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  • Blue Sky

    by Clare Bayley ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    An exhilarating, challenging new play by Amnesty Award-winning playwright Clare Bayley.Isolated airports, midnight landings, secret assignations... how much do we know about what our governments are involved in? And do we want to know - or is it easier to turn a blind eye?Clare Bayley's play Blue Sky is a gripping political thriller about justice, journalism and what might be happening in the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Container

    by Clare Bayley ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A harrowing, intense drama about people-trafficking, set inside a container lorry.A freight container, somewhere in Europe. Inside are five people with one common aim: to reach England and start a new life. Can they trust the agent to get them there? Can they rely on each other? And how far will each of them go to get what they want?Clare Bayley's play The Container was first performed (inside an ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playwriting

    A Writers' and Artists' Companion

    Series series Writers’ and Artists’ Companions
    Full of inspiration and practical advice, Playwriting: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is a comprehensive companion to writing for the stage.PART 1 includes reflections on the art and the craft of playwriting, guidance on writing for a full range of genres and spaces and a brief history of playwriting itself.PART 2 contains inspiring advice and reflections from leading playwrights:April De Angelis ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Enchantment

    Stage Version

    Series series NHB Classic Plays
    The extraordinary and mesmeric play by the Swedish author who was reputedly a model for Miss Julie and Hedda Gabler.One sunny day in Paris, Gustave Alland, famous artist and philanderer, visits Louise Strandberg - convalescing in her brother's studio - and casts her effortlessly under his spell. In a vain attempt to escape, she exiles herself to her provincial hometown in Sweden. But a letter ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    A Glass Of Blessings

    by Barbara Pym ...
    Narrated by Patience Tomlinson ...
    Series Audiobook 307 - Virago Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy, as though I were meeting an old, dear friend' JILLY COOPER'The subtlest of her books . . . the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art' PHILI... ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    No Fond Return of Love

    A Novel

    by Barbara Pym ...
    Narrated by Mary Sarah ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 2 min

    Three lonely people come together in this poignant, witty novel of star-crossed romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Jane and Prudence.After being jilted by her fiancé, Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ever finding true love. For a distraction, she goes to a publishing conference, where she meets Viola Dace, a dramatic woman who refuses to live without romance, as well as Aylwin ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Less Than Angels

    by Barbara Pym ...
    Narrated by Patience Tomlinson ...
    Series Audiobook 313 - Virago Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    Less Than Angels follows the loves, works and hopes of a group of young anthropologists.Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Excellent Women

    'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman

    by Barbara Pym ...
    Narrated by Gerri Halligan, Jonathan Keeble ...
    Series Audiobook 311 - Virago Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMANMildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the great moments of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sale, the garden fête spoilt by bad weather'. Her glamorous new neighbours, the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Jane and Prudence

    A Novel

    by Barbara Pym ...
    Narrated by Mary Sarah ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 10 min

    The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life—a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen.Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the country, is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and lives a very proper life in a very ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Excellent Women

    by Barbara Pym ...
    Narrated by Jayne Entwistle ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies. This is Barbara Pym’s world at its funniest.Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those excellent women, the smart, supportive, repressed women whom men take for granted.As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors—anthropologist Helena ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Fires Which Burned Brightly

    A Life in Progress

    Narrated by Sebastian Faulks ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 30 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.‘The only dividend of the years’ vanishing, as far as I can see, is that it makes aspects of the past appear more interesting or humorous than they felt at the time.’In Fires Which Burned Brightly, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood – ‘cold mutton and wet washing on ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Voices of the Fallen Heroes

    And Other Stories

    by Yukio Mishima ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...
    Series series Vintage International

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s—his final decade—Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers.In the title story, "Voices of the Fallen Heroes," a séance brings forth the spirits of young officers in the Imperial Army and the kamikaze pilots ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD