Roy - British & Irish 1

Poetry, Free Verse and Digital Art. This book is philosophical and as challenging as cryptography. 続きを見る

Set in modern-day Jamaica, Kingston 14 follows the story of James, a black British police officer, who is sent to Kingston to investigate the murder of an English tourist in a local hotel. Tied to J……続きを見る

Do wrong, you get done, simple as. Gail Wilde is an average policewoman, but one who lives up to her nickname, 'Wildefire' – and in the precarious world of modern policing, being wild or full of fir……続きを見る

Not Black and White comprises of three new plays which examine the state of modern day Britain from the perspective of three leading black contemporary playwrights. Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah an……続きを見る

Roy Williams has a deserved reputation as one of the most exciting young writers whose plays have electrified the sort of audiences most theatres rarely see: streetwise urban youth. 'His plays have ……続きを見る

I can't get out of bed without groaning or feel summin inside of me is creaking… We're too old for this shit. In a pub in South London 'The Firm' reunite for the first time in twelve years. Back in ……続きを見る

He wanted you to be a better man. He wanted to be a better man himself. He was lied to. Just like you are being lied to. A family in mourning. A man in crisis After the death of his dad, Michael is ……続きを見る

This poetic e-book covers the career and life of an Old Sea Captain. When he learns to fish, falls in love and gets sick. It has a slightly unexpected romantic ending. It is a good book for study po……続きを見る

April 1994. A man sits alone in an attic extension on the cusp of becoming a Seattle suicide statistic. This man is no 'number and name' to be reported in a local newspaper. He is an icon, albeit a ……続きを見る

A struggling comic Joe Klein, mourning another failed night at comedy, finds himself in the middle of the New York blackout of 1965. Two comedy greats Lenny Bruce and Groucho Marx find themselves in……続きを見る

Reading Gaol concerns Oscar Wilde's imprisonment in Reading Gaol after his infamous court case, persecuted relentlessly by the sadistic and pious prison governor for refusing to admit he is a commo……続きを見る

Ten plays by comedic playwright Roy Smiles, available digitally as an anthology or as single editions. Contains the plays Schmucks, Baghdad Boogie, Bombing People, Reno, The Lad Himself, Working for……続きを見る

Baghdad Boogie is set sometime during the Iraq Crisis. A long-term Canadian captive (Doug) finds himself in the same filth stained room as an oil executive American (Sean). As they face a long perio……続きを見る

In The VIP Welsh film and theatre icon Richard Burton is trapped at a fog-bound Heathrow Airport in 1968 shortly after finishing filming Where Eagles Dare. He is haunted by visions of his wives Sybi……続きを見る

Waugh in Winter is a piece about Evelyn Waugh, the acerbic right-wing author of Brideshead Revisited. A supposed BBC interviewer from Woman's Hour has come to interview 'the cultural dinosaur'. What……続きを見る

Three new plays from three of the UK's most celebrated playwrights. All rooted in West London, the plays explore race, identity and our sense of place and purpose, presented together as one piece, O……続きを見る

Set amongst the vibrant, intense cacophony of North West London, NW Trilogy is a collection of three vivid stories, told over one performance, that remember and celebrate people who changed the cour……続きを見る

When Roy Fisher told Gael Turnbull in 1960 that he had ‘started writing like mad’ and produced ‘a sententious prose book, about the length of a short novel, called the Citizen’ he was registering a ……続きを見る

Look at it Carly, look at our dream. No one's happy Denise. There are two sides to every story. Grieving the loss of the family shop and their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are ……続きを見る

London will do for you for now… And I will do for London. London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothb……続きを見る

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the p……続きを見る

Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go. In the re……続きを見る

1948: George Orwell is attempting to finish his final novel - Nineteen Eighty Four - before ill-health forces him off the solated Scottish island he has made his home. Holed up with a shotgun and li……続きを見る

Under pressure to write The Goon Show to end all Goon shows, Spike Milliganis planning his escape from a mental institution dressed in only his pyjamas. After applying to the British Museum to get h……続きを見る

See Cleese's first audition. Hear the simpering paternalism of David Frost. Be touched by the religious furore over the 'Life of Brian'. Comprehend the true meaning of the coconuts in 'Monty Python ……続きを見る

Reno is the story of actress Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller's marriage imploding in Nevada during the making of her last movie The Misfits. Miller is the writer, Monroe the star, but Mi……続きを見る

Arriving in Limbo after his lonely end in Australia, Tony Hancock finds himself in a hospital waiting room very much like the waiting room in 'The Blood Donor'. There he is met with the red tape and……続きを見る

The Weight of Days concerns Albert Camus and his political and literary feud with Jean-Paul Sartre over the Algerian War of Independence in 1950s Paris. A young woman named Edith adds to the flames ……続きを見る

Bombing People concerns Ralph Sherman, an advertising executive, who finds himself in an asylum in the Deep South in 1962 after an incident where he tried to attack President Kennedy outside of the ……続きを見る

Working for Mammon is a comedy drama about the London Riots of 2012 when the city seemed to go mad for a week and every shop with training shoes got looted. It concerns a teacher defeated by life wh……続きを見る