<p>A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company. It was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1961. The play is about the adolescent Jo and her relationships with those about her - her irresponsible, roving mother Helen and her mum's newly acquired drunken husband, the black sailor who leaves her pregnant and Geoffrey the homosexual art student who moves in to help with the baby. It is also about Jo's unshakeable optimism throughout her trials. This story of a mother and daughter relationship set in working class Manchester continues to enthral new generations of readers and audiences. Now established as a modern classic, this comic and poignant play by a then nineteen-year-old working-class Lancashire girl was praised at its London premiere in 1958 by Graham Greene as having "all the freshness of Mr Osborne's Look Back in Anger and a greater maturity."</p>

A Taste of Honey

Literature & Fiction

Shelagh Delaney

Dramas & Plays

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Steve Fairbairn is generally regarded as the most inspiring and innovative rowing coach of the last 150 years. His glory days were in the 1920s, when he coached Jesus College, Cambridge and Thames and London Rowing Clubs to an extraordinary succession of regatta victories. Wherever they went, Faribairn's disciples lifted standards of performance to undreamed of heights. After Steve died, his son Ian collected his father's writings, which had first been published in five separate books, into a single volume which he called Steve Fairbairn on Rowing. This was published in 1951 and has long been out of print. This new edition, which carries an introduction by Geoffrey page of the Daily Telegraph, himself a great admirer of Steve Fairbairn's methods, will meet a long felt need for one of the great classics of rowing literature.

The Complete Steve Fairbairn on Rowing

Sports & Outdoors

Steve Fairbairn

Water Sports

The narrow line: An anatomy of professional cricket

Cook, Geoff and Nveille Scott

Other Team Sports

Botham

Eagar, Patrick

The Pyrgic Puzzler; Classic Conundrums

Humor & Entertainment

Christopher Maslanka

Puzzles & Games

Autobiography from the organizer of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles

Made in America: His Own Story

Ueberroth, Peter

Biographies & Memoirs

Conflicts in Cricket

Bailey, Jack

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