National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities. The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. Touching on themes like climate change, politics, toxic masculinity and gang culture, the collection provides topical, pressing subject matter for students to explore in their performance. This 2023 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2023 Festival, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.

While the first 14 books in the Chapters Of Life series dealt with Luke's life up until 1968, these following books (Luke's Return) deal with events post 1984, when Luke returned to Bromyard. Whereas the books dealing with events up to 1968 were taken from the daily diaries of 4 local Bromyard girls, and are based upon actual events described within them, these that deal with post 1984 events are based upon nothing more than pure fiction, only using the framework of the earlier works to tie them into the location, so as to create a continuation of Luke's various adventures.

The story of Isleworth Studios is essentially that of the British film industry from 1914 to 1952. Beginning with the first British Sherlock Holmes screen adaptation and ending with its Oscar-winning swansong, The African Queen, in the intervening years it was one of the most technically advanced studios in the country and home to some of the best and the worst examples of British cinema. It experienced the transition from silent films to talkies. Britain's only movie mogul, Alexander Korda, arrived, looking to rival Hollywood, followed by Douglas Fairbanks Jr looking to rival Korda. Buster Keaton struggled with alcoholism; Richard Burton made his screen debut; Bogart, Hepburn and Huston made a classic; and Emeric Pressburger directed his first and only film at Isleworth. Little by little the old dream factory's physical shape is now crumbling or altered, or is disappearing altogether. Soon it may be gone. Isleworth Studios has a history worthy of more than just an addendum in the annals of the British film industry. This is its story told for the very first time.

Luke's return to Bromyard - continuing on from the first 14 books in The Chapters Of Life series, which featured Luke and his motorbike friends in and around Bromyard in Herefordshire.

Bromyard in the 1960's as seen through the eyes of a group of local motorbike-riding teenagers, who alternate between the local cafe and pub in their quest for adventure and excitement. The novel is based upon extracts taken from a set of 4 diaries that were kept by 4 different local Bromyard girls at that time. All 4 were teenagers in the 1960?s, though one of them turned 20 in 1964. Follow Luke and his friends through various escapades in and around the small market town of Bromyard in Herefordshire. Rated as XXX Not suitable for those under the age of 18 years. This book contains strong language, violence and descriptive sex scenes. if you are easily offended by such content, please avoid.

Bromyard in Herefordshire in the 1960's and Luke and his friends are still trying to overcome the trials and tribulations of everyday teenage life.

"Now They Tell Me: 50 Life Lessons I Didn't Learn in School" is a funny and entertaining guide to work, love, family, sex, and religion. Every person trying to keep up with the ever-changing demands of modern life needs to read this humorous and provocative book. Ed Harris provides a hilarious account of how formal education failed to prepare the author for the real world. Despite academic success, he was often a complete idiot outside of a classroom. When it came to typical adult challenges, such as finding a satisfying job or being a competent partner in a romantic relationship, he was clueless. He was even fired as a shopping mall Santa, as told in one of the most amusing chapters. "Now They Tell Me' contains the information schools should have armed you with, instead of wasting time on unnecessary topics such as trigonometric functions or the main exports of Colonial America. But help is here, and just in time, in one of the funniest books you'll ever read.