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FICTION AND NON-FICTION

£11.99

978-1-912430-17-8

312 pages

VOLTA Nikki Dudley

WINNER OF THE VIRGINIA PRIZE FOR FICTION

When Briony Campbell confesses to killing her boyfriend, an apparently straightorward crime soon turns into a bafing mystery.

Haunted by demons from his past, lawyer S.J. Robin is assigned to the case. But as confusion – and the body count – rises, he’s forced to queston who is guilty and who is innocent. Can he see justce served and hold on to the woman he loves?

“Nikki Dudley’s latest novel shows that things are not always as they seem... The twist in the narratve is skilfully done and will keep the reader guessing untl the very end.”

– Ruth Dugdall, author of Nowhere Girl

THE COLOUR OF THINGS UNSEEN

Annee Lawrence

When Adi leaves his village in Indonesia to take up an art scholarship in Australia, he arrives in the bewildering Sydney art world, determined to succeed. Following his frst solo exhibiton at a smart art gallery, Adi dares to reveal his true feelings for his spirited friend, Lisa, and a passionate relatonship unfolds. But will their difering expectatons of one another drive them apart? This is a deeply felt love story between people -- of diferent natons, cultures and religions -and the unseen impact of local and global events on individual lives.

‘A touching story that intelligently explores the potental for art and romance to bridge a cultural divide. — Kirkus Reviews

WOMEN Mihail Sebastan/Translated by Gaby Reigh

The frustrated wife of a French-Tunisian plantaton owner, a mysterious older woman, a world weary tomboy, an unhappy mistress, a Parisian factory worker destned for tragedy, an acrobat turned cabaret sensaton – these are the women whose lives are linked by their relatonship with one man – Ștefan Valeriu.

Divided into four separate stories connected by one man, Women takes us from Ștefan’s amorous entanglements at an Alpine lake resort, to his life in Bucharest and Paris, as each of the women in his life opens up new worlds for him. Women is a hymn to love in all its forms, romantc or platonic, sometmes reckless, ofen glorious and always, ultmately, ephemeral.

‘[Sebastan] lef this powerful and prescient novel which throws light on darkness and disturbs as it entrances.’ – Glasgow Herald

THE TOWN WITH ACACIA TREES Mihail

Sebastan/Translated by Gaby Reigh

‘He wonderfully captures the atmosphere of prewar Romania in all its complexity, all the beauty and the horror.’

– John Banville, author

Bored by religious instructon and paintng lessons, a group of friends at a convent school spend their days dreaming of romance, fashion and the latest gramophone records.

One by one, they give up their visions of adventure and submit to provincial life, marrying for money and status, like their mothers before them. Plain, jaundiced Lucreția, becomes the envy of her friends when Paul, a glamorous dandy proposes, but she hides a shocking secret that will destroy their marriage and expose them to scandal. Only Adriana Dunea, the most beautful and talented girl in the school seems destned for happiness with her childhood sweetheart, Gelu. But everything changes when, on a trip to Bucharest, she meets Cello Viorin, a famous composer…

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978-1-912430-31-4

168 pages

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978-1-912430-29-1

224 pages

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ISBN: 9781911501039

320 pages

THE DRAGONFLY Kate Dunn

Best Indie Book 2017 – Kirkus Reviews

When Colin discovers his son is on a murder charge in France, he trails his small boat, ‘The Dragonfy’, across the channel to stay in Paris to help him. There he meets his grand-daughter – the irrepressible Delphine – for the frst tme. They embark on an excitng boat journey through the picturesque French canals, heading south through Burgundy, ‘untl the buter melts’.

Along the way, they catch up with Tyler, a spirited American, and through various mishaps and misunderstandings, they land big fsh, cultvate new loves and uncover a burning secret. But can Colin fnally help his son get of the hook?

THE WALLS CAME DOWN Ewa Dodd

A young boy goes missing during a workers’ strike in 1980s Communist Poland, unravelling a chain of events which will touch people across decades and contnents.

Joanna, a young journalist in Warsaw, is stll looking for her brother, who’s now been missing for over twenty years.

Sam, a high-fying London city fnancier is struggling with relatonship problems and unexplained panic atacks.

And in Chicago, an old man is slowly dying in a nursing home, losing his batle with cancer.

What connects them? As the mystery begins to unravel, the worlds of the three protagonists are turned upside down. Can they fnd each other before tme runs out?

£9.99

ISBN: 9781911501152

276 pages

‘...a

‘Quirky and warm-hearted, with darker undertones that keep you gripped. Kate Dunn is a fne storyteller.’

– Ben Elton

tense and moving tale of love and loss that grips the reader from start to fnish.’ – Fiona Rintoul, author.

POMEGRANATE SKY Louise Soraya Black

Living in post-revolutonary Tehran, Layla refuses to bow to the ayatollahs’ rules, resistng her mother’s relentless atempts to fnd her a suitable husband. Instead, she embarks on an illicit afair with her art teacher, Keyvan, and they tentatvely imagine a future together.

But the sudden death of her uncle, an outspoken journalist, raises many unanswered questons and Layla’s plans for the

WINNER OF THE VIRGINIA PRIZE

‘ … a bitersweet tale of betrayed trust and ruptured innocence … the feel for colour and language is vibrant … ‘

–The Guardian First Novel Choice

future begin to unravel.

SHAMBALA JUNCTION Dipika

Mukherjee

Previous work long-listed for the Man Asia Prize

Iris is visitng India from the U.S. for the frst tme with her fance and not enjoying the experience. When she gets of the train for a botle of water at Shambala Juncton, litle does she know that her life is about to undergo a radical change. Stranded at Shambala, she becomes caught up in the drama of stall-holder Aman’s batle to recover his lost child. Along the way, she fnds real friendship, learns what counts and grows to love India, in all its variety.

on the part of its lead character Iris (an Indian American).’ – asianculturevulture.

com

‘...takes hold of you and leads you with absolute confdence into one of the most extraordinary journeys any of us ever embark on:the discovery of India.” – Barney Norris, author

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ISBN: 978-1-906582-10-4

240 pages

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978-1-910798-39-3

336 pages

‘Vividly writen, fresh and eloquent, a girl’s poignant tale of love and menace in contemporary Iran.’

– Fay Weldon

‘…What emerges is a powerful tale of treachery, poverty – and both cute and inexcusable ignorance

DIVERSE ADULT FICTiON

KIPLING & TRIX Mary Hamer

‘Hamer’s books opens up the complex world of the Kiplings, moving between contnents and momentous world events.’ – Daily Mail

‘Although based closely on historical fact, Kipling and Trix is a tour-deforce of imaginatve fcton as well as a lyrically writen, if ofen harrowing, tale of surprising passion.’

Explores the hidden truth behind Kipling’s drive, his so-called ‘go fever’ and his sister Trix’s batle with mental illness …

£9.99

ISBN: 978-1-906582-34-0

368 pages

Rudyard Kipling’s incredible life is known to many while his poetry and books have been read by millions – but what became of his talented younger sister? Her story, full of love and lies, became a distressing family secret that was hidden from the world …

THE LEIPZIG AFFAIR Fiona Rintoul

Dramatzed As A BBC Book At Bedtme

The year is 1985. East Germany is in the grip of communism. Magda, a brilliant but disillusioned young linguist, is desperate to fee to the West. When a black market deal brings her into contact with Robert, a young Scot, studying at Leipzig University, she sees a way to realise her escape plans. But as Robert falls in love with her, he stumbles into a complex world of shifing halftruths – one that will undo them both.

Many years later, long afer the Berlin Wall has been torn down, Robert returns to Leipzig in search of answers. Can he track down the elusive Magda? And will the past give up its secrets?

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978-1-906582-97-5

300 pages

‘... impressive debut shows lives on the cusp of change as the Cold War ends.’

David Robinson - The Scotsman

– The Hufngton Post, USA

THE RIVER’S SONG Suchen Christne Lim

A beautfully writen exploraton of identty, love and loss, set against the social upheaval created by the rise of Singapore.

An ode to the Chinese community which grew up along the banks of the Singapore river, now dispersed. Young love blooms in the shanty town but circumstances drive the lovers to part. Will they feel the same way 30 years later?

‘I LOVED it… just as the best novels should be but so rarely are: like immersion in a vivid dream. A stunning achievement.’

–

LIBERTY BAZAAR David Chadwick

Liverpool’s past revealed in this grity tale

Liverpool, 1863:

Newly arrived in England, Trinity, an escaped slave girl, discovers a conspiracy to win the war for the South by breaking the blockade of Southern ports in the USA using Britsh warships. A Confederate general arrives to raise funds by holding a grand Bazaar. How and why they come together to try and stop the conspiracy is a thrilling story told with wit and imaginaton.

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978-1-906582-98-2

336 pages

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978-1-906582-92-0

308 pages

Jill Dawson, author of The Great Lover

‘A fne, deeply felt saga of lives caught up in progress that’s as heartbreaking as it is hopeful.’

– Kirkus Reviews

‘An addictve novel ... lived out by characters of real passion and true human complexity.’

–Paul Du Noyer, founder of MOJO magazine

‘A thrilling account of intrigue, decepton, violence – and forbidden love.’

–James M McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

£8.99

978-1-906582-14-2

320 pages

MOSAIC DECEPTIONS Patrick Gooch

Mystery thriller set in the Middle East

‘A real page-turner that jolts us out of complacency with a bold and clever plot’ – Dazed & Confused

When Mat Clements meets an enigmatc prophet on the Kurdistan border, he is set on the trail of ancient relics that have profound consequences for our tme.

Assembling his team, he travels to the most remote desert regions of the Middle East unaware that the search for evidence endangers all their lives.

In a race against tme, Mat must outwit his adversaries to present his discoveries publicly in New York, discoveries that will send shockwaves throughout the Western world and rewrite history as we know it.

TRACKS, RACING THE SUN Sandro Martni

As featured in the NEW YORK TIMES

Voted Readers’ Favourite Best Book about Sports 2017

‘Every fan of motor racing should read this book. How the legendary Italian drivers of the past forged the sport we love today with blood and bone.’

– Motor sport legend Mario Andreti

In this epic novel about European motor racing heroes before and afer World War II, larger-than-life characters survive incredible batles on switch-back roads that most of us would never dream of.

£9.99

978-1-906582-43-2

336 pages

Tracks is about what drives men to risk it all to claim the ttle of Champion, as well as their need for love – and their love of danger. This is a thrilling version of events based on the true rivalries, triumphs and disasters of a fascinatng period in European sportng history.

THE EVOLUTIONIST Avi Sirlin

The Malay Archipelago: 1858. In these remote tropics, a young Britsh naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, toils in obscurity. One night, sufering from fever and hallucinaton, Wallace solves the greatest mystery of the era: the origin of species. Wallace contacts Charles Darwin, who has been secretly penning a near-identcal version of the same evolutonary theory for 20 years. While Darwin achieves world-renown, Wallace is set on a collision course with the men at the very heart of the scientfc establishment, including Darwin.

‘

… an uterly convincing character study of one of the most poignant fgures in the history of science...’

***** goodreads

‘One of the great forgoten heroes of Natural History – you could say he’s the missing link in the story of evoluton.’ – Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero BBC2

THE PHYSICIAN OF SANLÚCAR

Jonathan Falla

‘Coolly and confdently writen, this is fcton at its most bracing.’

– Baltmore Sun

‘An original, unfinching work … the strength of the writng and the subject carry all before them.’

– New York Times

A beautfully writen and absorbing story of exile and redempton set against the stark Patagonian wilderness at the start of the modern age.

A lone French doctor struggles to help the Indian tribes faced with disease and destructon as the Europeans invade and steal their land. Falling for another man’s wife only further complicates his troubled life. With the onset of the First World War, confict and old rivalries erupt in this forgoten outpost, one of the remotest places on earth.

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336 pages

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978-1-906582-38-8

248 pgs

978-1-906582-53-1

HARD CHOICES Carole Hayman

Grace Fry, bold and beautful Minister for Women, discovers a plot to suppress the truth about the government’s plans by means of spin, murder and manipulaton. With her own life in danger, will she dare to speak out or be seduced by the promise of a post at the top table?

‘No wonder No 10 never wanted you to read this funny, clever, frightening book.’

– Sunday Express, Ficton Read of the Week

£8.99 / 268 pages

97809542330-6-8

978-0-9546912-1-9 Revised editon

HOW MAXINE LEARNED TO LOVE HER LEGS and other tales of growing up Ed. Sarah

Le Fanu

A sparkling collecton of stories exploring a host of female parts, rites of passage, the pleasures and pains of growing up female in one entertaining volume. With stories from: Hilary Bailey, Sally Cameron, Betzy Dinesen, Souad Faress, Chrissie Gitns, Bonnie Greer, Vicky Grut, Kirsty Gunn, Brigid Howarth, Mizzy Hussain, Geraldine Kaye, Carolyn Partrick, Ellen Phethean, Kate Pullinger, Stella Raferty, Ravinder Randhawa, Maire Ni Reagain, Michele Roberts, Daphne Rock, Elisa Segrave, Kirsty Seymour-Ure, Susanna Steele & Karen Whiteson.

£8.95

978-0-9515877-4-4

242 pages / Age 14+

‘ … the stories are fresh, one for every occasion. Many of them I would read a number of tmes –they are thought-provoking.’

– Fed Mag

Shortlisted for the Saga Award for Wit

THE SCREAM Laurent Graf

The narrator, who works in a toll booth on the highway, describes a world where most humans have died due to a terrible sound that seems to come from nowhere. But not everyone can hear the sound. Is it real or only in the narrator’s mind? The Scream starts as sci-f and ends as a realisaton that despair can shape the world to the point where it becomes unrecognisable.

