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Saki's Cats rounds up the tales about cats, big and small, by the undisputed master of the short story. The feisty felines of these tales are the only clear winners, and, with a characteristic smirk and dash of his pen, it is Edwardian Society that Saki sends slinking off, tail between its legs.

The undisputed master of the short story, Saki's name is synonymous with brilliant writing that satirises Edwardian Society. This complete edition of his plays (the first complete edition ever published) demonstrates the great writer's prowess as a playwright.

In 2020, for the first time in centuries, theatres were closed. Two actors set about photographing the stage doors of the deserted city. These images are brought to life by anecdotes from some of the world's leading luminaries who have trodden the boards of the pictured theatres.

Narrated by a chair, In the Clouds is a light-hearted, humorous tale that tracks a hot-air balloon through the skies above Paris. Featuring the original illustrations by Georges Clairin, and in a fresh edit of the first English translation, this edition seeks to bring the tale to a new generation of readers.

Fearing that England was about to be wiped from the face of the earth by the Nazi bombers flying overhead, Orwell put pen to paper and set out to make a record of English culture. England Your England is this record, and is an important tableau of the nation's history, and demonstrates a resolute refusal to bow to the threatening forces of Fascism.

The life of Joan of Arc is the stuff of legend, and her cruel death led to her being declared a martyr, granting her an unwavering legacy. Following her canonisation in 1920, and against a history of overly romanticised retellings of the story, Bernard Shaw put pen to paper to give a more accurate account.

New Beginnings is a poetry collection with a difference - resulting from an international competition seeking to find those whose voices were silenced in 2020, the resulting anthology forms a celebration of the end of the toxic aspects of 2020 and the pandemic, a glimmer of hope for the future and a manifesto for change.

First published in 1896, The Burglar's Christmas is a short story by the great American writer Willa Cather. Set in Chicago on a cold Christmas Eve, the down-and-out Crawford learns the value of forgiveness. 25% of the RRP goes to Three Peas, a refugee charity.

First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word.

First published in 1820, The Christmas Dinner is a charming tale that paints the scene of a Christmas dinner spent at the table of Bracebridge Hall, a countryside manor; the merry songs and stories of the dinner table echo with jollity of Christmases long past. 25% of the RRP goes to Three Peas, a refugee charity.

In 1881, three writers and rights activists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, came together to publish the first volume in their groundbreaking History of Woman Suffrage series - a series that eventually went on to fill 5700 pages and lend weight to a movement that changed the course of history for ever.

Engaged is a farcical comedy that has long lived in the literary shadows - although wildly neglected today, the play influenced literary names as great as George Bernard Shaw, and directly inspired Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Waiting for Music is the fifth collection of poetry from the acclaimed writer Simon Mundy, and this book sets out a playlist that stems from music, visual art and dance - from Brahms' late piano works to a scene for soprano and dancers, written to be set by Roxanna Panufnik, that was inspired by a 16th century picture in the National Gallery.

The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers is the most popular play by the Restoration playwright and spy Aphra Behn, first performed in 1677. The play follows the wild exploits of a group of English gentlemen in Naples at carnival time, although many of the tropes of the genre are subverted to an extent which sent shockwaves through the theatre world.

When Stephen Duck's The Thresher's Labour was published in 1730, it was a sensation - but Mary Collier was astounded to read Duck's dismissal of women, and she penned a stinging riposte, which reframed Duck's relation of harvest-time toil from a woman's perspective. This edition includes Duck's The Thresher's Labour and other pieces by Collier.

The Westminster Alice is a collection of humorous vignettes by Saki that forms a political pastiche of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, featuring an unforgettable cast of politicians of the day, and brought to life with illustrations by F. Carruthers Gould, 'with apologies to Sir John Tenniel' for their striking likeness to the Alice illustrations.

Stephen Leacock is an unjustly forgotten master of the short-story genre, once considered the best-known humorist in the world. Although he was a prolific writer, publishing about fifty novels, memoirs and histories in his lifetime, he was best known for his story short-collections Literary Lapses, Nonsense Novels and Frenzied Fiction.

Salome retells the Biblical story in which the stepdaughter of Herod demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward for her dancing for her stepfather's amusement. Written in 1891, rehearsals of Salome had to be cancelled when the play was banned by the Lord Chamberlain due to its depiction of religious characters.

Politics vs. Literature is, at heart, a review of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Using the book as an example of enjoying a book whose author one cannot stand, Orwell goes on to say that he considers Gulliver's Travels a work of art, leaving the reader to reconsider the books on their own shelves.

In The Prevention of Literature, Orwell discusses the effect of the ownership of the press on the accuracy of reports of events, and takes aim at political language, which 'consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together.' It is a stirring cry for freedom from censorship, which Orwell says must start with the writer themselves.

In Why I Write, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the works we remember him for. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell's mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writers' oeuvre.

In Politics and the English Language, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, 'is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind'. This essay is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play in political language.

Described by Virginia Woolf herself as 'easily the best of my books', To the Lighthouse is a milestone of Modernism. Set on the Isle of Skye, the narrative centres on a promise which isn't to be fulfilled for a decade. Bearing all the hallmarks of Woolf's prose, To the Lighthouse has earned its reputation - it has lost not an iota of brilliance.

Hannah Snell's story begins in 1744, with tragedy. That year, she married James Summs, a Dutch seaman. Soon after their marriage, she fell pregnant - and Summs abandoned her. The baby died just a year after she was born. At this juncture, Snell donned a suit, assumed her brother-in-law's identity and set off in search of her husband.