LOVE. POWER. RESISTANCE ...In a world where songlight is either your greatest gift or your greatest curse, the Brethren are tightening their power. But Torches are finding ways to commune.LARK is on the run. She has lost all contact with Rye, but nothing is going to stop her finding him. NIGHTINGALE is a prisoner, working to free herself from Sister Swan's gilded cage. RYE is crossing the ocean on a journey to the dangerous unknown. He will do anything to g...

A deliciously black satirical comedy about the dinner party from hell.The fastidious host, Paige, decides to throw a dinner party in honour of her husband Lars, who is celebrating the success of his pop psychology book, Beyond Belief. She carefully plans a surprise menu that will mark the occasion, and anxiously checks with the waiter she has employed to make sure that everything is perfectly prepared. Her lucky guests include a post-feminist vegetarian artist, a distingui...

Introducing the EXPLOSIVE first book in the Torch Trilogy - the hottest release of the decade!'Urgent. Ambitious. Mesmerising.' THE TIMES'Feels like the start of something big.' SFX'One of the most gripping reads of 2024.' SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND'One of the best YA dystopias in years.' BOOKSELLER'One of the most compulsive reads...

Dinner'A cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with shock the next . . . For those with strong stomachs, Dinner offers a delicious feast of comedy and the macabre.' Daily TelegraphDying for It'A subversive Russian classic: one that addresses the ultimate question of "why live?"' Guardian'The play, freely adapted by Moira Buffini, presents a glorious gallery o...

LOVE. POWER. RESISTANCE ...In a world where songlight is either your greatest gift or your greatest curse, the Brethren are tightening their power. But Torches are finding ways to commune.LARK is on the run. She has lost all contact with Rye, but nothing is going to stop her finding him. NIGHTINGALE is a prisoner, working to free herself from Sister Swan's gilded cage. RYE is crossing the ocean on a journey to the dangerous unknown. He will do anything to g...

Introducing the EXPLOSIVE first book in the Torch Trilogy - the hottest release of the decade!'Urgent. Ambitious. Mesmerising.' THE TIMES'Feels like the start of something big.' SFX'One of the most gripping reads of 2024.' SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND'One of the best YA dystopias in years.' BOOKSELLER'One of the most compulsive reads...

This place is about to blow.A violent storm sweeps the coast. Diana Stuckley and her daughter are struggling to keep the roof on their run-down manor house, when neighbours and strangers begin to appear on their doorstep, seeking shelter from the floods.One of these unexpected arrivals is Ted Farrier, the charismatic leader of a right-wing organisation: he could be Diana's saviour - or could pull the fragile household to pieces.Stranded together, this explo...

The epic finale in award-winning global phenomenon, The Torch Trilogy. Who will triumph? Those with songlight, or those without?LOVE. POWER. REVOLUTION . . .We can see freedom ahead, we can smell it on the air. Together, our songlight gathers force. As gunfire rages all around us, we find our harmony.In this world, songlight is either revered or reviled. But now, the rebels are marching on the palace and it's time to pick a...

What on earth is happening to our planet? And who knows what to do? Certainties are few: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is continual and inevitable.The National Theatre asked four of the country's most exciting writers to investigate. The team spent six months interviewing key individuals from the worlds of science, politics, business and philosophy to create a fast-paced and provocative new play.Gree...

A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.The four plays published here look back to the moments in history when women possessed - or achieved - power, and what they did with it.The Milliner and the Weaver by Marie Jones, about the Suffragette movement in Ireland, as the question of Home Rule divides the nation.The Lioness by Rebecca Lenkiewicz is about Quee...

Set amongst the vibrant, intense cacophony of North West London, NW Trilogy is a collection of three vivid stories, told over one performance, that remember and celebrate people who changed the course of history. The personal is political in these soulful explorations of what it means to be part of one of the most dynamic communities in the world.First, we reel to a dance hall in 'County Kilburn' in Moira Buffini's Dance Floor where the Guinness flows, the music n...

Winner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best NovelWinner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best NovelStartling, unusual, and yet irresistibly readable, Jo Walton's Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.Raised by a half-mad mothe...