Through Graf’s irreproachable style, the reader gets trapped in a nightmarishly poetc world embodied by the empty highway; a metaphor which unfolds untl the point where reality becomes crueller than fcton.

‘a story of cinematc intensity that merges banality and catastrophe with one of the most iconic visual images in the Western canon.’

–BookOxygen

SACRED Eliete Abécassis

Filmed as Kadosh by Amos Gitai and selected for the Cannes Film Festval

Sacred is the moving love story of a young woman, living in the ultra-orthodox community in Jerusalem. Spurned by her community for failing to conceive a child in ten years of marriage, her husband is forced by custom to reject her. Should she tell the truth about his infertlity – or watch while her husband, the son of the Rabbi, marries another?

– The Observer

‘A terrifying book on the feminine conditon.’

– Le Figaro

144 pages

104 pgs / £7.99 978-1-906582-25-8

£9.95 978-0-9536757-8-4

‘In Rachel and Naomi, Abecassis creates two powerful and sympathetc heroines, and the power and beauty of her writng renders their story both heartbreaking and hypnotc.’

Winner of The Écrivain Croyant Literary Prize

TEEN FICTION

GIRL OUT OF PLACE Syl van Duyn / Translated by Ernestne Hoegen

At the end of the war, Nell is released from an internment camp in Indonesia. While searching for her father in the chaos, she meets and becomes close to Tim, who is looking for his family too. Nell’s journey takes her frst to Singapore then to a new life and new friends in Australia. Finally, she has a tcket to visit her father in the Netherlands. But will Nell really be able to setle there –and will she ever see Tim again?

Based on a true story, this is an excitng tale of courage and friendship, hope and determinaton, about the search for love and a place to fnally call home.

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978-1-912430-43-7

232 pages Adult/YA

TRIPLE AWARD WINNER

MY BROTHER’S WAR David Hill

It’s New Zealand, 1914, and the biggest war the world has known has just broken out in Europe.

William eagerly enlists for the army but his younger brother, Edmund, is a conscientous objector and refuses to fght. While William trains to be a soldier, Edmund is arrested.

Both brothers will end up on the bloody batlefelds of France, but their journeys there are very diferent. And what they experience at the front line will challenge the beliefs that led them there.

£8.99

978-1-906582-93-7

252 pages

‘… there are stories that need to be told over and over again, to introduce a new generaton of readers to important ideas and to critcal tmes in their country’s history … Hill’s descriptons of trench warfare are unforgetable.’

– New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2013

‘I was deeply moved… a beautfully writen book … Van Duyn has succeeded in creatng characters of fesh and blood.’ – bol.com

Shortlisted Thea Beckman Award

THEMBA – A Boy Called Hope Lutz

Van Dijk /Translated by Karin Chubb

Shortlisted for The Marsh Award

Themba grows up dreaming of becoming a football star but life without his mother and father is a struggle and Themba has to grow up fast when he is sexually abused by his uncle. A lucky break gives him the chance to train as a footballer and play professionally –but Themba has a secret – should he tell the truth about his HIV and risk everything he’s ever dreamed of?

‘...reminds me of my own childhood and youth in a township.. like {Themba] I had the hope that our world will be a just world one day.’ – Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

‘It’s a really engaging book, and because AIDS is a serious issue, it made us want to carry on reading more about it.’ – Durning Library Teenage Reading Group

DAVID’S STORY

Stg Dalager /Translated by Frances

Osterfelt and Cheryl Robson

Separated from his parents who are deported by the Nazis, David struggles to survive, hungry and alone, until by chance, he finds his way to the city of Warsaw. Quickly, he learns to smuggle things from one area of the city to the other, dodging the police and the Gestapo to earn enough for a crust of bread. Homeless and weakened by months of hardship, the days of running and hiding are coming to an end. The soldiers are brutally clearing the ghetto … Can he outwit them one more time?

Shortlisted for The Marsh Award

£7.99

ISBN: 978-1-906582-21-0

192 pages / Age 12+

‘...a shockingly relevant historical novel, a taut story of internatonal standing and appeal. A monument to our own shame, at that tme and now.’ – Politken Newspaper

‘ … one would think that this was writen by Isaac B. Singer or one of the other PolishJewish geniuses.’ – Jewish Informaton Magazine

£7.99

978-1-906582-04-3

304 pages / Age 10+

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978-0-9551566-2-5

272 pages / Age 13+

BLACK MAIL Thomas Feibel /Translated by Penny Black

Johnny is seventeen and the biggest Darlis Diller fan in Germany. Having tricked both his school and his parents, he follows his rock idol on a natonal tour. But things don’t go to plan when he has all his money stolen and the people around him end up dead – all because of an email he’s mistakenly received from a criminal gang! Soon he has nowhere to hide and nobody to turn to – except Pola, his new best friend. Unaware that both the criminals and the police are afer him, Johnny tracks down his elusive rock idol but …

£6.99

978-0-9551566-4-9

104 pages / Age 10+

LETTERS FROM ALAIN Enrique Perez Diaz/ Translated

by Simon Breden / Illustrated by Francisco

Solé

Arturo, a twelve-year-old boy lives on the island of Cuba. One day, his best friend Alain goes away with his family on a small boat, in search of a beter life in America.But the sea can be a perilous place …

When Alain’s dog returns mysteriously, the adults fear the worst. But Arturo begins to receive strange leters from his friend. What do they mean? And will his friend ever return?

’not a story of economic migrants but rather the loss and sadness felt by the family and friends that are lef behind … sensitvely handled.’

– The School Librarian

‘ … one of the best books for young people of the year.’ – Focus Magazine

‘a wity, page-turning entertainment, as trendy as any teenager could wish.’

– Books For Keeps

Shortlisted for The Marsh Award

MY BROTHER JOHNNY Francesco D’Adamo / Translated by Sian Williams

Johnny is a young airman who’s fown dozens of missions. When he comes home from the war, his family and friends greet him as a hero. But Johnny doesn’t feel like a hero. He’s sick at the thought of the destructon he’s caused to people in the villages over there. What’s wrong with him? Why is he doing this? And when he sets up an ant-war protest in the centre of town, nobody wants to listen.–Untl the war comes home to them, that is.

TINA’S WEB Alki Zei /Translated by John Thornley

Tina’s life in Germany had been so happy, it never occurred to her that one day her parents might split. Or – worse stll – send her back to Greece to live with her grandmother! But Tina doesn’t mind anything anymore. She’s found the answer. With the help of her friend Wick, and a really amazing litle blue pill … then lots more amazing litle pills … then lots of really incredible lies … Sometmes it’s as if she’s in heaven, sometmes she’s crashing back down to earth, and now – there’s no return. Or is there?

£6.99

978-0-9551566-3-2 136 pages / Age 12+

£7.99

978-0-9551566-1-8 216 pages / Age 12+

WINNER of Ibby ‘Best Book for Teenagers’

‘Some stories need to be writen, and deserve to be read all over the world. My Brother Johnny is one of these … ’ – The Sunday Times

‘Alki Zei’s descripton of Tina’s unravelling makes the heart beat faster and frequently puts a lump in the throat. Highly recommended.’

Children’s Books Ireland Magazine.

Shortlisted for The Marsh Award

Shortlisted for The Marsh Award

£7.99

978-0-9546912-5-7

288 pages / Age 10+

THISTOWN Malcolm McKay

Voted One Of The Top 40 Best Books For Teens by Teen Titles

‘ … an intriguing fantasy parable... The ending is a partcularly enigmatc afair which should get your students questoning.’

– Writng in Educaton

Somewhere beyond the rain, the wind and the stars, as far from the Earth as it’s possible to be, there was a town so old that no one remembered how or when it began. It was a town where everyone stayed exactly the same, a town where no one grew older, a town surrounded by a million miles of yellow corn, which was so strange that if you went in, you disappeared immediately. And perhaps Thistown would have always stayed the same if they hadn’t found The Sleeping Man. He changed everything. Forever.

JUNK FOOD HERO Pat Swindells

George, aged thirteen, weighs seventeen stone and is stll growing in all directons. When a TV chef brings healthy food to the school dinner menu, George demands his right to chips, chips and more chips. But his teachers won’t budge and they set him thinking … George embarks on a journey of discovery where he takes the giant leap from living to eat to eatng to live.

£7.99

978-1-906582-02-9

240 pages / Age 10+

ERIK AND THE GODS – Journey To

Valhalla Lars-Henrik Olsen /Translated by Paul Russell Garret / Illustrated by Kohki Holman

Over 1 million copies sold in Denmark! Translated into over a dozen languages but first tme in English.

£9.99

978-1-906582-63-0

252 pages

The Gods are fghtng an endless war with the Giants and they are slowly losing their powers. During a terrible storm, Thor, the God of Thunder, appears to Erik, an ordinary 13-year-old boy. He sends Erik on a mission with his daughter, to travel to the Land of the Dead. Erik must bring back the Goddess of Eternal Life and her magic apples before the Gods weaken and totally lose their powers. Time is running out. Can Erik rescue the Goddess from the Giants and prevent the end of the world?

SOBIBOR Jean Molla /Translated by Polly

McLean

‘I did it so they’d stop me,’ Emma said, when she was caught stealing biscuits from a supermarket. But Emma is hiding behind tough words … Emma is sixteen and anorexic. Why? Is it her parents’ indiference, the long family silences, the lies they tell each other? Emma wants to know. She wants to understand.

When she discovers an old notebook in her grandparents’ house, disturbing secrets emerge about their part in the War, that demand an answer.

£6.99

978-0-9546912-4-0

176 pages / Age 14+

COMING BACK David Hill

Ryan has just got his licence. He’s in the car with his mates. Tara likes to go running. She’s on her way back home. Neither of them is paying much atenton …

The harrowing accident that follows impacts many lives. Ryan grows up and fnds a way to make amends while Tara has to re-learn everything as she struggles to recover from her injuries.

– Classroom Magazine

‘Every teen should read this book before setng foot in a car. Come to think of it, most adults should too.’

– NZ Inspired Magazine

£7.99

978-0-9542330-2-0

192 pages / Age 13+

‘Once you start one of Molla’s books, you can’t put it down. By the tme you’ve fnished, you’ll have been moved to tears.’

– Le Monde

‘This is a fne book for young adults who want to learn how to drive. It makes clear how quickly things can go wrong and never be right again.’

Shortlisted for The Wingate Literary Prize

£15.99 pbk

978-1-913641-

160 pages

colour photos

THE NAKED YOGA EFFECT

From Cancer survivor to Naked Yoga teacher

Doria Gani

Naked Yoga expert Doria Gani, takes you on a transformatonal journey to challenge any hang ups, shame or negatve thinking you may have about your body. In this inspiratonal story, discover how Doria overcame critcal illness, learned to deal with unexpected consequences for her life as a woman, and set out on a new path to reconnect with her soul.

Enjoy the benefts and freedom that practsing Naked Yoga can bring whether at home or in a group, and discover your true self – with no barriers, limitatons or social constraints. With Naked Yoga, you really can learn to love your body and heal your mind.

£24.99 hbk

978-1-913641-15-3

400 pages

colour photos

UNRAVELLING WOMEN’S ART

Creators, Rebels & Innovators in Textle Arts

P.L. Henderson

The author unpicks the threads that link female textle artsts and the arts they produce, revealing a global and historic patchwork of assorted roles, identtes and representatons.

Entertaining as well as informatve, this book ofers a unique overview of female-centric textle art producton including embroidery, weaving, sof sculpture and more. Includes over 20 interviews with contemporary textle artsts, providing fascinatng insights into their practces, themes and personal motvaton.

Tells us:

How knitng became a spying device in wartme

Why dress design was so important for the Sufragetes

Why spiders were emblems in ancient tmes and now How women’s arts and crafs moved from the backroom to the gallery showroom

HAIRVOLUTION

Saskia Calliste and Zainab Raghdo

Foreword by Stella Dadzie

Kinky, wavy, straight or curly, Hairvoluton will help you celebrate your natural beauty however you choose to style your hair. With an overview of the politcs and history of black hair, the book explores how black hairstyles have played a part in the fght for social justce and the promoton of black culture. Includes interviews with over 25 black women from all walks of life including Jamelia, Dawn Butler MP, Angie Le Mar, Cleo Sylvestre and many more...

ON THE TRAIL OF AMERICANA

Ralph Brookfeld

Based on new and flmed interviews with leading musicians and music industry professionals, this book explores the illusive genre and movement that is Americana. From its historical roots in country, folk and other rebel music, the story of Americana is told by those who are taking it in new directons today.

Interviews with: Emily Barker, Yola, Troy Cassar-Daley, Kasey Chambers, Dave Cobb, Bob Harris, Paul Kelly, Lindi Ortega, Larkin Poe, Kevin Welch, Wildwood Kin and many more.

THE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS’ GUIDE TO ART GALLERIES Sophie McCallum

An essental handbook for contemporary artsts who wish to fnd the right art galleries in which to show and sell their workthis book saves many hours of research. Includes contact details and informaton on the majority of art galleries which exist globally as well as useful tps for presentng and pitching your own artwork to galleries. Author and artst Sophie McCallum has successfully placed her work in the Saatchi Gallery, among others, and gives the lowdown on how you too can get your work seen – and sold.

