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  • Snake Catcher

    True Stories and Reptile Facts

    by Tony Harrison ...
    Tony Harrison has lived the life of a professional snake catcher for twenty years. In this book, he introduces you to the reptiles most commonly encountered in our cities and towns, including some of the most venomous snakes on earth.Tony has spent his whole life surrounded by reptiles. His work and his animals are regularly featured on TV and in movies. That means he has a tale or two to tell. In ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Benidorm Seriously!!

    Buying a hotel in Europe's No1 tourist resort, what could go wrong!

    by Tony Harrison ...
    Leaving the dull grey skies of the U.K. and an incredibly angry ex-girlfriend, I escaped to Europe’s No1 tourist resort, Benidorm, to start a new life. Buying and running a gay hotel in the old town was something that I never expected to do, over the next few years, I witnessed the crazy, strange, and downright bizarre behaviour of tourists and hotel guests. From gangsters to prostitutes, from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Poems

    by Tony Harrison ...
    Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry.His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness of family life and personal love, to war poems written from Bosnia and savage public outcries against politicians. In The Collected Poems, Harrison draws deeply both on classical tradition and on the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Inky Digit of Defiance

    Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966–2016

    by Tony Harrison ...
    In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an extraordinary journey through languages and across continents and millennia, from his Nigerian Lysistrata to the British Raj of his version of Racine's ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Tony Harrison Plays 6

    Hecuba; Fram; Iphigenia in Crimea

    by Tony Harrison ...
    Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. The book contains Harrison's translation of Euripides's Hecuba, which inaugurated the modern amphitheatre of Delphi in 2005; the remarkable Fram, which opened at the National Theatre in 2008; and Iphigenia in Crimea, after Euripides, which premiered on BBC Radio 3 to mark Tony Harrison's eightieth birthday in 2016.'Tony is that ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Tony Harrison Plays 2

    The Misanthrope; Phaedra Britannica; The Prince's Plays

    by Tony Harrison ...
    This second collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage contains his adaptations of Molière, Racine and Victor Hugo. Included are the plays The Misanthrope, Phaedra Britannica and The Prince's Plays.The volume contains introductions, written by Tony Harrison, to each of the plays. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • v.

    ebook with audio

    by Tony Harrison ...
    The Star: 'A plan to televise a poem packed with obscenities caused outrage last night. ITV chiefs intend to screen a reading of Tony Harrison's verse v. which is full of four-letter words.'Daily Mail: 'A torrent of four-letter filth… the most explicitly sexual language yet beamed into the nation's living rooms… the crudest, most offensive word is used 17 times.'Gerald Howarth, MP: 'It is full of ... Read more

    $8.89 USD

  • Selected Poems

    by Tony Harrison ...
    A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected PoemsThis indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of Eloquence and the remarkable long poem 'v.', a meditation in a vandalized Leeds graveyard which caused enormous controversy when it was broadcast on Channel 4 in 1987 and is now regarded as one of the key ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Book of Leeds

    A City in Short Fiction

    Featuring:Tony Harrison, Jeremy Dyson, Shamshad Khan, Ian Duhig, David Peace, Susan Everett, MY Alam, Andrea Semple, Martyn Bedford, Tom Palmer.Millgarth Police Station reverberates with the early adrenalin-rush of a case they won't close for years.A teenage boy trails the city centre bars of the eighties in thrall to his hero - a Leeds United football hooligan.A single woman finds her ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Fram

    by Tony Harrison ...
    Reliance on devices like the photograph and slidewill lead, I rather fear, to linguistic suicide.We must keep on challenging language to engagewith all we suffer from in this new modern age.This epic sweep of a play takes us from a contemporary Westminster Abbey to the Arctic ship Fram - or Forward - specially built by the famous Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, with his suicidal companion, ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Hecuba

    translated by Tony Harrison

    by Euripides ...
    Translated by Tony Harrison ...
    The first great war between the east and west is over. Hecuba, once queen of Troy, is widowed and enslaved by the conquering Greeks. When her captors demand that her daughter be sacrificed in honour of the great warrior Achilles, and she finds her only surviving son murdered, her mourning turns to a hunger for retribution.One of the most powerful dramas ever written, Hecuba is a vital examination ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

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  • The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

    by Les Murray ...
    From his life’s work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best. Including classics such as ‘The Broad Bean Sermon’, ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ and ‘The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever’, this elegant hardback is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. This is a wonderful gift, and a treasure trove of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD