the life of a young entrepreneur who, many years before, meets a hauntingly beautiful woman at the summer resort where he caddies.

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  Tangled Yet Coiled - A...

  Tom Burgess

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  Tangled Yet Coiled is a collection of 22 poems exploring the climate emergency, the unifying potential of nature, and experiences of wilderness that vault the ego, that captivate and sustain. It is written with the hope of turning powerlessness into small acts of courage and championing the natural beauty found in humans and all living things.

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  The Estate

  Shaan Sahota

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  'Question: If it's not about money, how come money can fix it?'
  The Leader of the Opposition has been forced to resign in a scandal. Against the odds, Angad Singh emerges as the favourite.
  He could win, he could make history, he could really change things – as long as his sisters keep their mouths shut…
  Shaan Sahota's play The Estate is a razor-sharp exploration of family, power and the lies we tell about ourselves. It was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Daniel Raggett, with Adeel Akhtar as Angad.

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  Can You Hear Me

  Anna Lyse Erikson

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  Before Guglielmo Marconi came along, there was no practical way to transmit telegraphic messages without wires. But when he harnessed the power of radio waves to send signals over long distances, what had once seemed impossible became a world-changing reality.  
   
  In this original L.A. Theatre Works commission, we’ll get a firsthand, intimate view of the precocious Italian inventor, and what he had to overcome in his quest to revolutionize the way we communicate. 
   
  Can You Hear Me is available as part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in April, 2024. 
   
  Directed by Rosalind Ayres 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: 
   
  Lucy DeVito as Degna Marconi 
  Martin Jarvis as Mr. Preece, King Edward, Captain Smith 
  Kurt Kanazawa as Alfonso Marconi, George Parkin 
  Henri Lubatti as Giuseppe Marconi, Teddy Roosevelt 
  Moira Quirk as Annie Jameson 
  Darren Richardson as George Kemp, Jack Phillips 
  André Sogliuzzo as Guglielmo Marconi and Older Marconi 
  Mark Jude Sullivan as Luigi Solari, Harold Bride, Pagent 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden 
  Recorded and edited by Neil Wogenson 
  Designed by Neil Wogenson, Charles Carroll and Mark Holden, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. 
  Technical Advisor and Morse Code Performer: Mark Holden. 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin 
  Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez 
  Antique Morse Code and radio equipment provided by Ken Holden

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  Female Poets of the Nineteenth...

  George Eliot

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  For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our culture.  Whilst this traditional view has some merit it is not entirely accurate. 
  Here, gathered together in these volumes, we can, through their words, experience their lives; we can hear their voices, their thoughts, joys, loves and losses. 
  For the Female Poet there was always the confining hand of men to instruct that their time was perhaps spent more productively elsewhere.  These lines, these gilded verses often protest otherwise. 
  The contribution of women in these earlier centuries is immense and in this series we bring together poets who have created some of the most beautiful and expressive verses ever written.  And remember these words, these telling lines, have been written against the grain of society's male bias.  With their remembered words these female poets have given us a history that we can all now share. 
  This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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