£15.99

978-1-913641-13-9

160 pages b&w photos

£14.99

978-1-913641-09-2

240 pages b&w photos

£18.99

978-1-913641-20-7

360 pages b&w photos

£12.99/200 pages

978-1-910798-99-7

50 BEST PLAYS FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES Vicky Ireland MBE and Paul Harman

A compilaton of the 50 best plays for children and young people by two distnguished practtoners and campaigners for Children’s Theatre in the UK. Includes informaton about the history of Theatre in Educaton and Drama in Educaton as well as a list of the best companies working in the feld.

£11.99 / 246 pages

978-0-9546912-8-8

THEATRE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ed. Stuart Bennet

An exploraton of the way ‘Theatre for Children and Young People’ has responded to cultural diversity in a contnually changing social and politcal context over the last ffy years. This publicaton is a tool to record and stmulate innovaton and excellence – contributng to the long-term stability of the arts. It is the frst publicaton to give the whole story of theatre for children and young people and its development in the UK.

Essental reading for drama and theatre practtoners and for students of contemporary Britsh theatre everywhere.

‘ … good to have on ofer so many voices and such a wealth of experience, ofen with concrete examples, tps on writng and directng; the principles of TIE … ’ – T.E.S.

A GUIDE TO UK THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES ed. Paul Harman

The quality and range of Theatre for Children and Young People in the UK is one of our greatest cultural assets. This essental book provides the frst ever guide to the wealth of talent and creatvity displayed by over 150 professional companies involved in theatre for young audiences.

£7.99 / 112 pages

978-1-906582-09-8

‘This is a must-have seminal resource.’

– stageplays.com

COUNTERCULTURE UK – A Celebration Eds.

Rebecca Gillieron and Cheryl Robson

A comprehensive exploraton of counterculture in the UK – from illegal raves to street art, alternatve comedy and agit-prop theatre to popup galleries, as well as the larger agents for social change such as the green movement, feminism, disability rights and much more. Ofers an entrely unique look at the myriad subversive scenes in Britain today. Contributors include: Penny Pepper, Tim Burrows, Mark Sheerin, Em Ayson, Susan Murray, Paul Quinn, Mark Edward, Hayley da Foster, Coco Khan, Ellen Cheshire, Charlie Oughton, Jack Bright, Ben Graham, Simon Smith and Bella Quist.

’…a wonderfully scholarly, readable and useful treat on the perils of labelling culture.’

– Helen Lederer, Actress, Writer, Comedienne

SILLY BEGGAR James

Spence

Silly Beggar takes the art of acquiring the freebie to a whole new level of absurdity. Rejoice as the customer service departments of multnatonal corporatons are fed ridiculous stories to make them part with T-shirts or other logobearing bounty. Whether he’s playing the system or just playing games, James Spence demonstrates his comic genius via his uniquely entertaining emails.

‘The author has clearly spent years plaguing companies with his idiotc requests for freebies, could this be where the global meltdown started?’

– Paul Foot, Life President, Guild of Paul Foot Connoisseurs

HOW TO PUT ON A COMMUNITY PLAY

Sarah Burton

Essental source book for students of Community Theatre as well as to local community groups, youth theatres and amateur players wantng to stage a community play.

An invaluable guide to the myriad tasks and decisions facing any community play organiser. With detailed advice concerning the preparaton, planning and executon required to achieve success, the author also ofers essental tps on the creatve process, administratve hurdles and technical headaches that must be overcome.

£14.99

978-0-9566329-6-8

288 pages

£9.99 / 978-1-90658203-6

200 pages, full colour photos and illustratons

£12.99

978-1-906582-15-9

192 pages

As featured on The Richard and Judy Show

£12.99

ISBN: 978-1-906582-12-8

112 pages, full colour

THE GREEN TEEN COOKBOOK ed. Laurane Marchive

This unique cookbook and rough guide to ethical eatng is for all those who want to eat well, pay less and save the planet!

What is Fair Trade?

What’s a Flexitarian? Are food additves bad?

‘This is real cooking … a revolutonary litle gem in its own right … quite politcal. And so it should be.’

The perfect book for young people learning to cook, for students on a budget and for all those interested in pursuing an eco-friendly lifestyle.

– singlegourmetraveller.wordpress.com

£12.99 / 96 pages

978-0-9515877-5-1 full colour

THE ARAB-ISRAELI COOKBOOK – RECIPES Robin Soans

A collecton of recipes that ofers the best of Middle Eastern food and more.

With recipes gathered in Israel and Palestne from ordinary people going about their everyday lives, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook includes tps, tales and anecdotes as well as recipes passed down through generatons.

Winner of The Gourmand: Best Innovatve Foodbook UK and Special Jury Prize For Peace

Published in conjuncton with the play by the same author: The Arab-Israeli Cookbook: The Play (978-0-95423309-9)

PROVENCE: PEOPLE, PLACES, FOOD – A Cultural Guide ed. Cheryl Robson

Artsts, painters, writers and discerning travellers from royalty to rock stars have long been atracted by the region’s bright light, perfect climate and joie de vivre.

Take the road less travelled as you fnd out more about the extraordinary range of places and people who’ve found inspiraton in the mountains and valleys, rocky coves and verdant islands.

£12.99

978-1-906582-33-3

288 pgs, full colour

‘...an excellent travel guide to Provence, including anecdotal informaton about famous people from Provence, the culture, the food and the wine.’

– **** Readers’ Favourite

THE ORIGINAL SUFFRAGE COOKBOOK eds. L.O.Kleber & Cheryl Robson

Originally published in 1915 to help raise funds for the cause this new editon includes short biographies of many of the contributors such as Jack London and Charlote Perkins Gilman. Also a new endnote by award-winning writer Cheryl Robson, which places the book both in its historical context and provides insight into the incredible women, politcians and writers who contributed to the recipes in the book.

ART, THEATRE & WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE IRENE COCKROFT AND SUSAN CROFT

An exploraton of the creatve explosion that occurred when the campaign for the vote brought together the talents of so many female writers and artsts at the start of the 20th century. Includes: Cicely Hamilton, Chris St. John, Inez Bensusan, Elizabeth Robins, Edith Zangwill, Charlote Despard, Ernestne Mills, Pamela Colman Smith, Sylvia Pankhurst, Ellen Terry, Edith Craig, Sybil Thorndike and more.

‘ … this is not a book about the gesture. It’s a story of connected and concerted bravery … a compelling reminder of a ferce and quietly-neglected artstc movement.’ – Exeunt Magazine

THE WOMEN WRITERS’ HANDBOOK 2020 ed

Ann Sandham

A revised editon of the ttle which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspiratonal in its original format, this new editon features poems, stories, essays and interviews with 30 women writers, both emerging authors and luminaries of contemporary literature such as:

A.S. Byat, Kit de Waal, Carol Ann Dufy, Philippa Gregory, Jackie Kay, Madeline Thien, Clare Tomalin, Sarah Waters, Ida Vitale and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf herself, Emma Woolf. 20% of profts go to the Virginia Woolf Statue campaign

£12.99

978-1-912430-13-0

200 pages

£7.99

978-1-906582-08-1

128 pages

£14.99

978-1-912430-33-8

224 pages

£12.99

978-0-9932207-2-2

200 pages

IN THE SCENE: Jane Campion Ellen Cheshire

Campion is one of the few women flm-makers working today who has managed to create a unique body of work, she has atracted ‘A’ List Hollywood superstars to appear in her flms. Who else but Jane Campion could have convinced a tatooed Harvey Keitel to run buck-naked through the New Zealand landscape in The Piano, or for the mult-award winning Kate Winslet to pee down her legs in the middle of the desert in Holy Smoke? This book covers Jane Campion’s remarkable career from her Palme D’or winning debut short flm Peel to her recent return to television with the Top of the Lake, refectng on the infuence of her study in anthropology as well as her formatve years growing up in New Zealand.

IN THE SCENE: Ang Lee Ellen Cheshire

£12.99

978-0-9932207-4-6

200 pages

Ang Lee came to the fore in the 1990s as one of the ‘second wave’ of Taiwanese directors. Afer studying at New York University, Lee returned to Taiwan where he directed Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman. Austen’s Sense And Sensibility was a tremendous critcal and commercial success. But it was his triumphant return to the East with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon which has transformed him into an internatonally successful director. A brief foray into the Marvel Universe with Hulk, it was his adapton of Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain which surprised critcs and won him new fans. Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi pushed the boundaries of CGI animaton. 2016 saw Billy Lynn’s Long Halfime Walk and sci-f drama The Gemini Man with Will Smith.

IN THE SCENE: Steve McQueen Francesca Sobande

£14.99

978-1-913641-17-7

200 pages

Britsh flmmaker and video artst Steve McQueen is best-known for his award-winning flm 12 Years a Slave (2013), but he began as a visual artst, winning the prestgious Turner Prize in 1999. Following a period as ofcial war artst in Iraq in 2006, he directed and cowrote Hunger (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, then Shame (2011), about sex addicton. In 2018 he adapted Widows, the tv series, for the cinema, transposing it to Chicago. Recently, he made fve flms under the ttle Small Axe, for the BBC, which explored the history of London’s West Indian community. Two of these were selected for Cannes in 2020, which was cancelled due to the pandemic. This guide gives an overview of his work to date, providing insight into his approach and his choice of themes.

THE BRITISH BEAT EXPLOSION: Rock ‘n’ Roll Island ed. J.C. Wheatley

• Including interviews with musicians & fans

• b & w photographs throughout

Anyone with an interest in the UK’s history of rock n’roll is familiar with The Cavern Club but on an island in the middle of the The Thames, another great 60s club night played host to acts that would later make a global name for themselves.

BEST BLUES BOOK – BLUES MATTERS

THE ROLLING STONES, THE WHO, PINK FLOYD, THE SMALL FACES, THE PRETTY THINGS, THE KINKS and THE YARDBIRDS are amongst the many acts who performed at the legendary Eel Pie Hotel during its 50s and 60s heydey, as did jazz greats like KEN COLYER, KENNY BALL and ACKER BILK as well as more avant garde performers like IVOR CUTLER.

WOMEN MAKE NOISE: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern ed. Julia Downes

All-girl bands have made radical contributons to feminism, culture and politcs as well as producing some unique, infuental and innovatve music. It’s tme to celebrate the outspoken voices, creatve talents and gutsy performances of the all-girl bands who demand we take notce.

Including commentary from members of the original 60s girl groups and classic punk-inspired outits like The Raincoats and The Slits, as well as contemporary Ladyfest heroines like Beth Dito, this tmely exploraton shows the world that sidelining all-girl bands is a major oversight.

‘This tmely book is both a summary of historic struggles and a cri de coeur that the pop-feminist counterculture is alive and well and possessed of the ability to oppose and correct the moribund culture of 21st century music if given the space to breathe.’

– Los Angeles Review of Books

£9.99

160 pgs 978-1-906582-47-0

b&w photographs

£15.99

978-0-9566329-1-3

320 pages, b&w photographs

£14.99

ISBN 978- 0-9566329-9-9

312 pages

b&w photos

SILENT WOMEN: PIONEERS OF CINEMA eds. Melody Bridges & Cheryl Robson Voted Best Book on Silent Film

£15.99 / 288 pges

978-0-9566329-0-6

b&w photos

More women were working at every level in the frst 20 years of the flm industry in the USA than at any point since. Early pioneers, such as Alice Guy-Blaché, directed hundreds of flms, invented techniques, ran businesses and set up distributon but with the rise of the male dominated studio system, their signifcant contributon to the industry has been forgoten. Celebrates the many women involved in the rise of the flm industry and explains why the coming of the talkies led to the inequality which exists today. Contributors include top flm makers, critcs, silent flm experts, academics and writers from three contnents.

‘...inspiratonal reading for any woman who dreams to express her vision through flm... Only by understanding our past can we embrace our greatest future.’ – Gayle

CELLULOID CEILING: WOMEN FILM DIRECTORS BREAKING THROUGH eds. Gabrielle Kelly & Cheryl Robson

Highlightng rising women directors alongside groundbreaking pioneers, this is a one-stop guide to women flm directors working around the world in the 21st century. From the blockbusters of the Hollywood studios to emerging voices from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Laos, we learn of women making flms in traditonally maledominated areas such as acton, fantasy and horror. With wide-ranging contributons from countries with mature and nascent flm industries, Celluloid Ceiling demonstrates that economic and technological changes are creatng new opportunites for women flm directors everywhere. Includes interviews and b&w photographs.

‘...a powerful instrument for assertng the existence and achievements of women flmmakers against the apparently endless sexism of the flm industry.’ – Sophie Meyer, the fWord

‘The call for equality is tmely: in troubled economies, the editors note, any less would be “a waste of a country’s human resources.

Nachlis, Women In Film Los Angeles

NOT A NUMBER: Patrick McGoohan –a Life Rupert Booth

Including exclusive interviews with leading directors, actors and industry insiders from his hit TV series The Prisoner and Danger Man as well as commentary from family and friends.

The only up-to-date biography of Patrick McGoohan, celebratng an extraordinary character whose refusal to play by the rules of his profession earned him a worldwide following.

A tmely exploraton of the man whose declaraton ‘I will not be pushed, fled, stamped indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered’ contnues to resonate with audiences decades afer it was frst utered with such convicton.

‘He was meant to become the frst James Bond … Now a revealing new biography tells of a destructve Jekyll and Hyde persona that governed his life.’

– The Daily Express

MEDIA LABS: what you need to know

James Clarke

From game jams to flm festvals, from how to apply for funding, to who to connect with online, this is an essental guide to the evolving and dynamic world of the media lab as a place (actual or virtual) that encourages, nurtures and provides tangible support for creatve talents and their projects. While the focus is on flmmaking and gaming, the author also delves into the ‘brave new worlds’ of VR and AR. Providing an overview of the range of media labs on offer, the book is enriched by interviews with contemporary practitioners working in the lab culture around the world.

