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Beginning in the mid-20th Century and moving to the 21st, this collection of novellas create a vivid panorama, with a surprising parallel story about the remnants of Shakespeare's acting company as theatres are culture-cancelled in 1649. AUTUMNIA opens with a wartime raid over Germany and closes with its denouement years later. ART MOVERS follows an ex-soldier turned art mover: his van, his lover, the people he meets. AFTER traces an old writ...

Venice: part mystery, part illusion, with its floating houses and painterly skies. Three linked novellas spanning the Fourteenth Century to the present day tell stories of treacherous crimes, hidden love and survival.A place of beauty and power, foreigners have long been drawn to the city's sinking shores. Here are stories of what they seek and find, of those who will always remain and of a Venetian exiled from the Republic, whose return impli...

London, 1980s. It's colourful and fast. It's also dangerous if you've got no money and don't know where to go. And it's a changing city. A city of contrasts: big money being poured into big dreams by men in sharp suits and fast cars. Alongside the developers, politicians vie for glory and think their moment has come. And on the same streets overlooked by their penthouses, lives are lost and homelessness grows.Fighting to find herself in this v...

The History of Polly Bowler by award-winning writer Keith Dewhurst is set in the precarious world of Victorian theatre. When her mother dies in childbirth and her father flees to escape transportation for machine-smashing, Polly Bowler and her younger brother run away from their harsh working life in a Lancashire cotton mill and join a company of strolling players.Polly Bowler tells the story of her coming of age with all the vigour of the tim...

When You Put on a Red Shirt is the story of dreamers, hard men who wanted to create perfection on the football pitch' Roddy DoyleKeith Dewhurst first fell in love with Manchester United as a schoolboy in 1946.

A literary sampler of English village life in late Victorian Oxfordshire, Lark Rise re-enacts the first day of harvest. The play is written to be performed as a promenade production with no distinction between stage and auditorium. The interest lies in the lively picture of typical country life of the period, with music and songs, with a brief flash forward to the 1914-18 war. Music is available separately on hire. Contained in a volume with C...

Includes: "The World Turned Upside Down, The Bomb in Brewery Street" and "Corunna!