Product Description: In addition to the complete text of "As You Like it", this book includes: activities; a synopsis at the beginning of each act; notes opposite the text; photographs showing various productions of the play; and an introduction which places Shakespeare in context.

Product Description: Gina and Laurence had been the best of friends ever since they were teenagers. They had never been in love―just friends.Now, Gina is married to the exquisitely tasteful Fergus and lives in stylish perfection at High Place. Laurence is married to down-to-earth Hilary and they have spent their married life turning The Bee House into both home and hotel...read more

Product Description: Following her husband's death, Minna runs a small boarding house in Torquay and brings up her son, Tim, who becomes a journalist until the outbreak of The Great War disrupts his life. Sent home after a breakdown, he discovers his true love but she is pressurised to marry another...read more

Product Description: Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes continues to reinvigorate the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill and playful manipulation of plot and character. In Love, etc. he uses all the surprising, sophisticated ingredients of a delightful farce to create a tragicomedy of human frailties and needs...read more

Product Description: When a man and a woman get married, things can get complicated. When they have children from previous marriages, "complicated" can become the understatement of the year. From the grown daughter who insinuates herself into her widowed father's romantic life, to the sullen teenager whose loyalties lie with her estranged mother; from the awkwardness of tense celebrations to the discovery of surprising sources of strength, Joanna Trollope reveals the laughter and tears, the tension and the tenderness, that live behind the statistics and stereotypes about stepfamilies...read more

Product Description: George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments, all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume...read more

Product Description: Sadie suffers the abuse of her parents to protect her brothers and sisters. She has no friends, until she meets a lively bunch of Liverpudlian stallholders at a local market, who become her salvation. But she always thinks of her family and the one person who was kind to her...read more

Clare Higgins, Alex Jennings, and Steven Pacey read Man Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes's "he said, she said" novel.Introducing Stuart, Gillian and Oliver. One by one they take their turn to speak straight out to the camera―and give their side of a contemporary love triangle. What begins as a comedy of misunderstanding slowly darkens and deepens into a compelling exploration of the quagmires of the heart.

Product Description: Jenny and Laura Nightingale are as different as chalk and cheese. Jenny's pretty face and lively sense of humour make her everyone's favourite girl, whereas Laura is mean and moody and she's never out of trouble. Their mother, Mary, loves them both and frets about Laura's behaviour, but soon that's the least of her worries...read more

Product Description: The story which furnishes the plot of this comedy is to be found in various degrees of development in the writings of various Italian and French novelists and dramatists of the sixteenth century. Of these a comedy called GV I ngannati (T he Mistaken Ones), first printed in 1537, by an unknown author, is most like Twelfth Night, to which, indeed, it corresponds in plot almost point for point...read more