‘... an inspiratonal and tmely new resource, packed with contacts, leading edge initatves, tps from seasoned media practtoners …. It can’t fail to help you get new creatve content made, and seen, around the world.’ – Nic Millington, Rural Media

£12.99

978-0-9566329-2-0

320 pages

b&w photos

£14.99 / ebook: £4.99

978-0-993220760

200 pages

b&w photos

£24.99 Hdbk/

978-0-9932207-8-4

£19.99 Pbk 978-1-913641-19-1

240 pages

full colour

50 WOMEN IN THE BLUES

Introducton by Zoe Howe/Photographs and compilaton by Jennifer Noble

Women have been at the dawn of the blues since Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey were singing about hard knocks and tough love in smoky bars. This book gives an overview of the early days of the blues and its development from the Mississippi Delta to the windy city, Chicago, to becoming the global musical movement it is today.

Ma Rainey ● Shemekia Copeland ● Roseta Tharpe ● Mavis Staples ● Eta James ● Janis Joplin ● Bonnie Rait

● Susan Tedeschi ● Big Mama Thornton ● Koko Taylor ● Bessie Smith ● Kyla Brox and many more…

With exclusive photographs of and interviews with contemporary blues artsts.

50 WOMEN SCULPTORS

Introducton by Joanna Sperryn-Jones / Foreword Melissa Hamnet of the V&A

How many women sculptors can you name? This book will challenge perceptons that sculpture is a male pursuit and help you to understand the work and lives of dozens of women sculptors - signifcant artsts from the past as well as those working in the excitng and varied world of sculpture today. Exploring the work of 50 extraordinary women artsts who have forged a name for themselves in a male arena, broken rules, pushed boundaries and inspired us with their visionary creatons.

£24.99 Hdbk/ £14.99 ebook 978-0-9932207-7-7

200 pages

full colour

Camille Claudel ● Barbara Hepworth ● Elisabeth Frink ● Niki de Saint Phalle ● Louise Bourgeois ● Ruth Asawa ● Rachel Whiteread ● Malvina Hofman ● Maggi Hambling

● Cornelia Parker ● Senga Nengudi ● Phyllida Barlow

●Eva Hesse ● Sophie Ryder and many more…

50 WOMEN IN SPORT

Introduced by Jean Williams

Women have traditonally been discouraged from partcipatng in sportng actvites. Undaunted, female athletes and sportswomen of all kinds have demonstrated their courage and inner strength to break records and demolish outdated notons of the weaker sex. Now, the professionalisaton of women’s sports such as football, rugby and cricket has led to renewed popularity and commercial investment big tme.

Serena Williams ● Megan Rapinoe ● Lindsay Vonn

● Paula Radclife ● Tracey Edwards● Sarah Storey ● Simone Biles ● Bethany Hamilton ● Fu-Yuanhui ● Aina Nehwal ● Ellen McArthur ● Jessica Ennis-Hill and many more…

With colour photos and around 20 interviews with contemporary women in sport.

50 WOMEN IN FILM

Foreword by Melissa Silverstein

Women have been at the dawn of cinema since the inventon of the movie camera, contributng signifcantly to the development of the medium. Male bias in the studio system kept women out of top jobs for over ffy years but today, women are reassertng their rightul place as a creatve force within the industry. With the #MeToo movement challenging the widespread mistreatment of women, female flmmakers can now fnally break through the celluloid ceiling.

Kathryn Bigelow ● Meryl Streep ● Jane Campion ●

Priyanka Chopra ● Ava du Vernay ● Rachel Morrison ●

Gong Li ● Sofa Coppola ● Lupita Nyong’o ● Mira Nair ● Emma Thompson ● Helen Mirren and many more… With colour photos and around 20 interviews with contemporary women in flm.

£24.99 Hdbk/ £14.99 ebook

978-1-913641-01-6

200 pages full colour

£24.99 Hdbk/ £14.99 ebook

978-1-913641-03-0

200 pages full colour

£24.99

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200 pages full colour

50 WOMEN IN THEATRE

Introducton by Dr Susan Crof

Since 1660 when actresses frst began performing on the English stage, women have forged bright careers in theatre, while men called the shots. Four hundred years of women playwrights, from Aphra Behn to Caryl Churchill, yet plays by women make up less than a quarter of staged productons in the UK, leading to a lack of central roles for women. At a tme when many theatres have closed their doors and others are looking to re-open, will they choose to move with the tmes or fall back on commercial revivals?

With an overview of infuental women in post-war theatre and 25 exclusive interviews with leading women theatre-makers, this book inspires us to create a truly equal and inclusive theatre today.

Lynn Notage ● Marsha Norman ● Kate Mitchell ● Daryl Roth● Meera Syal● Moira Bufni● Caryl Churchill ● Winsome Pinnock ● Denise Gough● Sonia Friedman ● and many more…

‘...shows how the tme she spent in Richmond infuenced Woolf’s development as a writer and her personality in a more general sense. It is clear that Woolf’s life and work would have been very diferent if she had not lived there.’ – NB Magazine

VIRGINIA WOOLF IN RICHMOND

Peter Fullagar

£16.99 Hbk

978-1-912430-03-1

240 pages

full colour

“I ought to be grateful to Richmond, and indeed, whether it’s my invincible optmism or not, I am grateful.” − Virginia Woolf Although more commonly associated with Bloomsbury, Virginia and husband Leonard lived in Richmond for 10 years from 1914. Refutng the common misconcepton that she disliked the town, this book explores her daily habits as well as her intmate thoughts while living at the house she came to love – Hogarth House. Drawing on her leters and diaries, as well as Leonard’s autobiography, the editor reveals how Richmond’s relaxed way of life infuenced the writer, from her novel-writng to her work with her husband and the Hogarth Press, from her relatonships with her servants to her famous visitors.

Hdbk/ £14.99 ebook

Celebrate over 30 years of brilliant publishing with us!

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It all began around 30 years ago, when Cheryl Robson and a group of women writers created the small press, Aurora Metro, to develop and publish new women’s writng. Now regarded as one of the most distnctve independent publishers in the UK, with a fne list of over 300 Britsh and internatonal authors including Germaine Greer, Benjamin Zephaniah, Meera Syal, Suchen Christne Lim, Jean-Claude Carriere, Nawal el Saadawi and Mihail Sebastan, Aurora Metro is proud to bring you an inspiring range of writers from over 30 diferent countries.

We also develop and publish new authors and welcome submissions from emerging authors as well as from agents and literary consultancies. Or why not enter our biennial competton for women novelists: The Virginia Prize for Ficton?

We are also campaigning and raising funds for a full-size statue of Virginia Woolf in Richmond. You can donate at virginmoneygiving.com/fund/VirginiaWoolfStatue #diversity and inclusion

In recogniton of our commitment to diverse literature, publisher Cheryl Robson was a fnalist in the ITV Natonal Diversity Awards – Lifetme Achievement Category.

We were delighted to also be a fnalist in the Independent Publisher Guild’s awards for Diversity in Publishing in 2020 & 2019 and a fnalist in the Music and Drama awards for Outstanding Drama Resource (2019).

Other awards include PEN Translates, Gourmand World Cookbook, Kirkus Best Indie books and the Arts Council’s Raymond Williams Award. Our ttles have been shortlisted 5 tmes for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translaton.

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AURORA METRO BOOKS

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WOLLSTONECRAFT LIVE! Kaethe Fine with an Introduction by Anna Birch

Bio-pic of Mary Wollstonecraf with an introducton that tells the story of the 10 year campaign to erect a statue in her honour.

A play that stages a flm shoot centring on a love story between the 18th century radical, Mary Wollstonecraf, and William Godwin who was her lover for the last 5 years of her life. The relatonships in Mary’s life, all tragically cut short by circumstance, are exposed through real leters and contemporary dialogue, creatng a fragmented narraton of the tme in which she lived, loved and died.

HUMANE Polly Creed

A play about animal welfare, actvism, friendship, motherhood and the values that unite and divide us. A two-hander that packs a powerful punch.

1995: Brightlingsea, a small port in rural Essex. Two women, Alice and Linda, wake up to fnd lorries thundering through their town, carrying live animals in horrendous conditons for export. Although from very diferent worlds, the pair unite to try to stop the lorries. Facing arrest and police brutality amidst the protests, while also dealing with the pressures of motherhood. When one of their group dies, things start to unravel, as they are forced to face the diferences between them.

GENTLEMEN Matt Parvin

Freshers’ term. Greg has taken to university life like a duck to water. Kasper is struggling to ft in. Summoned to a mediaton session with Kasper and the college welfare ofcer to discuss an accusaton of plagiarism, Greg defly argues his way out of trouble. But when the allegatons evolve into something altogether more damaging, how long can Greg remain untouchable?

Gentlemen examines what happens when culture turns toxic, and how a fear of not ftng in risks everyone losing out.

“Taut, cruelly funny and crammed with quirky detail...”

– The Times

76 pages / £9.99 978-1-912430-57-4

106 pages/ £10.99 978-1-912430-61-1

104 pages/ £10.99 978-1-912430-53-6

SINGLE PLAYS

THE NATURALISTS Jaki McCarrick

Acclaimed Irish writer explores the afermath of The Troubles

Set in a rural hamlet in Ireland, the isolated lives of two brothers are disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious young woman. This is a story about secrets, atonement, and how, through the forces of love and nature, damaged lives are redeemed.

THE IRANIAN FEAST Kevin Dyer

An exploraton of how people make compromises to survive in societes where freedom is limited.

In modern-day Tehran, you can never predict how life will turn out. Part thriller, part cookery lesson, this is the story of a family struggling to deal with the challenges of a regime where secrecy and surveillance are an everyday part of life. Abbas calls together his wife and daughter and their friends and neighbours for an impromptu feast. Going in the pot are fresh herbs, spices, sweet vegetables and Eli’s mother’s secret ingredient...

THE DIVIDED LAING Patrick Marmion

Explores the ideas of radical psychiatrist RD Laing afer 50 years. London, 1970: Laing is facing evicton from his pioneering asylum in the East End’s Kingsley Hall. Local residents are up in arms and Ronnie’s revolutonary colleague David Cooper is fipping out on the roof...

With his personal life and mental state both going down the pan, Ronnie takes an acid trip to the future. His mission is to save his therapeutc collectve The Philadelphia Associaton and secure his professional legacy. Will it be a one-way tcket to madness – or can breakdown sometmes mean breakthrough?

112 pages / £8.99 978-1-906582-82-1

‘... dialogue with a touch of the lyric about it.’ – Lightng and Sound America

104 pages / £9.99 978-1-906582-84-5

72 pages / £8.99 978-1-910798-93-5

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KEITH? OR MOLIERE REWIRED Patrick Marmion

A new comedy about life in Brexit Britain.

A South African gunrunner turned Buddhist monk, a gullible startup millionaire, his radical feminist ex wife, their aid worker daughter, the young Britsh Muslim she met in Syria, an ethical Serbian hitman and an unstable Brazilian cleaner. Modern Britain. Moral chaos. Total nightmare.

88 pages / £9.99

978-1-912430-27-7

ADA Emily Holyoake

This intertwines Ada’s history with a contemporary story about the potental of artfcial intelligence

Ada Lovelace was an English mathematcian. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the frst algorithm which has led to her being described as the world’s frst computer programmer. The play re-imagines Ada’s carefully controlled childhood, collaboraton with Charles Babbage, and fraught relatonship with her family.

66 pages / £9.99

978-1-912430-09-3

NEXT LESSON Chris Woodley

About the impact of controversial ant-gay legislaton

“You can’t teach someone to be gay Val, it’s just a discussion. They’re not promotng anything.”

72 pages / £9.99

978-1-912430-19-2

In 1988, 14-year-old Michael comes out as gay. Later he returns as a teacher. In the background, the notorious Secton 28 of Thatcher’s Local Government Act, which prohibited schools from “promotng homosexuality”. The narratve of the play spans from 1988 to 2003.

THREE MOTHERS Matilda Velevitch

Enforced migraton and refugee status are the backdrop to this inspiring story of women’s determinaton to create a new life. Velevitch immerses the audience in the personal lives and the dilemmas facing its three female characters. The story follows their lives as they atempt to make difcult decisions that will change their lives forever.

72 pages / £9.99

978-1-912430-35-2

Shortlisted for Polari Prize

FROM THE MOUTHS OF MOTHERS

Amanda Stuart Fisher

A powerful, short verbatm play assembled from mothers’ experiences of their children being abused.

A verbatm play, created from the testmonies of seven mothers who have had to come to terms with the devastatng reality of their children being sexually abused. In a society in denial of the widespread occurrence of the sexual abuse of children, and with a system ill-equipped to deal with the families, the women tell the ofen harrowing stories of how they have struggled to access medical and social services for their families as well as justce from the courts.

INIGO Jonathan Moore

First play to explore the life and tmes of Ignatus of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

Follows Inigo (Ignatus of Loyola) from ambitous, hot-headed, street-fghtng sensualist to his co-founding, (with a radical group of young friends), the Society of Jesus in the sixteenth century. With the current Pope a Jesuit, this is a tmely exploraton of one of history’s major spiritual leaders and reformers.

‘Historically accurate, comic and thoughtprovoking while stll incredibly relevant.’ **** – Plays to See

THE BOMB Kevin Dyer

Inspired by Jo Berry, whose father was killed in the 1984 Brighton Bomb and Patrick Magee who planted that bomb. At 16, she was shell-shocked and caught in the blast. Now the bomber’s waitng on the other side of the door. The Bomb is a journey into the minds of two extraordinary people – one who destroyed lives, the other who forgives the unforgivable.

