Product Description: Phil and Alice are in love—familiar, flawed, ordinary love. They are on a journey, but their journey doesn't have a clear path from A to Z. Acclaimed playwright Jack Thorne's The Solid Life of Sugar Water is an intimate, tender play about loss, hurt, and, rediscovery that premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe...read more

Product Description: Acclaimed for his TV screenplays (Skins, This is England), as well as his original plays and adaptations (Let the Right One In), Jack Thorne is one of the most distinctive talents working in theater today. This collection of Thorne's early plays, with a revealing introduction by the author, includes the following works: When You Cure Me; Stacy; 2nd May 1997; Bunny; Red Car, Blue Car; and Mydidae...read more

A Newbery Award winner!Most dolls lead a comfortable but unadventurous life. This was true of Miss Hickory until the fateful day that her owner, Ann, moves from her New Hampshire home to attend school in Boston—leaving Miss Hickory behind. For a small doll whose body is an apple-wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, the prospect of spending a New Hampshire winter alone is frightening indeed. In this classic modern day fairy tale, what’s a doll to do?

Product Description: A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.Tom’s brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn’t upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can’t explain and other people can't understand...read more

Product Description: "A ravishing little romance of the undead that’s guaranteed to warm — and break — your heart, even as it chills your blood." - New York TimesA dark and visceral coming-of-age vampire love story, based on the acclaimed novel and film...read more

Product Description: Hanover; or the Persecution of the Lowly - A Story of the Wilmington Massacre by Jack Thorne. WILMINGTON, NOV. 11.--With the killing of the Negroes yesterday the backbone of the trouble seems to have been broken. The authors of the tragedy have gone to their homes and the mob has disbanded as if in contempt of the gangs of Negroes who still hang about in the black quarters growling and threatening the whites...read more

Product Description: One bathroom. Two people. One day. A relationship witnessed in minute, devastating detail.A story of intimacy, fragility and the darker side of love, Jack Thorne's Mydidae exposes the private and disturbing moments a couple share, and explores what becomes of a relationship when it is held together not only by love, but by fear, guilt and despair...read more

Product Description: David Bryant Fulton (1863-1941) was an African American journalist and writer who also wrote as Jack Thorne. He was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he attended school. In 1887, he moved to New York, finding employment as a porter with the Pullman Palace Car Company...read more

Includes two plays by Jack Thorne published alongside their premieres: 'Stacy' at the Arcola Theatre, London and 'Fanny and Faggot' at the Finborough Theatre, London.

Talking about being very young and in love, and coping with a serious illness at the same time, this play is poignant tale of love and misunderstanding, and discovering that what you say and do can be very different from what you think and feel.

Product Description: Excerpt: ...it one of the most desirable places on earth, and the memory of whose face and name revive the sweetest recollections of early youth in the dear old town, the name and face of Uncle Guy comes most vividly before me. In ante-bellum days in the South, one week in all the year was given by the master to the slav...read more