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  The Complete Talking Heads

  Alan Bennett

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  The complete Olivier Award–winning monologue series from one of Britain’s most renowned playwrights: “A masterclass in storytelling.” —Guardian, UK 
   
  Talking Heads is a classic of contemporary drama. In Bed Among the Lentils, a vicar’s wife discovers a semblance of happiness with an Indian shop owner. In A Chip in the Sugar, a man’s life begins to unravel when he discovers his aging mother has rekindled an old flame. In A Lady of Letters, a busybody pays a price for interfering in her neighbor’s life. 
   
  First produced for BBC television in 1988 to great critical acclaim, the Talking Heads monologues continue to resonate today with their combination of razor-sharp wit and deeply felt humanity. Over the years they have been performed many times, including on London’s West End and at New York City’s Minetta Lane Theatre. These extraordinary portraits of ordinary people confirm Alan Bennett’s place as one of the most gifted, versatile, and important writers in the English Language.

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  The Poetry of November

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,...

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  The eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar; the land becomes bleaker, harsher but no less beautiful for that.  For our poets, including Hood, Arnold, Melville, Alford and Hardy there is much to write and comment on.  Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; November - An Introduction; A November Note By Alfred Austin; The Going Of The Battery (Wives Lament November 2nd 1899) By Thomas Hardy; November Findings, November 1862 By Janet Hamilton; Duponts Round Fight (November 1861) By Herman Melville; November By John Keble; In November By Archibald Lampman; In November (2) By Archibald Lampman; November Days In Ireland By Alice Guerin Crist; In November By Phillip Henry Savage; November By John Clare; November 1806 By William Wordsworth; November 1813 By William Wordsworth; A Calendar Of Sonnets - November By Helen Hunt Jackson; November 1847 By Henry Alford; Rugby Chapel, November 1857 By Matthew Arnold; November By Thomas Hood; A Thought On Death, November 1814 By Anna Laetitia Barbauld; On The Death Of Princess Borghese, At Rome, November 1840 By Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton; November By William Cullen Bryant; November Song By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; November By Amy Lowell; To A Robin In November By William Wilfred Campbell; November Blind By Phillip Henry Savage; A November Night By Sara Teasdale; November By John Payne; At Day Close In November By Thomas Hardy.

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  Pearl

  Jane Draycott

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  In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: ‘my pearl, my girl’. One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl is a work of poetic brilliance; its account of loss and consolation has retained its force across six centuries. Jane Draycott in her new translation remakes the imaginative intensity of the original. This is, Bernard O’Donoghue says in his introduction, ‘an event of great significance and excitement’, an encounter between medieval tradition and an acclaimed modern poet.

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  The Canterville Ghost - A...

  Bleak December, Oscar Wilde

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  Colin Baker (Doctor Who) stars in this delightful adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic tale of the ghost who has lost his knack at haunting. When a modern American family moves into an old English manor with a sinister history, they ignore the warnings and hauntings by the house's fearful, cantankerous, spectral inhabitant... Horror and hilarity will ensue in this timeless, family-friendly entertainment—featuring a full cast, sound effects, and an original musical score.

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  Out of Silence: New & Selected...

  John Harvey

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  Best known as a writer of crime fiction – notably the 12 volume Charlie Resnick series – and as the mainstay, for two decades, of Slow Dancer Press, John Harvey's own poetry has perhaps stayed too long below the radar.
  This, his first collection in sixteen years, brings together the best of his two earlier books, Ghosts of a Chance and Bluer Than This, along with a number of new poems which show a greater depth and maturity and variety of form, further fusing together the intimate and personal with a passionate understanding of music and painting and the ways in which they can affect and illuminate our lives.

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  Manland

  Peter Raynard

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  Peter Raynard's Manland is a bold, brilliant and outspoken new collection of poems that scrutinise men and manhood, mental health, working class lives and disability. Aloud and alive with music, wit, anger and rebellion, this is an accomplished, politically-aware and vital book.
  Raynard is a skilled observer, and these razor-sharp poems document parenthood through the lens of a stay-at-home dad, attempt to tell the truth about men and depression, study our cultural, social and medical relationships with drugs and drug-taking, and lay bare the realities of life at the sharpest edges of society. By turns frank, painful and bleakly funny, this humane and brilliant book encompasses pride and prejudices, the bonds between lads and dads, the toxic pressures of masculinity and the way illness and poverty irrevocably shape lives.

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