‘... an emotonally explosive piece of drama, making you consider issues of justce and whether violence can ever be justfed.’ – The Guardian

88 pages / £8.99 978-1-906582-99-9

112 pages / £9.99 978-1-906582-72-1

88 pages / £8.99 978-0-9546912-7-1

LYSISTRATA – THE SEX STRIKE Germaine Greer and Phil Willmott

Aristophanes’ classic retold in a bang up-to-the-minute way

The world’s leading feminist raconteur, polemicist and wit plunders the archetypal story of female resistance… This new version of the ancient tale gives the batle of the sexes an outng full of fun, farce and innuendo.

‘...

–Evening Standard

THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK Jean-Claude Carriere

From the successful French play L’Aide-Mémoir. Translated by Solvene Tifou

One morning, Jean-Jacques leaves his door ajar – and a total stranger slips into his life. Is she deranged, a squater, or a woman from his past? As a lawyer, he should know how to get rid of her, but as a man, he has no idea. His orderly world is turned upsidedown when what started as a comic encounter changes his life forever.

‘the play is a cat’s cradle of ambiguites.’

– The Independent

THE ARAB-ISRAELI COOKBOOK: The Play Robin Soans

Arab and Israeli voices come together to cast light on the meltng pot of Middle Eastern afairs.

A verbatm drama created from the everyday realites of the Israeli-Palestnian confict. Robin Soans went to Israel, Gaza and the West Bank where he sampled a variety of dishes and met dozens of people with diferent backgrounds and beliefs. Each person had a story to tell and a recipe to cook.

See our fcton and nonfcton catalogue for the cookery book that accompanies this play.

98 pages / £7.99 978-0-9536757-0-8

86 pages / £7.99 978-0-9542330-7-5

96 pages / £7.99 978-0-9542330-9-9

captures a mixture of bawdy humour and serious moral point with rollicking exuberance.’

WOMAN OF FLOWERS Kaite O’ Reilly

Rose cannot remember what came before the house at the edge of the forest.

Gwynne says he magicked her out of the fowers, but she’s not so sure. She has played the part of the perfect farmer’s wife for Lewis, who is kept frmly in place by his uncle Gwynne, and accepted her lonely existence. Then a stranger is seen in the forest.

How far will she go to escape the life chosen for her?

FROM DOCKS TO DESKTOPS Simon Startn

Created from dozens of personal testmonies, this is the story of the changing face of work today.

Surrey Docks in South-East London was once a thriving commercial hub, hostng some of the UK’s leading commercial brands, but, with the decline of the docks in the 1970s, factories closed down or relocated, work paterns changed and redevelopment began. From Docks to Desktops explores the fascinatng story of how one community has survived the 21stcentury challenges of urban change and renewal.

BLACKBIRDS Simon Startin

In the frst month of the Blitz alone, 5,730 people were killed and 9,003 seriously injured.

By the end of the Blitz in May 1940, just 9 short months later, 43,000 people had been killed, half of them in London. Blackbirds gives a compelling account of the London Blitz told by a group of Londoners who remained in the city. Here the survivors recount their vivid memories; in their own words.

64 pages / £8.99 978-1-906582-54-8

80 pages / £8.99 978-1-906582-29-6

72 pages / £8.99 978-1-906582-90-6

‘...a compelling and intriguing piece of theatre for our tmes.’ – Disability Arts Online

‘... a theatrical experience of events that formed our city into what we know today.’ – Southwark Theatres’ Educaton Partnership

SINGLE PLAYS

THE UNDERGROUND MAN by Mick Jackson and adapted by Nick Wood

80 pages / £9.99

978-1-911501-10-7

Adapted from the Booker nominated novel William Cavendish-Scot-Bentnck is an eccentric Notnghamshire aristocrat whose imaginaton and curiosity know no bounds. This deceptvely simple man struggles to come to terms with a world that is teeming with new knowledge, ill-founded opinion and gossip. Why does he hide himself away? What is his fascinaton with tunnels? Will he ever unearth the secrets hidden in his memory? In a sequence of events that are ofen curious and frequently hilarious he reveals moments of surprising percepton and wisdom.

NEXT SWAN DOWN THE RIVER MIGHT BE BLACK Sean Burn

You think you won’t survive but you do…

Next Swan Down the River

Might be Black is a personal response to being sectoned under the mental health act.

56 pages / £8.99

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Cerys, nineteen, black and depressive, Kay, twenty-six, white and bipolar, and Zee, a Pakistani-Britsh student nurse and former service user, are all fghtng a faceless insttuton in their own way. The play examines diversity, friendships and power at a tme of rising uncertaintes.

COLLECTOR OF TEARS AND OTHER MONOLOGUES Sean Burn

An epic love story for our tmes. Unable to age untl she has cried, Tanya must collect the tears of others in glass botles down through the ages and through her stories, bear witness to the pain and sufering of the people, Taking both male and female lovers, Tanya is an outcast, untl the day comes when she fnally stands up to be counted – and learns how to cry.

112 pages / £8.99

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‘… a theatrical Orlando for our tmes.’ – Colin Teevan, Professor of Playwritng

‘Sometmes poetc, ofen distressing.’ – The Stage

SINGLE PLAYS

All by Sonja Linden

I HAVE BEFORE ME A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT…

Inspired by the experiences of refugees, a play set in a refugee centre in London.

Time Out

Critcs’ Choice

Juliete is a Rwandan asylum seeker, determined to write a book on the genocide that killed her family; Simon is a poet whose job is to help people write. The play follows their relatonship and tackles issues that face many refugees in the UK today.

CROCODILE SEEKING REFUGE

“Scars are like medals. They show we have taken part in the life.”

Crocodile Seeking Refuge is the second play to be inspired by Sonja’s writng residency at the Medical Foundaton for the Care of Victms of Torture. It explores the lives of several asylum seekers and their success or failure in seeking leave to remain in the UK.

‘...its theme could hardly be more topical, or more powerful, ... deeply afectng.’ –The Times

WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE?

A kaleidoscope of stories which interweave and overlap. Based on the incredible family histories, photographs and memories of the cast, Who Do We Think We Are? draws on real life experiences of key historical moments in the last 100 years. The play explores joy and hardship from life in a Siberian prison camp during the Russian revoluton, childhood experiences in India under the Raj, an escape from the Warsaw Gheto, surviving the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, experiencing the harsh reality of life under Ceausescu, London in the swinging 60s and much more.

‘... you made age beautful and something to value and celebrate.’ –Bruce Nixon, Natonal Theatre

64 pages / £7.99

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100 pages / £8.99

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120 pages / £8.99

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SINGLE PLAYS

CARE TAKERS Billy Cowan

A two-hander about bullying and discriminaton

Ms Lawson, a new teacher at Newall South High School, believes Jamie Harrow is being bullied because he’s gay. She wants to help but Mrs Ruter, the Deputy Head, thinks it will sort itself out. Is Mrs Ruter speaking from experience or is there something more unsavoury about her uncaring attude?

A batle royale occurs between youthful idealism and the system that evolves to choke it.

72 pages / £8.99

978-1-910798-81-2

***** ‘Tight and Powerful… hits home with a punch!’ – WhatsOnStage

THE VALUE OF NOTHING Kim Wiltshire

A satre about the nature of well-funded community projects which misuse the arts to get people of the dole.

Welcome to the Press Conference from hell!

Join ex-community artst and self-proclaimed people’s champion Vince Fine as he launches his ArtWorks project natonally. Vowing to end poverty, benefts, worklessness and even mental health issues, Vince and his loyal sidekick Michelle take on all-comers to persuade them that ArtWorks Works!

72 pages / £9.99

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‘... an important new play about what it means to be poor in the UK today.’ –aboutmanchester.co.uk

PROJECT XXX Kim Wiltshire and Paul Hines

A dark, romantc comedy

This story follows a feminist teen blogger who decides it is tme to prove that sex on the web is not just for men.

During a rainy summer in a northern seaside town, Amy resolves to show that sexual choice is frmly in the hands of women, by persuading new love interest Callum to flm her frst tme. Meanwhile, Callum has his own issues to deal with, including a mother on the edge of a nervous breakdown and an obsession with faded porn star Jaze.

84 pages / £8.99

978-1-906582-55-5

‘Comedy values aside, this is a fresh and tmely piece of exploratory theatre.’

– WhatsOnStage

ETHNIC WRITERS

THE MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES OF MARY SEACOLE Cleo Sylvestre

Considered the greatest of all Black Britons, discover why and how she came to be so highly regarded, although she was an immigrant and a woman of colour in Victorian England. In this acclaimed one-woman play, the true story of Mary Seacole is brought vibrantly to life, revealing how this fearless medical practtoner used traditonal remedies to treat the sick and wounded, challenged racism in high places and won the hearts and minds of those she helped across the globe.

HOMING BIRDS Rukhsana Ahmad

This evocatve play asks if a place can ever be home without a connecton to family and roots?

Young Afghan refugee Saeed desperately wants to reconnect with his roots and fnd his long-lost sister. He leaves his adoptve family in London and returns home to Kabul to work as a doctor, eager to contribute to rebuilding a new Afghanistan. As past and present collide, Saeed must face up to the reality of his changed world.

48 pages / £8.99 978-1-912430-59-8

76 pages / £9.99 978-1-912430-45-1

THE STAR WITH NO NAME

Mihail Sebastian translated by Gabi Reigh

Thrown of the train for not having a tcket, Mona fnds herself, alone, in a rural town at night. Fortunately, the local schoolteacher, Marin, invites her to stay at his home and an atracton soon develops. Marin, a keen astronomer, reveals that he has discovered a star which is not marked on any star chart. Will Mona choose to return to her old life in the city or setle for a quieter life with Marin?

144 pages/ £11.99 978-1-912430-51-2

“You brought the spirit of Mary to life.”

– Florence Nightngale Museum

SPLIT / MIXED Ery Nazaramba

A thought-provoking quest to fnd a singular voice. The genocide in Rwanda shocked the world. Back then, Ery Nzaramba was only 15 years old and his family’s escape to Europe turned him into a ‘survivor’. How should he now respond to questons about who he is and where he comes from?

In this autobiographical one-man play, performed to acclaim on the Edinburgh Festval Fringe, the author revisits his Rwandan childhood. With the help of a cassete player, he brings to life nearly a dozen characters, exploring memories of kinship, cultural attudes and personal identty.

BIG FOOT Joseph Barnes Phillips

A fusion of grime music and Guyanese folk stories

Joseph Barnes-Phillip’s semi-autobiographical story is a comic, tragic and honest portrayal of becoming a man. We follow Rayleigh as he negotates the tensions of growing up and taking responsibility. When the highs of teenage life in south London collide with his mum’s terminal illness, all Rayleigh wants to do it watch anime in his pants and eat indomie. Love, life and masculinity meet head-on as Rayleigh tries to fnd his feet, torn between the new girl in his life and being there for his mum, while trying not to make the same mistakes as his dad.

THE TROUBLE WITH ASIAN MEN

S. Bhuchar, K. Landon-Smith and L. Wallinger

Macho men or metrosexual guys? Mummy’s boys or blokes under their missus’ thumbs? Pukka professionals with their Mercedes Benz lives and designer clad wives; husbands, sons, uncles, brothers and fathers…

‘An honest, funny and touching insight into modern Britsh Asian masculinity’ – Evening Standard

From the award-winning theatre company that brought us East is East, a revealing verbatm comedy that has played to sellout houses internatonally.

96 pages / £10.99 978-1-911501-97-8

80 pages / £9.99 978-1-911501-99-2

48 pages / £8.99 978-1-906582-41-8

FROM SHORE TO SHORE Mary Cooper with MW Sun

Play in English,Mandarin and Cantonese

Taking place over a delicious two-course Chinese meal, From Shore to Shore blends multple tales of migraton to tell an uplifing story of love and loss, struggle and survival. Cheung Wing is escaping from war, Mei Lan’s had enough of the potato peeler at her parents’ takeaway, and Yi Di wants the impossible

her father’s approval.

COMBUSTION Asif Khan

Bradford, in the month of Ramadan

Shaz, a local garage mechanic, is trying to keep his business going despite the terrible scandal of Asian men involved in grooming young girls for sex in the area. Shaz just wants a quiet life so that his prospectve in-laws will let him marry their beautful daughter, but as the city gets swept up in the protest, his world gets turned upside down.

THE DIARY OF A HOUNSLOW GIRL Ambreen

Razia

A comic story of dreams and coming of age, now a BBC 3 sitcom

From the joys of Pakistani weddings to fghts on the night bus, this is a funny, bold, provocatve play highlightng the challenges of being a teenage girl in a traditonal Muslim family, alongside the temptatons and infuences of growing up in and around London.

FIX Julie Tsang

A tale of guilt and childhood memory – can we ever really mend what is already broken?

Responding to a call-out, a repairman fnds himself inexplicably drawn to an old woman and her house in the woods. At frst it seems like a simple fx, but as a storm starts to close in, he is forced to confront the ghosts from his past.

72 pages / £8.99 978-0-9536757-9-1

96 pages / £9.99 978-1-911501-91-6

80 pages / £9.99 978-1-912430-25-3

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‘…that rare beast… a bold theatrical experiment that is also remarkably entertaining.’ – The Times****

72 pages / £9.99 978-1-912430-49-9

PLAYS BY MINORITY ETHNIC WRITERS

UNDER THEIR INFLUENCE Wayne Buchanan

Questons the way black people are perceived and treated in the mental health system Randoulph is in hospital, a convicted murderer. His doctor unravels the incidents leading to the murder and his mental collapse.

