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Five full-cast dramas by the celebrated Scottish writer Liz Lochhead, plus a short story Liz Lochhead is a widely recognised poet, playwright and performer. She was the Makar, Scotland’s national poet, between 2011 and 2016, and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2015. The six...

Georgiana Dudley, the 'Ice Duchess', has just emerged from mourning after a nine-year marriage of convenience to the Duke of Darby, her twin brother's lover. Deeply hurt by a scoundrel a decade ago, Georgie swore she would never turn her head for any man, let alone another rakehell. But then she encounters the wickedly handsome and all too charming Rafe Landsbury, the Earl of Markham and against her better judgment, her interest is reluctantly aroused. An affair may be impossible to resist, but dare she trust Lord Markham with her most intimate secrets...and her heart?

Cohen Ford is a man who could do with a little bit of sweetening up. It’s no surprise that when he walks into The Great Greenwich Ice Creamery on a typically gloomy London day before Christmas, he insists on a black coffee rather than his childhood favourite – strawberry ice cream. But then he meets River de Luca, the woman behind the flavours. After their first encounter, Cohen begins visiting the ice creamery every Tuesday, gradually learning more about the intriguing River.

The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the towering figures in modern Chinese literature. He saw his great, almost unmanageable task as an attempt to write China into the new era - to provide an ancient country, devastated by civil war and foreign predators, with the intellectual equipment to renew itself. This selection of pieces shows Liang's extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission which drove him on, attempting to galvanize and refresh an entire nation.

У меня было все: стипендия в Королевской Академии, планы на будущее, хорошие оценки. Но один вредный дракон, преследовавший меня с первого курса, разбил все мои мечты на мелкие осколки. И теперь я вынуждена доучиваться в какой-то отсталой Академии в захолустном городишке.

Gracie-Jane Coetzee se eerste kleinkind word gebore kort voordat die president die eerste inperking aankondig. Gracie is ’n skrywer en illustreerder van kinderboeke, en nie juis ’n konvensionele ouma nie. Sy verkies die geselskap van haar getroue basset-hond bo enige ander verhouding in haar lewe. Saans wanneer PTS haar tussen die mure van haar huis rondjaag en die gevoel van onheil soos ’n uil op die dak kom sit, dokter sy graag die kompulsief obsessiewe simptome met ’n glasie wyn of twee . . .

Una expedición de socorro se hace a la vela para intentar rescatar a unos hombres que se perdieron en el mar en circunstancias heroicas. Equipados con abrigos de pieles y trineos tirados por perros, los personajes deberán, como indica el título de la novela, pasar el invierno atrapados en los hielos de Groenlandia.