Bøker av Tim Firth

Imagine you're a spirited 13-year-old and you've won - actually won - a magazine competition to describe your family. The prize is a dream holiday for the lot of you, anywhere in the world. Except... Nicky's family isn't the blissfully happy bunch she's described. More like the contestants in a gladiatorial arena, in fact. Where on earth can she take them that might make her wishful thinking a reality? Winner of the 2013 UK Theatre Award for Best Musical, this hilarious musical comedy, which moves seamlessly between speech and song, is a celebration of the lifelong adventure that is family love.

Bonfire night 2019, Sheila, Denise, Julie, and Fay are Team C in Pennine Mineral Water Ltd.''s annual outward bound team-building weekend. Somehow, Sheila has been nominated team leader, and, using her cryptic crossword solving skills, has unwittingly stranded her team on an island in the Lake District.Our intrepid heroines fi nd themselves manufacturing weapons from cable ties and spatulas, and create a rescue fl ag with plastic plates and a toasting fork.Questions are asked; truths are told; dirty washing is aired.Is it possible to build an adequate night shelter with a prom dress and a sleeveless jumper? What is Julie''s husband really up to in Aldi? And why are they on this bloody team building exercise when they could be at a spa?

Frank is an aspiring spy novelist and Head of Installation at Forshaws, a commercial lettering factory. Alan is his reluctant teenage trainee, more interested in listening to music and designing album artwork for his band Lizard than Frank's beloved bracketing systems.

A truly outstanding, genuinely funny play, with a wry twist at the end. Frank has erected signs for a commercial letterer for twenty-five years. With trainee Alan, he attempts to spell ''Forshaw''s'' - the letters collectively forming the play''s third ''character''. He is nonplussed when the right letters do not appear and then realization dawns.|2 men

All religions reach out for their God. But why do the different paths they take often end up in division, intolerance and even violence? We all share the same spiritual nature, but why do we seem to be divided by our religions? If you ask these questions or perhaps feel that the uniqueness of your own religion is somehow threatened by attempts to reconcile religious difference, this book is for you. It suggests two ways for overcoming divisive religious fragmentation. One is to have a 'Both/And' rather than an 'Either/Or' and 'Us/Them' mindset. The other is to set religion in its wide contexts of the one Great Revelation, of Spirituality, of the Cosmos itself and the New Awareness of interconnection which is emerging today.

This play focuses on the male night-shift at Kale Moor grocery depot. But their new colleague is a woman, who sees through the antics of the men to the insecurities and weaknesses beneath. But when a mystery role-playing game is presented to the team, there are surprises for them all.

Three households hold a "safari party" - a dinner party, where each course is served in a different house. Hors d'oevres are served by Daniel and Adam, entrees by Lol and Esther, and desserts by Inga. The households are linked not just socially, however: there's the question of the table.

Mizzis Horrocks' class of seven year olds is about to perform their nativity play at Flint Street Junior School for the proud mums and dads - and the occasional social worker. Squabbles arise when Gabriel wants to play Mary, the Star grumbles he's not a proper star like they have at NASA. And then the stick insect escapes...

When Annie's husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow Women's Institute members to pose nude with them for an 'alternative' calendar. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie's friendship is put to the test.