Liars' League (london)

Six fantastic, phantasmagoric short stories read live by our talented company of actors, featuring lottery-predicting angels, terraforming experiments, surreal documentary disasters, Victorian widowers, sinister peripheral visions & the place where all half-baked ideas & unfulfilled dreams go to die ... RUNNING ORDER "Corner of her Eye" by Caroline von Schmalensee, read by Gloria Sanders "We’re all here to save the world" by Sarah Richardson, read by Magnus Rook "The Lord is Mike Shepherd" by Jonathan Sellars, read by Tony Bell INTERVAL "Colours with No Name" by Elizabeth Hopkinson, read by Tim Larkfield "Every Damned Thing" by David Turnbull, read by Ray Newe "I fell in love with my documentary crew" by David McGrath, read by the author

From office romances to vengeful fairies and laundromats to lunatic asylums, via kleptomania and commuting bears, we've a tasty selection of seductive stories for you to enjoy from our Valentine's Eve special! Listen on your own or share with a loved one (or two, or three ... MIX & MATCH RUNNING ORDER Introduction - Host Liam Hogan "Thrill" by Georgina Sims, read by Gloria Sanders "An Evening at the Faeling Cafe" by Charlotte Davis, read by Sophie Morris-Sheppard "The Sea Captain and the Mad Doctor" by Lianne Warr, read by Tony Bell "What Was and What Is" by Kathryn Sharpe, read by Katy Darby "Somebody" by Lanay Griessner, read by Lucy Mabbitt "Silver Lining" by Ricardo Visinho, read by Paul Clarke Director & Editor - Katy Darby

The Liars' League Christmas Special, HEARTH & HOME, is a stocking stuffed full of brand-new festive fiction for you to enjoy over the winter holidays. Our six specially-written short stories will whisk you to snowy postwar Berlin, a brooding Victorian mansion, and the worst pub in Ireland, and introduce you to Welsh witches, secret base-jumpers and an alcoholic reindeer. You can even play along with our fiendish seasonally-themed quiz at the interval ... RUNNING ORDER "Tripping the Light Fantastic" by Matt Barnard, read by Stephen Butterton "The Visit" by Marta Patiño. read by Carrie Cohen (Most Valuable Player [Actor] 2023) "Red Nose" by Rhys Timson (Most Valuable Player [Author] 2023), read by Zach Harrison INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ "Looking for Matti" by Grace Andreacchi, read by Sarah Barlex "Aelwyd" by Lianne Warr, read by David Mildon "Donkey Tom" by David McGrath, read by Jamie Laird MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

In honour of the darkening season, LL presents professional actors reading tales of Caribbean monsters, ghostly queens, psychotic cats, murderous whales, headless women & a deadly game of hide-and-seek, from our shadow-haunted Halloween special! STORIES for DOOM & GLOOM (in running order) "Be Lucky, Girls" by Hannah Downes, read by Lucy Mabbitt "Come Find Me" by Pat Black, read by Lisa Rose "The Whale, in Six Parts" by Maria Kyle, read by Thomas Delacourt * INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ * "Skinning the Cat" by Lanay Griessner, read by Silas Hawkins "By the Flower, not the Axe" by Leila Murton Poole, read by Clareine Cronin "When Duppy does come, who are you?" by Clarissa Angus, read by Sophie Cartman

Our seventh annual celebration of female-authored fiction, with actresses reading brand new short stories by women writers of wolves, motherhood, seaside surrealism and more ...

Five fantastic actors read five new short stories of shadow-haunting monsters, heroic henchmen, epic wrestling battles, Guyanese bandits and how to save the world (maybe) ... ORDER OF STORIES FOR HEROES & VILLAINS Four Barrels of Ale by David Klotzkin, read by Tony Bell Henchmen Wanted by Rhys Timson, read by Lisa Rose The Greater Good by Marc-Anthony Hurr, read by Jeremiah O'Connor INTERVAL & INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ! The Man Downstairs by Renesha Dhanraj, read by Anoushka Deshmukh The Grappler by S. Tierney, read by Clive Greenwood Host: Liam Hogan Director: Katy Darby

2023 sees the first UK Coronation in 70 years ... so our April event was themed on Royalty & Revolution - political, sexual, scientific & more. Our fantastic actors read brand new stories of murder PR, royal/rustic romance, grieving Queens, how to poison a tyrant & the political protest to end them all ... or will it? STORY RUNNING ORDER The Princess & the Kennel-Girl by Fiona Mossman - read by Patsy Prince Heads of State by Richie Jones - read by Nathaniel Ashley A Queen Cannot by Joseph Surtees - read by Lin Sagovsky INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ The King's Potatoes by Jerome McFadden - read by Paul Clarke We Accept Your Demands by Oliver Bussell - read by Sarah Feathers Hosted by Liam Hogan, directed by Katy Darby. Recorded live at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London on Tuesday 11th April 2023

Six short stories, sexy & sad, frank & funny, riding the highs & lows of love, lust & everything in between. Meet agony aunts, lost loves, AI relationship mediators, singletons going spare, pill-popping avant-garde artists, mothers in despair & horny Victorian teens. RUNNING ORDER for AGONY & ECSTASY Introduction by Liam Hogan - Interview at the RSA by Sarah Richardson, read by Andrea Hall - Starfish by Donna Tracy, read by Linda Shannon - Meedy by Will Conway read by Rich Keeble - Mushroom by Melanie Carvalho, read by Katy Darby - Not Raven But Drowning by MJ Lee, read by Keleigh Wolf - Dear Miss Maguire by Amy Eddings, read by Oliver Yellop & Caroline O'Mahoney Hosted by Liam Hogan, directed & recorded by Katy Darby at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London on Tuesday 14th February, 2023.

