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  • The Colour of Milk

    A Novel

    by Nell Leyshon ...
    A "truly wonderful" exploration of power dynamics between servant and employer is a "slender, beautiful novel with as much heart as a book twice its size." — San Francisco Chronicle"this is my book and i am writing it by my own hand."Mary and her three sisters rise every day to farmwork that threatens to suppress their own awakening desires, whether it's Violet's pull toward womanhood or Beatrice ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don't Look Now

    by Daphne du Maurier, Nell Leyshon ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Following the death of their young daughter, John and Laura visit Venice to try and escape their grief. But when the couple meet two aged sisters, one of whom claims to have psychic visions of the dead girl, strange things start to happen.Filmed in 1973 with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, Daphne du Maurier's classic thriller starts as a moving examination of grief but gradually becomes a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Glass Eels

    by Nell Leyshon ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Late August down on the Somerset levels: deep in the water and the silt, something is moving, unfurling... Suffused with the austere poetry of the West Country, Glass Eels tells the story of a girl's sexual awakening as she struggles to free herself from the shadows of her childhood and the stifling atmosphere of an all-male household. Glass Eels was produced by Hampstead Theatre and the Brewhouse ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Bedlam

    by Nell Leyshon ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Set in the notorious 18th Century lunatic asylum that gives the play its name, Bedlam is the story of how a cruel and unusual institution starts to crumble, after the arrival of an unassuming country girl.Nell Leyshon's new play is an anarchic tale of madness and sanity, authority and incarceration and the arbitrary lines that separate them.Full of violence, romance and reverie, Bedlam will make ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Comfort me with Apples

    by Nell Leyshon ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Winner Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright.Shortlisted for Susan Smith Blackburn Award.Autumn, and the orchard is full of cider apples: Beauty of Bath, Kingston Black and Glory of the West.Inside the farmhouse, the rule of the matriach Irene is challenged when her estranged daughter returns and her middle-aged son, beginning to tire of being tied to the unprofitable farm, grows restless.A ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • National Theatre Connections 2019

    by Rob Drummond, Nell Leyshon, Ms Katie Hims, Tom Wells, Ben Bailey Smith, Lajaune Lincoln, Dawn King, Laura Lomas, Katherine Soper, Benjamin Kuffuor, Luke Barnes ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production - from costume and set design to stage management and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Memoirs of a Dipper

    by Nell Leyshon ...
    'A reading experience that hums with an electric energy that never gets boring and feels shockingly, painfully real.' - The Times'There's different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer step by step, or I can do it in one movement and bump into them. Easiest is in a pub then I can put my drink too close to theirs. Move my stool near theirs. Anything to cross the line.'Gary is a dipper, a burglar ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Folk

    by Nell Leyshon ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Nominated for an Olivier Award 2022"I'll tell you one more thing. I got more songs in my head than I ever told you. I got enough to sing for days..."1903, Somerset. Rooted in the land where she has lived her entire life, Louie Hooper's mind overflows with its songs – more than 300 of them passed down from her mother. Cecil Sharp, a composer visiting from London, fears England's folk songs will be ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Words Will Come

    New Plays from the RADA Elders Company

    by A C Smith, Ms Deborah Bruce, Frances Poet, Nell Leyshon, Christopher William Hill ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Bringing together five plays commissioned specially for the RADA Elders Company, this anthology provides a selection of dynamic and thought-provoking works for elders companies anywhere.The RADA Elders Company began in 2013 in order to provide opportunities for older people to experience the academy's training at its best. Each year, a playwright is invited to create a new piece for the company, ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Farm

    by Nell Leyshon ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'Nothing I do has changed. I'm doing what's always been done on this piece of land.'The farm is running at a loss, but Vic is determined to keep working. He'll do everything he can, work day and night, but he won't admit that his small farm has no future.As the rural crisis deepens the three generations of his family look for ways to save the farm. But tensions between the old and new worlds ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

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    A Novel

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    Brian Payton's The Wind Is Not a River is a gripping tale of survival and an epic love story set during the only World War II battle on American soil.Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story ... Read more

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  • The Death of Bees

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    Today is Christmas Eve.Today is my birthday.Today I am fifteen.Today I buried my parents in the backyard.Neither of them were beloved.Marnie and her little sister, Nelly, are on their own now. Only they know what happened to their parents, Izzy and Gene, and they aren't telling. While life in Glasgow's Maryhill housing estate isn't grand, the girls do have each other. Besides, it's only a year ... Read more

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