**Perhaps one reason not enough people kill billionaires is it’s actually quite tricky...'Hopeful and exciting. Funny and heartbreaking ... I want to read more books like this!' Mikaela Loach**'Scarily believable' Daily MailWhen her home is destroyed in wildfires, fourteen-year-old Australian outback genius Kayla Connolly decides to hunt down the culprits of climate change: billionaires.She teams up with Mr P, a giant ex-sol...

A THE TIMES BEST CRIME BOOK OF 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ILP JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL DAGGER 2025**‘Extraordinary . . . both a madcap crime caper and a savage state-of-the-nation novel . . . Anders Lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy’ The TimesAn electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders Lustgarten**Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top conve...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Perhaps one reason not enough people kill billionaires is it’s actually quite tricky...An electrifying, ultra-contemporary heist, a wild and hilarious story that is also dangerously prescient.**When her home is destroyed in wildfires, fourteen-year-old Australian outback genius Kayla Connolly decides to hunt down the culprits of climate change: billionaires.She teams up with Mr P, a giant ex-soldier from Tuvalu whose home...

**Brought to you by Penguin.An electrifying wild-ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders Lustgarten**Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the Badlands of Southeast England. She's never felt more Thelma and Louise in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead.How did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refug...

When Don Revie took over this club, Leeds were a rugby league town. No interest in football. Gates under 10,000. We'd never won a thing. He built one of the great clubs of English football, one of the great teams of English football, from scratch on barren ground from nothing more than spirit and fight and nous, which are the exact same qualities you used at Derby. And out of jealousy, you never tried to understand that. Never tried to make the most of that. Sad.

Four new short plays inspired by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta by internationally renowned playwrights Howard Brenton, Anders Lustgarten, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Sally Woodcock.RANSOMED by Howard BrentonIn the sleepy Cathedral City of Melchester, a crime has been committed. The Cathedral’s prize possession, a copy of the original Magna Carta, has been stolen in a daring heist. Who is responsible and what price will the British Government be prepared to pay for ...

Tricky things, memories. Not always the way you remember them.When Ben, a successful London lawyer, returns home for his father's funeral after thirteen years away, he is confronted with uncomfortable truths about the community and family he left behind.Anders Lustgarten, one of Britain's bravest and toughest writers of political fiction, produces an unflinching, insightful and utterly hilarious look at sibling rivalry, small town blues and exactly where the new Br...

Our China is now the worst of all worlds. Communist politics controlled by greedy capitalists, raw capitalist economics controlled by corrupt Communists. Because they're all the same people! At least under me, the people knew what they were tightening their belts for.Anders Lustgarten's epic play covers the years 1949 when Chairman Mao founded the Communist Party of China to the present day when investors swoop in to make money off the land. Following a number of character...

The first play collection from Anders Lustgarten, "perhaps Britain's most visible and visibly engaged political playwright" (Time Out London), containing plays from the start of his career up to 2015with the most recent play in the collection, Shrapnel, and one previously unpublished play.The volume includes an introduction by the playwright.A Day at the Racists (2010, Finborough Theatre) is a devastatingly timely examination of the rise of the BNP in Lon...

'It*'s not enough that men are watched;they must think themselves watched,even when they are not'*Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham oversees a vast surveillance network from the heart of Elizabeth I's court. As the nation's relationship with Europe deteriorates and civil unrest grows, Walsingham adopts ever more extreme tactics to keep his queen and country safe. But does he risk losing control of the apparatus he has created and destroying the lives of those ...

There is no such thing as a happy colonised people.Never has been and never will be.That is our basic delusion.December 2011. Watching video footage from a drone, Pentagon officials see a huddle of people – unarmed smugglers, with mules – treading their familiar path across the Turkish-Iraqi border. Hours later, Turkish Armed Forces drop bombs on the group. 34 civilians are killed.The Roboski massacre is one of the most controversial episodes in the '...

You have to be tough to be kind. That's what I've learned from you, Granddad. Tough and fearless and strong. So that's what I'm going to be.Naples, 1606. Inside an unfinished church, a painting is emerging from the darkness. The Seven Acts of Mercy is Caravaggio's masterpiece - and his first painting since he killed a man and fled Rome. As the artist works, he is fueled by anger, self-loathing and his driving need to create a work that speaks of compassion in a vi...