Glyn Maxwell: 13 books

Troy is in ruins. Its men are dead. Its women are captives and the victorious Greeks are camped in the ashes preparing to sail home. Four quarrelling women drawn together by grief… Four exhausted soldiers who hate each other’s guts… A King who falls for a girl so mad she can see the audience…...

Includes the plays Broken Journey, Best Man Speech and The Last Valentine. A car breaks down in a quiet place in the small hours. Soon a man is dead, a woman traumatised, another man accused. But who really knows what happened? Even the dead man tells a tale. Broken Journey examines the terror...

The poems in this volume were selected by Glyn Maxwell from TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON (published in 1990, when he was twenty-eight), OUT OF THE RAIN (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize), and REST FOR THE WICKED. Maxwell “is a formalist,” wrote Robert McIlwaine about his first book, “but . . ....

Three beautifully written plays for young people, by award-winning playwright and poet Glyn Maxwell. Contains the plays Alice In Wonderland, Wind In The Willows, and Merlin and the Woods of Time.

Oh it’s not a day for cleaning! Perhaps it’s a day for nothing I expected… So says little Moley as she ventures out into the Wide World for the first time, a realm of sunshine and darkness, comfort and threat. There she will meet the friendly Ratty, secretly dreaming of lives he...

A spirited homage to the departed literary greats—set in an entrancing English village—this novel tells the tale of a profound autumn term with Poe, Yeats, Whitman, Dickinson, and the Brontës. “I am walking along a country lane with no earthly idea why . . .” Poet Glyn Maxwell...

Seven angels have fallen through space and time for so long, they have forgotten why. Coming to rest on a desert landscape, they imagine the creation of a legendary garden that once flourished there and its destruction from greed and neglect. Inspired byParadise Lost, Seven Angels interprets the themes...

The Lion’s Face is a tale of love, loss and family told through theatre and music. When a man loses his way home it seems a trivial thing, but it signals the beginning of an irreversible decline into confusion and dementia. Compassionate, dramatic, at times harrowing, at times funny, this...

Driven mad by his love for Olivia and his treatment at the hands of Sir Toby Belch and Andrew Aguecheek, he vowed that he’d “be revenged on the whole pack of you…” Now years have passed and strange things are happening in Illyria – beautiful music deep in the forest, rumours of rivers flowing...

The Summer 2016 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. This 45th...

'Better to bear each day, to laugh and cry and sing and go my way freely, to think nothing of my name, to journey only, though the journey be O halfway to the moon! Swordsman, Philosopher, Poet, Raconteur – Cyrano de Bergerac is all these things, but none of them...

April 1793: the French Revolution is four years old and the Committee of Public Safety under Robespierre fi nds threats to the new republic at home and abroad. When Gamelin, an ambitious and idealistic young magistrate, joins a group of old friends for a picnic outside Paris, the ties of love and...

It’s a perfect day in Camelot. The Table is Round and the Grail is Holy. Knights joust and Ladies show favour. Blood is spilt, love declared, and medieval pundits talk us through the action. What could possibly go wrong? But then a humble water-carrier falls head-over-heels for an arrogant beauty...