Hopes! Fears! Drunks! Turkeys! Skulls! Cats! Divorce! ... and all the other things that make Christmas so special! For December's edition we've stuffed your stocking with Hollywood noir, skull-stealing students, escapologist turkeys, cats up chimneys, and quietly tragic YouTube instructional videos. Pour yourself a mulled wine, pull up a mince pie, and enjoy! HOPES & FEARS STORIES: Running Order "Tinseltown" by Niall Boyce, read by Keleigh Wolf "How to Build your Dreamhouse" by Rhys Timson, read by Paul Clarke "A Cranium for Christmas" by E. P. Henderson, read by Lucy Mabbitt THE INFAMOUS FESTIVE BOOK QUIZ - PLAY ALONG! "Dear Puss" by Donna Tracy, read by Lisa Rose "Trimmings" by Mark Barlex, read by Sarah Barlex

Avast! We've a scurvy sackful of swashbuckling stories for you this month, to chill your blood and shiver your timbers in time for Hallowe'en. There's sea-swept ghosts, grave-robbing, meat-smuggling, heart-eating, demonic middle-management, skulls, bones, vampires, zombies and of course PIRATES! STORY RUNNING ORDER FOR SKULL & CROSSBONES Kaleidoscope Girl by Sarah Richardson, read by Lucy Mabbitt Pirate Meat by Ken Towl, read by Andrew Baguley Skulduggery by Maria Kyle, read by Stephen Butterton *INTERVAL & HORRIFIC BOOK QUIZ!* Convivial by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, read by Caroline O'Mahoney One Last Hurrah by Madison McSweeney, read by Silas Hawkins Widespread and Unnecessary Unrest on the Astral Plane by Mark Barlex, read by Keleigh Wolf

In flaming June, we present tales of travel & abroad: a bulging suitcase of stories to take you from the frozen lakes of Hell to the sweltering cities of North Africa, via Northern Ireland, fantasy-world theme parks, a trip up the Amazon and a slip back in time. Destinations include: The Yorkshire Dales, Alexandria, Hades, Narnia, Belfast, the mysterious South American kingdom of Guatelumbia Methods of travel: On foot, Charon's ferry, Egyptian microbus, Gerry's Famous Belfast Taxi Tour, Spanish galleon & stolen unicorn. RUNNING ORDER (Host: Liam Hogan) To Saad Zaghloul by the Sea by Guy Howie, read by Stephen Butterton On the Corpse Way by Dan Hinge, read by Lin Sagovsky Worldly Goods by Cheryl Powell, read by Tony Bell Billy and Gerry by Will Mann, read by Jeremiah O'Connor The Land the World Forgot by Ibar Murphy, read by Katy Darby Holiday Wardrobe by James Burt, read by Jennifer Aries

For the League's 15th birthday, we selected five stories by emerging and established writers of colour, to bring you a broad and brilliant spectrum of fiction from contemporary comedy to folk-horror, via family drama, dark fantasy and "a mosh pit run by the NHS" :) Our Colour & Vision event at The Phoenix, W1 on 12 April 2022 featured our professional actors with extensive experience in theatre, film, TV and radio, reading brand new writing by authors from around the UK with roots in China, Malaysia, Cambodia, Nigeria and Armenia/Cyprus. Here's the line-up: DRAGON BLOOD, PIG HEART by Junyi Chew, read by Rebecca Yeo TETHERED CROWNS by Kariny Vee, read by DK Ugonna SATURDAY NIGHTS HAVE CHANGED by Soraya Berry, read by Aren Devlin HOW TO KEEP THEM AWAY by Nora Nadjarian, read by Jasmine Raymond ODD NUMBERS by James Odunsi, read by Sophie Cartman Director/Host: Katy Darby

Whether you're lovestruck, fed up, coupled-up or strictly solo, we have some fitting fiction for you! Six seductive stories of carnal consumption, gift donkeys, morality apps, tender tales of human love in an alien world, foul-mouthed ghosts, vengeful exes and magical lady-gardens. ROMANCE & REVENGE LINE UP The Welsden Herald Hedge Witch by Liam Hogan, read by Carrie Cohen Never Look a Gift Donkey in the Mouth by Callum Jacobs, read by Claire Louise Amias Just Not Cricket by Sophie Bloom, read by Gloria Sanders INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ Understanding by Hannah Hoare, read by Stephen Butterton Good Enough to Eat by Helen Morris, read by Patsy Prince Let there be Tigers by Sara Corris, read by Andrea Hall Romance & Revenge was performed on Tuesday 8th February 2022 at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London.

