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    The Dragon with the Blazing Bottom by Beach

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    The first in a fabulously funny series about a dragon who has lost his flame - but may just find fire elsewhere . . . Perfect for fans of The DInos...

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    Home Body by Rupi Kaur

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    From the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of...

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    The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

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    The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Hone...

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    Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell

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    Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel. Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divide...

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    Dancing By The Light of The Moon: Over 250 poems to read, relish and recite by Gyles Brandreth

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    Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and l...

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    100 Poems by Seamus Heaney

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    Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an int...

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    Blood Brothers by Willy Russell

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    A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them aw...

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    Everything Under the Sun: a curious question for every day of the year by Molly Oldfield

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    An absolute delight - David Walliams"One of the best kids books I have ever had the pleasure of reading" - Pandora Sykes"Truly ace and answers ever...

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    The Crossing by Manjeet Mann

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    Powerful, compassionate and ultimately hopeful. ObserverWINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2021 and the Sunday Times Children's Book of the ...

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    Inferno by Dante

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    Dante's Inferno: A Profound Journey into the Depths of Hell Delve into the timeless masterpiece, Dante's Inferno, and embark on an extraordinary vo...

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    A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality...

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    An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by J B Priestley

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    We don't live alone ... We are responsible for each other'A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a you...

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    Selected Poems: Rossetti by Christina Rossetti

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    This new selection of Rossetti's poems brings together works by one of the most significant nineteenth-century English poets. It includes an illumi...

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    The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta

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    'I loved every word' - Malorie Blackman 'Atta's bold verse novel calls to its readers to find their own blazing, performative inner truth' - Guardi...

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    Bombs and Blackberries : A World War Two Play

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    A short illustrated play set in World War Two, perfect for class reading as well as performance, written by Julia Donaldson, author of the modern c...

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    Grade 9-1 GCSE English Shakespeare Text Guide - Much Ado About Nothing

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    This fantastic CGP Text Guide for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing has everything students need to write top-grade essays for the latest Grade ...

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    Midnight Feasts: Tasty poems chosen by A.F. Harrold

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    The perfect Christmas gift for any food or poetry lover, this scrumptious illustrated hardback contains over 50 poems about every type of food imag...

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    The World's Greatest Space Cadet

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    A dreamer?Me? Err, You bet, The world's greatest space cadet!Join poet James Carter on a journey through space and time: meet everyone from a Vikin...

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    Globe Education Shorter Shakespeare: Macbeth

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    Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: KS3Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2018Get straight to the heart of S...

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    Grade 9-1 GCSE Drama Play Guide - The Crucible

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    This CGP Play Guide is a superb resource for studying Arthur Miller's The Crucible for Grade 9-1 GCSE Drama. The book provides in-depth study notes...

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    If I Were the Moon

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    If I were the moon / I'd shine down my light / Right into your bedroom / To warm up the night. A timeless bedtime book that "beautifully captures t...

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    Somebody Give This Heart a Pen

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    An amazingly talented spoken word artist MTVFrom acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a powerful first collection of poems exploring issu...

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    The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II

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    ***As heard on The Jeremy Vine Show******As heard on The Cerys Matthews Show***"Michael Rosen is a master of pace and clarity... Essential reading....

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    Collected Poems for Children: Macmillan Classics Edition

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    A beautiful paperback edition of Charles Causley's Collected Poems for Children with a foreword by Roger McGough and illustrated with line art by J...

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    Reading Planet - Aliens in the Library - Purple: Galaxy

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    Sam and Bansi are excited about exploring their new school library - until they are joined by two cheeky aliens! Will they be able to stop the alie...

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    Everything All at Once

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    *Winner of the 2019 CLiPPA award*An achingly beautiful collection of poems about one week in a secondary school where everything happens all at onc...

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    Our Food : A Healthy Serving of Science and Poems

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    Find Our Food : A Healthy Serving of Science and Poems from publishers Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. at Books2Door!

