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The authoritative edition of Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.

Hamlet is Shakespeares most popular, and most puzzling, play.

The authoritative edition of As You Like It from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power.

The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.

The authoritative edition of Much Ado About Nothing from the Folger Shakespeare Librarythe most trusted Shakespeare series for students, educators, and general readersoffers a complete, accessible resource for exploring one of William Shakespeare's best-known romantic comedies.

In A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love.

The authoritative edition of Othello from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.

Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew.

David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as ';the most exciting male dancer in the western world,' presents a look at his artistic lifeup to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury that almost cost him his career.

*From the star of CUNK ON EARTH - BBC's landmark mockumentary, now on Netflix!

A RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman .

LEARN HOW TO WRITE AND PERFORM STAND UP COMEDY.

Learn how to write comedy that makes people laugh.

'It's no mystery or secret how much I enjoy Lawrence Chaney.

Get the kettle on, the biscuits out and settle in for a belting read.

Come on my journey.

The most iconic concert hall in the world celebrates 150 years with a stunning review of history's finest performances and performers.

Live life with a little more sparkle.

'Brilliantly written.

'A beautiful and clever book about being human' Russell BrandCOMEDY.

THE PERFECT BOOK FOR FESTIVAL-GOERSWellies?

With his easy charm, down-to-earth personality and natural good looks, it's no wonder that Peter Andre has legions of fans across the globe.

Don't dance for the audience.

Darren Walsh, the UK s first Pun Champion and the comedy circuit's Tallest Comedian , debuts his first and greatest joke book encompassing four misspent years of scribbling and doodling.

Dan Rhodes is one of the most successful and beloved YouTuber and TikTok influencers in the world with more than 5 billion views on YouTube and the most viewed personal post ever - over 300 million views - on TikTok.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is a self-help book like no other.

**WINNER OF BEST SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2022**'Hard-hitting and hilarious' - James Acaster'Funny, moving and compelling' - Mike CostelloA heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family, based on the acclaimed stage show.

*The Sunday Times Bestseller*The brand new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author of Classic Scrapes, undercover cop, receiver of cabbages.

'Absolutely hilarious' - Neil Gaiman'One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read .

'Effortless humour and bucketloads of charm.

Indispensable for anyone interested in starting or running a festival of any kind - Blackmore Vale MagazineThis book applies to all festivals - literary, music, folk, jazz, food, arts - big and small.

Drawing on their numerous years experience as counsellors, tutors, and writers, Jan Sutton and William Stewart introduce readers to the basic principles that underpin counselling practice.

Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenplay, this is one of the most inspiring books on screenwriting you'll ever read.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

An Essential Guide to Landing -- and Keeping -- Your first Hollywood JobA position as an assistant to a producer, agent, director, studio executive, or star can be the path to a fabulous career -- or a one-way ticket to hell.

Felix Dennis, notorious multimillionaire publisher, first started writing poetry after a life-threatening illness.

With a fondness for spoonerisms and double entendres, Ronnie Barker is one of the nation s greatest comics.

When Will I Be Famous?

Firmly established in the world of entertainment, The Cat's route to fame has been through corporate and sporting dinners.

The New York Times number one bestseller from the Saturday Night Live and Parks and Recreation star.

In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves.

In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln's assassination, a man named P.

A collection of Frank Skinner's most brilliant, biting, gut-bustingly funny columns for The Times.

Julian Mann, the hard drinking, preening, and sexually provocative star of the TV sitcome Richard the Nerd, feels caught on the horns of a dilemma: should he be concentrating on his career, which is on the slide after an unseemly bout of fisticuffs at the BAFTA awards; or following his baser instincts and bedding every young girl in sight?

Alex Stone, part of the underground magic circuit, is determined to take his lifelong hobby to the professional level, to reach the pinnacle of this bizarre world and become a master magician.

Norman Wisdom's early years could easily have come straight from the pages of a Dickens novel.

THE TIKTOK SENSATIONDiscover the million-copy bestselling fantasy read.

Rena Fruchter was Dudley's concert piano partner, and the friend who looked after him in the final years of his life until his death at the age of 66.

For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever encountered.