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  Testmatch (NHB Modern Plays)

  Kate Attwell

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  Present day, it's the Women's Cricket World Cup: England vs India. There's a rain delay. Tensions mount, ambitions are laid bare and a whole new tactical game begins.
  Calcutta, in the eighteenth century. Two British colonial administrators encounter challenges on the field of play that threaten the entire regime. In this game of integrity and power, past and present collide…
  Kate Attwell's funny, provocative play explores and explodes the mythology of fair play. First performed in 2019 at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, it received its British premiere in 2024, produced by the Orange Tree Theatre, ETT and Octagon Theatre, Bolton, and directed by Diane Page.
  'Genuinely funny, refreshingly unusual, accomplished… Split into two acts, wildly contrasted on the surface but each informing the other to sometimes surprising effect, Testmatch often recalls Caryl Churchill at her most absurd and mould-breaking… tremendously entertaining' - WhatsOnStage
  'A play that bristles with ideas' - The Stage
  'Kate Attwell's journey through cricket wittily interrogates wilful ignorance in the face of corruption and brutality… her taut writing coils [her characters'] emotions tightly, pinpointing their urgent, full-bodied need to win… a smart, messy, angry reckoning with history and the idea of good sportsmanship' - Guardian
  'Lively and energetic' - Reviews Hub
  'Enjoyable… a satire on colonialism that starts off light and builds to something rather more bleak and damning… Attwelll's text is witty and impressive' - Time Out

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a gloriously funny makeover.
  When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his estate, with a look of terror still etched on his face, and the paw prints of a gigantic hound beside his body, the great detective Sherlock Holmes is summoned from Baker Street, with Dr Watson in tow, to unravel the mysteries surrounding his death, and investigate the ancient curse of the Hound of the Baskervilles...
  Packed full of the verbal and visual ingenuity that hit comedy team Peepolykus is known for, and offering abundant opportunities for silly comedy and slapstick, this version will suit any theatre company or drama group looking for a sublimely funny adaptation of a classic tale.
  'wonderfully barking spoof' - Telegraph
  'only the most pure of purists could fail to be entertained by this very funny and inventive take on one of the great archetypes of English literature' - British Theatre Guide

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  Fifty Shades of Marriage - 50 of...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rainer...

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  ‘From this day forward…’ are words intoned in every conventional marriage ceremony as two people interweave their lives with all its plans, its hopes and dreams on a love-strewn path to the future, even eternity.  From here life has its own way of changing, modifying and disrupting the true course of married love for many of us.  In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets delve with storied verse into every facet of this institution.  From the good, the bad and even the ugly, from the Wedding day to the realisation that divorce and separation maybe the better path.  Between these two frontiers other avenues and facets are explored by the pens of many including Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Emily Dickinson and the Rossetti’s. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Marriage - An Introduction 
  02 - The Weddiing Morning by Francis Ledwidge 
  03 - Marriage Morning by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  04 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 
  05 - Wedding Day by Edith Nesbit 
  06 - Wedding Song by Jehudah Halevi 
  07 - A Bridal Song by John Ford 
  08 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell 
  09 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson 
  10 - The Bride by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  11 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg 
  12 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  13 - To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage by Katherine Phillips 
  14 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick 
  15 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte 
  16 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare 
  17 - To the Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh 
  18 - Sonnet to My Wife by Thomas Hood 
  19 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  20 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 
  21 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  22 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  23 - Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  24 - The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell 
  25 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence 
  26 - Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  27 - The Bride by Henry Alford 
  28 - Bridal Birth by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  29 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran 
  30 - Song of the Worker's Wife by Alice Gray Jones 
  31 - Song XIX. Since We Your Husband Daily See by Matthew Prior 
  32 - The Married Lover by Coventry Patmore.sfk 
  32 - The Married Lover by Coventry Patmore 
  33 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay.sfk 
  33 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  34 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper.sfk 
  34 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper 
  35 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce.sfk 
  35 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce 
  36 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  37 - June, a Tale by William Cowper 
  38 - Witch-Wife by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  39 - The Bride by Ambrose Bierce 
  40 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew 
  41 - The Bridal Ballad by Edgar Allan Poe 
  42 - The Wife of Flanders by G K Chesterton 
  43 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  44 - A Cry from an Indian Wife by Emily Pauline Johnson 
  45 - Wife to Husband by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  46 - The Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier September the 27th 1868 by Sidney Lanier 
  47 - On His Deceased Wife by John Milton 
  48 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron.sfk 
  48 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 
  49 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford 
  50 - Modern Love I by George Meredith 
  51 - Divorce by Anna Wickham

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  Three Stories & Ten Poems

  Ernest Hemingway

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  One of Ernest Hemingway’s first published works, these are short stories and poems about life, love, loss and heartache. 
  The three stories include Up In Michigan, Out Of Season and My Old Man. 
  The ten poems included in this book are:MitraigliatriceOklahomaOily WeatherRooseveltCaptivesChamps d’HonneurRiparto d’AssaltoMontparnasseAlong With YouthChapter Heading 
  Originally published by Ernest Hemingway in 1923. 

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  The Bhagavad Gita

  Anonymous Anonymous

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  Sanskrit for ‘Song of the Lord’, the Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse Hindu epic that constitutes part of the faith’s vast cornerstone work, the Mahabharata. The book provides timeless truths and indispensible advice for believers trying to overcome internal tensions, doubt and indecision. The teachings are conveyed in the form of a dialogue between the Pandava general Arjuna and the deity Krishna, who helps Arjuna understand his position in the Kurukshetra War, and guides him towards the right course of action. The Gita’s treatment of duty and devotion has inspired many, including the peaceful activist Mahatma Gandhi, who referred to it as his ‘spiritual dictionary’.

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  Kolovalu's Revenge

  TJ Hawk

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  Prime Minister Robert Saleh feels helpless as his economy stagnates year after year. When a representative of the shadowy organization known as Armageddon offers funding for several national-level infrastructure projects, he can’t resist signing an overly expansive contract. News of this secret agreement, which includes a level of mercenary support for national security, sparks international concern. 
  Saleh hopes to play Armageddon’s investments against those of Australia and the United States, who’d focused their interest and resources elsewhere. Unfortunately, the cash flowing into Saleh’s pockets blinds him to the devastating consequences he’d unilaterally set in motion. 
  Gar Randolph and his ever-changing team of technical experts receive the call to keep an eye on things. “Remain unseen and unnoticed. More importantly, neutralize anything that isn’t in the best interest of the Saintly Islands.”   
  Events escalate until Gar takes decisive action.

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