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Rudyard Kipling

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Nigel Planer, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life.An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure.In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem. In this...

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Nigel Planer

As Jeremiah Bourne is swept from his crumbling home in Blackfriars in 2019 to the same house in 1910, he suddenly faces two questions: how did he get here, and how can he return to his own time?On his quest for answers, he encounters a cast of comic characters and situations: a coven of free-thinking spiritualists, a futuristic residents' association, warring street gangs, eugenic scientists, aggressive domestic servants and a nudist magistrate. As events unfold, Jeremiah begins to...

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Nigel Planer

Nigel’s new collection comes from years of travelling, talking to people and listening to their stories. People are invariably more interesting and multi-faceted than they might at first appear (if you are prepared to give them time and listen to their stories) – from stoic widows in Chicago or a tour guide in the Killing Fields of Cambodia, to a teacher in Cuba or a Minister of Information in India.A memoir and travelogue of personal, emotional, raw, and sometimes just plain silly...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Planer

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

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Nigel Planer

Nigel Planer has been writing poetry for over fifty years. Now he has corralled many of his poems into one volume, Making Other Plans – as in ‘poetry is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.’This collection forms a poetic memoir, richly articulating humorous and serious observations on life, love, ageing, society and the human condition, recounted with emotional tenderness and warranted vexation.“A unique piece of poetic time travel. Frequently funny, s...

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Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll

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Nigel Planer, Ghizela Rowe

Each of us has giggled uncontrollably as a child or adult at some silly nothing, some play on words, some nonsense that, for a moment at least, makes the world seem genuinely funny if a little mad. In this volume of Nonsense verse you’ll find many favourites to take you back to the time and place where most things are a little upside down or back to front including favourites from Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and quite a few others to giggle along with.

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David Luddington

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Nigel Planer

Tinker's Cottage nestles in a forgotten corner of deepest Somerset. It also happens to sit on a weak point in the space time continuum… which is somewhat unfortunate for Ian Faulkener, a graphic novelist from London, who was hoping for some peace and quiet in which to recuperate following a very messy breakdown. It was the cats that first alerted Ian to the fact that something was not quite right with Tinker's Cottage… the cats, and of course the Pope, disappearing literary agents, mislaid...

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Coral Beed, James Rawlings, Nigel Planer, Rupert Friend

The Decameron is a fourteenth-century Italian collection of 100 novellas which heavily influenced the style and content of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with its bawdy tales of love, adventure and religion.These complete and unabridged stories are performed for audio by various British actors including Nigel Planer, Rupert Friend, Coral Beed and James Rawlings.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Isaac Rosenberg, Thomas Hardy, Robert Southey, Ivor Gurney, Thomas Chatterton, Lady Mary Chudleigh, Henry Alford, Hannah More

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Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Planer

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

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John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stephen Crane, Wilfred Owen, Christopher Marlowe, Emily Bronte, Guillaume Apollinaire, Isaac Rosenberg, Amy Levy, Phillis Wheatley

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Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer, Ghizela Rowe

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

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Rabindranath Tagore, William Blake, Kahlil Gibran, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Vachel Lindsay, William Morris, John McCrae, Edward Lear, Patrick Branwell Bronte, Matilda Betham Edwards

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Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer, Ghizela Rowe

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

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John Milton, Edmund Spenser, William Wordsworth, John Dryden, Lord Byron, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Andrew Marvell, Amy Levy, Rupert Brooke

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Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer, Ghizela Rowe

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...