You don’t have to believe it. I always took the Matthew Passion with a pinch of salt.

Ramsden, Yorkshire, 1916. The ambitious local Choral Society is depleted as men volunteer for the front and plans for their St Matthew Passion by German composer J. S. Bach are scuppered by patriotic fervour. Dr Guthrie, the mysterious, exacting new Chorus Master, finds a replacement in Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and swells the choir’s numbers with teenage boys and girls. Together they discover the urgency of desire and the joy of singing as the new boys come to terms with their imminent conscription, and friendships and summer trysts are suffused with a melancholy sense of all that might soon be lost.

This beautiful screenplay is published alongside the film’s UK release (on 7 November 2025), and includes a preface by the author and an introduction from Nicholas Hytner.

This volume of Harauld Hughes’s first three screenplays includes a preface by the author, as well as new critical appreciations by Richard Ayoade, Chloë Clifton-Wright and his current widow, Lady Virginia Lovilocke.

THE SWINGING MODELS
The film that started it all: Hughes’s searing indictment of the bikini business’s (literal) underbelly.

THE ESPECIALLY WAYWARD GIRL
A new student discovers her classmates have a thirst for human blood, which makes it hard to focus on the syllabus.

THE MODEL AND THE ROCKER
A dream collage of catwalks, crispy beats and crustaceans takes shape in this – one of Hughes’s most confusing narratives.

This volume of Harauld Hughes’s last four screenplays includes a preface and afterword by the author.

THE TERRIBLE WITCH
A feisty undergraduate uncovers fresh witchy business in Ipswich.

THE AWFUL WOMAN FROM SPACE
Two top feminist scientists find their sense of sisterhood challenged by the arrival of an intergalactic uber-femme.

THE DEADLY GUST
This ill wind blows no one any good in one of Hughes’s most elliptical works for the screen.

THE GLOWING WRONG
When two research scientists are asked to move their lab facility into a cursed church, they awake an ancient evil at the heart of the British government.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead.

As an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys pursue sex, sport and a place at university, adolescent anarchy and staffroom rivalry provoke insistent questions about history and education.

The History Boys premiered at the National Theatre, London, 2004, winning Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle, Olivier and South Bank Awards. On Broadway, it received numerous awards, including six Tonys.

‘The perfect introduction to the iconic writer’ STYLIST

INCLUDING:

* Nora’s much-loved essays on everything from friendship to feminism to journalism

* Extracts from her bestselling novel Heartburn

* Scenes from her hilarious screenplay for When Harry Met Sally

* Unparalleled advice about friends, lovers, divorces, desserts and black turtleneck sweaters

‘It’s got a little bit of everything, from witty essays on feminism, beauty, and ageing to profiles of empowering female figures’ ELLE

*PRAISE FOR NORA EPHRON*

‘So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don’t know how she did it’ PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE

‘Nora’s exacting, precise, didactic, tried-and-tested, sophisticated-woman-wearing-all-black wisdom is a comfort and a relief’ DOLLY ALDERTON

‘Nora Ephron is the funniest, cleverest, wisest friend you could have’ NIGELLA LAWSON

‘I am only the one of millions of women who will miss Nora’s voice’ LENA DUNHAM

The official screenplay of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is the ultimate companion to the film, and invites readers to explore every scene of the complete script penned by J.K. Rowling & Steve Kloves. Special features include behind-the-scenes content and commentary from David Yates, David Heyman, Jude Law, Eddie Redmayne, Colleen Atwood and more.

THE DELUXE HARDBACK EDITION FEATURING NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS, BONUS MATERIAL & AN EXCLUSIVE BOUNTY LAW SCRIPT BY QUENTIN TARANTINO

Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction – at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal – is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film.

The sunlit studio back lots and the dark watering holes of Hollywood are the setting for this audacious, hilarious, disturbing novel about life in the movie colony, circa 1969.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood tells the story of washed-up actor Rick Dalton. Once Rick had his own television series, a famous western called “Bounty Law.” But “it ain’t been that time in a long time” and now Rick’s only regular parts are as the heavy, ready to be bested by whichever young “swingin’ dick” the networks want to make a new star out of come pilot season. When a talent agent approaches Rick about starring in Italian Westerns (“Eye-talian Westerns”?), it only ignites a new crisis of confidence for the perpetually insecure actor.

And then there’s Rick’s stunt double, Cliff Booth, a war hero who killed more Japanese soldiers during the Second World War than any other American, and who never thought he’d make it back home. If Rick’s career has stalled, Cliff’s has flamed out. Already living under a cloud of suspicion after the strange death of his wife at sea, Cliff makes the mistake of picking the wrong fight on set, and is soon reduced to the status of Rick’s full-time gofer.

Right next door to Rick’s still glamourous Benedict Canyon home (“the house that Bounty Law built”) some Hollywood dreams are coming true, and these dreams belong to Sharon Tate. Not only is she Mrs. Roman Polanski – married to the only true rock star director – but Sharon is fast becoming a star in her own right, living life on the upswing in a tough town.

Only a few miles away, in the desert around Chatsworth, lives a different kind of dreamer. Charles Manson is an ex-con who has spellbound a group of hippie misfits living with him in squalor on an old “movie ranch.” Little do his young followers know to what degree Charlie himself is an industry striver, more desperate for Columbia Records and Tapes’s attentions than for the revolution he preaches.

These indelible characters – and many more: an acting child prodigy beaming with hope; a booze-drenched former A-lister who’s lost it all – occupy a vanished world from not so long ago that is brought to brilliant life in these pages. Here is 1969, the music, the cars, the movies and TV shows. And here is Hollywood, both the fairy tale and the real thing, as given to us by a master storyteller who knows it like the back of his hand.

FEATURING NEW PHOTOS AND BONUS MATERIAL:

– Two color inserts featuring never-before-seen photos from the set and posters and other memorabilia from Rick Dalton’s career

– An original, exclusive script for a Bounty Law episode by Quentin Tarantino titled “Incident at Inez”

– A Mad Magazine parody of Bounty Law titled “Lousy Law: Loser’s Last Ride”

At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, Talking Heads is widely regarded as a modern classic.

This edition, which contains the original complete collection of Talking Heads, as well as his earlier monologue, A Woman of No Importance, is a celebration of Alan Bennett’s finest work.