When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette 'Bambi' Gottschalk at a dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes.

It's hard being the normal one in such a crazy family. Bluebell's life is chaotic: Mum and Dad are always away, the new babysitter has no idea what he's doing, and the whole family is trying to get used to life without Iris. There are tears and tantrums.

A tense truce holds between the Capulets and the Montagues after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. but Rosaline is bent on revenge. After Juliet by Sharman Macdonald was specially commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections Scheme for young people.

A liff is a familiar object or experience that English has no word for. This book corrects this disgraceful oversight by recycling the names found on signposts. It features over 900 essential new definitions.

Aftermath chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman and creates a new version of family life for her daughters.

A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali man studying at Oxford University and caught in complicated love triangle. Intensely moving, superbly written, Afternoon Raag is a testimony to the clash of the old and the new;

Part of our collection of Young Adult Classics, a Victorian coming-of-age story.

In a major new play, Owen McCafferty examines the negotiations leading up to the Good Friday Agreement.

This is the story of Ajaiyi, a man born into poverty who is determined to improve his situation. He meets the Spirit of Fire with its huge feathered head and flaming body, and receives assistance from a wizard and a unicorn. Yet, in the end, the answer to his woes is not far from home. Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920.

As Gill struggles to reconcile this Kelly with the Kelly she has been keeping safe in her mind, a noise is gathering at their periphery that refuses to go unheard any longer. Akedah won the Bruntwood Prize Original New VoiceAward in 2019.

They destroyed the West's ruling myth.'So John Gray begins this short, powerful book on the belief that has dominated our minds for a century and a half - the idea that we are all, more or less, becoming modern and that as we become modern we will become more alike, and at the same time more familiar and more reasonable.

The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.