‘... the best play so far to constructvely deal with a serious issue in the black community. Wayne Buchanan deserves a Grammy for this one.’

– The Gleaner

MISTAKEN… ANNIE BESANT IN INDIA

Rukhsana Ahmad

1916: India is simmering with discontent against the Raj Enter English proto-feminist Annie Besant, notorious at home for the match-girls’ strike, politcal, charismatc. In India she fnds a new family and a new cause. Gandhi hails her as the leader of the Congress Party afer she courts imprisonment for promotng Indian Home Rule. Can Annie’s great love afair with India last?

‘ripe with tension... tells the story of how family squabbles can become highly politcal when religion is involved... it stays with you.’ – Time Out

THE ALGEBRA OF FREEDOM Raman Mundair

A taut politcal drama that asks questons about identty, faith and compassion in a society waging a war against terror.

... Tony, a policeman, wishes he could turn the clock back.

... Jack knows that what’s done is done.

... Parvez, a young Asian man, can’t believe that Sara is back from beyond, and this tme she seems to have all the answers. How do we live today?

‘Mundair is a rare breed: a poet whose writng works on both the page and the stage.’

– The Independent

96 pages / £6.99 978-0-9536757-5-3

91 pages / £7.99 978-0-9551566-9-4

68 pages / £7.99 978-0-9551566-6-3

All by Asa Palomera WOMEN

OF ASIA

Questons the myths which underpin the contnuing oppression of women in Asia

‘...a powerhouse on Melbourne’s independent theatre scene.’ – The Age

Inspired by true stories, this critcally acclaimed modern play explores the everyday abuse and exploitaton of Asian women and their struggles to obtain freedom. The play has been performed internatonally on three contnents including theatres in New York, Melbourne, Bangkok and Singapore.

THE CURIOUS LIVES OF SHAKESPEARE AND CERVANTE

Shakespeare and Cervantes, parallel lives, comic and tragic. This comic romp charts the infuences of these literary giants on the modern world and contrasts the fortunes of two contemporaries whose countries – England and Spain – went from alliance to enmity in a short space of tme.

‘There is a chemistry at work which transcends expectatons... an engaging and hilarious 90-minute performance.’

– The Edinburgh Evening News

THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER OF KOREA

When Mina’s father dies, she returns to Korea to visit a family she barely knows, looking for some answers

But her mother is reluctant to discuss the past, especially the war, or the reasons that Mina was sent so far away as a child, to America. Her younger sister seems unable to grow up and it doesn’t help that their nosy neighbour is always on their doorstep. Secrets and lies divide them all irrevocably. When the truth is fnally revealed, it is both shocking and redemptve, allowing Mina and those around her to see themselves anew and break free from years of pain and guilt.

64 pages / £7.99

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64 pages / £9.99

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72 pages / £9.99

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NEW IRANIAN PLAYS eds. A. Mellor & C. Robson

The collecton gives an urgent and necessary insight into a misunderstood and highly topical region of the World.

A Moment of Silence by Mohammad Yaghoubi

Home by Naghmeh Samini

Shame by Sholeh Wolpe

Manus by Leila Hekmatnia, Keyvan Sarreshteh & Nazanin

Sahamizadeh

Isfahan Blues Torange Yeghiazarian

‘It may not be easy to watch but the white hot ardour and authentcity of this piece make it a must see.’– Manus, Adelaide Festval of Arts

BRITISH EAST ASIAN PLAYS eds. Cheryl Robson, Amanda Rogers & Ashley Thorpe

Introducton by Amanda Rogers and Ashley Thorpe, which explores the recent history of theatre from the BEA community.

Bound Feet Blues by Yang Mai Ooi

Tango by Joel Tan

Special Occasions by Amy Ng

Jamaica Boy by Stephen Hoo

Conversatons with my Unknown Mother by Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen

The Fu Manchu Complex by Daniel York Loh

The Last Days of Limehouse by Jeremy Tiang

NEW IDONESIAN PLAYS selected by Muhammad

Abe and Gunawan Maryanto

Contemporary plays by established playwrights in Indonesia.

The Silent Song Of The Genjer Flowers by Faiza Mardzoeki

Red Janger by Ibed Surgana Yuga

Cut Out by Riyadhus Shalihin

Break In by Agnes Christna

Sin by Trisa Triandesa

Bedfellows by Hanna Fransisca

The Makassar Trilogy by Shinta Febriany

200 pages / £14.99

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328 pages / £16.99

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192 pages / £14.99

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PLAYS OF LOVE AND CONFLICT Neil Dufeld

Three original plays for family audiences

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Is An Adaptaton Of The Victor Hugo Novel.

With All My Love Is Based On A True Story About The Lives Of A Convict And His Family Following His Transportaton To Western Australia.

Brothers In Arms Is Based On A True Story About Conscientous Objectors In The First World War.

1936: BERLIN And Other

Plays Tom Mcnab, former Olympic Coach

1936: Berlin – The Murky World Of Olympic Politcs

Orwell On Jura – The Troubled Mind Of George Orwell

Whisper In The Heart –An Imaginary Meetng Between The Acclaimed Director Orson Welles And Infamous Fellow Filmmaker

Leni Riefenstahl, Who Directed Hitler’s Propaganda Film The Triumph Of The Will, And Filmed The 1936 Olympic Games.

DURBAN DIALOGUES, THEN AND NOW

Ashwin Singh

A collecton of three plays from South African playwright

Ashwin Singh

Includes:

Swing, A Two-Hander Shootng, A Monologue About A Preventable Death Into The Grey About Politcal Actvism

DURBAN DIALOGUES, INDIAN VOICES

Ashwin Singh

Includes:

To House

Duped

Spice ’N Stuf

Reoca Light

Beyond The Big Bangs

SEVEN PLAYS BY WOMEN Ed. Cheryl Robson

Winner of The Raymond Williams Prize

Fail / Safe By Ayshe Raif

The Taking Of Liberty By Cheryl Robson

Crux By April De Angelis

Ithaka By Nina Rapi

Forced Out By Jean Abbot

Cochon Flambé By Eva Lewin

269 pages /

296

‘… testmony to the work and debate going on among women, an inspiring document.’

– What’s On

PLAYS BY MEDITERRANEAN WOMEN Ed. Marion Baraitser

Plays from countries geographically linked but politcally divided 12 Women In A Cell By Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt)

The End Of The Dream Season By Miriam Kainy (Israel)

Libraton By Lluisa Cunillé (Spain)

Mephisto By Klaus Mann / Ariane Mnouchkine (France / Germany)

Harsh Angel By Maria Avraamidou (Cyprus)

Veronica Franco By Dacia Maraini (Italy)

‘showcases a wealth of talent amongst Black and Asian communites… ofen neglected by mainstream publishers.’ – Black Pride Magazine

SIX PLAYS BY BLACK AND ASIAN WOMEN WRITERS Ed. Kadija George

A landmark collecton of plays for stage, screen and radio

My Sister-Wife By Meera Syal

Running Dream By Trish Cooke

Song For A Sanctuary By Rukhsana Ahmad

Leonora’s Dance By Zindika

Monsoon By Maya Chowdhry

A Hero’s Welcome By Winsome Pinnock

228 pages /

£5.95 978-0-9515877-1-3

pages / £9.95 978-0-9515877-3-7

£12.99 978-0-9515877-2-0

NEW SOUTH AFRICAN PLAYS

Ed. Charles J. Fourie

Plays about racial confict, the impact of AIDS, power and corrupton, the legacy of the past and female identty

The Playground By Beverley Naidoo

Taxi By Sibusiso Mamba

Green Man Flashing By Mike Van Graan

To House By Ashwin Singh

Rejoice Burning By James Whyle

What The Water Gave Me By Rehane Abrahams

SOUTHEAST ASIAN PLAYS

Eds. Cheryl Robson and Aubrey Mellor

A comprehensive collecton of plays from countries in SE Asia

Plunge By Jean Tay (Singapore)

An Evening At The Opera By Floy Quintos (Philippines)

Tarap Man By Ann Lee (Malaysia)

Dark Race By Dang Chuong (Vietnam)

Frangipani By Chhon Sina (Cambodia)

Piknik By Joned Suryatmoko (Indonesia)

Nadirah By Alfan Saat (Singapore)

‘...overall, the editors have done an excellent job of opening up our chances of reading and learning about plays form all over Southeast Asia.’– The Asiatc

BLACK AND ASIAN PLAYS

Introduced by Afia Nkrumah

The fve plays in this collecton each give us a glimpse of a diferent world

Harvest By Manjula Padmanabhan

Made In England By Parv Bancil

Brother To Brother By Michael Mcmillan

Calcuta Kosher By Shelley Silas

Under Their Infuence By Wayne Buchanan

348 pages / £9.95 978-0-9536757-4-6

256 pages / £11.99 978-0-9542330-1-3

348 pages / £16.99 978-1-906582-86-9

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PLAY COLLECTIONS

CLASSIC PLAYS BY WOMEN Ed. Susan Crof

An anthology of the best plays by female dramatsts from 1600-2000

Including:

Paphnutus (Extract) By Hrotswitha

The Tragedy Of Mariam (Extract) By Elizabeth Cary

The Rover By Aphra Behn

A Bold Stroke For A Wife By Susanna Centlivre

De Monfort By Joanna Baillie

Rutherford And Son By Githa Sowerby

The Chalk Garden By Enid Bagnold

455 pages / £16.99 978-0-906582-00-5

Top Girls (Extract) By Caryl Churchill

Stones In His Pockets By Marie Jones

VOTES FOR WOMEN AND OTHER PLAYS

Ed. Susan Crof

Introduced and set in an historical context by Dr Susan Crof together with a chronology of sufrage drama 1907-1914

Includes key sufrage plays and others not previously published.

Votes For Women By Elizabeth Robins

How The Vote Was Won By Cicely Hamilton And Chris St. John

The Apple By Inez Bensusan

Jim’s Leg By L.s. Phibbs

At The Gates By Alice Chapin

In The Workhouse By Margaret W. Nevinson

256 pages / £12.99 978-1-906582-01-2

A Change Of Tenant By Helen M. Nightngale

A TOUCH OF THE DUTCH: Plays by Dutch Women Writers

A collecton of the best plays by women writng in the Netherlands

Write Me In The Sand By Inez Van Dullemen

The Caracal By Judith Herzberg

A Thread In The Dark By Hella Haasse

Eat By Matn Van Veldhuizen

Dossier: Ronald Akkerman By Suzanne Van Lohuizen

226 pages / £9.95 978-0-9515877-7-5

THREE PLAYS by Jonathan Moore

Three critcally-acclaimed plays from the award-winning playwright

Treatment • Edinburgh Fringe First ‘Treatment Is One Of The Most Disturbing And Exhilaratng Plays In London.’ The Independent This Other Eden • The Guardian Critcs’ Choice

‘A singular voice for his generaton: furious, nihilistc,

– Time Out

‘… The Play Burns With Passion And Indignaton.’ The Telegraph Fall From Light • A Tale Of Art, Savagery And Redempton.

BEST OF THE FEST ed. Phil Setren

Plays from London’s New Play Festval

Includes:

Wild Turkey By Joe Penhall

Everlastng Rose By Judy Upton

Strindberg Knew My Father By Mark Jenkins

In The Fields Of Aceldama By Naomi Wallace

Two Horsemen By Biyi Bandele

‘The quality of the writng is consistently high and never less than gripping.’ – Writng in Educaton

GRAEAE PLAYS 1: New Plays

Redefining Disability selected by Dame

Jenny Sealey

A unique, groundbreaking collecton of new plays that redefne disability

Sympathy For The Devil By Ray

Harrison Graham

Peeling By Kaite O’reilly

Sof Vengeance By April De Angelis

Fitngs: The Last Freakshow By Mike Kenny Into The Mystc By Peter Wolf

190 pages / £10.95 978-0-9536757-2-2

312 pages / £12.99 978-0-9515877-8-2

352 pages / £14.99

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‘Courageous, horrifying, sad and funny...’ – on Sof Vengeance, The Times

poetc...’

PLAY COLLECTIONS

EASTERN PROMISE: Seven Plays from Central And Eastern Europe

Eds. Sian Evans and Cheryl Robson

A rare collecton of plays by women

Belgrade Trilogy By Biljana Srbljanovic (Yugoslavia)

The Tender Mercies By Sladjana Vujovic (Montenegro)

Nascendo By Alina Nelega (Romania)

The Chosen Ones By Elena Popova (Belorus)

The Umbilical Cord By Krystyna Kofa (Poland)

Tulip Doctor By Vera Filo (Hungary)

315 pages / £11.99

978-0-9515877-9-9

Jenufa (Her Stepdaughter) By Gabriela Preissova (Czechoslovakia)

BALKAN PLOTS: New Plays from Central and Eastern

Europe Introduced by Gina Landor

A collecton of plays about war, tyranny and discriminaton

The Body Of A Woman By Matei Visniec (Romania) Produced In London And Avignon.

Cordon By Nebojsa Romcevic (Yugoslavia) Made Into A Film

Presented At Toronto Film Festval.

When I Want To Whistle, I Whistle… By Andreea Valean (Romania)

Soap Opera By Gyorgy Spiro (Hungary)

196 pages / £9.95

978-0-9536757-3-9

PLAYS FOR TODAY BY WOMEN

Eds. Cheryl Robson and Rebecca Gillieron

This collecton of plays by women, tested in performance, has great roles for women of all ages (and men too), exploring aspects of contemporary life from a female perspectve. These plays will appeal to theatre practtoners, students and amateur dramatc groups looking for material that is moving and topical.

