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(Hardback)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9781846976261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The first ever novel by award-winning Scottish playwright David Greig,Columbas Bonesrecasts ninth century Scotland as the setting for a Scandi-noir-style thriller. Utterly unique,Columbas Bonesexplores early Christianity and paganism, philosophy, redemption and shame, violence and love, transcendence and reality.


(Paperback, New in Paperback)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9781846976735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The first ever novel by award-winning Scottish playwright David Greig,Columba's Bonesrecasts ninth century Scotland as the setting for a Scandi-noir-style thriller. Utterly unique,Columba's Bonesexplores early Christianity and paganism, philosophy, redemption and shame, violence and love, transcendence and reality.


(Paperback)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780413708809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Europe", a play inspired by Bosnian refugees waiting in a bus on the border for a country prepared to grant them asylum, is a black, bleak comedy. The protagonist of "Architect", Leo Black, used to be an idealistic architect, but now his buildings and his family are falling apart.


(Paperback)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780413772534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Europe" is set at a railway station in a town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love and loss. "The Architect" charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, an idealistic designer whose visions are now crumbling. "The Cosmonaut's Last Message..." tells the stories of an eclectic mix of people.


(Paperback)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780413707703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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One of a series of drama texts published to coincide with theatrical premieres of new plays and translations.


(Paperback)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780413740106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years." (Scotsman)


(Paperback)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780413743107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Two plays about cultural identity from Scotland and Catalonia, which received their English-language premires in August 1999 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in Traverse Theatre Company productions


(Paperback)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780413750907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Dramatic events in a rural community on the Scottish coast reflect the shifting political and social fabric of Britain in the 20th century. This play premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London.


(Paperback, Main)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780571260218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken rules of this alien country.


(Paperback, Main)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780571329229
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A young man arrives in a dying city with seashells in his pockets. He doesn't know who he is, or how he got here. He goes by the only name he can think of: Lanark.


(Paperback, Main)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780571253616
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 16th July 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The story of a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and self-loathing hangovers.


(Paperback, Main)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780571228508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A man is found lying in the snow at the foot of the Pyrenees. Who is he really Pyrenees premiered at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in March 2005 in a co-production between Paines Plough and the Tron Theatre Company, Glasgow, in association with Palace Theatre, Watford.


(Paperback, Main)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780571234158
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Brings together four key plays that include - "Outlying Island", "San Diego", "Pyrenees" and "The American Pilot". This collection also includes a trilogy of short plays - "Being Norwegian", "Kyoto" and "Brewers Fayre".


(Paperback, Main)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780571311057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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When Claire, a priest, survives an atrocity she sets out on a quest to answer the most difficult question of all: 'Why' It's a journey that takes her to the edge of reason, science, politics and faith.


(Paperback, Main)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780571282876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Duck Macatarsney cares for her biker dad, Duke, whose MS is getting worse. Duke is a spliff-smoking (for medicinal reasons you understand), bike-riding, heavy-metal- and horror-movie-loving, pizza-eating widower who has brought up Duck since the death of her mum in a crash.


(Paperback, Main)

By: David Greig

ISBN: 9780571309986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig: 'Loved the play, and the script is a joy on its own.' (Andrew Greig, Herald Books of the Year).