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    A First Book of Animals

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    A dazzling collection of poems by Nicola Davies, featuring over fifty different kinds of animals - beautifully illustrated by Petr Horacek. Nicol...

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    Here I Stand: Stories that Speak for Freedom

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    A varied and thought-provoking collection of short stories and poems for teens with a conscience, with striking cover illustrations by award-winnin...

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    The Night Before the Night Before Christmas

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    Ho-ho-ho! It's nearly Christmas Eve. Bells are jingling, reindeer are limbering up and Santa's sleigh is being polished - will Santa have everythin...

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    We're Going on a Lion Hunt

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    We're going on a lion hunt. We're going to catch a big one. We're not scared. In David Axtell's beautifully illustrated rendition of a well-kno...

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    Happy Poems

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    Poems to make you smile! Critically acclaimed poet Roger McGough has drawn together a fantastic collection of upbeat poems to bring happiness into ...

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    Little Miss Muffet Flip-Side Rhymes

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    Poor Little Miss Muffett was scared away, but what if the spider told the rhyme? Nursery rhymes bring Common Core standards to the youngest readers...

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    Bright Bursts of Colour

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    'Matt Goodfellow is a fresh voice on the children's poetry scene.' (Pie Corbett)What if cats had flavoured fur or if you swallowed the sun? What if...

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    The Night Before Christmas

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    'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house ... For decades families have gathered together to read Clement C. Moore's enchanting h...

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    Mother Goose of Pudding Lane

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    From celebrated picture book creators Chris Raschka and Vladimir Radunsky comes one possible answer to the age-old question: Who was Mother Goose?W...

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Browse our collection of poetry and plays. Whether you are buying books for university or school exams or you want to broaden your reading material, we’ve got you covered. From poetry anthologies to play scripts, our poetry and plays collection is designed to make your shopping experience easier. 

Poetry 

Poetry can be a cathartic way to express your emotions and have a creative outlet. That’s why it is important to explore different genres of poetry and poets. An excellent anthology to start your poetry collection is The National Trusts’ Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! selected by Fiona Waters. This collection contains 366 poems for children, including works by Roger McGough, William Blake, Dick King-Smith, Ted Hughes, Grace Nichols, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Dickinson. Another anthology produced by The National Trust is I Am the Seed That Grew, which contains 366 nature poems by Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, John Updike, William Wordsworth and many more. 

Another beautiful poetry anthology is Poems to Live Your Life By by Chris Riddell. Riddell has selected his favourite classic and modern poems about life, death and everything in between. This gorgeously illustrated collection includes forty-six poems. This wonderful collection contains verses from William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, W. B. Yeats, and Christina Rossetti, alongside poems from Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Carol Ann Duffy, Neil Gaiman and Roger McGough, to name a few. 

If you are shopping for study guides, check out our GCSE AQA Poetry Guide: Power and Conflict Anthology. This guide is a brilliant aid for any GCSE student, complete with the full texts and clear and concise annotations to assist with revision. 

Plays 

You can’t have a play section without Shakespeare! This iconic British playwright has produced some of the most famous plays of all time. From Macbeth to King Lear to Romeo and Juliet, we have a wide range of Shakespeare plays to choose from. These texts also have detailed annotations and an easy-to-read layout designed to be used by students. 

We have a selection of plays that are popular on school and university syllabuses in order to make shopping for those essential books easier. With titles such as Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire or J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls and Other Plays, there are so many to choose from.

For more contemporary plays, you can’t go wrong with the stunning adaptation of Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls. This tragic masterpiece follows young Conor as his mother is fighting a battle with cancer. When one night, a mysterious creature appears at his window and is asking questions, telling Conor cryptic stories and demanding the one thing Conor is not prepared to discuss, the truth. 

It would be amiss of us not to mention the global phenomenon that is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Since its first production in 2016, this two-part play has seen success on broadway, winning numerous awards and accolades.

Here at Books2Door, we offer large amounts of our books at discounted prices to create a more affordable shopping experience.