Yours Abundantly By Gillian Plowman

From The Mouths Of Mothers By Amanda Stuart Fisher

336 pages / £15.99

978-1-906582-11-1

Welcome To Ramallah By Sonja Linden And Adah Kay

The Awkward Squad By Karin Young

For A Buton By Rachel Barnet

WARRIOR SQUARE Nick Wood

A brother and sister escape to England from a war-torn country Persecuted for being diferent, Andrea and Riva are forced to fee their homeland, and arrive on the south coast of England. Now they must learn to live in a country very diferent from their own.

TRASHED Noël Greig

This play explores the period leading up to the 9/11 atack on the Twin Towers and shows us how things have changed. We meet two young men in love and living in New York prior to the atack, one a freman, the other a city trader. When the mother of one goes to England to meet the family of the other, they must both face the loss of their loved ones and come to terms with who and what they really were.

– Theatre in Wales

THE ROAD TO GLORY Neil Dufeld

An exploraton of how and why teenagers join up to fght in wars

A group of young villagers, some of them barely out of childhood, enlist in King Henry’s army and set sail from Southampton to claim the throne of France for England. Each has a diferent reason for going and their expectatons vary, but none has any experience of fghtng in a war. Combining fact and fantasy, the play takes us on a journey from the peace of rural England to the bloody batlefelds of Agincourt in France, when the villagers fnally come face to face with the mightest army in Europe. What happens will change their lives for ever.

96 pages / £8.99 978-1-906582-80-7

64 pages / £7.99 978-0-9546912-0-2

58 pages / £7.99 978-0-9546912-2-6

‘... shows us the extent to which children are capable of taking control of their own lives and conquering the absurdites of bigotry and hatred.’ – Berlin Theatre Festval

‘Noël Greig has woven difcult themes into a play that is curiously gentle and a great joy to watch.’

PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

‘This is a terrifcally entertaining story about fathers and sons and the monster inside all of us.

THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED Kevin Dyer

A funny and thrilling play for children about friendship and facing up to your fears

Ben has a BIG problem. His best friend Vince has stolen his precious binoculars, his Dad is far, far away… oh, and there’s a monster under his bed. But when Ben swaps places with the underbed monster, Ben’s life – and his school – is turned inside out and upside down.

HARVEST Manjula Padmanabhan

Broadcast by the BBC World Service and now a flm

Harvest is a satre on the export trade in live organs from the Third World to the West – has been produced in the UK, USA and Greece.

Om is driven by poverty to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make his home into a germ-free zone. Jeetu, his brother returns unexpectedly and is mistakenly taken away as the donor. Om can’t accept this and follows them. Jaya, his wife is lef alone. Will she too be seduced into selling her body too?

DEVOTION Leo Butler

George Devine Award winner, Butler explores war and its afermath among a group of lost and confused young people

Do you believe in paradise?

Do you believe in family?

Do you believe in God?

Do you believe in war?

How do you know what to believe in?

70 pages / £6.99 978-0-9542330-4-4

94 pages / £8.99 978-1-906582-07-4

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– The Guardian

PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

All by Charles Way: THE DUTIFUL DAUGHTER

Printed in a dual-language edition EnglishMandarin

A tmeless tale of love, power and transformaton that explores many of the key issues faced by young people today A group of troublesome actors arrive in a modern city. They tell the story of Ke Xin, princess of the Isle of Joy, who is always obedient untl the day the sea brings to her island home a strange sailor, a raving fool without a memory, a man who will challenge everything she believes in.

A SPELL OF COLD WEATHER

“We used to enjoy the farm. We used to enjoy work. We used to be happy.”

Holly has to spend New Year with the grumpiest pair of farmers who ever ploughed a feld. Luckily, she meets a faery called Tom, whose magic and mischief brighten up her days and transform her stay into a real adventure.

‘A truly enchantng piece of theatre.’

– Irish Theatre Magazine

MERLIN AND THE CAVE OF DREAMS

The King is dead and the Green Kingdom is in turmoil

Only Merlin knows that the future lies in the hands of young Arthur.

Taken away from the only home he’s known, Arthur slumbers in Merlin’s Cave of Dreams. Here, his past and future are revealed in a glorious vision that will lead him on the adventure of a lifetme. Can Arthur slay the giants and dragons that stand in his way? Will he pull the sword from the stone and claim his rightul kingdom?

64 pages / £7.99 978-0-9542330-8-12

171 pages / £7.99 978-09546912-6-4

68 pages / £7.99 978-0-9551566-0-1

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TRIPTYCH: THREE PLAYS FOR YOUNG

PEOPLE Fiona Graham

The Portuguese visual artst Paula Rego has inspired this new trilogy of plays

Crivelli’s Garden

The Prey Breaking China

Commissioned By Theatre Centre and Komedia, these three new plays were developed for specifc audiences through a series of artst/audience residencies and collaboratons.

FOUR SHORT PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Rachel Barnet

An entertaining collecton of short plays by popular children’s playwright Rachel Barnet

Rocketuel A Play About Teens Using Alcohol And Risk-Taking

Lol A Play About Cyberbullying

Three Shoes About The Roleof Child Performers In Society

Noah A Modern Retelling Of The Bible Story

128 pages / £12.99

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Specially commissioned for young people, With a wide variety of roles, this is a collecton which enables young people to engage with serious topics while enjoying all the fun of performance.

ALL TALK: MONOLOGUES FOR YOUNG

PEOPLE selected by Dot Wood and Mary Cooper

A series of short, single voice plays by writers based in the North West of England

These powerful, contemporary monologues share the struggles, courage, conficts and joys of diferent characters facing difcult decisions in their lives.

First Date By Anne-Marie O’connor

Getng It Right By Peter Spaford

Results Day By Aelish Michael

68 pages / £7.99

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Close To Home By Mary Cooper

Weighed Down By Carla Monvid-Jenkinson And Mary Cooper

Giggsy’s Legs By Michael Harvey

PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Charles Way

Inspiratonal drama from acclaimed playwright

Playing From The Heart explores the struggle of Evelyn Glennie to become a percussionist despite her profound deafness.

Eye Of The Storm – a contemporary version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest ‘…anything but Prospero’s story, focusing on the sulky, bored, teenage Miranda…’ – T.E.S.

Red Red Shoes explores war, ethnic boundaries and the struggle for life and death.

THE CLASSIC FAIRYTALES retold for the stage Charles Way

Explores the journey from childhood to adulthood, but each takes a specifc angle

Sleeping Beauty ‘hovering deliciously between scary and fairytale, this is a show with fre in its belly and bewitching theatre for anyone over six.’ – Time Out

Cinderella ‘this adaptaton of the world’s best loved fairytale is not to be missed. A Christmas treat for all the family, whether one is fve or ninety-fve.’ – Morning Star

Beauty and the Beast ‘all the ingredients of the classic fairytale with the added dimension of rounded characters who are fawed human beings.’ – Manchester Evening News

CLASSIC FAIRY TALES 2 retold for the stage Charles Way

Three sparkling adaptatons of best-loved tales for family audiences

The Golden Goose ‘transforms A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream into a lively and magical adventure.’ – **** Guardian

The Tinderbox ‘This is truly magical entertainment, a beautfully crafed show’ – The Stage

Sinbad: The Untold Tale ‘This fabulous new adventure is a Christmas treat families will remember forever.’ – The Keswick

Reminder

160 pages / £9.95 978-09536757-1-5

204 pages / £11.50 978-0-9542330-0-6

225 pages / £11.99 978-0-9551566-7-0

BIG THEATRE IN SMALL SPACES

Brendan Murray

Debut collecton of contemporary drama from an awardwinning playwright, exploring life in Great Britain today Far from the stress of the city, rural tensions seethe, young men go to war, marriages founder, loneliness and denial fourishes. Is life in the English countryside as idyllic as it seems?

Includes:

The Falling Sky

Missing in Acton

Entertaining Angels

YOUNG BLOOD – PLAYS FOR YOUNG PERFORMERS

ed. Sally Goldsworthy

These are plays about love, racism, absent fathers, leaving home, betrayal, drugs. Above all, in one way or another, each of them involves journeys and choices

The Girl Who Fell Through A Hole In Her Jumper

By Naomi Wallace And Bruce Mcleod

The Search For Odysseus By Charles Way

Darker The Berry By J.b. Rose

Geraniums By Sheila Yeger

Out Of Their Heads By Marcus

Romer

THEATRE

CENTRE

– PLAYS FOR YOUNG

PEOPLE Introduced by Rosamunde Hut

A challenging and culturally diverse collecton of plays by some of the UK’s foremost writers. dealing with topics such as domestc violence, eatng disorders, mother/daughter relatonships and sibling rivalry

Listen To Your Parents By Benjamin Zephaniah

Precious By Angela Turvey

Look At Me By Anna Reynolds

Gorgeous By Anna Furse

Glow By Manjinder Virk

Souls By Roy Williams

240 pages / £15.99 978-1-906582-18-0

294 pages / £12.99 978-0-9515877-6-8

260 pages / £12.99 978-0-9542330-5-1

GIRL WITH A BOOK AND OTHER PLAYS Nick

Wood

A Girl with a Book is a response to the story of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban. A Dream Of White Horses Birdboy

Mia.

Produced many tmes in Germany and the UK. The other plays in this wide-ranging collecton for young people concern refugees, friendship, loss and courage.

NEW PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Charles Way

Collecton of plays for young people across the globe from award-winning playwright

Missing – a modern take on Hansel and Gretel, about the nature of poverty. This play won the German Children’s Theatre Prize 2010 and has had eight productons in Germany alone.

Nivelli’s War – about a six-year-old German Evacuee and his journey home at the end of WW2.

Pirates – about a boy at sea. Winner of the American Alliance for Theatre and Educaton ‘Distnguished Play’ Award 2012.

PLAYS FOR YOUTH THEATRES AND LARGE CASTS

Neil Dufeld x

Four plays ideal for larger youth theatre casts

Twice Upon A Time In the distant future, a young warrior enters the Otherworld. Can he fnd his way back to the girl he loves?

Small Fry ‘pits dragons, predators, scavengers and small fry all against each other in a batle for power… ’ – Telegraph

The Minotaur ‘excellent entertainment for bright kids ’ – Sunday Times

Talking with Angels ‘This fne show is suitable for anyone over the age of seven and it works very well.’ – The Stage

160 pages / £12.99

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170 pages / £12.99

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232 pages / £12.99

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‘A crucually important talewell told with great humanity.’

– Stephen Lowe

TIN SOLDIER AND OTHER PLAYS Adapted by Noël

Greig

All three plays have been performed throughout the UK by Tangere Arts, winning a Time Out Critcs’ Choice Award. Teachers, youth theatres and amateur groups working with young performers will use this collecton tme and again for productons, drama classes and workshops – whether for one performer or many.

111 pages / £9.99

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WE DIDN’T MEAN TO GO TO SEA

Arthur Ransome / Adapted by Nick Wood

A perfectly distlled adaptaton of the classic and muchloved novel about boatng adventures Roger, John, Susan and Tity go on Jim’s boat Goblin. But disaster strikes when the boat is becalmed and Jim goes ashore to fetch petrol. Fog descends and, as the tde turns, the boat begins to drif away…

96 pages / £9.99

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HAMLET William Shakespeare / Adapted by Mark Norfolk

Adapted from Shakespeare’s text by award-winning playwright Mark Norfolk, this fast-moving version gets straight to the heart of a young man’s dilemma Denmark, a Black Empire of modern England, where an intelligent young student discovers the world he once knew has crumbled. Implored to defend what is lef of his father’s decaying legacy, Hamlet now faces the greatest moral challenge: to kill or not to kill.

135 pages / £9.99

978-1-911501-01-5

‘Greig’s fnal play is an engaging and ofen dark piece of storytelling.’

– The Guardian

CLASSIC PLAYS

All adapted by Neil Dufeld

THE SNOW QUEEN Hans Christian

Andersen

Acclaimed musical stage version of The Snow Queen is a hit with theatres in the UK and abroad

This vibrant adaptaton of beloved children’s author Hans Christan Anderson’s The Snow Queen stays true in plot to the original and is ideal for use in schools, amateur groups, youth theatre groups.

96 pages / £8.99

THE JUNGLE BOOK Rudyard Kipling

Stage adaptaton of the classic tale with songs and original music by Conor

Mitchell

‘...excellent entertainment for bright kids - without in any way being patronising to adults.’

– The Sunday Times

In this theatrical producton of the much-loved tales, we follow Mowgli the boy-cub as he meets Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther and fghts the terrifying tger Shere Khan. Afer life in the jungle, can Mowgli ever return to his village?

THE EMPEROR & THE NIGHTINGALE

Hans Christian Andersen

In ancient China, the young Emperor Wu is kept a virtual prisoner in his palace by his scheming guardian, Li Si

For Wu, the world outside the Forbidden City is a dangerous place. But when he hears Xiao, a young peasant girl, talk of the most beautful sound on earth – the song of the nightngale – it’s too much to resist.

The two embark on an adventure that will take them across mountaintops and waterfalls, past chatering monkeys and frebelching dragons to the far reaches of his kingdom.

87 pages / £8.99

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CINDERELLA Adapted by Matt Beames

A wity updatng of the classic Cinderella fairy tale.

