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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mr tom murphy”
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  • She Stoops To Folly

    by Mr Tom Murphy ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian FrielModelled on Oliver Goldsmith's classic novel The Vicar of Wakefield, Murphy builds a comedy peopled with thieves, pimps, bawds, lechers and imposters who will prey on innocence unless God - or the ruling class - takes a hand. It centres around the downfall of Dr Primrose, who ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Mommo Plays

    Brigit; Bailegangaire; A Thief of a Christmas

    by Mr Tom Murphy ...
    Series series Play Anthologies
    BrigitI'd like it to be perfect . . . Beautiful . . . The statue . . . Unbeatable? . . . I'd like it to be what I feel . . . And I don't know what that is.Set in the 1950s, Brigit, a prequel to Murphy's critically-acclaimed Bailegangaire (1985), tells the story of Mommo and Séamus, grandparents living on the breadline, who are raising three grandchildren: Mary, Dolly and Tom, when Séamus is ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • The Wake

    by Mr Tom Murphy ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian FrielThe Wake recounts the story of a woman, returning from the USA to her home town in Ireland. As her family learn of her years as a prostitute, she learns their attitudes and Irish society in general. A homecoming play, haunting yet fiercely comic. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    by Jenni Fagan ...
    Series Book 2 - Darkland Tales
    A powerfully poignant tale of one of the most turbulent moments in Scotland's history: the North Berwick Witch Trials.IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591.On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh's High Street, convicted witch Geillis Duncan receives a mysterious visitor – Iris, who says she comes from a future where women are still persecuted for who they are ... Read more

    $6.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan

    by Gordon Jarvie ...
    Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chosen combination of old favourites such as Tam Lin, Thomas Rymer and Adam Bell, as well as more modern stories by master story-tellers like Andrew Lang, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and John Buchan. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Crow Bait

    by Douglas Skelton ...
    Series Book 2 - Davie McCall
    They'll all be crow bait by the time I'm finished...Jail was hell for Davie McCall. Ten years down the line, freedom's no picnic either. It's 1990, there are new kings in the West of Scotland underworld, and Glasgow is awash with drugs. Davie can handle himself. What he can't handle is the memory of his mother's death at the hand of his sadistic father. Or the darkness his father implanted deep in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quarry Wood

    by Nan Shepherd ...
    Series series Canons
    When Martha accepts a place at university, her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity and independence, struggling to cope with the intellectual and emotional challenges that surround her, at a time when such space was rarely given freely to women.In The Quarry Wood, Nan Shepherd's subtle prose ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Plough and the Stars

    by Sean O'Casey ...
    This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes explaining difficult words and references. It contains:- The full playtext- An introduction to the playwright, his background and his work- A detailed analysis of language, structure and characters in the play ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • No. 17. Ben the Tramp Mystery. Illustrated

    by J. Jefferson Farjeon ...
    J. Jefferson Farjeon’s No. 17. Ben the Tramp Mystery is a riveting blend of humor, suspense, and classic detective storytelling. Featuring the lovable and unconventional protagonist Ben the Tramp, this tale plunges readers into a shadowy world of crime and intrigue. When Ben, a down-on-his-luck wanderer, stumbles upon a mysterious house marked No. 17, he unwittingly finds himself entangled in a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Hamnet

    by Maggie O'Farrell, Ms Lolita Chakrabarti ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    'She's like no one I've ever met... She's like fire and water all at once.'Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family.As William moves to London to discover his place in the world of theatre, Agnes stays at home to raise their three children but she ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Machinal

    by Sophie Treadwell ...
    Series series NHB Classic Plays
    A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair.'This is a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Home to the Hills

    a heart-rending Scottish saga set in the aftermath of WW2

    by Dee Yates ...
    1945.After the Second World War, Ellen and her daughter Netta make the journey from Germany back to Scotland. Nestled in the hills of the Southern Uplands is the farm where Ellen grew up – the home she left to be with the only man she's ever loved. She is still haunted by her memories... and the secrets she dare not share with anyone.Having grown up in Freiburg, farm life is new and exciting to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD