As a rule, a good novel does not always make a good playâ€"â€"especially a novel as unconventional as this one by Dylan Thomas. But Andrew Sinclair’s brilliant adaptation of Adventures in the Skin Trade is the exception. This is the story of youn...
From Queen Victoria to the Millennium, this saga tells of the generations of a family that helped to build and then watch the fall of an imperial power which, at one time, controlled a quarter of the planet....
The Breaking of Bumbo was first published fifty years ago when the author was twenty-two. It was an immense success and caused something of stir. To quote from the original blurb, 'Bumbo Bailey is a coward and a bit of a hero; a martyr, an egoist, a ...
The scene is Cambridge in the early 1960s. Ben Birt, an intellectual Brando from a grammar school, sees the University through proud, bawdy and anarchic eyes. Classless but deeply class-conscious. Brought up on Shakespeare and the classics, much infl...
'The book is a bravura performance, exhibiting the virtuosity that has lit up all Sinclair's work.' - C.P. Snow, "Financial Times" 'This is a rich and satisfying hybrid work - part fiction and part biography. Its hold on the reader stems, at least i...