British Irish category: 5386 books

‘The world does not care. The world doesn’t even know. There are European tourists sipping cocktails right now on the beaches in the south, who have no idea what’s happening in the north.’ Sri Lanka, 2009. A 26-year civil war between the government and the Tamil Tigers...

This play tells the stories of five individuals seeking asylum in the UK: Zakariya from Darfur; Destin from the Republic of Congo; Jalal from Iraq; Parvaneh from Iran and Marie-Elena from Colombia. Each has been forced to flee their homeland in the face of death, each is haunted in a different way...

She is a strong, independent, black woman. She has a roof over her head. She has food in her fridge. She lives a good life. She’s also a little bit sad, a lot of the time. She doesn’t understand why. Following her five-star solo show WHITE, Koko Brown brings you the second instalment of...

'Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry Dr David Kelly was the British Government's chief advisor on Iraq's chemical and biological weapons programme. After being named as the source of media claims about the political 'sexing up' of a government dossier on weapons of mass destruction, the scientist committed...

Meet Princess. A cheeky 10 year old, with a plan to win the Weston-Super-Mare Beauty Contest. Trouble is, her mum is busy working several jobs, her brother, a budding photographer, won't even take her picture and then... The Hustler returns. In 1963 Bristol, as Black British Civil Rights campaigners...

‘These charity gigs are always in bloody awful countries. I wish someone would fight a war in Marbella. I wish there were starving people in bloody Hawaii.’ The Sweethearts are a manufactured girl band, rarely off the front page of the tabloids. In need of some positive publicity, they...

Granville Barker on Theatre brings together some of the most important critical theatrical writings of Harley Granville Barker, a major figure of 20th-century British theatre. Known as a pioneer of the National Theatre and Repertory Movement, and remembered mainly for his Prefaces to Shakespeare,...

Tearing his colleague, Debsy away from her latest craze, logic puzzles, local newspaper reporter, Trench looks into a noisy neighbour story with a difference. Why does Harris play very loud music at such precise, regular intervals? What is the purpose of a Bank in the middle of a housing estate? And...

In North London, Del and Viv are soul-sick. Del doesn’t want to be at home; staying out late – 3 p.m.-the-next-day late – is more her thing. Viv scours her schoolbooks trying to find a trace of herself between their lines. When Enid takes her daughters to the local obeah woman for some...

Heathcote Williams' book-length poems have covered a number of important topics, most notably Whale Nation, a powerful argument for a worldwide ban on whaling. Royal Babylon lays out in verse form what Williams calls 'the criminal record of the British Monarchy.' It is a short but powerful book, detailing...

In a dingy London bedsit in the late 1950s, George is planning a night on the town with his friend Gordon. Weaver wants to come too, and soon Mrs Tebbit, the landlady, has been invited. But when Mr Thomas shows up, the night takes a strange and sinister turn... Kathy Burke's first play is a...

Les événemens de ce poème se passent en partie à Rokeby, sur la Greta, dans le comté d’York, et en partie dans la forteresse de Barnard-Castle et autres lieux du voisinage. Le temps occupé par l’action est un espace de cinq jours, dont trois s’écoulent...

 IL est un malaise de l’âme que nous avons tous éprouvé pendant une longue soirée ou un jour sombre et pluvieux. Nos esprits engourdis perdent leur enjouement, rien ne peut hâter la marche lente des heures. Les rayons brillans de l’imagination s’obscurcissent,...

Contains the plays Rookery Nook, Thark, Plunder and The Bed Before Yesterday. ‘Travers should be regarded as an important figure post-Pinero and pre-Orton, and certainly one of the most skilled of British farceurs’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ‘The single-track dirty...