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Damascus

by: David Greig

Welcome to Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth, a jewel of the Arab world and the crossroads of the Middle East. Paul is here to sell English language textbooks. It's Valentine's Day and he'd rather be at home with his wife. He begins negotiations with his Syrian contact,...

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David Hare Plays: v. 3: ''Judas Kiss'', ''My Zinc Bed'', ''Skylight'', ''Amy's View''

by: David Hare

This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including "Skylight" (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), "Amy's View", "The Judas Kiss", and "My Zinc Bed".

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Difficult Daughters

by: Manju Kapur

Spanning three generations, this story centres around a woman born at the turn of the 20th century into an austere Punjabi family. It tells of an illicit affair and its wider political and social implications - not least the vexed issue, for Indian women, of marriage versus education.

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Edwin Muir Selected Poems

by: Edwin Muir

Born on the Orkney island of Wyre in 1887, Edwin Muir settled in various parts of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century - from Glasgow, to Austria and Czechoslovakia throughout to 1920s, 1930s and again after the war. Muir's poetry bears oblique witness to the most traumatic years...

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Harold Pinter

During the past ten years, Harold Pinter has written a new play, three film scripts, sheaves of poems, several sketches and created, with composer James Clarke, a pioneering work for radio, Voices. He has acted on stage, screen and radio, he has appeared on countless political platforms, and his...

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Harold Pinter Plays 4

Harold Pinter Plays 4

by: Harold Pinter

This fourth collection of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's work includes the plays BETRAYAL, MONOLOGUE, ONE FOR THE ROAD, MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE, FAMILY VOICES, A KIND OF ALASKA, VICTORIA STATION, PRECISELY, THE NEW WORLD ORDER, PARTY TIME, MOONLIGHT, ASHES TO ASHES, and CELEBRATION

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Harold Pinter: Collected Screenplays: v. 1:

by: Harold Pinter

This collection of screenplays includes "The Servant", "The Pumpkin Eater", "The Quiller Memorandum", "Accident", "The Go-Between", "The Last Tycoon", "Langrishe, Go Down", and "The Proust Screenplay."

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Harold Pinter: Collected Screenplays: v. 2:

by: Harold Pinter

These collected screenplays include "The Go-Between", "The Proust Screenplay", "Victory", "Turtle Diary", and "Reunion".

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Her Naked Skin

by: Rebecca Lenkiewicz

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In the Blood

by: Andrew Motion

Written from a teenage child's point of view, "Motion" captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of expression and freshness of memory. We encounter a strange but beguiling extended family, a profound love of the natural world, a troubled schooling, and a growing passion...