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Mayday! Mayday! We're going down! You've crashed in the jungle and you must now find your way to safety, avoiding the wildlife and the drug dealers along the way. Decide if you live or die in this choose-your-own-destiny adventure from real-life explorer Simon Chapman. This book isn't like...

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...

Kupalia's Classics II is a poetry book with 48 poems that were written at different episodic moments of love, longing desires, emotional turmoil, abject grief, dilemma and regret.

A short book of poetry - the first by Simon J Sebastian. Poems included: Lost love: Mable is an ordinary name for an extraordinary girl, Oil and water, the mixing: It’s not that they don’t mix. It’s just that they don’t mix. My dog: He’s fairly large and quite ugly,...

Retold in poetic form, this is a short tale of the Grox people forced to sail across the high seas in search of new land, after having their homes being taken over by the evil "Heedless" and the "Fearful". Guided by the Sun and chasing after sightings of the sacred "Object",...

New methods are needed to do justice to Shakespeare. His work exceeds conventional models, past and present, for understanding playworlds. In this book, Simon Palfrey goes right to the heart of early modern popular drama, revealing both how it works and why it matters. Unlike his contemporaries, Shakespeare...

More for Helen of Troy, Simon Mundy's new collection of poems from Seren, is suffused with the atmosphere of the landscapes that inspire him, the lush countryside of Powys, and a number of islands all over the world:Genada, Jamaica, Shetland, Italy. It is also deeply involved with many questions of...

Our Eternal Curse II   “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”   Julii, a beautiful, insecure and victimized Tennessee Indian is caught up in the white man's world after saving the life of a Confederate captain wounded at the battle...

 “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” Julija, the trusting daughter of the chief of Sarajevo police, becomes the unwitting accomplice of the man who sparks the First World War by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As more and more nations join the...

Julia, brilliant yet humbled by cruelty and abuse, overcomes great disadvantage to become the richest person in ancient Rome. Living a double life, she wields power from behind the scenes to bring vengeance down upon those who wronged her. When her schemes ensnare Rome’s two greatest...

"Simon Brown likes his fantasy fast, clever and unpredictable. Born of Empire is all of these and more, an excellent recommendation." Bookseller & Publisher The Kevleren dynasty rules both the Hamilayan empire and the kingdom of Rivald because they, and only they, can use the...

A fantasy short story following Luca as he witnesses the end of his people.

Simon Ings has written a surreal adventure probing the very fabric of existence, tearing it open to reveal a sometimes horrifying world within. It is a work that will delight any fan of China Mieville. Only a fool would question the strange magics that maintain the cool haven of the City of...

When a lonely man raises a truly alien plant species from a seedling, strange things happen, and his life takes a sinister turn. The second in the Alien Science Fiction series by Simon J. Cooper, this story journeys into the darker reaches of the mind. Opening: The bright orange...