Hamnet

Author: Maggie O'Farrell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350455512
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 105

Book Description
'She's like no one I've ever met... She's like fire and water all at once.' Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family. As William moves to London to discover his place in the world of theatre, Agnes stays at home to raise their three children but she is the constant presence and purpose of his life. When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born. This new play based on Maggie O'Farrell's best-selling novel and adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Life of Pi, Red Velvet, Hymn), pulls back a curtain on the imagined family life of the greatest writer in the English language. Hamnet is a love letter to passion, birth, grief and the magic of nature. This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the West End transfer of the original RSC production in October 2023.

I Am, I Am, I Am

Author: Maggie O'Farrell
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0735274134
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's bestselling novelists, as she reminds us that we are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her in the hospital for nearly a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a serial killer on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers. Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and a restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty and mysteries of life itself.

Pog

Author: Padraig Kenny
Publisher: Chicken House
ISBN: 1912626012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
'One of a kind. Utterly fantastic.' Eoin Colfer on Tin David and Penny's strange new home is surrounded by forest. It's the childhood home of their mother, who's recently died. But other creatures live here ... magical creatures, like tiny, hairy Pog. He's one of the First Folk, protecting the boundary between the worlds. As the children explore, they discover monsters slipping through from the place on the other side of the cellar door. Meanwhile, David is drawn into the woods by something darker, which insists there's a way he can bring his mother back ...

Faux Queen

Author: Monique Jenkinson
Publisher: Bywater Books
ISBN: 1612942229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
Faux Queen: A Life in Drag is the memoir of a ballet-obsessed girl who moves to San Francisco from the suburbs and finds her people at the drag club. It joyously chronicles Monique Jenkinson’s creation of her drag persona Fauxnique, the people and cultural practices that crash her identity into being, her journey through one of the most experimental moments in queer cultural history, and her rise through the nightlife underground to become the first cisgender woman crowned as a major pageant-winning drag queen. Jenkinson finds authenticity through the glee of drag artifice and articulation through the immediacy of performing bodies. She pens a valentine to gay men and their culture while relaying the making of an open-minded feminist and queer ally. Faux Queen finds deep healing in irreverence and posits that it might be possible for us to come together in fabulous difference on the dance floor.

Hamnet

Author: Dead Centre
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786822326
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 45

Book Description
Dead Centre’s new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, only eleven himself. A single letter separates Hamnet from the philosophical heights of Hamlet. Unlike the Prince, he cannot ask ‘to be or not to be’. Condemned not to be, he now seeks to understand the world from which he has been wrested. Hamnet is too young to understand Shakespeare. We are too old to understand Hamnet. Two generations, asking each other what they want to pass on and receive.

Where Snow Angels Go

Author: Maggie O'Farrell
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536219371
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
On the precipice of a serious illness, Sylvie wakes up to find a snow angel who tells her he will protect her, and when she finally recovers, she purposefully puts herself in precarious situations to try and meet him again.

The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Twelfth night. Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526

Book Description

Bogeywoman

Author: Jaimy Gordon
Publisher: Sun and Moon Press
ISBN: 9781557133489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
A republication of the famed novel by Jaimy Gordon.

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781638435020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

If I Survive You

Author: Jonathan Escoffery
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008501254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE ‘Dazzling’ GUARDIAN ‘Blistering’ THE TIMES 'A delight' DIANA EVANS ‘Fiction written at the highest level’ ANN PATCHETT 'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES