Closer: A Play Fiction_Gift_Guide and anyone committed to cultivating

and anyone committed to cultivating an informed and active citizenry

but not if they walk in the weight room with the same secrets and techniques as the biggest guy in the gym

From the first living cells to fearsome dinosaurs and giant mammals

¿Y contigo

Brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson-the duo credited with introducing a new generation of readers to Machado through their translations of Dom Casmurro

Closer: A Play Fiction_Gift_Guide and anyone committed to cultivatingIn Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. Closer is being hailed as one of the best new plays of the nineties, and as the London Observer noted, it "has wired itself into the cultural vocabulary in a way that few plays have ever done."