A man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now...

Set in a big Dublin hotel of the mid-nineteenth century, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs is a total theatre creation. In it, we...

When the young priest Francesco Vela becomes the incumbent of the parish of Soana, a small village in Ticino, he is tasked with...

The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his Collected Poems was in production,...

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This collection of Scottish short stories has been chosen to give as wide as possible a picture of Scottish fiction of the...

A young woman, who works as a maid for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench,...

During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses,...

First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre’s most...

This anthology – which contains writings from well-known figures such as John Knox and James VI through to the many lesser-known...

The Wallace is a historical play dramatizing the life of one of Scotland’s greatest heroes, William Wallace, whose revolt against...

On a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Leon Delmont begins to mull over his past and...

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first and...

A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed,...

Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British...