Methuen drama

When a woman is ripe for the picking...Beth Cordova's life is no fairy tale. Having barely escaped the evil grasp of her wicked stepmother, this 'missing princess' seeks refuge in a strict commune where carnal pleasures are forbidden.Sometimes just one bite of the apple...Her world is lonely and void of intimacy, until the charming Stephen Trent arrives at the commune. Suddenly Beth yearns for a man's touch, the feel of his lips on hers...and Stephen is eager to show this pure-as-snow princess that she can still be the sensual woman she was once upon a time.Is all it takes to unleash her desires...But all is not what it seems, and the stunning beauty finds herself again in danger, her stepmother hot on her trail. The commune's founders will not tolerate the pair, yet fleeing its walls could prove fatal. Trapped in a world where passion is outlawed, can Beth live happily ever after?

Archer's play is a courtroom drama with a difference. The audience will act as the jury, as if they were in the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey. They get to choose the ending - Did Dr Sherwood murder his wife?

On the anniversary of Ankh-Morpork's great uprising, Vimes is locked in a deadly struggle with a psychopathic criminal, and falls off a roof and back in time - right back to the revolution he remembers from his youth. Back in his rough and tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that the right future will emerge, and stay alive so that he can get back to it. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper, outmanoeuvre the vile Cable Street Unmentionables and their suspiciously psychopathic new Sergeant, and look after a bloody revolution.

130 p. ; 20 cm

"Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award-winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the back-stage "drama" that develops during Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two begin to interlock as the characters make their exits from Nothing On only to find themselves making entrances into the even worse nightmare that's happening backstage. In the end, at the disastrous final performance, the two plots can be kept separate no longer, and coalesce into a single collective nervous breakdown."--BOOK JACKET.

The forgotten classic that launched the career of one of America's greatest playwrightsIt took more than fifty years for The Man Who Had All the Luck to be appreciated for what it truly is: the first stirrings of a genius that would go on to blossom in such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Infused with the moral malaise of the Depression era, the drama centers on David Beeves, a man whose every obstacle to personal and professional success seems to crumble before him. But his good fortune merely serves to reveal the tragedies of those around him in greater relief, offering evidence of a capricious god or, worse, a godless, arbitrary universe. David's journey toward fulfillment becomes a nightmare of existential doubts, a desperate grasp for reason in a cosmos seemingly devoid of any, and a struggle that will take him to the brink of madness. First time in Penguin Classics