Nicholas Agnew

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.

In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.

When a disillusioned young woman secretly enters the Seat 25 competition she never expects to win. But when the dangerous one-way trip to Mars becomes a reality, her life on Earth is turned upside down.