Christmas and book fairs go hand in hand. Accordingly, we have organised, alongside our Christmas rerun of Blindness, a theatre book fair. Books are an extension of our stage, chapters in the life and work of this National Theatre. We are offering a number of titles from our back catalogue, which can be purchased with discounts of up to 80%. A back catalogue is not a bag of leftovers. Rather, it is a tribute to what is left, a collection of precious items that the voracity for the “new” has removed from circulation. It contains books by remarkable authors – Georg Büchner, Peter Handke, Anton Tchékhov, Joe Orton, William Shakespeare, Brian Friel, Samuel Beckett – assisted by excellent translators – João Barrento, António Pescada, Luísa Costa Gomes, Daniel Jonas, Paulo Eduardo Carvalho. Father Christmas goes to the theatre. Books are great presents, especially at these prices.