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AUTHOR/TITLE LISTING: L

TITLE/AUTHOR LISTING: L

AUTHOR/TITLE

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Lamont-Stewart, Ena

• Men Should Weep ISBN 978 0 573 01838 3
  

Larbey, Bob

• Building Blocks* ISBN 978 0 573 11086 3
• Half an Idea* ISBN 978 0 573 12132 6
• A Month of Sundays* ISBN 978 0 573 01956 2
• Small Affair* ISBN 978 0 573 12135 7

Lavery, Bryony

• Frozen ISBN 978 0 573 11137 2

Lawrence, Bernard (adapt.)

• The Bear* (from Anton Chekhov) ISBN 978 0 573 11126 9

Leach, Karoline

• Mysterious Mr Love ISBN 978 0 573 01830 5
  

Leach, Roger and Wakefield, Colin

• Audience with Murder ISBN 978 0 573 11003 0

Lee, Laurie (adapt. Roose-Evans, J)

• Cider With Rosie ISBN 978 0 573 01735 3
  

Lee, Maureen

• Visitor* ISBN 978 0 573 03372 8
  

Leigh, Mike

• Abigail's Party ISBN 978 0 573 11016 0

Leonard, Hugh

• Great Expectations ISBN 978 0 573 01778 0
• Love in the Title* ISBN 978 0 573 01889 3
• Moving ISBN 978 0 573 01837 4
• Patrick Pearse Motel* ISBN 978 0 573 01333 1
• Pizzazz: containing A View From the Obelisk; Roman Fever; Pizzazz ISBN 978 0 573 01641 7
• Suburb of Babylon: containing Time of Wolves and Tigers; Nothing Personal; Last of the Last of the Mohicans* ISBN 978 0 573 11426 7
• Summer* ISBN 978 0 573 11431 1
  

Levin, Ira

• Deathtrap* ISBN 978 0 573 11121 1
• Veronica's Room* ISBN 978 0 573 01690 0
  

Lewis, C.S. (adapt. by Robbins, G.)

• Horse and his Boy* ISBN 978 0 573 05095 4
• Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe* ISBN 978 0 573 05081 7
• Magician's Nephew* ISBN 978 0 573 15013 5
• Voyage of the Dawn Treader* ISBN 978 0 573 05085 5
  

Lewis, Jonathan

• Our Boys* ISBN 978 0 573 14009 9
  

Lewton, Randall

• I Was a Teenage Jekyll and Hyde* ISBN 978 0 573 18009 5
• Monster That Ate 3B* ISBN 978 0 573 05084 8
  

Lewton, Randall and Miller, Peter

• Seven Golden Dragons* ISBN 978 0 573 05089 3
• Sweeney Todd Shock 'n' Roll Show* ISBN 978 0 573 18030 9
  

Lloyd, Jeremy and Croft, David

• 'Allo 'Allo* ISBN 978 0 573 01878 7
• Are You Being Served?* ISBN 978 0 573 01963 0

Lloyd, Richard

• Arabian Knights - the Panto!* ISBN 978 0 573 16412 5
• Christmas Cavalier* ISBN 978 0 573 06510 1
• Smut's Saga or Santa and the Vikings* ISBN 978 0 573 16502 3
• Three Musketeers - Le Panteau!* ISBN 978 0 573 16416 3
• Treasure Island, the Panto* ISBN 978 0 573 06496 2
  

Lomas, Derek

• Darlings, You Were Wonderful!* ISBN 978 0 573 13231 5
  

Lonsdale, Frederick

• On Approval ISBN 978 0 573 01855 8

Lovegrove, Arthur

• Clara's on the Curtains !* ISBN 978 0 573 03352 0
• Goodnight Mrs Puffin* ISBN 978 0 573 01163 4
• Nasty Things, Murders* ISBN 978 0 573 03354 4
  

