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...

Above a disused bar, in a dilapidated Parisian hotel that houses an assortment of indigent, marginalized lost souls, one of the...

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...

Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story – an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare...

Like all the greatest writers, Samuel Beckett was primarily interested in discovering the meaning and purpose of life and of the...

Increasingly Samuel Beckett’s writing is seen as the culmination of the great literature of the twentieth century – succeeding...

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,...

Europe after the Rain takes its title from Max Ernst’s surrealist work, which depicts a vision of rampant destruction – a theme...

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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,...

This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco’s everyman protagonist Jean Berenger. In ‘The Killer’, he...

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...

Babel, Alan Burns’s fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define –...

Dreamerika!, Alan Burns’s fourth novel, first published in 1972, provides a satirical look at the Kennedy political dynasty,...

A series of sketches and observations of daily life – a crowd gathering in front of shop windows, an old man talking to his...