A clever retelling of Shakespeare's Tempest, conveying the brutality of colonialisation and its continuing repercussions today.
A moving story of grief that gives a voice to the exiled wife of King Lear.
In She Speaks! What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said', Harriet Walter gives a voice to Shakespeare's female characters in creative and thought provoking monologues.
Ruth Goodman takes the reader on a fun exploration of life in Tudor England.
An action packed, fast paced and deeply gripping story set with the backdrop of a divided England living with the memory of a deposed King, a bloody Civil War and a new monarch hell bent on not forgetting or forgiving the past.
Jill Burke’s How To Be A Renaissance Woman explores the length Renaissance women went to achieve the ideal look. Highlighting that beauty was not just vanity but a form of social survival.
Enter Ghost tells the story of a woman who participates in a production of Hamlet on the West Bank, making for a heart-warming, gut-wrenching, humorous and devastating read. The characters are complex, interesting, and create an incredibly entertaining read - especially the cast and crew of the Hamlet production.
James Shapiro’s essential books reveal how art and Shakespeare have historically mirrored - and been weaponised by - America’s deepest political and cultural divides.
In The Green Ages, historian Annette Kehnel challenges the myth that the Middle Ages were "dark." Instead, she reveals a period of sophisticated sustainability, offering a historical survival guide for our modern ecological crisis.
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong is a science fiction retelling of William Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra. This book is not...
Sycorax is a beautiful story, steeped in sadness, about one of William Shakespeare’s unseen fictional female characters. Sycorax appears as...
This book takes you on a wild ride. Like a fly on the wall, our main character, a foetus who is weeks from birth, becomes the primary witness in the plot to murder his father.
Considered as one of the greatest playwrights to have ever lived, much like Shakespeare, Chekov can be quite an intimidating...
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake is a beautiful take on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. At...
Filled with tense moments and impassioned conversations between our 2 main characters, this book is a page-turner!
Jade Khanjara is the kind of kind of girl that you want in your corner when things get tough. She...
It is easy to get swept up in Hunter and Luna’s first love story, and well worth the read.
This book is completely swoon worthy. Filled with sexual tension and main characters too stubborn to give in to what they actually want. I have never read The Taming of the Shrew like this before; this book will keep you reading!