The line up for our festive FRIENDS & FAMILY show features everything you need for the perfect Christmas: 1) Terrible Yuletide telly (Christmas Special by Rhys Timson, read by Patsy Prince) 2) Lying awake worrying about stuff (Uhtceara by E. J. Fry, read by Peter Kenny) 3) Murder (Practically Family by Rosa Müller, read by Claire Louise Amias) THE INFAMOUS XMAS LIARS' LEAGUE BOOK QUIZ 4) Drunken rows over the turkey (Just a Nice Family Christmas by E. P. Henderson, read by Lucy Mabbitt) 5) a little bit of Christmas magic (Cocktails and Candy Canes by Pete Armstrong, read by Tony Bell) 6) Soul-shaking sex (Jesús, Mary & Joseph Try for a Christmas Orgasm by Dave McGrath, read by the author) Merry Christmas and you're welcome! :) PS Watch out for our separate Stocking Special - Baking Day by Angela Sherlock, read by Lin Sagovksy

(Un)settle down for a chilling evening featuring ghosts, gods, maybe-murderesses, vanishing tricks, medieval maulings, undead D&D players & a special appearance by Buffy - plus our horrific literary quiz! MAGIC & MAYHEM STORY RUNNING ORDER The Fear by Emma Grae, read by Lois Tucker The Trial of Goodwife Cutler by Ken Towl, read by Silas Hawkins Set for Life by Zannier Alejandra, read by Keleigh Wolf INTERVAL & HORRIFIC BOOK QUIZ - play along! The Pumpkin and the Vampire by Hannah Hoare, read by Miranda Harrison Mister Merlin by Sally Wild, read by Stephen Butterton Time Gentlemen Please by Stephen Kehoe, read by Oliver Yellop

In the beginning, the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the spirit of live fiction moved over the face of the waters, and a new order was come! It was rich with naked hikers and chaos Empresses and cats in space, mighty with evil angels and model buses, and it was GOOD. ORDER & CHAOS LINE UP Frozen by Todd Wells new author, read by Sophie Cartman The Capture of Whitehall by David McGrath, read by the author The Last Cat on Mars by Quintin Forrest, read by Alex Woodhall INTERVAL & INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ Certain Promises, Certain Threats by Rhys Timson, read by Oliver Yellop Chaos Reigns by E P Henderson, read by Gloria Sanders

Six profound & absurd stories from our first live event of 2021, featuring ripped, naked priests, mysterious messages, spirit animals, deceitful advisers, eunuchs, keyworkers, dragons, knights & rabbis. WINNING STORIES for FOOLS & SAGES - RUNNING ORDER He is Coming by Callum Jacobs, read by Claire Louise Amias Heroes & Fools by Brian Kelly, read by Jeremiah O'Connor The Guru by Fiona Salter, read by Paul Clarke *INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ* The Dragon, the Knight and the Rabbi by Elizabeth Hopkinson, read by Stephen Butterton Ordinary Men Must Die by G. C. Perry, read by Lin Sagovsky Billy's Ghost Dug by Emma Grae, read by Silas Hawkins

This month we bring you a selection of five seductive stories featuring Victorian agony column-addicts, hormonal teen parties, poorly-programmed love robots, hybrid roses and a classic romance with a sting in the tale. TOGETHER & APART LINE UP Agony by Jenni Rickard read by Harrie Dobby Hometown Debut by Jessica Worsdale, read by Fergus Rattigan Balancing Act by Tomek Mossakowski *New author* read by Helen Belbin *LL's INFAMOUS LOVE-THEMED LITERARY QUIZ* Phantom Plane by C. G. Thompson *New author* read by Paul Clarke You Don't Have to Read This, But I Hope You Do by David Guy, read by Martine McMenemy

Five brand-new stories, set in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the far future, to warm your cockles and ginger your bread: they feature lockdown hook-ups, accidental babies, drones, droids, zombies (obviously) and some truly appalling things coming down chimneys. HEART & SOUL RUNNING ORDER Lookin Up by Emma Grae, read by Lois Tucker Last Christmas by Rhys Timson, read by Tony Bell The Annunciation by David Gill, read by Lin Sagovsky A Pear for an Urchin by David Turnbull, read by Claire Louise Amias An Irish Christmas by David McGrath, read by the author Recorded live at The Nag's Head, Covent Garden, London, on Tuesday 8th December 2020.

A delicious bowl of creepy candy including girls' school ghosts, sloppy serial killers, post-apocalyptic survivalists, a haunted phone call and an eccentric aristo's personal monster museum. Plus our terrifying book quiz! HIDE & SEEK RUNNING ORDER 1. LANDLINE by Renee Agatep, read by Keleigh Wolf 2. THE HEART'S FILTHY DESIRE by Tom Leins, read by Tim Larkfield 3.THE LAST PLACE ANYONE LOOKS by Rikk Hill, read by Lin Sagovsky TERRIFYING HALLOWEEN BOOK QUIZ 4. HANDYMAN by George Aitch, read by Sean Patterson 5. EVIDENCE by Rosa Müller new author, read by Annalie Wilson