Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards)

On a spring morning in London, eight women, young and old, speak for the continuity of everyday life.

A phrase we used to use: it is the best gift the British people have given to themselves.

I blame the books they learned to read with.

Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with breathtaking fury and intimacy.

what if i'm not funny though - what if i go out there and i'm not funnySteve Johnston, guided and inspired by his girlfriend, is a small-time comedian, raw, original and true.

'I want to give my country a model of perfection.

America.

Because we live in Europe.

Dinner'A cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with shock the next .

Not one of us must breathe a word of what we've found.

Passion.

I will have poetry in my life.

Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science.

It's November 1917 and the Third Battle of Ypres is lurching towards its bloody conclusion.

we're still ourselves when we lieJoan and Tom have been married for nearly thirty years.

The Midlands, 1984.

France, 1096.

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling.

'Three years ago the doomsayers were predicting the end.

The MotherAnne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children.

Caroline Cox has been working in the Department of Human Services for twenty-five years.

Two couples.

My theme is memory, that winged host?

At Ted's instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House.

I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint.

A high-ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul.

Walkern, 1712.

It's risky work, handlin' men, my lass.

A South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow.

Something's up with Maggie.

What's a free telephone, when there are no private words?

The brain builds a narrative to steady us from moment to moment, but it is absolutely an illusion.

I've read the studies.

Name one certainty .

Well, that's one down, isn't it.

In the drawing room of the Rawlinson's late Victorian villa in Kent, life as it was lived before the war is quietly resuming.

This is noisily Protestant England - the England of William and Mary's Glorious Revolution at the end of a century of civil strife.

Recognized as one of the major literary works of the twentieth-century, Marcel Proust's monumental seven-volume novel brings together memories of childhood and Parisian society before and during the First World War.

When Dr.

The Value of Something is Never its PriceIn a trading town on the banks of the river, penniless Larisa is desperate to marry and escape heartbreak and humiliation.

Latte-land.

- Idea for a story.

The past: the 'big house', the servant class, the close-knit family ties of a bygone generation.

This first collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage is made up of his masterly adaptations of the medieval cycle of The Mystery Plays.

New Anatomies, Grace of Mary Traverse, Our Country's Good, Love of a Nightingale & Three Birds Alighting on a Field

The Syrian desert.

In a high-end hotel room, rising football stars Jason and Ade are living the dream.

Torn between army politics and the love of his soldiers on the front line, a legendary leader spirals out of control.

Young Chekhov contains a trilogy of plays by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, written as he emerged as the greatest playwright of the late nineteenth century.

Handbags, hairspray and sensible shoes.