Bøker av Kieron Barry

A tale of obsession and betrayal, Tomorrow In The Battle charts a doomed love affair in today’s London.Simon, a heart surgeon, takes increasing risks with his health, marriage and career as he pursues a desperate relationship. Meanwhile, his wife Anna, a scientist at the Ministry of Defence, contrives a deception of her own in the renewal of the country’s nuclear arsenal.Urgent, profound and troubling, Tomorrow In The Battle paints a searing portrait of loyalty and lust, honour and honesty, and duty and desire.‘A solemn erotic lyricism I haven’t encountered since Damage’ Ben Brantley, New York Times‘One of the most remarkable pieces of theatre in recent memory. A Harold Pinter for today.’ Times Union, New York

This brutal and hilarious one-act play was declared one of the greatest plays of all time for women in Lucy Kerbel's volume 100 Great Plays For Women. Set in an all-girls' boarding school, Numbers depicts a vicious battle of wills between four Sixth Form girls in the hour before a new Head Girl is announced. As the girls vie for the coveted position, old friendships and loyalties give way to ambition and betrayal. Nothing is too extreme in a battle which increasingly proves less ab