Unless it's a football match… maybe then or 'em… at the supermarket… food and football, eh, the Englishman common ground Neutral territory for the masses. Yeah a place where no ideas are shared, borrowed or worked through… Perfect.Following acclaimed seasons at the National Theatre, Clint Dyer and Roy Williams' extraordinary series of three state of the nation plays, Death of England comes to @sohoplace in the West End. These three interconnected plays are, by tur...

Look at it Carly, look at our dream.No one's happy Denise.There are two sides to every story.Grieving the loss of the family shop and their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives' mistakes.Will all be forgiven?Jo Martin (Doctor Who) and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) play Denise and Carly in this thought-provoking drama that explores family dynamics, r...

Me jumping out of the van, was the beginning of a very bad day for me. I just didn't know it, but I was going to know it, in about four minutes, I was going to know, fer trut.Delroy is arrested on his way to the hospital.Filled with anger and grief, he recalls the moments and relationships that gave him hope before his life was irrevocably changed.Written in response to their play Death of England, Death of England: De...

He wanted you to be a better man. He wanted to be a better man himself. He was lied to. Just like you are being lied to.A family in mourning. A man in crisisAfter the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry.In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father's legacy and the country that shaped him. At the funeral, unannounced and unprepared, Michael decides it is time to speak.Death of England is a powerfu...

Receiving ten grand as down payment on a hit isn't that much of a surprise to Carlos Morales. After all, arranging contract killings is his business. But he never expected that someone might want his mother dead!What's equally troubling is the fact that the anonymous package arrived addressed to 'Charlie'. Only two people call him by that name: his wife and his mother. Has his wife just hired him to whack her mother-in-law? Or is his mother just looking for some help to put an end ...

From 3x USA Today bestselling author Harper LinRight before Christmas, Fair Haven is celebrating its annual Ice Fishing Jubilee. When a bad-mannered lawyer is found frozen to death inside his fishing shack, the police soon discover he was really shot.The prime suspect is local ice-fishing legend Jim Campbell, but Maggie thinks he is innocent. The culprit could be the long-suffering wife or the mistress, and soon, Maggie is off doing her own investi...

'Heather is a bright star in the world of gangland writing...Read it, you won't be disappointed' Jacqui RoseControl of Glasgow’s infamous Haghill estate has been fought over for decades.But thanks to an uneasy truce between notorious local families - the Alexanders, the Tallans, and the ruthless Savages - for now the streets are peaceful.For Carly Savage this means she can think the unthinkable, and contemplate a future with her family’s ...

‘I devoured it.’ Erin Kelly‘An exhilarating voice’ Adele Parks‘Unbelievably tense and twisty.’ Laura MarshallLuckyRachel EdwardsThe more she wins, the more she loses…‘Absorbing, unsettling, unflinching. I’ve been thinking about it for days and I’ll be recommending it to everyone.’ Caz Frear, author of Sweet Little LiesSomeone is watching Etta. Footsteps in the night, the security light coming on at strange hours … is it all just her curt...

EmmaI thought sacrificing a year of my life was worth everything I’d gain. But living in this house—in this world—is turning me into someone I despise.The very person I swore to never be.The other woman.What I feel for Dillon is a tumultuous mix of hate and desire.But after Ashleigh’s prank puts him in the hospital, everything changes.And instead of it tearing them apart, her hold on Dillon seems stronger than ever.

This is a short fiction story – word count 6,597.Jade's world has come apart! Her fiancé, who she thought she knew so well, has been revealed as a fraudster and has run off after clearing out their joint bank account, leaving her stranded and facing eviction.She is so distressed by her dire situation that she faints in her local park, but is helped by a handsome stranger called Michael. He makes sure she gets home safely, and gives Jade an alternative to being left homeless...

Seven drinking buddies decide to buy a racehorse and embark on the journey of a lifetime in the book that inspired the film Outside Bet.It's 1985 - Thatcher is in power, Sade is on the radio and the print workers have gone on strike. A motley rabble of seven firm friends: Thimble, Gudger, O'Sh, Fred the Shoe, Dave, Alfie and Bax meet every Sunday in their favourite South London boozer for banter of the highest order and a lot of taking the mick.The...

A virtuosic study of one man's descent into religious mania in small-town Ireland.Inishfree might seem like a quaint Irish town, but fierce evangelist Thomas Magill knows better. He knows that jovial Dwain Flynn is a miserable drunk, that Timmy O'Leary enslaves his lovely mother, and that sweet Mrs Cleary is a blasphemous flirt.It is down to Thomas, with God on his shoulder, to save this sinful place. But the townsfolk are not listening, an angel is misbehaving and a barkin...