To Take A Wife

by SJ Hills £9.99

Scarborough Fair

by SJ Hills £9.99

Wishing Well

by SJ Hills £9.99

Love’s Last Shift

by Cibber Colley  £9.99

Way Of The World

by William Congreve  £9.99

The Original Restoration Comedy Dramas Restored by SJ Hills

Faithfully restored by hand from original prints and manuscripts with modern spelling and layout by SJ Hills

Coming Soon:

More classics restored

Epsom Wells

A Trip To Scarborough

Wild Oats

The Assignation

Love In A Nunnery

by SJ Hills

New Restoration Comedy Style Dramas by SJ Hills

A Fresh New Take On A Classic Genre

OVERHEARD

(and quoted out of context)

The perfect companion book for travel, holiday, bathroom or coffee table.

‘She said she was leaning out a car window being sick at the time of conception’

OVERHEARD

by SJ Hills  £9.99

Have you ever overheard an amusing snippet of conversation and wished you could have written it down and told others?

Now someone has done. Enjoy the hundreds of amusing and sometimes downright filthy things other people say in public.

Perhaps one of them was yours!

Now the must play game among socialites. Open at random and force a quote upon friends and colleagues.  Spot when you’ve been QUOHO’D

Caution: contains words, some of them quite sweary in nature

In the bars, coffee houses, clubs, stores, galleries and streets of old Soho.

‘Are vegans allowed to swallow?’

That one casual line caught out of time and place.

‘He made the ultimate sacrifice one man can make for another. He ran off with my wife.’

Poignant, enigmatic, often informative, always random.

‘What I really need now is some sleep. - And to find my underwear’

A pearl of wisdom let loose into the ether to be lost forever

1. -until now.
   

‘I corrupted the innocence of a small child, due to a high wind and a poorly tied dressing gown’

The Things People Say

as Overheard in Soho (and quoted out of context)

by SJ Hills

OVERHEARD AND QUOTED OUT OF CONTEXT is a collection of lines overheard and quoted out of context of the conversation, giving them a whole new meaning and life, the part saying more than the whole.

The Farce of Sodom

by Earl of Rochester  £11.99

Caution: Lewd in the extreme.

*NEW*

1. •A witty new drama based lightly on The Country Wife
   (considered the smuttiest play ever written and banned for over 200 years)
   

2. • Can Mr Horner corrupt and bed the young impressionable country wife despite her husband’s constant vigil, and can he persuade the society ladies of London, whose reputations must be upheld at all costs, to succumb to his attentions with a trick so new it has never been tried before?
   

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1. •A witty new drama based lightly upon The Relapse (banned for immorality and lewdness for over 200 years)
   

2. • Written in an eloquent, witty style with flowing action and wonderful character observation, Scarborough Fair is a delightful romp through the weaknesses and foibles of the upper social classes as they set about finding entertainment for themselves miles from the civilization which is London. “Sea, sex and social consequences, what more could one ask for?”
   

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1. • Restoration Comedy Classic (banned for lewdness 300 years ago)
   

The prequel to The Relapse

1. •Mr Loveless has been away for ten years. Dividing his time between brothel and  bottle he no longer recognizes his wife, Amanda, when he returns to London.  Acting the part of a high-class lady of the night, Amanda entices Mr Loveless into her luxurious house and treats him to the night of his dreams, only confessing her true identity in the morning
   

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1. • Restoration Comedy Classic (banned for lewdness 300 years ago)
   

1. •Acknowledged as probably the finest Restoration Comedy of its day. Filled with wit, lust and satire, and including the immortal phrase, “’Tis better to have been left, than never to have been loved”, a group of associates all trying to bed one and marry another for financial gain see their plans may be thwarted by each other. They conceive ever more daring deceptions to attain their desires with inevitable consequences.
   

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1. • Restoration Satirical Drama (ordered to be burned for lewdness 300 years ago)
   

1. •Now infamous as the first piece of erotic literature written in the English language, considered so obscene posthumous printings were ordered to be destroyed and publishers jailed.
   

1. •The author, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester was an English philanderer, friend of Charles II, and the character made famous by Johnny Depp in the movie ‘The Libertine’.
   

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The Relapse

by John Vanbrugh  £9.99

1. • Restoration Comedy Classic (banned for lewdness 300 years ago)
   

1. •The second most renowned Restoration Comedy, The Relapse, re-introduces the characters first met in Love’s Last Shift. It tells the story of how the love of lust and the lure of lucre overcomes all else, including brotherly and matrimonial ties. What would you not do for lust and money?
   

Popular with all levels of intellect and taste, containing as it did, something for everyone: daring Restoration Comedy sex scenes, sentimental reconciliations, human frailties, satire, and biting wit.

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*NEW*

The Country Wife

by William Wycherley  £9.99

1. • Restoration Comedy Classic (banned for lewdness 300 years ago)
   

1. •The best known Restoration Comedy classic of them all, renowned as the smuttiest play ever written, banned from print for 200 years and considered too outrageous to be performed at all.
   

The tale of one man's quest to bed the society ladies of London and the young, married, innocent, country wife of his old whoring partner, with a trick so new it has never been tried before. Packed with witty dialogue, innuendo, society one-upmanship, and copious helpings of bawdiness, the perfect recipe for the perfect Restoration Comedy.

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Coming Soon!

1. •Based in 19th Century Italy, this Restoration style drama contains humour, bawdiness, cunning, scheming, wit with an underlying theme just as relevant today, and with the most explosive, surprise ending you in dramatic history.
   

2. • Escaping at night disguised in masquerade the novice nuns enjoy the high life until the Duke and his son both fall for the same nun. Throw in a well meaning servant with an unerring knack of making things worse at exactly the wrong time and it can only end in tears. Can love and lust overcome all obstacles?
   

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1. •A witty new Restoration Comedy style drama with a fine balance of bar-room bawdiness, delicious satire and biting wit from SJ Hills
   

2. •Take one unlikely cross-section of society and class.
   

Mix together for one weekend in an out of town health spa. 

Heavily lace with alcohol and lust and allow to brew for 24 hours. Remove outer cover and serve with wit.

The recipe for high jinks, mayhem and social consequences, with humorous results and quotes you will be dining out on for weeks.

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