Caryl churchill

Since 1660 when actresses first began performing on the English stage, women have forged bright careers in theatre, while men called the shots. Four hundred years of women playwrights, from Aphra Behn to Caryl Churchill,…

Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established…

Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of…

Winston Spencer Churchill er et ikon. Selv om han sto i forreste rekke i britisk politikk i nesten seksti år, ville han kanskje ikke ha blitt husket like godt dersom det ikke hadde vært for hans spesielle innsats under…

In this collection of plays from one of our finest dramatists, Caryl Churchill demonstrates her remarkable ability to find new forms to express profound truths about the world we live in. Complete with a new introduction…

A new short play from Caryl Churchill. What If If Only premiered in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2021.

'I can see her just. Most people can't see her at all.'A girl made of glass. Gods and murders. A serial killer's friends. And a secret in a bottle. Four stories by Caryl Churchill. Glass, Kill, Bluebeard, and Imp…

This volume traces the scope and development of Caryl Churchill's theatre from her early writing for radio and television, through her stage career of the 1970s and 1980s to her recent major success Far Away…

In this collection of plays from one of our finest dramatists, Caryl Churchill demonstrates her remarkable ability to find new forms to express profound truths about the world we live in. Complete with a new introduction…

Spanning a whole decade and embracing a huge range of style and subject matter, this fourth volume of collected plays confirms the author's standing as the best English language female playwright. It also includes an…

In troubled times who better to turn to for advice and reassurance than the man who led Britain through her most difficult days - Winston Churchill. This title collects the famous and inspiring words of the man voted the…

A full and detailed biography of Roger Keyes, Admiral of the Fleet and Lord of Zeebrugge and Dover. Lord Keyes was Churchill's trusted friend. He participated in the Boxer Rebellion, the First World War and the Second…

The classic biography of Winston Churchill's American Mother

'This is the room from which I will direct the war, ' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands…

The thrilling memoirs of Battle of France and Battle of Britain pilot ace, John Greenwood.

This is the incredible story of the darkest days of World War II when Winston Churchill and his Generals Montgomery, Alexander, Wavell and Brooke were facing catastrophe on every front. They suffered defeat at Dunkirk…

The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances.

Originally published: London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.

New in B-format paperback - A fresh perspective on Churchill and life in wartime by the nurse charged with looking after the Prime Minister.

Through the Churchills' 'wilderness years' in the 1930s, to Clementine's desperate efforts to preserve her husband's health during the struggle against Hitler, Sonia presents the inspiring but often ignored story of one…

Churchill may have played the larger role in Hitler's defeat, but Orwell's reckoning with the threat of authoritarian rule in 1984 and Animal Farm defined the stakes of the Cold War and continues to inspire to this day.…

This fully-illustrated biography provides an interesting account of Churchill's life from his childhood, military service in India and the Sudan and his role as war correspondent during the Boer war, to his rise in the…

A full and detailed biography of Roger Keyes, Admiral of the Fleet and Lord of Zeebrugge and Dover.

Accessible and incisive new one-volume biography of Winston Churchill.

Everyone's heard of Winston Churchill... He's the one who raised his fingers in a V sign and smoked a massive cigar. But this book reveals the terrible truth behind the famous face, including his career as a demon…

In this book, the authors seek not only to explain how this document came into being -bits of it being scrawled out on scraps of paper over dinner -but to delve into the lives of the two most prominent and influential…

The most famous turning point of World War II.

A unique portrait of war from the private diaries of Winston Churchill's youngest daughter, Mary. Compiled and edited by Mary's daughter, Emma Soames, in collaboration with The Churchill Archives Centre.

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people ... Larson tells the story of how that feat was…

An exhaustive biographical portrait of one of the most enigmatic and important figures of the twentieth century.

The story of the woman who ensured that Churchill never let state secrets slip

The first ever collection of the letters between Churchill and his mother sheds revelatory light on the future wartime premier.

A groundbreaking and revealing portrait of two of the greatest British political leaders by a prize-winning historian.

Born into aristocracy, Churchill cut his teeth as a young army officer in British lndia, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He rose in the ranks to First Lord of the Admiralty and was a staunch opponent of the…

Sir Winston Churchill was a man that needed no introduction. This British icon was a talented journalist, a passionate army officer, and a political powerhouse. This absorbing book looks at Churchill as man and as boy,…

*The story of one of the most famous of all British families - the Churchills