*Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play* *A Broadway production starring Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe*An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion.Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart strug...

Ambition and jealousy — all set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival, the dissolute but supremely talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards?The 1981 Tony Award ® winner for Best Play.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in September, 2016.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergSteven Brand a...

Peter Shaffer’s three most renowned plays, plus a radio monologue performed by Dame Judi DenchSir Peter Shaffer was one of the most distinguished and successful British playwrights of his generation. He won the Tony Award for both Amadeus and Equus, and the film adaptation of Amadeus garnered eight Oscars. In 1997, he was awarded an OBE, and he was knighted in the 2001 New Year honours list. This collection contains his best-known plays a...

A MOTHER FIGHTS TO FIND HER SON. A CHILD BATTLES FOR SURVIVAL.Inspired by the heartrending true events behind Ten Pound Poms, t****his riveting novel is for readers of Lisa Wingate, Martha Hall Kelly, Kathryn Hughes, and Lesley Pearse.'A warm-hearted tale of love, loss and indefatigable human spirit' Kathryn Hughes⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Such a poignant story'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Beautiful...

Is your house as safe as you think?Natalie spent most of her childhood feeling afraid. So when she moved into her cosy little flat in St Ives and met her three friendly neighbours, she knew at once it was somewhere she'd feel safe.Before long, Natalie's neighbours have become the family she never had. Kind, motherly Morwenna, serious, reliable Nigel, and sweet, anxious Daniel. They collect each other's mail, water each other's plants, and sh...

If you think you did something terrible? Would you tell? I live a small life: a one-bedroom apartment, clothes that help me blend into the background, just a few friends who don’t know my whole story. Everything has to be simple, ordered, in its place. It gives me the illusion that I’m in control. Even though I know I never can be. Twenty years ago, I lost everyone I ever loved, and they say it was all my fault. I’ve tried to make sure...

It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl called Keeley who’s run away from her long-term foster home 25 miles away.The Jonathan Ross Show has just started when Casey gets the call. She thinks it will be Riley – telling her that her favourite actor is going to be on TV. But it...

‘Heartbreakingly good… An emotional, powerful and insightful story that should not be missed… Do not start before bed because you will be up half the night finishing it... Wonderfully believable characters, heart wrenching.’ Shelley’s Book Nook ‘Dear Ben, I can only write you this letter because I know you’ll never read it…’ When Jem writes to Ben, it’s to explain everything. All the secrets she kept from him in thei...

A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1979 and shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel in 1980.Alan Groombridge is trapped. Husband to a woman he doesn't like, father to two children he never wanted, and manager of a tiny branch of the Anglian-Victoria bank, he is doomed to a life of domestic boredom and tedious routine. All that keeps him afloat is his one fantasy: stealing enough of the bank's money to allow him just one year of freedom - one year in w...

Thea Osborne and her loyal spaniel Hepzie are still pursuing their occupation as house-sitters, despite the disastrous incidents of the past. At the moment they are staying in the late Greta Simmonds' house, which is currently between ownership. But when a body is discovered in a nearby field, Thea finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation once again. After befriending undertaker Drew Slocombe, she soon finds she's aligned herself with the police's only suspect. Believing him to be...

Kicked out by his father at age sixteen, English student Luke Corbin’s used to trading on his looks and charm to keep a roof over his head until he can make it big as a journalist. He goes for men with money, power and looks, in that order, and he doesn’t let emotions get in the way. But when his lover tells him it’s over, Luke finds himself homeless—just as his final exams are looming.Moving in with geeky chemical engineer Russell may be a step down for him, but Luke can’t afford ...

When Cameron told his girlfriend he’d do anything for her, he wasn’t expecting her to ask him to commit murder.Teenage love isn't always as it seems — especially when there's murder involved. Cameron's girlfriend, Leah, is due a large inheritance from her grandmother. But there's only one thing standing in the way — her grandmother's beating heart.Conflicted by his love for Leah and her insistence that he must kill her grandmother to prove his love for her,...