Nell Leyshon: 13 books

En cette année 1831, Mary, une jeune fille de 15 ans entame le tragique récit de sa courte existence : un père brutal, une mère insensible, en bref, une banale vie de misère dans la campagne anglaise du Dorset. Simple et franche, mais lucide et entêtée, elle raconte comment, un été,...

Mein Name ist Mary. Mein Haar hat die Farbe von Milch. Und dies ist meine Geschichte. Mary ist harte Arbeit gewöhnt. Sie kennt es nicht anders, denn ihr Leben auf dem Bauernhof der Eltern verläuft karg und entbehrungsreich. Doch dann ändert sich alles. Als sie fünfzehn wird, zieht Mary in den...

The Colour of Milk is a literary tour de force of power, class, and fate, told in the fierce, urgent voice of the irrepressible Mary, a character as indelible as The Color Purple’s Celie and Margaret Atwood’s eponymous Alias Grace. Set in England in 1830, The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon...

Elias Canetti escribió que en escasas ocasiones las personas logran liberarse de las cadenas que las atan para, inmediatamente después, quedar sujetas a otras nuevas. Mary, una niña de quince años que vive con su familia en una granja de la Inglaterra rural de 1830, tiene el pelo del color de...

Bringing together five plays commissioned specially for the RADA Elders Company, this anthology provides a selection of dynamic and thought-provoking works for Elders companies anywhere. The RADA Elders Company began in 2013 in order to provide opportunities for older people to experience the...

Set in the notorious 18th Century lunatic asylum that gives the play its name, Bedlam is the story of how a cruel and unusual institution starts to crumble, after the arrival of an unassuming country girl. Nell Leyshon’s new play is an anarchic tale of madness and sanity, authority and incarceration...

Eine Mutter und ihr Sohn. Zwei Leben – eine Vergangenheit. Der neue Roman von der Autorin des Hotlist-nominierten Romans Die Farbe von Milch Polen im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Der kleine Pawel wächst wohlbehütet in einem bürgerlichen Warschauer Haushalt auf. Doch als der Krieg kommt und sein Vater sich...

Following the death of their young daughter, John and Laura visit Venice to try and escape their grief. But when the couple meet two aged sisters, one of whom claims to have psychic visions of the dead girl, strange things start to happen. Filmed in 1973 with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland,...

'A reading experience that hums with an electric energy that never gets boring and feels shockingly, painfully real.' - The Times 'There's different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer step by step, or I can do it in one movement and bump into them. Easiest is in a pub then I can put my...

Late August down on the Somerset levels: deep in the water and the silt, something is moving, unfurling...Suffused with the austere poetry of the West Country, Glass Eels tells the story of a girl's sexual awakening as she struggles to free herself from the shadows of her childhood and the stifling...

Nothing I do has changed. I'm doing what's always been done on this piece of land.' The farm is running at a loss, but Vic is determined to keep working. He'll do everything he can, work day and night, but he won't admit that his small farm has no future. As the rural crisis deepens...

Winner Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright. Shortlisted for Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Autumn, and the orchard is full of cider apples: Beauty of Bath, Kingston Black and Glory of the West. Inside the farmhouse, the rule of the matriach Irene is challenged when her estranged...

National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them...