Results for: books tagged ‘Dystopia’
Lord of the Flies: Nigel Williams
Playwright and novelist Nigel Williams's stage adaptation of William Golding's story was first professionally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in July 1995. 'Remarkably true to the novel ... More
The Children of Men: P. D. James
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are ... More
Brokenville & The Pilgrimage: Paul Goetzee and Phillip Ridley
This volume contains two imaginative plays for young people. Philip Ridley's Brokenville is set in the ruins of a city destroyed by disaster. A group of individuals gathers round a ... More
The Pillowman: Martin McDonagh
A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town.‘Sometimes ... More
Midwinter: Zinnie Harris
A pedlar announces that the war is over; and as the soldiers return in the fragile peace that follows, the starving people are left to build new lives, to forge ... More
Amnesia Moon: Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem, acclaimed author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, here takes the reader on a road trip through a post-apocalyptic USA.Since the war came and the bombs ... More
Girl in Landscape: Jonathan Lethem
Girl in Landscape offers a genre-bending, mind-expanding tale of a new frontier. Jonathan Lethem's novel is a science-fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's The Searchers ... More
In the Country of Last Things: Paul Auster
'That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes no sense . . .'This ... More
GB84: David Peace
Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people.David Peace's sweeping, bloody and dramatic ... More
A Very Private Life: Michael Frayn
Uncumber lives at a time in the distant future when all humanty is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are privileged, with their every need ... More
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