Books by Katherine Chandler

The club's rising star. The veteran. Two girls on a night out. The drinks are flowing in the VIP section. A spare hotel room is booked. But at the end of the night, someone is going to get hurt. Lose Yourself is a fast, wild and ultimately tragic ride into the darker side of our celebrity obsessed culture.

A tense, revealing play that explores what it means to care for one another and asks who, in a time of increasing disconnect, we expect to look after us.

I think it's sad. A sad place. Full of sad people with fucked-up lives. And I thinks, how? How did they get there? How did they get to this? What was it? What happened that got them there? Cos you're not just born into it, are you. You're not born into being fucked up?Steph is fifteen years old. Simon is her teacher. Both live in Cardiff but their parallel lives couldn't be more different. When an accusation is made and their worlds collide, things aren't as simple as they might seem.Award-winning playwright Katherine Chandler explores truth, class and power in contemporary Wales in this gripping, uncompromising play. It received its world premiere on 20 November 2013 at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, and won the inaugural Wales Drama Award.

Raw, delicate and bold, Bird is a story about growing up outside a family but inside the fiercest of friendships. Winner of a Judges Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting,