King Charles III

6 best books like King Charles III (Mike Bartlett): I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, Ha'penny, The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, Rite of Passage, Indecent, Stuff Happens

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
AuthorMalaka Gharib
ISBN0525575111
One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a triumphant tale of self-discovery, a celebration of a family's rich heritage, and a love letter to American immigrant freedom. Malaka Gharib's illustrations come alive with teenage antics and earnest...
AuthorJo Walton
ISBN0765318539
In 1949, eight years after the "Peace with Honor" was negotiated between Great Britain and Nazi Germany by the Farthing Set, England has completed its slide into fascist dicatorship. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb.
 
The brilliant but politically compromised Inspector Carmichael...
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374522898
The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because...
AuthorAlexei Panshin
ISBN0978907825
In 2198, one hundred and fifty years after the desperate wars that destroyed an overpopulated Earth, Man lives precariously on a hundred hastily-established colony worlds and in the seven giant Ships that once ferried men to the stars. Mia Havero's Ship is a small closed society. It tests its children...
Indecent
AuthorPaula Vogel
ISBN1559365471
“Indecent reminds us of the power of art to tell us truths long before we are able to recognize them as such.” — Los Angeles Times

“Indecent sheds an eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture, and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected,...
AuthorDavid Hare
"Stuff happens . . . And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things."

Such was Donald Rumsfeld's response on April 11, 2003, following the infamous looting and pillaging of Baghdad. In David Hare's powerful new play chronicling...
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