Boys from the Blackstuff (Modern Plays)
By: James Graham
4.20
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gizza job. Go on, gizzit, go 'head, giz it if you've got it, giz it, I can do it. Giz it then. Go '…
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1. Journey's End
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.86
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editi… read more
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"You must always think of it like that if you can. Think of it all as - as romantic. It helps."-R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End
2. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
3. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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4. The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more
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5. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
6. The Blind Assassin
By: Margaret Atwood
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer… read more
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7. An Enemy of the People
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
An Enemy of the people (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 play by Norwegian play… read more
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9. The Mousetrap: A Play
By: Agatha Christie
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer… read more
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10. The Cherry Orchard
By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more
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11. Goodbye to Berlin
By: Christopher Isherwood
3.95
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more
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12. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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13. Shuggie Bain
By: Douglas Stuart
4.31
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who sp… read more
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"Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial."-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
"Opposite the gates was a low concrete building. Dozens of men were spilling out of its windowless structure and stood in dark clumps on the Pit Road. At first it looked like they were leaving chapel,…"-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
14. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
15. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
By: Michael Schur
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-… read more
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"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Our behaviors create deep grooves in our personalities, like a heavy chair forming impressions in a shaggy rug, and it becomes harder and harder to escape them."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful,…"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
16. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
17. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
18. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
19. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
20. The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)
By: Ann Cleeves
3.95
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outsi… read more
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"His thoughts were wheeling and dipping like the gulls over the estuary, groping for an explanation, feeling at last he was making sense of what lie behind Walden's death..."-Ann Cleeves, The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)
21. Good
By: C.P. Taylor
3.98
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
A story about a liberal-minded university professor who drifts well-meaningly into a position in th… read more
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22. Nye
By: Tim Price
4.33
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
One man's dream of the NHS. From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create th… read more
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23. Leopoldstadt
By: Tom Stoppard
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. B… read more
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24. The Hills of California
By: Jez Butterworth
3.83
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are hea… read more
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25. Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
By: Sarah Gordon
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known a… read more
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26. The Motive and the Cue
By: Jack Thorne
4.27
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star Elizabeth Taylor, is to play… read more
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27. En agosto nos vemos
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.63
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de a… read more
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"Do you know how old I am?"-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
28. London Tide: based on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend
By: Ben Power
3.33
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The genius of Dickens meets PJ Harvey's fierce, lyrical songs in this romantic and propulsive thril… read more
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29. Boys from the Blackstuff (Modern Plays)
By: James Graham
4.20
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gizza job. Go on, gizzit, go 'head, giz it if you've got it, giz it, I can do it. Giz it then. Go '… read more
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30. Death of England: Closing Time (Modern Plays)
By: Roy Williams
3.92
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Look at it Carly, look at our dream. No one's happy Denise. There are two sides to every story. … read more
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