David Storey: 26 books
Storey Plays: 3
Changing Room; Cromwell; Life Class
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The latest collection of David Storey's plays; including the newly revised and revived The Changing Room. Introduced by the author
This third volume of David Storey's plays contains The Changing Room (Royal Court 1971): "If The Changing Room is Storey's most powerful drama, it is because...
by David Storey
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
'This is the story of Colin Saville, a miner's son, and his growth from the 1930s on, his rise in the world by way of grammar school and college. At first there is triumph in this, not least for the father who had spurred him on, but later "alienated from his class, and with nowhere yet to go"...
Storey Plays: 1
The Contractor; Home; Stages; Caring
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)
The Contractor: "A subtle and poetic parable about the nature and joy of skilled work, the meaning of community and the effect of its loss" (Observer); Home: "about the solitude and dislocation...
The Collected Novels Volume One
This Sporting Life and Flight into Camden
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Two award-winning novels—including This Sporting Life—from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist and “an absorbing writer” (The New Yorker).
The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background...
The Collected Novels Volume Three
Thin-Ice Skater, As It Happened, and Present Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Three thought-provoking novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist of This Sporting Life and “an absorbing writer” (The New Yorker).
The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background...
The Collected Novels Volume Two
A Serious Man, A Temporary Life, and A Prodigal Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Three powerful novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist of This Sporting Life and “an absorbing writer” (The New Yorker).
The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his...
Storey Plays: 2
Restoration of Arnold Middleton; In Celebration; March on Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)
Thin-Ice Skater
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A seventeen-year-old is sent to the country to live with his much-older half-brother and falls into an unexpected affair in this novel by Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey
The narrator of Storey’s eleventh novel is an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old who shares intimate details...
by Mr David Storey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)
The Changing Room: "It's about exactly what it is: Storey offers us, with an unforced tenderness, the shifting moods of everyday experience...the scene is busy, purposeful and exhilerating. You'd...
This Sporting Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey’s seminal first novel
On Christmas Eve, Arthur breaks his two front teeth. A teammate on the rugby pitch is too slow with a handoff,...
A Serious Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A successful playwright, painter, and novelist confronts his mortality and the past during a major life crisis in this novel by Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey
Richard Fenchurch has had a long and successful career as a playwright, painter, and novelist. But at age 65, he is...
A Temporary Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
An art teacher searches for meaning in a strange town as his wife spirals into madness in this stunning novel from Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey
Colin Freestone had not planned to live in northern England. The people here are so passionate and raw that he does not expect to...
by David Storey
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
An illustrated classic from the author of Saville and Flight into Camden
Written before David Storey’s 1976 Man Booker Prize–winning novel Saville, Edward tells the tale of a kindly and aging bishop who lives his life by just and holy standards—until one day he is surprised by the appearance...
by Mr David Storey
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
One works. One looks around. One meets people. But very little communication takes place . . . That is the nature of this little island.
As five apparently unrelated characters meet in a seemingly insignificant garden, the autumnal sun shines overhead and everybody waits for rain.
What...
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