Talking headsAlan Bennett sealed his reputation as an acute observer of British life with a series of six monologues. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, these modern day classics invite us to explore 12 very different but very real characters and their lives.

the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive

a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor

Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire

A unique insight into life in a South Wales Valleys town in 1979 through the eyes of an 11 year old girl

She unearths fascinating histories of communities whose lives were shaped by wool

from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert

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He shows you what it takes to turn your passion from a private distraction to a productive contribution

from Eighties excess to the present day

and why that tree in your house should really contain an apple and a snake

Divination and more

Rackham describes the endlessly changing character of Britain's countryside