Results for: books tagged ‘Modern Britain’
Paleface: Charles Boyle
Candid and alert to the contemporary scene, the poems in Paleface render an immediately recognisable world, not least when ostensibly describing the rites and customs of a desert tribe. Many ... More
Cities for a Small Planet: Richard Rogers
Millennium Poem: Killing Time: Simon Armitage
In the 1000-line poem Killing Time, the manic countdown to a thousand years of history reaches its climax, with the last twelve months spooling past like newsreel. In the Age ... More
The Villain's Opera: Nick Dear
Under cover of his South London pub, Peachum plies a successful trade in small-time scams. But his world is shattered when the charismatic villain, Macheath, not only plans to marry ... More
Cities for a Small Country: Richard Rogers
Britain is abandoning its cities and sprawling over green fields. Crime, congestion and inequality are getting worse. Is there an alternative?After two years' work for the Urban Task Force, architect ... More
Credible Witness: Timberlake Wertenbaker
A young man flees to a distant land and vanishes. His mother follows, certain she will find him, but in this unfamiliar place all certainties seem to crumble. In this ... More
Office: Shan Khan
Two inner-city callboxes serve as the makeshift trading post for Sharky and Showtime, two streetwise drug-dealers who, as part of a tight crime 'family', answer to the absent kingpin, Papa. ... More
Treasures on Earth: Keith Thomson
Professor Thomson, the Director of the world-respected Oxford University Museum, questions the role that today’s museums have to play in contemporary society and uncovers the paradox of the modern collection ... More
Murmuring Judges: David Hare
A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the seams.Murmuring Judges is the ... More
Fullalove: Gordon Burn
Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift for the sensational story, the shouting tabloid lead. But as he ... More
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