As the feast of Midwinter approaches, the King wishes to fnd a suitable partner for his eldest son and heir to the throne, Prince Arren. He decrees a Midwinter Ball and all across the land his excited people prepare for the big celebraton. But in a small shoe shop close to the palace, one young woman sits at her workbench, carefully making shoe afer shoe afer shoe… Poor Cinderella has so much work to do, she can’t hope to go to the Ball, however much she might wish to… but sometmes dreams really do come true!

SLEEPING BEAUTY Charles Perrault / Adapted by Matt Beames

An excitng and enchantng adaptaton of the well-loved story

The world spins and the cycle of seasons turns as the Guardians of the Year gather to tell each other stories. A kingdom is in peril, its people driven to fee their homes as a dark forest covers the land. The King and Queen are missing and Prince Roland, only heir to the kingdom, lies sleeping, cursed never to awaken… All seems lost, and it falls to one young woman with a strong heart, aided by strange companions, to fnd her way to the castle at the heart of the enchanted forest.

118 pages / £10.99

978-1-912430-05-5

HARD TIMES Charles Dickens / Adapted by Charles Way

Keeping the classics relevant today

In this adaptaton of Dickens’ critque on poverty and social division in 19th century society, award-winning playwright Charles Way contnues his quest to keep the classics relevant today.

120 pages / £9.99

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‘A stellar adaptaton by Charles Way, moving, thoughtul and wonderfully drawn.’ ***** WhatsOnStage

All adapted by Neil Dufeld

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Charles

Dickens

Can the Ghosts of Christmas present, past and future teach Scrooge what is missing from his life?

Charles Dickens’ tmeless story is brought to life in this vibrant new version by the award-winning children’s playwright, Neil Dufeld.

‘... sheer unadulterated pleasure... a great story beautfully told… I doubt you’ll fnd a beter one anywhere.’ ***** The Times

96 pages /

ARABIAN NIGHTS

When Sheherazad is brought to the palace to be the Sultan’s new bride, her very life depends upon her skill as a storyteller

She tells him tales of lost cites and buried treasure, of slave girls and robbers, of genies in botles and evil sorcerors. But will it be enough to save her?

The stories of the Arabian Nights originate from Persia, India and Arabia, and date back more than a thousand years. Neil Dufeld has combined elements of many of them, keeping alive the excitement and humour to produce a show which transports the audience into a world of myth and legend where fantasy and reality can never be separated.

‘Dufeld has interwoven the familiar and less familiar so you get a real sense of a never-ending story, and he has the gif of combining the accessible and down to earth with the mythic in a single sentence.’ The Guardian

£8.99 978-0-9551566-8-7

80 pages / £9.99 978-1-911501-87-9

NON-FICTION MUSIC, STAGE & SCREEN

50 BEST PLAYS FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

Vicky Ireland MBE and Paul Harman

A compilaton of the 50 best plays for children and young people Includes informaton about the history of Theatre in Educaton and Drama in Educaton as well as a list of the best companies working in the feld.

£12.99/216 pages

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THEATRE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ed. Stuart Bennet

An exploraton of the way ‘Theatre for Children and Young People’ has changed over the last 50 years

£11.99/246 pages

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This publicaton is a tool to record and stmulate innovaton and excellence – contributng to the long-term stability of the arts. It is the frst publicaton to give the whole story of theatre for children and young people and its development in the UK. Essental reading for drama and theatre practtoners and for students of contemporary Britsh theatre everywhere.

A GUIDE TO UK THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES ed. Paul Harman

The quality and range of Theatre for Children and Young People in the UK is one of our greatest cultural assets

£7.99/106 pages

978-1-906582-09-8

This essental book provides the frst ever guide to the wealth of talent and creatvity displayed by over 150 professional companies involved in theatre for young audiences.

HOW TO PUT ON A COMMUNITY PLAY

Sarah Burton

An invaluable guide to the myriad tasks and decisions facing any amateur producton or community play organiser. With detailed advice concerning the preparaton, planning and executon required to achieve success, the author also ofers essental tps on: the creatve process, administratve hurdles, technical headaches, rehearsing large groups...

£12.99/ 191 pages

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ART, THEATRE & WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Irene Cockrof and Susan Crof

Arts and media used in the campaign for the vote

It brought together the talents of so many female writers and artsts at the start of the 20th century. Includes: Cicely Hamilton, Chris St. John, Inez Bensusan, Elizabeth Robins, Edith Zangwill, Charlote Despard, Ernestne Mills, Pamela Colman Smith, Sylvia Pankhurst, Ellen Terry, Edith Craig, Sybil Thorndike and more.

‘… this is not a book about the gesture. It’s a story of connected and concerted bravery… a compelling reminder of a ferce and quietly-neglected artstc movement.’

– Exeunt Magazine

COUNTERCULTURE UK – A Celebration Eds.

Rebecca Gillieron and Cheryl Robson

The frst comprehensive exploraton of counterculture in the UK – from illegal raves to street art, alternatve comedy and agit-prop theatre to pop-up galleries, as well as the larger agents for social change such as the green movement, feminism, disability rights and much more. Ofers an entrely unique look at the myriad subversive scenes in Britain today.

Contributors include: Penny Pepper, Tim Burrows, Mark Sheerin, Em Ayson, Susan Murray, Paul Quinn, Mark Edward, Hayley da Foster, Coco Khan, Ellen Cheshire, Charlie Oughton, Jack Bright, Ben Graham, Simon Smith and Bella Quist.

ON THE TRAIL OF AMERICANA

Ralph Brookfeld

Based on documentary interviews with leading musicians and music industry professionals, this book explores the illusive genre and movement that is Americana. From its historical roots in country, folk and other rebel music, the story of Americana is told by those who are taking it in new directons today.

Interviews with: Emily Barker, Yola, Troy Cassar-Daley, Kasey Chambers, Dave Cobb, Diesel, Bob Harris, Hayseed Dixie, Don Gallardo, Paul Kelly, Lindi Ortega, Larkin Poe, Kevin Welch, Wildwood Kin and many more.

127 pages / £7.99

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CELLULOID CEILING: Women Film Directors breaking through eds. Gabrielle Kelly & Cheryl Robson

Highlightng rising women directors alongside ground-breaking pioneers, this is a one-stop guide to women flm directors working around the world in the 21st century. From the blockbusters of the Hollywood studios to emerging voices from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Laos, we learn of women making flms in traditonally male-dominated areas such as acton, fantasy and horror. With wide-ranging contributons from countries with mature and nascent flm industries, Demonstrates that economic and technological changes are creatng new opportunites for women flm directors everywhere. Includes many interviews

WOMEN MAKE NOISE: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern ed. Julia Downes

All-girl bands have made radical contributons to feminism, culture and politcs as well as producing some unique, infuental and innovatve music. It’s tme to celebrate the outspoken voices, creatve talents and gutsy performances of the all-girl bands who demand we take notce. Including commentary from members of the original 60s girl groups and classic punk-inspired outits like The Raincoats and The Slits, as well as contemporary Ladyfest heroines like Beth Dito, this tmely exploraton shows the world that sidelining all-girl bands is a major oversight.

£15.99 / 320 pages

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THE BRITISH BEAT EXPLOSION: Rock ‘n’ Roll Island ed. J.C. Wheatley

• Including interviews with musicians & fans

Anyone with an interest in the UK’s history of rock n’roll is familiar with The Cavern Club but on an island in the middle of the The Thames, another great 60s club night played host to acts that would later make a global name for themselves.

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THE ROLLING STONES, THE WHO, PINK FLOYD, THE SMALL FACES, THE PRETTY THINGS, THE KINKS and THE YARDBIRDS are amongst the many acts who performed at the legendary Eel Pie Hotel during its 50s and 60s heydey, as did jazz greats like KEN COLYER, KENNY BALL and ACKER BILK as well as more avant garde performers like IVOR CUTLER.

BEST BLUES BOOK – BLUES MATTERS

SILENT WOMEN: PIONEERS OF CINEMA eds. Melody Bridges & Cheryl Robson Voted Best Book on Silent Film

More women were working at every level in the frst 20 years of the flm industry in the USA than at any point since. Early pioneers, such as Alice Guy-Blaché, directed hundreds of flms, invented techniques, ran businesses and set up distributon but with the rise of the male dominated studio system, their signifcant contributon to the industry has been forgoten. Celebrates the many women involved in the rise of the flm industry and explains why the coming of the talkies led to the inequality which exists today. Contributors include top flm makers, critcs, silent flm experts, academics and writers from three contnents.

NOT A NUMBER: Patrick McGoohan –a Life Rupert Booth

Including exclusive interviews with leading directors, actors and industry insiders from his hit TV series The Prisoner and Danger Man as well as commentary from family and friends.

The only up-to-date biography of Patrick McGoohan, celebratng an extraordinary character whose refusal to play by the rules of his profession earned him a worldwide following.

A tmely exploraton of the man whose declaraton ‘I will not be pushed, fled, stamped indexed, briefed, de-briefed or numbered’ contnues to resonate with audiences decades afer it was frst utered with such convicton.

MEDIA LABS: what you need to know

James Clarke

From game jams to flm festvals, from how to apply for funding, to who to connect with online, this is an essental guide to the evolving and dynamic world of the media lab as a place (actual or virtual) that encourages, nurtures and provides tangible support for creatve talents and their projects. While the focus is on flmmaking and gaming, the author also delves into the ‘brave new worlds’ of VR and AR. Providing an overview of the range of media labs on offer, the book is enriched by interviews with contemporary practitioners working in the lab culture around the world.

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New Series

50 WOMEN IN THE BLUES

Introduced by Zoe Howe/Compiled/Photographs by Jennifer Noble

Women have been at the dawn of the blues since Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey were singing about hard knocks and tough love in smoky bars. Gives an overview of the blues from the Mississippi Delta to the windy city, Chicago, to becoming the global musical movement it is today.

Ma Rainey ● Shemekia Copeland ● Roseta Tharpe ● Mavis Staples ● Eta James ● Janis Joplin ● Bonnie Rait ● Susan Tedeschi ● Big Mama Thornton ● Koko Taylor ● Bessie Smith ● Kyla Brox and many more…

colour photos and interviews with contemporary blues artsts.

50 WOMEN IN THEATRE

Introducton by Dr Susan Crof with chapters by Dr Naomi Paxton and Gabrielle Brooks

Since 1660 when actresses frst began performing on the English stage, women have forged bright careers in theatre, while men called the shots. 400 years of women playwrights, from Aphra Behn to Caryl Churchill, yet plays by women are only a fracton of staged productons in the UK, leading to a lack of good roles for women. At a tme when many theatres have closed their doors, will those that re-open choose to move with the tmes or fall back on commercial revivals?

colour photos and interviews with contemporary theatre-makers. Lynn Notage ● Marsha Norman ● Kate Mitchell ● Daryl Roth● Meera Syal● Moira Bufni● Caryl Churchill ● Winsome Pinnock

● Denise Gough● Sonia Friedman ● and many more…

50 WOMEN IN FILM

Foreword by Melissa Silverstein

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Women have been at the dawn of cinema since Alice Guy-Blaché created the frst narratve flm. Male bias in the studio system kept women out of top jobs for over ffy years but today, women are reassertng their rightul place as a creatve force within the industry. With the #MeToo movement challenging the widespread mistreatment of women, female flmmakers can now fnally break through the celluloid ceiling.

Kathryn Bigelow ● Chloe Zhao ● Meryl Streep ● Jane Campion ●

Priyanka Chopra ● Ava du Vernay ● Rachel Morrison ● Gong Li ●

Sofa Coppola ● Lupita Nyong’o ● Mira Nair ● Emma Thompson

● Helen Mirren and many more…

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IN THE SCENE: Jane Campion Ellen Cheshire

Campion is one of the few women flm-makers working today who has managed to create a unique body of work, she has atracted ‘A’ List Hollywood superstars to appear in her flms. Who else but Jane Campion could have convinced a tatooed Harvey Keitel to run buck-naked through the New Zealand landscape in The Piano, or for the mult-award winning Kate Winslet to pee down her legs in the middle of the desert in Holy Smoke? This book covers Jane Campion’s remarkable career from her Palme D’or winning debut short flm Peel to her recent return to television with the Top of the Lake, refectng on the infuence of her study in anthropology as well as her formatve years growing up in New Zealand.

IN THE SCENE: Ang Lee Ellen Cheshire

Ang Lee came to the fore in the 1990s as one of the ‘second wave’ of Taiwanese directors. Afer studying at New York University, Lee returned to Taiwan where he directed Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman. Austen’s Sense And Sensibility was a tremendous critcal and commercial success. But it was his triumphant return to the East with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon which has transformed him into an internatonally successful director. A brief foray into the Marvel Universe with Hulk, it was his adapton of Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain which surprised critcs and won him new fans. Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi pushed the boundaries of CGI animaton. 2016 saw Billy Lynn’s Long Halfime Walk and the sci-f drama The Gemini Man with Will Smith.

IN THE SCENE: Steve McQueen Francesca

Sobande

Britsh flmmaker and video artst Steve McQueen is best-known for his award-winning flm 12 Years a Slave (2013), but he began as a visual artst, winning the prestgious Turner Prize in 1999. Following a period as ofcial war artst in Iraq in 2006, he directed and cowrote Hunger (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, then Shame (2011), about sex addicton. In 2018 he adapted Widows, the tv series, for the cinema, transposing it to Chicago. Recently, he made fve flms under the ttle Small Axe, for the BBC, which explored the history of London’s West Indian community. Two of these were selected for Cannes in 2020, which was cancelled due to the pandemic. This guide gives an overview of his work to date, providing insight into his approach and his choice of themes.

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