Lucas, Victor

• Laughter in the Dark* ISBN 978 0 573 11218 2
  

Luckham, Claire

• Moll Flanders (Musical) ISBN 978 0 573 08099 9
  

Ludwig, Ken

• Lend Me a Tenor* ISBN 978 0 573 01640 0
  

Lumborg, Dennis

• One Fine Day* ISBN 978 0 573 04021 4
  

TITLE/AUTHOR

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Laburnum Grove (J.B. Priestley)

Ladies of Spirit (Georgina Reid)

Ladies Who Lunch (Tudor Gates)

Lady Audley's Secret (Constance Cox)

Lady Bracknell's Confinement (Paul Doust)

Lady in the Van (Alan Bennett)

Lady of Letters (Alan Bennett)

Land of Kerfuffle (Bill Gavin)

Large as Life (Richard Harris/Keith Strachan)

Lark (Jean Anouilh)

Lark Rise to Candleford (Keith Dewhurst/Flora Thompson)

Last Bread Pudding (Nick Warburton)

Last Gamble (Bill MacIlwraith)

Last Munro (Dave Watson)

Last Post (Jean McConnell)

Last Scene of All (Margaret Wood)

Last Tango in Whitby (Mike Harding)

Late Christopher Bean (Emlyn Williams)

Late Mrs Early (Norman Robbins)

Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami! (Miles Tredinnick)

Laughter in the Dark (Victor Lucas)

Laying the Ghost (Simon Williams)

Lend Me a Tenor (Ken Ludwig)

Lessons and Lovers: D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico (Olwen Wymark)

Let It Be Me (Carey Jane Hardy)

Lettice and Lovage (Peter Shaffer)

Liaisons Dangereuses (Christopher Hampton)

Liberty Beat (Joan Macalpine)

Life and Death of Almost Everybody (David Campton)

Life Goes On (Adrian Hodges)

Lifelines (Amy Rosenthal)

Lights Are Warm and Coloured (William Norfolk)

A Light Lunch (Bridget Derrett)

Lion in Winter (James Goldman)

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis/Glyn Robbins)

Little Benjamin (Enid Coles)

Little Boxes (John Bowen)

Little Hotel on the Side (Georges Feydeau/Maurice Desvallieres/John Mortimer)

Little Jack Horner (Paul Reakes)

Little Lights of Kimberley & other plays (Harry Austin)

Little Miss Muffet (Paul Reakes)

Little Photographer (Daphne du Maurier/Derek Hoddinott)

Little Red Riding Hood (Paul Reakes)

Little Tommy Tucker (Paul Reakes)

Little Victories (Shaun Prendergast)

Little Women (Louisa M. Alcott/Peter Clapham)

LittleBro Morning and BigSis Afternoon (Mike Tibbetts)

Living for Pleasure (George Macrae)

Living Together (Alan Ayckbourn)

Local Affairs (Richard Harris)

Local Murder (Peter Whalley)

Lock Up Your Daughters (Bernard Miles)

London Cuckolds (Edward Ravenscroft/John Byrne)

Long and the Short and the Tall (Willis Hall)

Long Christmas Dinner (Thornton Wilder)

Long Noon (Patricia Chown)

Look Back in Anger (John Osborne)

Look, No Hans! (John Chapman/Michael Pertwee)

Look Who's Talking (Derek Benfield)

Loophole (Nick Warburton)

Loose Ends (Frank Vickery)

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Constance Cox/Oscar Wilde)

Lords and Ladies (Terry Pratchett/Irana Brown)

Lords of Creation (John Wiles)

Lorna Doone (Jill Hyem/R.D. Blackmore)

Love Forty (Frank Vickery)

Love from a Stranger (Agatha Christe, adapt by Frank Vosper)

Love in the Title (Hugh Leonard)

Love Off the Shelf (Roger Hall)

Loved (Olwen Wymark)

Lover (Harold Pinter)

Lovers Dancing (Charles Dyer)

Lovesome Thing (Jean McConnell)

Luck of the Draw (A.S. Robertson)

Lucky Sods (John Godber)

Lunch Hour (John Mortimer)

Lust (Heather Brothers)