The cover of the Father Jim Norris notebooks. A book on the Saint Ignatius exercises

For many years, the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola and the thirty-day retreat have been used in seminaries as a rule to develop strong, courageous Priests. Father Jim Douglas Norris completed this training before going to Japan in the aftermath of horrific nuclear bombs at the end of World War II.Author Mark Baird wants readers to know with confidence that his new book, Father Jim Douglas Norris’s Notebooks, is a faithful transcription of the words of Father Ji...

From the author of Herc, a Waterstones Best Book of the Year. For fans of Greek mythology, Glorious Exploits and The Odyssey‘Particularly skilled in evoking the strangeness and contradictoriness of Greek myths’ Sunday Times‘A joyful exploration of one woman's quest for home, power, identity. A genuine pleasure to read!’ Clare North, author of Ithaca* * * * * * * *...

Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.Each play has been specific...