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  The Women of Llanrumney

  Azuka Oforka

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  Llanrumney plantation. Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica. 1765.
  Annie and Cerys are enslaved by the Morgan family from Wales. When Elizabeth Morgan is faced with the loss of her plantation, the slaves' future hangs in the balance.
  With a storm of rebellion brewing, Annie does everything she can to secure her future. But sooner or later she will have to face up to the horror and trauma all around her, including her own.
  Azuka Oforka's play The Women of Llanrumney is a powerful, searing drama that explores the impact of slavery and the lives of women who experienced it – those who benefitted from it, those who were brutalised by it and those who fought to destroy it. It premiered at Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, in 2024, directed by Patricia Logue.
  Azuka Oforka was the joint winner of the Best Writer award at The Stage Debut Awards 2024.

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  The Wizard Way - From their pens...

  Aleister Crowley

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  Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. 
  He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes. 
  Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject himself into Western esotericism.  In 1898, he joined the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was trained in ceremonial magic before studying both Hindu and Buddhist practices in India. 
  On his Egyptian honeymoon in 1904 he claimed contact with an entity―Aiwass―who gave him the sacred Book of the Law which served as the basis for the Thelema religion where he identified as its prophet.  During the Great War, which he spent in the United States, he claimed to be working for British Intelligence but by the 1920s he had decamped to pursue a libertine lifestyle in Sicily, and in the ensuing scandals was evicted by the Italian Government. 
  He divided the following two decades between France, Germany, and England, and the continuing promotion of Thelema. 
  During his life he gained widespread notoriety for his drug use, his bisexuality, and his alarming views on society.  In short, polite society frowned on his ways, his thoughts and his influence but to many others his stance had much of value.  Even after death he was a darling for the 60’s counterculture but his influence has since waned.   
  His literary works were both prolific and covered many topics.  In the early part of his career he published many poetry books, even plays, before his darker and more forceful works came to dominate his output. 
  Aleister Crowley died on 1st December 1947 at Hastings in England. He was 72.

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  The Prophets' Paradise

  Robert W. Chambers

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One of the stranger pieces in landmark collection The King in Yellow, this is not a conventional story but a sequence of brief, dreamlike prose poems. Across fragments bearing titles like "The Studio," "The Phantom," "The Sacrifice," and "Destiny," a shadowy voice drifts through scenes of love, betrayal, masks, and mortality. Elliptical and unsettling, the piece trades plot for mood – conjuring the same atmosphere of decadent dread and creeping unreality that haunts the rest of Chambers's cycle, where beauty and doom are forever entwined.

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  Summerfolk

  Maxim Gorky

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  'I feel like, soon, the day after tomorrow, some other people are going to come, a strong, bold race, and sweep us off the face of the earth like litter.'
  It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreats to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. 
  When you're having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Vavara can't shake the feeling that they're living on stolen time. How long can they go on ignoring the storm that's gathering on the horizon?
  A razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, Summerfolk was written by Maxim Gorky in 1904. This adaptation by Nina Raine and Moses Raine premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Robert Hastie.

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  Under the Shadow

  Babak Anvari

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  'They travel on the wind, just like that missile, and they only land once they find someone to possess.'
  Iran. 1980s. When Shideh's husband is conscripted to serve on the frontline, she is left alone with her young daughter in Tehran as the city is bombed. The missile strikes bring terror and destruction, but there is also something ancient and malevolent, carried on the wind.
  Adapted by Carmen Nasr from Babak Anvari's BAFTA Award-winning horror film, Under the Shadow explores the boundary between the rational and the irrational, and the question of whether to leave or stay. It was first performed at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Nadia Latif.
  'A gripping thriller about a mother and daughter under supernatural siege' Hollywood Reporter on the original film

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  Fighting the Madness

  Fay van Burg

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  This debut collection is not for the faint of heart, as the poet unpacks the raw pain of the mind. Based on her life experiences, Fay van Burg addresses gut-wrenchingly relatable struggles and painful moments, while fighting for her sanity and wellbeing.  
  Fighting the Madness tackles abstract concepts of hurt and sorrow while taking you on an emotional journey of strength and perseverance.

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