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Life on Air
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
Under Milk Wood
Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Originally commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD is an emotive...
Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern Classics
Author: David Hare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Look Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight...
The History Boys
Author: Alan Bennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Author: Paul Brannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's...
Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band.' Reese Witherspoon THE...
The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazz Man
Author: Tom Stoddard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 242 The first famous double-bass stylist in jazz George Murphy Pops Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats...
Keep 'Er Lit: New Selected Lyrics
Author: Van Morrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I want to sing this song for you I want to lift your spirits high And in my soul I want...
Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics
Author: Dylan Jones (Editor) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of post-punk and...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and...
Electra and Other Plays
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other...
The Theban Plays
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate....
The School for Scandal and Other Plays
Author: Richard Sheridan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots,...
Man and Superman
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the...
Pygmalion
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale...
Saint Joan
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With Saint Joan (1923) Shaw reached the height of...
Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The bitter,...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Leaving behind both home and his beloved, a young man travels to Milan to meet his closest friend. Once...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, Wives may be merry, and yet honest too' In...
The Merchant of Venice
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs' Antonio,...
Troilus and Cressida
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 It is the seventh year of the Trojan War. The Greek army is camped outside Troy, and Achilles -...
Pericles
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry, or be put to death. But when...
Much Ado About Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing...
The Winter's Tale
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience' A jealous King,...
Titus Andronicus
Author: Jacques Berthoud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery An embittered...
Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A taut, profound drama exploring power and betrayal,Julius Caesarexposes the chasm between public appearance, political rhetoric and bitter reality....
Love's Labour's Lost
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A king and his lords form an austere academy, swearing to have no contact with women for three years....
The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The beautiful...
Cymbeline
Author: John Pitcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. One...
Coriolanus
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A peerless...
All's Well That Ends Well
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A poor...
Measure for Measure
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of intricate moves and countermoves...
King Lear
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Set in a pitiless universe, Shakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy, written at the height of his powers, is a...
The Comedy of Errors
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Joyful, mystical and brilliantly farcical, Shakespeare's shortest play is an early romantic comedy of confusion and ultimate reunion. A...
As You Like It
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most sunny, fast-paced and accessible comedies,As You Like Itis an exuberant combination of concealed identities and...
Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with...
Richard II
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Banishing his...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies, slapstick collides with courtly romance and confusion ends in harmony, as...
Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Something is...
The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family...
Timon of Athens
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Incisive and often scathingly funny, Shakespeare's parable of power and greed shows the folly of mankind in thrall to...
Four Tragedies and Octavia
Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events...
The Complete Plays
Author: Christopher Marlowe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of...
Peer Gynt and Brand
Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This volume brings together the poet Geoffrey Hill's acclaimed stage version of Brand with a new poetic rendering of...
The Beggar's Opera
Author: John Gay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows,...
The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Author: John Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Oh, that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes, I would whip...
The Bacchae and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and...