Three linked plays for class reading and performance which may be read or rehearsed separately, or put together for longer reading sessions or dramatic performance.

In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby. At the same time, Nikitas’s English widow Maud – disturbed by her husband’s strange behaviour in the days before his death – starts to investigate his complicated past. She soon finds herself reigniting a bitter family feud, and discovers a heartbreaking story of a young mother caught up in the political tides of the Greek Civil War, forced to make a terrible decision that will blight not only her life but that of future generations...

Set in the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra's Paradise is the fictional graphic novel of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone.

Demonstrating respect for Rights? : A human rights approach to policing protest, seventh report of session 2008-09, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence

This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers’ rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in public space and democracy and anti-globalisation movements. In response to fears of revolution from 1789 to 1848, the British government and local authorities prohibited mass working-class political meetings and societies. Protesters faced the privatisation of public space. The ‘Peterloo Massacre’ of 1819 marked a turning point. Radicals, trade unions and the Chartists fought back by challenging their exclusion from public spaces, creating their own sites and eventually constructing their own buildings or emigrating to America. This book also uncovers new evidence of protest in rural areas of northern England, including rural Luddism. It will appeal to academic and local historians, as well as geographers and scholars of social movements in the UK, France and North America.

Paradise Road is a piercing novel of love, marriage and renewal. It captures the intensity, excitement, fear and joy of being on the threshold of the mysterious combination of marriage and parenthood. Powerful, assured and large of heart. Paradise Road is a novel that will delight its readers for its sincerity and honest approach of life in the fast lane. Join Billy and Cathy as they embark on the road to self-discovery and spiritual growth. The road they're on is an emotional rollercoaster ride that you won't want to get off. It is both frightening and exhilarating and traveling at full speed. A story of blazing emotion and remarkable grace. A powerful and uncompromising tale that will have you cheering for the two young lovers to make their dreams come true. The novel represents for the author an extraordinary leap forward as a novelist. This edition includes a selection of poems that have never before been published an interview with the author and the Proust Questionnaire.