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  Favourite Classic Poems - by...

  Robert Browning, Rudyard...

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  A collection of favourite classic poems by some of our best loved poets  including Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Love Peacock, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Algernon Charles Swinburne and others.Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

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  Out of Love (NHB Modern Plays)

  Elinor Cook

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  A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook.
  Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. That's what happens when you're best friends forever.
  But when Lorna gets a place at university, and Grace gets pregnant, they suddenly find themselves in starkly different worlds. Can anything bridge the gap between them?
  Elinor Cook's play Out of Love was first produced in 2017 by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, in a co-production with Theatr Clywd and the Orange Tree Theatre.

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  My Keto Diet Went To Pot After...

  Rollin Dehay

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  Do you know the true back story of Bigfoot or how Kim in North Korea united the Jews and Arabs? I didn’t think so. Here’s 90 boneheaded rhymes designed to pull your leg and for me to leave a LEGACY of tomfoolery.

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  The Mahabharata - A Shortened...

  R. K. Narayan

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  “Narayan makes this treasury of Indian folklore and mythology readily accessible to the general reader . . . he captures the spirit of the narrative.”—Library Journal 
   
  The Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that doing so would invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from creation to destruction, this ancient poem remains an indelible part of Hindu culture and a landmark in ancient literature. 
   
  Centuries of listeners and readers have been drawn to The Mahabharata, which began as disparate oral ballads and grew into a sprawling epic. The modern version is famously long, and at more than 1.8 million words—seven times the combined lengths of the Iliad and Odyssey—it can be incredibly daunting. 
   
  But contemporary readers have a much more accessible entry point to this important work, thanks to R. K. Narayan’s masterful, elegant translation and abridgement of the poem. Now with a new foreword by Wendy Doniger, as well as a concise character and place guide and a family tree, The Mahabharata is ready for a new generation of readers. Narayan ably distills a tale that is both traditional and constantly changing. He draws from both scholarly analysis and creative interpretation and vividly fuses the spiritual with the secular. Through this balance he has produced a translation that is not only clear, but graceful, one that stands as its own story as much as an adaptation of a larger work.

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  Billy in Bunbury

  Royal Baking Powder Company

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  This 1924 poem/recipe book, designed as promotional material for the Royal Baking Powder Company, is set in the Oz community of Bunbury. Little Billy, who won't eat, is taken to the delicious kingdom Bunbury by King Hun Bun to help whet his appetite. Meanwhile, the King leaves the boy's mother with a recipe book for treats, made easy by the use of Price's Baking Powder.Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, though neither her name, nor the illustrator’s (Gertrude Kay) appears on the book. (Summary by P. Cunningham)

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  Mark O'Rowe Plays: One (NHB...

  Mark O'Rowe

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  Five plays from the sensational voice of new writing for Irish theatre.
  Since winning the George Devine Award for Howie the Rookie in 1999, Mark O'Rowe has electrified audiences with his distinctive dramatic style and dark, dangerous storytelling.
  In O'Rowe's first play, The Aspidistra Code (1995), Brendan and Sonia, head over heels in debt, are forced to hire their own protection against a volatile loan shark.
  From Both Hips (1997) sees Paul, a Dublin man shot in the hip during a bungled police raid, embark on a violent journey of revenge.
  In Howie the Rookie (which also won the 'Rooney Prize for Irish Literature'), brutal events take on mythical significance in a white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin.
  In Made in China (2001), a dreadful accident sparks a savage tug-of-war between two criminal foot soldiers.
  And Crestfall (2003) - so dark that all but the tiniest glimmer of light has been extinguished, depicts three women trapped between nightmares and waking.
  'A writing force to contend with... outstanding' - Irish Independent
  'Gripping, grotesque and deliriously good' - Sunday Times

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