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  Chris Bush Plays: One

  Chris Bush

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  Since her play Steel opened in her native Sheffield in 2018, Chris Bush has rapidly become one of the UK's most successful and widely staged playwrights, with her plays on stage at the National Theatre, in the West End, and across Europe. Celebrated for her spirited dissections of power, female agency and northern identity, her work is infused with wit, empathy, and a powerful sense of place and belonging.
  Included here are five of her plays, all first performed between 2018 and 2021, together with a revealing introduction in which she reflects on the tumultuous period from which they emerged.
  Steel (Sheffield Theatres, 2018) is a political epic constructed from minimal resources, a two-hander spanning three decades of women in politics. 'Sharp, witty and uncannily topical' The Stage
  Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong, 2020) is a radical reimagining of the classic tale, asking what women must sacrifice to achieve greatness. 'Original, ambitious and fantastically revisionist' Guardian
  Nine Lessons and Carols(Almeida Theatre, 2020) is a play, with songs by Maimuna Memon, about connection and isolation, forged during the Covid pandemic, exploring what we hold on to in troubled times. 'A reminder of the power of theatre and our need for it' Telegraph
  Hungry (Paines Plough, 2021) is a pithy two-hander about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour. 'Reconfirms Chris Bush as one of our greatest, most relevant contemporary playwrights' Broadway World
   Not  the End of the World (Schaubühne, Berlin, 2021) is a daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and colonialism. 'Staggering… Bush's remarkable text melds a ruthless structural concept with exquisite lyricism' Guardian
  'One of our most prolific and arresting writers'Evening Standard
  'A writer of great wit and empathy'The Times

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  Gandamak's Fury: The Road from...

  Gaurav Garg

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The year is 1842. The British Empire’s bold venture into Afghanistan has dissolved into a horrific nightmare. After installing the unpopular Shah Shuja Durrani on the throne in Kabul, the occupying forces under the inept command of General Elphinstone find themselves besieged, their political envoy Sir William Macnaghten brutally murdered by Wazir Akbar Khan, leader of the Afghan resistance. 
  Forced into a humiliating capitulation, the sixteen thousand souls of the British column – soldiers, sepoys, and a vast multitude of civilian camp followers – begin their infamous winter retreat. "Gandamak's Fury: The Road from Kabul" charts this catastrophic journey, a ninety-mile exodus from the Afghan capital towards the distant hope of Jalalabad, a path that would become a byword for military disaster. 
  "Gandamak's Fury: The Road from Kabul" is an unflinching, epic portrayal of one of history’s most harrowing military retreats. It explores the catastrophic consequences of imperial hubris, the brutal realities o

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  Neptune's Projects

  Rishi Dastidar

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  What do you do when you are a god – but powerless and unable to prevent one of your favourite species from their insatiable, accelerating death wish? Do you try to shout louder and more insistently, or instead reinvent yourself as a troubadour of romantic ruin? Such are the dilemmas posed by Rishi Dastidar in his third poetry collection Neptune's Projects, a reshaping of mythology for the climate crisis era which gives bold consideration to the stark choices we face.
  A post-apocalyptic jig and reel, these poems are compelling, deadpan yarns of the sea, full of both fury and fun. In Neptune's Projects the end of humanity is made wry, thrilling – and alive.

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  Perfection Comes at a Price

  Ulla Beattie

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  Eric has a miserable childhood in a violent, drunken family in a tough London housing estate. He compensates by looking for perfection. For him, this means worldly success in a diplomatic career as far away from his childhood as possible. His single-minded ambition comes at a price. It makes him leave his childhood sweetheart Katie behind, since he knows that she can’t keep up with him. Their ways part. Eric marries an upper-class woman and becomes an Ambassador. However, Katie and he never quite lose touch. After his wife’s death Eric and Katie come together again. There is action and pace, fun and sadness, a huge variety of life experiences and a sense of providence and redemption.

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  Hold Tight & Reach Hard - Poetry...

  Darrell Kane

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  "If you've ever wished you could read an Edward Hopper painting, this is a book for you." 
  - Allison Larkin, Best Selling Author of The People We Keep and Home of The American Circus. 
  Hold Tight & Reach Hard: Poetry and Prose is a moving collection that explores the raw edges of life—where pain meets perseverance, where regret gives way to resilience, and where self-doubt is met with the quiet determination to push forward. 
  With an unfiltered, honest voice, Darrell Kane delivers poetry that is meant to be felt, not dissected. From the depths of struggle to the glimmers of hope, these poems navigate love, loss, addiction, mental health, and the everyday battles we fight within ourselves.  
  For readers who appreciate the emotional depth of Rupi Kaur, the raw vulnerability of Sabrina Benaim, and the quiet strength of Mary Oliver, this book is an invitation to hold on, to reach for more, and to find beauty in the struggle. 
  📖 Perfect for fans of: 
  ✔️ Emotional, accessible poetry 
  ✔️ Themes of resilience, self-discovery, and mental health 
  ✔️ Poets like Rupi Kaur, Atticus, and Courtney Peppernell 
  ✔️ A gift for anyone in need of encouragement and understanding

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  The Imaginary Invalid

  Molière Molière, John Wood...

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  France's master comic playwright has a field day with the subjects of hypochondria and our blind obedience to doctors. Molière’s witty attack on the medical profession has more than a little resonance today. Translated by John Wood, adapted by Beth Milles.
   
  
   
  Recorded before a live audience at the Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica in December 1997.
   
  
   
  Directed by Beth Milles
   
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
   
  
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
   
  
   
  The Actor’s Gang Theatre Company:
   
  Molly Bryant as Toinette
   
  Tom Fitzpatrick as Diaforirus
   
  Laurence O’Keefe as Cleante
   
  Dan Parker as Argan
   
  Evie Peck as Louison
   
  Dina Platias as Angelique
   
  Stephen M. Porter as Thomas
   
  Michael Rivkin as Purgon
   
  Dean Robinson as Beralde
   
  Patti Tippo as Berline
   
  Chris Wells as Fleurant
   
  
   
  Technical Director: Raymond Guarna
   
  Foley Artist and Stage Manager: John Lovick
   
  Associate Producer: Susan Raab Simonson
   
  Original Music by Laurence O’Keefe

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