Women Authors

Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Brunnhilde diagnoses Wotan, father of the gods, to be a victim of...

The heartwrenching new novel from bestselling author Kitty NealeCan she put right the secrets of the past?London, 1939. Winnie Berry has been the landlady of the Battersea Tavern for nearly twenty-five years, and the pub is like home to her - a place of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593447796Author Sally RooneyFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint HogarthPublisher HogarthWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 163mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362535Author Lisa KronFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111822Author Jaki McCarrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353420710Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756030Author Eve EnslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2019 and Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2019 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781559369527Author Jackie Sibblies DruryFormat...

A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world's most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories. Agatha Christie is revered worldwide for her books...

Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride's three short, characteristically brilliant texts - collected in one work, Mouthpieces.Each text depicts a fragment of female experience, all of them told in...

Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.This new...

You look down to retrieve the ball but all you can see is Lemons Lemons filling up the goal Lemons writhing in the net Lemons glistening and convulsing on the grass In the pressurised worlds of football and finance, two women carve their own path...

Towards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved. Appearing here in English for the first time, this play explores the realisation of Weil's own thoughts on tragedy. A figure of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573100031Author Jean McConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Newcastle, London, America. You can go anywhere, it's still the same old shit. People just getting by, in any way they know how. But I tell you what they don't have, they don't have a GBP1 Thursday! 17-year-old Jen and Stacey are best friends. Since...

The Plays Libration by Lluisa Cunill (Spain): A mysterious, intense and comic two-hander about two women who meet in a city park at night. The End Of The Dream Season by Miriam Kainy (Israel): A woman doctor outwits her friends and relations to retain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pulitzer Prize (Drama) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781559369640Author Heidi SchreckFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Winner of the 2021 Alfred Fagon Award It's a play, a performance, a ritual, about human farming, farming humans, soil and the soul, seeds and cells... nursing the nursery, curing creation, remedies and vaccinations against white supremacist racism;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710698Author Amy HerzogFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

I can do it. I can be her. Hedda Gabler. When offered the lead part in a Norwegian film adaptation of Hedda Gabler, an American actress seizes the opportunity to escape Hollywood - and gain some artistic credibility. She's running away from her past...

This is the first ever collection of plays by Palestinian-Irish playwright Hannah Khalil; the first woman of Arab heritage to have a main-stage play at the RSC. It encompasses a decade's worth of plays exploring her Arab heritage, drawing on family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365475Author Paula VogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

This book showcases the important, but often understudied, work of Nigerian women playwrights. As in many spheres of life in Nigeria, in literature and other creative arts the voices of men dominate, and the work of women has often been sidelined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369104557Author Obsidian TheatreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Playwrights Canada PressPublisher Playwrights Canada PressWeight(grams) 408g

Ann and Mary Ann are married. They are both neuroscientists and they both witnessed deeply traumatic events when they were young. Now, in the carefully ordered worlds of their marriage and laboratory—which is linked like the two lobes of the brain—Ann...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770917705Author Kate HennigFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Playwrights Canada Press,CanadaPublisher Playwrights Canada Press,Canada

The Convent of Pleasure (1868) is a closet drama by Margaret Cavendish. Intended for private performance rather than the stage, The Convent of Pleasure is a comedy that critiques the institution of marriage and explores the possibility of lesbian desire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906582005Author Aphra BehnFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

Call my narcissism whatever you want. And while you're at it; like, comment, subscribe, worship - fucking bow down. Meet Carleen and Crystal. The influencers with cultural commentary that will have you in stitches. Love them or hate them, there's no...

Based on true events, the play follows the stories of Anna, a rape complainant, and Sean, the defendant, with insight and sensitivity. This heart-breaking, multi-layered play jolts the audience into exploring the implications of consent, focussing on the...

Short Plays with Great Roles for Women is an antidote to the traditional underrepresentation of women on stage, by offering twenty-two short plays that put women right at the centre of the action.The push for more women's roles has gathered force over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365352Author The KilroysFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Winner of The Raymond Williams Prize Plays by Ayshe Raif, Cheryl Robson, April De Angelis, Nina Rapi, Eva Lewin, Jan Rupee, Jean Abbott.About the AuthorCheryl Robson was born in Sydney, Australia to British parents. Cheryl attended Bristol University...

I've got the world at the tip of my fingers, I've got the world at the tip of my tongue, I've got the world in my mouth. After a series of racist murders in their European town, Anna and Eireni decide to infiltrate a far-right festival to identify the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365871Author Dominique MorisseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc...

It's not stealing if it's from a dead person. Hours before their mother's funeral, the Yeung siblings gather in the family home for the first time in years, only to discover their inheritance is missing. With seemingly GBP44 to her name and her house...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365529Author Julia ChoFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Passion. Obsession. Acceptance. Betrayal. Three ground-breaking female playwrights have cooked up a feast, with a trio of short plays with music that explore love in all its glorious, sticky complexity. From the boozy warmth of the social club to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781559365833Author Amy HerzogFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre...

Maybe we shouldn't always stay here. Maybe we should stay at yours, or you should stay at yours and I should stay here. Sometimes. Simon has returned to uni after taking a year out. He wants to get on with his finals and not slip back into old,...