Results for: books tagged ‘Imprisonment’
The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist: Breyten Breytenbach
Letters to Olga: Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel was one of the most important European writers of our time. In 1979 he was sentenced to four and a half years of hard labour for his involvement ... More
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me: Frank McGuinness
An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they ... More
The Ordinary Seaman: Francisco Goldman
The ordinary seaman is Esteban, a 19-year-old veteran of the war in Nicaragua who has come to America with fourteen other men to crew the boat 'Urus'. Docked on a ... More
Life is Beautiful: Roberto Benigni
Winner of the Best Picture at the 1998 European Film Awards and the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. 'A masterpiece. Romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving.' Chicago ... More
Girl, Interrupted: James Mangold
Cult movie heroine Winona Ryder starred in the film of the best-selling book by Susanna Kaysen, adapted and directed by the creator of Copland and Heavy. Girl, Interrupted charts the ... More
Famous Last Words: Timothy Findley
In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. ... More
Prince Charming: Christopher Logue
Prince Charming is the story of Christopher Logue: one of our great poets and literary mavericks, part of a circle that included Kenneth Tynan and Richard Ingrams. It tells, in ... More
Guantanamo: David Rose
Camp Delta at Guantánamo Bay is the most controversial prison in the world.The 600 detainees in Cuba have been held in a legal black hole. Are they 'the hardest of ... More
The American Pilot: David Greig
A spy plane crash-lands in a remote valley in a distant country. The local villagers take in the wounded pilot and argue his fate. The American Pilot explores the way ... More
Showing 1 - 10 of 29 Results