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  Animal Farm

  George Orwell

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  'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.'
  When the animals in the farmyard rebel against their tyrannical farmer and take control of the farm, they hope to create a world where they can be equal, happier and free. But as power shifts and a new leader emerges, they soon face the age-old question: what does it really mean to be equal?
  Exploring loss of identity, the seductive allure of privilege, and the corrupting nature of political power, George Orwell's Animal Farm is a classic story of rebellion and treachery, and a timely reminder of the importance of resistance.
  Tatty Hennessy's adaptation received its professional premiere in 2025, directed by Amy Leach, co-produced by Leeds Playhouse and Stratford East in association with Nottingham Playhouse, and performed at all three theatres. It was commissioned and first performed by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain in 2021. The play won Best Play Revival at the 2025 UK Theatre Awards.

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  From From - Poems

  Monica Youn

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  LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY 
   
   
   
  "Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat. 
   
   
   
  Monica Youn's From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of "authenticity," no experience of your so-called homeland, how do you piece together an Asian American identity out of Westerners' ideas about Asians? Your sense of yourself is part stereotype, part aspiration, part guilt. In this dazzling collection, one sequence deconstructs the sounds and letters of the word "deracinations" to create a sonic landscape of micro- and macroaggressions, assimilation, and self-doubt. A kaleidoscopic personal essay explores the racial positioning of Asian Americans and the epidemic of anti-Asian hate. Several poems titled "Study of Two Figures" anatomize and dissect the Asian other: Midas the striving, nouveau-riche father; Dr. Seuss and the imaginary daughter Chrysanthemum-Pearl he invented while authoring his anti-Japanese propaganda campaign; Pasiphaë, mother of the minotaur, and Sado, the eighteenth-century Korean prince, both condemned to containers allegorical and actual.

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  The Frozen Earth & Other Poems -...

  Winifred Holtby

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  Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire.  
   
  A governess provided her early education before she went to Queen Margaret's School in Scarborough.  After passing the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford in 1917, she decided to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in early 1918.  However, soon after her arrival in France, the War ended. 
   
  She returned to study at Oxford and met fellow student Vera Brittain.  After graduating from Oxford, in 1921, Winifred and Vera moved to London, hoping to establish themselves as authors. 
   
  Her early novels met with only moderate success but as a journalist she was both prolific and increasingly well-known.  Her articles graced more than 20 newspapers and magazines, including the Manchester Guardian newspaper.   
   
  Winifred was a committed feminist, socialist and pacifist.  She gave many lectures for the League of Nations Union.  She was also active in the Independent Labour Party and was a campaigner for the unionisation of black workers in South Africa. 
   
  In 1931 the symptoms of high blood pressure, recurrent headaches and bouts of lassitude brought forth a diagnosis of Bright's disease.  She was given two years to live and now put all her efforts into what was to become her crowning achievement: South Riding.  Released posthumously it received lavish praise and enormous sales.  Her canon of works tackle difficult subjects head on, many in unusual ways, brimming with verve and usually strong female protagonists. 
   
  Winifred Holtby died on 29th September 1935 in London.  She was 37. 
  01 - The Frozen Earth & Other Poems by Winifred Holtby - An Introduction 
  02 - The Frozen Earth by Winifred Holtby ''Edwards's Funeral March'' 
  03 - Two Early Poems (No Mourning by Request & The Debt) by Winifred Holtby 
  04 - The Foolish Clocks by Winifred Holtby 
  05 - Prayer by Winifred Holtby 
  06 - Hills in the Transvaal by Winifred Holtby 
  07 - The Grudging Ghost by Winifred Holtby 
  08 - Trains in France by Winifred Holtby 
  09 - The Frozen Earth Symphony by Winifred Holtby - The Dead Musician 
  10 - For the Ghost of Elinor Wylie by Winifred Holtby 
  11 - House on Fire by Winifred Holtby 
  12 - Happy Ending by Winifred Holtby

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  Wonder Boy

  Ross Willis

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  'What use is a boy who can't say his own name?'
  Sonny is twelve. He stammers and is finding his way in a world ruled by vicious vowels, confusing consonants, and the biggest beast of all – small talk. His only escape is with a comic-book hero of his own creation, who helps Sonny soar above his reality.
  But when he's cast by the headteacher in the school production of Hamlet, he soon discovers that language is power – and the real heroes are closer than he thinks.
  Ross Willis's play Wonder Boy is a 'boundingly imaginative' (The Times) drama about the power of finding your own voice. It was first directed by Sally Cookson, performed at Bristol Old Vic in 2022, named Best Play at the 2023 Writers' Guild Awards, and revived for a UK tour in 2024.

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  A Domestic Lookbook

  JoAnne McFarland, Schuyler Grant

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  A companion to her gorgeous and powerful multimedia collection Pullman, A Domestic Lookbook converses with the text of Malinda Russell’s A Domestic Cook Book, the first known cookbook published by a Black woman in the United States. McFarland’s poems and art pieces attempt to counteract violent acts with creative output. As McFarland herself puts it, “each act of making thwarts violence’s aim to destroy.”

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  High-Rise Boulevard

  Adrian Tanase

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  High-Rise Boulevard is another concept free-verse poetry book, in the "Timeless Adventures" series by Adrian Tanase, a Romanian writer. The book's concept revolves around a city with no name, where impressions of the city are described in their many aspects and facets, covering the life of the citizens experienced from an atemporal view.If you like the works of William Carlos Williams, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, E.E. Cummings, or Walt Whitman, then this audiobook is for you.Enjoy!

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