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My Mum's a Twat
Have you ever tried to sustain a relationship with a twat? It's hard work and you need to be completely not a twat yourself if you want any success in this. Which is really hard when you've just started being a teenager. (As if growing up wasn't hard enough already...) I remember thinking if you were 'the chosen' one, why does that mean your dress sense has to be so shit? A celebration of teenage rebellion and resilience. Anoushka Warden's debut play was directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone and Jude Christian.
What Time is Love?
'It's the new One Day' FABULOUS 'Delightful, insightful and immersive' KATE EBERLEN 'Invigorating [and] fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Holly's beautiful prose smoulders, crackles and roars' DAISY BUCHANAN 1947. 1967. 1987. When Violet and Albert first meet, they are always twenty. Three decades. Over the years, Violet and Albert's lives collide again and again: beneath Oxford's spires, on the rolling hills around Abergavenny, in stately homes and in feminist squats. And as each decade ends, a new love story begins... Two people. Together, they are electric and the world is glittering with possibility. But against the shifting times of each era, Violet and Albert must overcome differences in class, g...
I'm F*cking Amazing
A shockingly funny and hilariously uncensored tale for the Fleabag generation, this debut novel asks: if first comes love, then comes marriage, what becomes of happily-ever-after for a woman who suddenly can't stand sex with her soulmate? Our unforgettable and nameless protagonist is a woman in her mid-30s and she has a big problem. With her fanny. It used to work perfectly. It guided her to love, orgasms, and a lot of happy shagging. She's got her Top Humps list to prove it: Ben, Pete, Richard aka "Dull Dick," Welsh Steve... Now she's married to serious boyfriend number three ("Three"), but her fanny hurts. Nothing about it seems to work right anymore. It might be broken. She's been to the doctor. She's tried dildos, fantasies, lots of alcohol and even cocaine. What happens to your dreams of a shared life when you can't stand to be touched by the person you love? When do you begin to wonder if the fault doesn't lie with you after all? And what sort of desperate steps might you take to free yourself? An un-put-downable narrative high-wire act--sexually frank, wildly funny, psychologically raw--I'm F*cking Amazing marks the fiction debut of a white-hot talent.
I'm Actually Amazing
"I was going to be okay. I was going to be okay. That had to be the case. Even though it felt a very long way away from me in that moment..." Everything used to work perfectly. She had plenty of orgasms and also love - a really big, terrific kind of love. But now, as she moves into her thirties completely committed to Serious Boyfriend Number Three, things aren't functioning the way they used to. Surely there must be some way to get it all going again? Setting off on a desperate quest to fix her bits, there's no limit to what she'll try. But nothing seems to be working. What becomes of happily-ever-after for a woman who can't stand sex with the best guy ever? It might be time for a radically fresh start... I'm Actually Amazing is a hilariously frank, sharp and relatable tale of love, sex, and self-determination perfect for fans of Bridget Jones, Miranda July, and Dolly Alderton.
Lost & Found
The #1 international bestselling debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens along the way Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in the big ladies' underwear department of a local store and never returns. United at this fateful moment with two octogenarians seekers, she embarks with them upon a road trip to find Millie's mother. Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.
The Pursuit of Motherhood
If you’ve ever felt a crumpling in your chest when another friend tells you they’re pregnant… If you’ve ever wondered why everyone else seems to find it so easy… If you’ve ever experienced The Pursuit of Motherhood… This book is for you. "I was 34 and running a London theatre when I decided to start a family. I thought that making the decision to fit a baby into my busy life was the hard part. I was wrong." After a year of having sex to schedule, Jessica and her partner were diagnosed with "unexplained infertility", and soon discovered they were not alone. Infertility is a silent epidemic of the modern world. It is currently estimated that one in five couples in the UK have dif...
The Two Worlds of Charlie F.
Welcome to our war The Two Worlds of Charlie F. is a soldier's view of service, injury and recovery. Moving from the war in Afghanistan, through the dream world of morphine-induced hallucinations to the physio rooms of Headley Court, the play explores the consequences of injury, both physical and psychological, and its effects on others as the soldiers fight to win the new battle for survival at home. Drawn from the personal experience of the wounded, injured and sick Service personnel involved, Owen Sheers's The Two Worlds of Charlie F. premiered at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, in January 2012 and toured nationally that summer.
In the Light of What We Know
WINNER: JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED: GOLDSMITHS PRIZE and SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2014 LONGLISTED: GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD and ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014 ‘It’s hard not to write in superlatives of this extraordinary novel.' Guardian One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London home. He struggles to place the dishevelled figure carrying a backpack, until he recognizes a friend from his student days, a brilliant man who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling powe...
21 Miles
'This book will help so many people' Positive Fertility An Outdoor Swimming Society Book of the Year 2018 After a decade of trying and failing to become a mother, Jessica Hepburn knew it was time to do something different. So she decided to swim twenty-one miles across the English Channel – no easy feat, especially for someone who couldn't swim very well. As the punishing training schedule commenced, Jessica learned you need to put on weight to stave off the cold. This gave her the idea to meet and eat with a collection of inspiring women, and ask them: does motherhood make you happy? From baronesses and professors to award-winners and record-breakers, each of the women had compelling truths to tell about fulfilment and the meaning of motherhood.
When Dimple Met Rishi
The inspiration for the Netflix original series Mismatched! A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Everyone is talking about this New York Times bestselling rom-com that Mindy Kaling called “utterly charming!” Eleanor & Park meets Bollywood in this hilarious and heartfelt novel about two Indian-American teens whose parents conspire to arrange their marriage. Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, th...
