British Literature: Drama

Recreates the fever pitch of football fans in Great Britain, and describes how football has played a defining role in thousands of young men's coming-of-age stories.

Recently dumped by his wealthy girlfriend, record store owner Rob Fleming finds himself in financial trouble and sets out on a pilgrimage to ask his former girlfriends where their relationships went wrong and to learn where his life went off track.

A former talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother, each intending to commit suicide, find themselves together on the roof of a London building and begin to contemplate their individual choices and circumstances.

Will, a thirty-six-year-old London bachelor, undergoes a change in his outlook about marriage and children when he lies to join a single parents group in order to meet women, and becomes friends with a needy twelve-year-old named Marcus.

Just when the pair is on the verge of divorce, English doctor Katie Carr's cynical husband, David, undergoes a spiritual awakening and invites a faith healer to live with them and their two children.

At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.

The last novel written by English author Virginia Woolf, telling of the undercurrents swirling behind the scenes of the annual pageant at Pointz Hall, especially among unhappy Isa Oliver, her handsome husband Giles, and Mrs. Manresa, a guest who is pursuing him.

Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man raised in Edwardian England, discovers as an adult that his life is lacking, but his search for fulfillment is sidetracked by the outbreak of World War I. Includes extracts from Woolf's diaries and letters, comments on the novel, a selection of short stories by Woolf, critical essays, and other reference material.

Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway, occupied with the last-minute details of party preparation, finds her thoughts on a very different route through the past.

Virginia Woolf's classic essay that explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do.

Describes a party gathered at a house on the Scottish coast, in later years only caretakers have the house, and in the last part of the story the house is again filled with surviving family members.

Set against a backdrop of the sea, follows the thoughts and friendships of six characters at different stages of their lives, from childhood through old age.

Bridget Jones starts a diary on New Year's Day and throughout the year, she keeps track of how well she is succeeding in her quest to become a better person.

Bridget Jones, having decided to give Mark Darcy a chance, finds herself wrestling with the realities of sharing bed and board with a man, and things become complicated even further with the arrival on the scene of the beautiful, man-hunting Rebecca.

Over imaginative journalist Olivia Joules, covering the debut of a face cream in Miami, launches an investigation and a new career when she begins to suspect that the product's creator, the suave Frenchman Pierre Ferramo, is actually a terrorist in league with al-Qaeda.

"Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of loss, single motherhood, tweeting, texting, technology, and rediscovering her sexuality in--Warning! Bad, outdated phrase approaching!--middle age"--Dust jacket.

Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday, two of London's cultural elite, enter into a euthanasia pact after their former lover, Molly Lane, dies of a degenerative illness in her forties. Meanwhile, scandalous photos of Molly and prime minister candidate Julian Garmony surface, endangering his political career.

Imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, misinterpreting a scene between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son, later accuses Robbie of a crime she has no proof he committed and spends years trying to atone for her actions.

Four children left alone in large house after the death of their mother and father grapple with the consequences of their parent's lives and the secrets they left behind.

Stephen Lewis and his wife Julie, each struggle to cope with the loss of their only child, Kate, who was abducted from a supermarket; but as the years go by, the grief only intensifies.

An imaginative ten year old boy who is misunderstood by most grown-ups has a number of remarkable adventures while daydreaming.

Presents a collection of eight stories of murder by twentieth-century short story writer and novelist, Ian McEwan.

Henry Perowne, a London neurosurgeon, goes through his normal Saturday activities, including a weekly squash game, but his unease grows as he makes his way through the throngs of anti-war protesters clogging London's streets, until a minor car accident with the petulant Baxter begins a series of events that erupts into violence.

A man, with the help of a young Russian peasant girl, learns to cope with his household after his English wife leaves Moscow in the spring of 1913.

When Florence Green opens a bookshop in a sleepy seaside town she is met with open resistance by her neighbors who resent her success.

Romance and intrigue prevail when the eccentric group of broadcasters at the BBC are thrust together in a concert hall-turned dormitory after the station is targeted by enemy bombers during World War II.

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

George Hall is ready to settle down to a comfortable retirement, until his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces she is marrying someone George disapproves of, and George is diagnosed with a devastating illness.

Physician Richard invites his estranged sister and her family on a weeklong vacation in the English countryside, and, as long-held grudges, hopes, secrets, and desires are revealed, the families try to forgive and reach out to one another.

A barrister, a priest, a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, and a medium find their cozy lives being turned upside down by assorted disasters and a horrendous lawsuit.

Caroline Rose, a recently converted Catholic, begins to hallucinate voices that indicate to her that she has become a character in a novel.

A woman living in Italy, Mrs. Hawkins, remembers her younger years as a war widow in London, during which time she came upon some mysteriously wicked deeds, including blackmail and suicide, at home and work.

Chronicles the experiences of a group of women living in a London hostel in the years following World War II.

A balance between fact and fantasy is humorously portrayed in the person of an aspiring author, Miss Talbot, who goes to work as a secretary in 1949.

A teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh, Scotland, Miss Jean Brodie was a woman of ideas, wit, and charm who had a lover. The students she chose as her special friends were called the "Brodie set." One of them would betray her.

A reprint of a 1968 novel in which a movie star, living in Rome, runs into trouble when she begins to believe in her own public image.

Beautiful, mysterious Vianne Rocher and her young daughter arrive in Lansquenet-sous-Tannes at the start of the Lenten season where she proceeds to set up a chocolate shop, much to the chagrin of the local priest.

Aspiring writer Charles Lamb and his sister, Mary, find a much-needed escape through William Shakespeare's writings, so when a bookseller claiming to possess a lost Shakespearean play arrives, they can barely contain their excitement, but the bookseller's claims soon lead the brother and sister on a journey with unexpected results.

After a doctor at the Eden-Olympia clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree, Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement and uncovers a dangerous secret behind the clinic's smoothly running surface.