Lisa Evans: 26 books

Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain’s leading playwrights. Bram Stoker’s Dracula adapted by Bryony Lavery This is the modern world. Its inhabitants can go anywhere,...

I Know How to Lose Weight, So Why Haven't I? written by Lisa M Evans, MA, CDP is the perfect weight loss guide for the procrastinator or the frustrated dieter that has run out of options. This book is not like other cookie cutter diet books, it goes deeper than diet and exercise, it addresses the...

Winner of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Play for Children and Young People 2011 It is summer, 2005, New Orleans. Maya Marsalis takes you by the hand, sometimes the throat, and leads you through her landscape the day Hurricane Katrina came, the levees broke, the world watched and...

A new life beckons for Lucy Snowe. Leaving England and her past behind, she arrives in the French town of Villette, equipped only with a sharp tongue, a lively imagination and an independent spirit. She soon finds work as a teacher, coping with a fierce headmistress and a classroom of unruly coquettish...

Shrubs of broom grow black and twisted As if by Devil's fingers And the wind that never ceases, Like a chorus from the dead. Those who lived here it's for certain, would grow dark and tortured too' In Jamaica Inn, at the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor, young Mary Yellen soon discovers mysterious goings-on...

A classic of Victorian literature, East Lynne was published in 1861. It was a sensational success, selling more than 500,000 copies and making its author as famous in her lifetime as Charles Dickens himself. Beautiful, kind and unblemished, Lady Isabel Vane is the perfect wife and mother. Until,...

The Art of Speaking and Storytelling Do you have something to say but you are not sure how to say it? Are you looking for a way to create a memorable experience for your audience? Do you need the secret to creating and sharing stories that move people? Then you need Speaking Savvy...

A moving and powerful play about the joy and the heartbreak that motherhood brings to three very different mothers. Ali was always going to be a dancer. She was still dancing the day she gave birth. Careful Kitty, housewife and mother, sits in her silent home and waits for the daughter who doesn't return. And Milena, desperate to protect her children and carrying a terrible secret.

Keswick, 1940 Britain is at war with Germany. Maggie's life is under invasion too: Gran knitting for England, evacuee lodgers, helping with the war effort and now a fund-raising concert party! Husband Rob is due home on RAF leave and best friend Peg has just learnt that she's pregnant but no such...

It is 1950s America, the Deep South; a world on the verge of change but still tainted by everyday injustices and the remnants of slavery. Lizzie and her family long for progress, inspired by Sojourner Truth, freedom fighter, and just one of the many heroes the history books forgot. With Sojourner's...

When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life: her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child Aunt, and their best friend. Now a young woman herself and facing the break-up of another relationship, Danielle takes stock of her childhood years - of an absent dad; of her fascination...

The tide was turning – though local governments disagreed, it would soon be illegal to segregate black Americans from white Americans on public buses, in waiting rooms or in restaurants. And yet – in the early 1960s, many states across the south of America kept discriminating against African...

I Know How to Lose Weight, So Why Haven't I? written by Lisa M Evans, MA, CDP is the perfect weight loss guide for the procrastinator or the frustrated dieter that has run out of options. This book is not like other cookie cutter diet books, it goes deeper than diet and exercise, it addresses the...

In this twelve-session video Bible study, some of today’s best-loved authors and speakers look at the spiritual lessons learned from twelve women in the Bible and what they mean for you today. As you look at each of these women’s lives, you will discover how to: Apply biblical lessons to...