Dave Riley: 4 books

This collection is a retrospective selection of satires written in the 1990s with some dating from the following decade. Some were recycled as dialogue for performance as they were written for street theatre troupes. Some were recorded and published as part of a podcast project. Some were aired...

On the eve before battle a young werewolf, Rowena, dreads the change of her shape. When Malak arrives, the two grasp for whatever small comfort they can find.

“When I look at my hands long enough, my blood starts to boil.” There’s something wrong with Molly Sheridan. Seventeen years of being too tall, of having the wrong hair, the wrong face, the wrong skin color. Now they're telling her she's a werewolf, and suddenly it all makes sense. She'll...

Girt by Sea is an amalgam of several street theatre performances reworked as a play for voices (or for radio broadcast). There is nothing especially ambitious about the play as it merely tries to touch on a few notions about the mandatory detention of refugees and package them in a short, sharp piece that quickly gets down to satirical business.