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  Crocodiles (NHB Modern Plays)

  Lee Mattinson

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  Crocodiles brings to life a dystopian, modern-fairytale town where fact and fiction weave as tightly and snag as easily as granny's knitting.
  In a sleepy seaside town, Cornelia Glass is busy spinning yarn. Witches are burnt in the town centre. Crocodiles lurk in the shallows. Boys who go to the big city are skinned alive by roving tramps.
  Cornelia's oldest son, Rudolph, is being forced to give up his Punch and Judy show. Matilda, his wife, is secretly writing her first romantic novel. Their daughter, Lucy, can tell the future. But when Cornelia's younger son, Vincent, returns from his glitzy television job in the big city, the stories that once held the Glass family together are in danger of smashing them to smithereens.
  Lee Mattinson's Crocodiles was runner-up for the 2011 Verity Bargate Award, and premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in October 2014.
  'dark, funny and off the wall' - WhatsOnStage

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - Life - 12...

  Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Life - An Introduction 
  2 - If by Rudyard Kipling 
  3 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  4 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran 
  5 - Stream of Life by Tagore 
  6 - As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life by Walt Whitman 
  7 - Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare 
  8 - Life by Sir Walter Raleigh 
  9 - Life by Sarojini Naidu 
  10 - The Two Guides of Life - The Sublime and the Beautiful by Fredrich Schiller 
  11 - Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - Life is a Privilege by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  13 - The Guesthouse by Rumi

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  The Armchair Detective and the...

  Ian Shimwell

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  A missing girl...  The manipulative aristocrat, Marcus Dreadbury.  A local gangster with a drug-dealing problem.  The Manor's locked room, with a dusty handle.  Stables, but with no sign of any horses.  A subterranean stream.  Marcus' madcap father.  And a Manor-House full of surprises.   Trench and Old Tom must somehow make the connection, if they are to succeed at playing find-the-lady...

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  As We Face the Sun (NHB Modern...

  Kit Withington

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  A stark and tender story about growing up, the pleasures of friendship, why we hold onto things and how we might start to let go.
  A group of classmates, determined to remember their lost friend, commit to throwing an annual party in her honour. It's what she would have wanted. And year after year, they stick to the tradition.
  Now they're in their twenties, and another party is about to start. The cake has arrived safely, the buffet is all set, and the aux cable is finally working – but something just doesn't feel right…
  Kit Withington's play As We Face the Sun was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in a production by the Bush Young Company.
  The Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series features large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.

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  Real-Life Problems

  Lindsay White

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  This book of poems takes you on a journey of how social situations and how we view ourselves affects our lives and the way we see our world. It takes you on a journey of life's struggles. It teaches you that we have to lean on each other and love ourselves.

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  A Waiter Made of Glass - Stories...

  Verlyn Flieger

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  Award-winning author Verlyn Flieger takes readers through a series of insightful short stories exploring tragic aspects of human nature. A few of the tales are dark, others a bit lighter, but all celebrate the creativity of storytelling. The second part of the book is a collection of new poetry unearthing the wonders of language, the mundane, and grief and mourning as part of life—the dark spot within the light. Death is the inevitable, inescapable result of mortality, and grief is the price the living pay for that condition. Readers are invited to join in the journey, take some comfort in the knowledge of shared darkness, and know that even within the dark moments, there is always at least a speck of splintered light.

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