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by Hugh Fleetwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In an isolated Roman villa, widowed English dancer Barbara Michaels serves as paid companion and tutor to twenty year-old Catherine, whose rich American mother thinks her 'mad.' In Barbara's eyes it's simply the case that Catherine is not 'all there', and dwells too much in the dysfunctional part...
by Hugh Fleetwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Mrs Vidozza elects to suffer for her gifted, unhinged son; Charles is consumed by the habit of voyeurism; Antonietta succumbs to fascination with a murder she believes she has witnessed; sexuagenarian Daisy suborns herself for the sake of a young girl she imagines as a flower in an otherwise filthy...
by Hugh Fleetwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
In this 1980 collection Hugh Fleetwood links four tales by a red thread of theme. Author Tina Courtland, having retired to the Italian countryside, is lured back to London to write the life of the only man she has ever admired. Andrew Stairs, who has spent his life refusing to set foot on foreign...
by Beth Steel
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The Midlands, 1984. Two young lads are about to learn what it is to be a miner, to be accepted into the close camaraderie and initiated into a unique workplace where sweat, toil, collapsing roofs and explosions are all to be met with bawdy humour.
London, 1984. A conflicted Tory MP, a brash...
Simon Gray: Plays 3
Quartermaine's Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.'
New York Times on Quartermaine's Terms
Simon Gray: Plays 4
Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.'
Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit
'Gray's stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic English dramatists of the second...
Simon Gray: Plays 2
Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour.'
Punch on Otherwise Engaged
'Life in the theatre hasn't brought me anything more rewarding than directing Simon Gray's plays.'
Harold Pinter
Plaintiffs and Defendants
Exceptionally...
by Simon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Spies betray people. That's what we do. It becomes a - a habit. Difficult to break - even when it's not - not strictly necessary.
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, 1961. One of Britain's most notorious double agents, George Blake, is serving a forty-two year sentence when he strikes up an unlikely...
by Frances Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The Fall of Doctor Onslow (1994) was the sixth and final novel by Frances Vernon (1963-91). Published posthumously, it is perhaps her finest work. Set in 1858, it is the story of Dr George Onslow, reformist headmaster of a leading public school, who harbours private passions that are fated to be the...
Gentlemen and Players
The Story of Miss Pagett, Miss Susan Pagett and Miss Sophia Pagett
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Gentleman and Players (1984) was the second novel by the prodigiously gifted Frances Vernon (1963-1991), and served confirmation of what the TLS called her 'highly original talent.'
Three sisters make their purposeful ways through Victorian society. Sarah, the eldest, makes an ostensibly good marriage,...
by Frances Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
A Desirable Husband, first published in 1987, was the third novel by the prodigiously gifted Frances Vernon (1963-91).
Finola Molloy - first introduced to readers as the daughter of the bohemian Alice in Vernon's acclaimed debutPrivileged Children (1982) - has grown up and married Gerard Parnell,...
by Frances Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The Bohemian Girl (1988), Frances Vernon's fourth novel, transports us to 1890s London to meet the young Diana Blentham, whom Vernon first introduced to readers - as a celebrated grande horizontale - in the opening pages of her 1982 debut Privileged Children.
Diana fears that the lot of an...
by Frances Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The Marquis of Westmarch (1989) was Frances Vernon's fifth novel, and perhaps her most original and richly imagined work, fit to stand comparison with Théophile Gautier's famous gender-bending historical romance Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835).
Its protagonist is Meriel Longmaster, a handsome...
by Stefan Spjut
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
'Never mind Scandi crime fiction, the time has come for Scandi horror.' Metro *****
What if...?
A large wolf escapes its captors.
A cult leader breaks out of psychiatric care.
A disillusioned woman is forced to end her self-imposed exile.
Stefan Spjut's latest novel explores the ancient...