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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Christopher, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington.
2) The effect
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English
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"Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant? As two young volunteers in a clinical drug trial, their illicit romance poses startling dilemmas for the supervising doctors. Lucy Prebble's funny and intimate examination of love and ethics originally premiered in 2012, becoming an instant modern classic. This edition revised...
Author
Series
Publisher
Methuen
Pub. Date
[1988?]
Language
English
Description
"Shirley Valentine" a 42-year-old put-upon mother and housewife, leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband, packs her bags to join a girlfriend who's purchased two tickets for a fort-night in Greece.
"One for the Road" starts with the mid-life hero torn between the security of married life in a dormer bungalow on a northern housing estate and dreams of being a rucksacked super-tramp.
6) The only true history of Lizzie Finn: The steward of christendom ; White Woman Street : three plays
Author
Series
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
"Three plays by the playwright credited with bringing poetic drama back to the Irish stage. Each has a tremendous sense of the beauty and humour to be found in ordinary life, however tragic its immediate circumstances." "Full of brightness and fun, The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, October 1995) follows its heroine in her uneasy transition from English seaside music-hall star to Anglo-Irish lady. The Steward of Christendom...
8) Life of Pi
Author
Series
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixteen year-old boy named Pi. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive? Based on one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction - winner of the Man Booker Prize, selling over fifteen million copies worldwide - and featuring breath-taking puppetry...
Author
Series
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Holed up in her bedroom, Cleo's aired twenty-two WhatsApps from Kara and has cut off contact with the rest of the world. It doesn't mean she's been silent though--she's got a lot to say. On the internet, actions don't always speak louder than words ..."--
11) Andorra
Author
Series
Publisher
Methuen
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
"The republic of Andorra is invaded by totalitarian forces. The populace capitulates to the anti-Semitism of the aggressor and betrays Andri, the foundling son of the local schoolmaster. But Andri it seems, is not a Jew at all. Andorra explores the mechanism of racism with the story of a non-Jew brought up as a Jew, who falls victim to anti-Semitic hostility."--Publisher website.
12) Good: a tragedy
Author
Series
Publisher
Methuen
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
A tragedy set in Nazi Germany exploring the corruption of a seemingly decent, liberal, humane university professor. Music, singing, 2 acts, 9 men, 4 women, 1 setting.
14) Ink
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. James Graham's ruthless, red-topped play leads with the birth of this country's most influential newspaper -- when a young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asked the impossible and launched its first editor's quest, against all odds, to give the people what they want.--Supplied by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Methuen
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
" ... Follows the lives of six friends from their meeting in the sixties when they first come together as Cambridge undergraduates, through the following twenty years to the onset of middle age. Although on the surface a comedy of literary manners, The common pursuit is also a study of love and friendship, deceit and compromise"--Pre page [1].
Author
Publisher
Methuen
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Spanning fifteen years this complex, well-structured play traces the story of the destruction of David's architectural dream by the embittered Colin and Colin's marriage to the inept Sheila, contrasting those who help and those who are helped; those who create and those who destroy. ' ... a beautifully crafted play, economically written.' - Time Out.
18) I and you
Author
Publisher
Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Housebound because of illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she has only Instagram and Facebook for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in - uninvited and armed with waffle fries, a scruffy copy of Walt Whitman's poetry and a school project due the next day ... Caroline is unimpressed all around. But an unlikely friendship develops and a seemingly mundane piece of homework starts to reveal the pair's...
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