Sarah Henley

Anastasia with her husband Ryan are sent to the Russian held Kuril Islands in the North Pacific Ocean to stop the UK being involved in a nuclear holocaust against the Russian Federation and China. They get aboard the UK aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth which is in the Sea of Okhotsk. On the opposite side of the Kuril Islands are a large number of Russian Federation and Chinese warships with submarines from both countries. Anastasia finds her Russian warship carrying two Thermonuclear Russian Federation ICBMs to the Kuril Islands with a number of undesirables. Anastasia and Ryan must rescue the wives of the abducted UK physicists, put them on a plane back to the UK before locating their husbands and stop a nuclear war. When Anastasia is captured by Russians, it is up to Ryan to save her and get her safely off a radioactive Russian warship before they fathom out who is telling the truth, who is not who they say they are. There is much more to this war and spy thriller than just a nuclear explosion, it goes back 500 years in the UK's past, and the French want their just revenge at all costs, even if they need to use the new USSR Uprising to initiate it. Anistasia is even more romantic than before and has a huge sexual appetite for her husband Ryan. With Anastasia taken seriously ill, there is nothing Ryan will not do to save her life and that includes taking her to Paris in one of their Mikhailov latest Orbs as ten time the speed of sound. The in depth romance between Anastasia and Ryan, the love they have for each other, their sexual feelings towards each other have all the makings for a spy novel with plenty of action, and of course, total destruction. This is a fast page turner, it spans the UK's past and its future; the UK Government when their backs are against the wall, realise just who they can count on, who they cannot and right now, the USA is not one of them and neither is their CIA. When all war is threatened and the UK is under threat of annihilation, Anastasia is put in charge of its Royal Navy surface ships and its submarines. Anastasia is not frightened to order her captains to kill and sink other Russian ships in the process as with Ryan they discover who their traitor is and Anastasia does not disappoint when her family come under threat. If it is war the USSR wish, then Anastasia will use every weapon at her disposal to put her enemies down. Ryan is asked to form a new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse group by his father and The Omega to continue the former Horsemen's work as they start a new journey. Ryan is not about to enter Eternity unless Anastasia walks by his side. Back home on their ranch in Australia, others in the new USSR uprising are planning against them. MI6 request Anastasia and her husband's help once again. This is the second book in the Anastasia Spy Series of ten books. The end of this book, takes us into the beginning of the next episode as Anastasia, the most hated and wanted Spy in Russia walks into danger with her husband Ryan holding her hand all the way.

Alexandr and Grigoriy, brothers are spies for the Russian Federation SVR and teach their children their trade. Victor, 19 needs an operation he cannot get in Russia without having the entire family executed. Victor needs a sex change operation, so the family make the ultimate sacrifice and defect to the USA, then will live in the UK. Just before their planned defection, they are told their eldest daughters, Ekaterina and Natalye, must remain in St. Petersburg. After saving the life of their Vice President in Paris, they are killed in a planned plane explosion by the CIA. They get to CIA Langley, while their two daughters become lesbian lovers in Russia. They invent the first Quantum Computer, taking their huge Starships, to distant planets, and inhabit the Moon. In the UK Anastasia is given a bodyguard, Ryan, an expert in languages from Australia. He is thought to be timid but likes Anastasia. He is armed, Anastasia wears a thigh holster with a Russian Gloc. One evening, Anastasia asks Ryan to take out the driver of her parents' car. She is sure he is a spy. Ryan kills the driver and is looked on in a different light. The following day, he escorts Anastasia to NUUK Greenland to retrieve a Quantum Computer. While wating to meet their contact from Russia, She sees a jewellers and thinking of her past, she asks Ryan to buy her an engagement ring and two wedding rings to make their cover look authentic. By the afternoon they are married, the following night, they meet a group of people, who seem very friendly and very touchy. When they return to their hotel room, Ryan removes the slips of paper from their bodies revealing the date they will get help to rescue Ekaterina and NatalyeTwo weeks later they are in Russia in a firefight, to get the Sisters out of Russia with ten couples onto a US Submarine. When it looks like they will all die, the people they met in Nuuk, help fight the Russians, then three Australian fighter jets take out two Migs, allowing the Submarine to get free. It is then, Anastasia realises the power her husband can yield, as she learns, he is a Captain of the Australian Air Force attached to NATO. He yields as much power and command as her father can. On their return to the UK. Anastasia and Ryan are asked by the Director of MI6 if they will carry out missions for them. A month later they are given their first job, continued in The Nuclear Incident

Meet Ashraf and his 'Habibti' – his daughter Shazia. He's an Egyptian, Muslim taxi driver; she's half-Egyptian, half-Wiganese, and more interested in the last call at the bar than the call to prayer. Their relationship is put to the test when Ashraf introduces Shazia to his new Egyptian bride, whilst she is attempting to break the news of her own secret engagement. In Ashraf's taxi they must navigate driving lessons, sing karaoke and explore whether, despite their differences, family can win out regardless. Habibti Driver is a heartwarming and hilarious play, based on Shamia Chalabi's real-life experiences and co-written with Sarah Henley, exploring the clashes, compromises and comedy that come with living in a mixed-culture family in today's Britain. First performed in an earlier version – Burkas and Bacon Butties – at the VAULT Festival, London, this revised, full-length version premiered at the Octagon Theatre Bolton in April 2022, co-produced with Tara Finney Productions.

This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2018, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival. Young men are dying and everyone assumes they're just casualties of London's chemsex scene. Everyone, that is, but Anthony, who is determined to investigate. Tumulus by Christopher Adams is a chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath. Critically acclaimed during its run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Lucy Burke's Glitter Punch - set in Greater Manchester - charts a troubling new relationship between mysterious John and sixteen-year-old Molly, a love that will change their lives forever. `Powerful' (The Stage). Set in a Wigan taxi, Burkas and Bacon Butties by Shamia Chalabi and Sarah Henley is a heart-warming comedy abouttaxi-driver Ashraf and his twenty-something daughter, Shaz, as they negotiate the ups and downs of living in a mixed-culture family. When bereaved mother Mary finds a disembodied arm, a conspiracy builds: maybe her child isn't quite so dead after all. Shortlisted for Soho Theatre's Tony Craze Award, Sami Ibrahim's Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her is an enthralling monologue about love and loss. The Strongbox by Stephanie Jacob is a story of domestic servitude and abuse of power, as authoritarian Kat, her ageing mother, Ma, and their teenaged slave, Maudie, jostle for power - and affection - in their dilapidated London home.