The Director’s Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for the stage.Written by one of the most adventurous and respected directors working today, this book will be an essential item in every student and practitioner’s kitbag. It provides detailed assistance with each aspect of the varied challenges facing all theatre directors, and does so with startling clarity. It will inspire everyone, from the beginner just starting out to the ex...

Wind in tall trees. White sky. Rain soon. Hooves on earth. Twigs. Snap. Wait. Listen.A new experiment in performance from Katie Mitchell, Nina Segal and Melanie Wilson. Using only sound and no words, a quartet of performers and Foley artists evoke the lives of two animals – a cow and a deer.Cow | Deer is an invitation to enter the more-than-human world.Co-created by Katie Mitchell (Bluets, Anatomy of a Suicide), Nina Segal (Sh...

An homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni.Black literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing force in the modern American zeitgeist. Today—as Black novels draw authoritarian ire, as Black memoirs shape public debates, as Black polemics inspire protest petitions—it’s more importan...

Discover a world of festive crochet inspiration with this ultimate guide to seasonal granny squares.With more than 50 squares ranging in style, stitch, and subject – from glittering baubles and gingerbread houses to Nordic-style stags and even a present wrapped in a 3D bow – you can mix and match your favourite designs to create unique clothes, gifts, and home décor.Ideal f...

A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni.ST. LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION • ONE OF BCALA LITERARY AWARDS’ OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO PUBLISHING CITATIONBlack literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing force in the mo...

Mix and match your next crochet project with the ultimate granny square collection.Combining bold colours and playful, eye-catching patterns, this unique crochet collection contains over 125 designs covering a wide range of themes for all ages. The book includes:Seasonal collections including winter snowflakes, autumn leaves, and spring floralsTextured effects including puffs, bobbles, and filet crochetOver 40 3D appliqué designs i...

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.'I expect you have been told fairytales before. But you have never really heard a fairytale until you have heard it told by a real fairy.'The theft of a single rose has monstrous consequences for Beauty and her father. Because this is no ordinary rose...and this is no ordinary fairytale. Narrated b...

A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, s mall hours is an intimate dissection of the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.It was first performed at Hampstead Theatre in 2011.

Loving What Is by bestselling author Byron Katie is a simple, straightforward antidote to the suffering we unnecessarily create for ourselves and has inspired and help millions of people transform their pain into freedom. Written in an easy-to-follow, interactive and accessible way and drawing on illustrative case studies, reading this is the first step to turning your life around and achieving inner peace and harmony...'A great blessing for our pl...

‘Illuminating…on the cutting edge’ Jon Kabat-Zinn'Byron Katie has rocked my world and shaken loose my mind more thoroughly than any other spiritual teacher I've ever encountered' Elizabeth GilbertHow Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart and Turn Your World AroundIn A Mind At Home With Itself, bestselling author and founder of The Work, Byron Katie explains that emotions such as sadness,...

Inspired by the Tao Te Ching, this is Byron Katie's inspiring and pragmatic approach to achieving an awakened mind and living more simply and profoundly. Using the template of the 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching she talks about her own experience of living in harmony with the way things are, and the difference between what hurts and what doesn't.Katie has written two books that teach how suffering can be relieved by questioning the thoughts that create it, the tho...

Is there a voice inside you that knows that there is so much more for you and that you have incredible potential just waiting to be realised?Then it's time to learn how to back yourself. Believing in yourself is an incredible force of power that starts with you. Whether you want to change the world, invent an incredible product, take on the big brands, inspire people, take your business global, start a movement or dream bigger in any way it's time to follow that calling!Thi...