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  • Pack of Lies
    Hugh Whitemore
    In 1961, Peter and Helen Kroger, two Americans living in a London suburb, were convicted of spying for the Russians and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. From these facts Hugh Whitemore has written a powerfully moving fictional account of the events leading up to their arrest with the action centered on the totally unsuspecting Jackson household - Bob, Barbara and their ...
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    19,05 €

  • Breaking the Code
    Hugh Whitemore
    This compassionate play is the story of Alan Turing, mathematician and father of computer science. Turing broke the code in two ways: he cracked the German Enigma code during World War II (for which he was decorated by Churchill) and also shattered the English code of sexual discretion with his homosexuality (for which he was arrested on a charge of gross indecency). Whitemore’...
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    19,05 €

  • A Marvellous Year for Plums
    Hugh Whitemore
    Britain in 1956: the Suez Crisis.Prime Minister Anthony Eden, described by a colleague as ’half mad baronet and half beautiful woman’, is faced with the terrible possibility of leading his country into war. His health is collapsing. His friends, colleagues and opponents, among them Hugh Gaitskell and Ian Fleming and his wife Ann, are facing crises of their own, crises of consci...
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    18,93 €

  • Pack of Lies
    Hugh Whitemore
    In 1961, Peter and Helen Kroger, two Americans living in a London suburb, were convicted of spying for the Russians and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. From these facts Hugh Whitemore has written a powerfully moving fictional account of the events leading up totheir arrest with the action centered on the totally unsuspecting Jackson household - Bob, Barbara and their d...
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    15,67 €

  • As You Desire Me
    Hugh Whitemore / Luigi Pirandello
    Elma is a singer in a sleazy 1930s Berlin nighclub. Having suffered an appalling assault during the First World War, she has no memory of her former life. A man appears and tells her that she is, in fact, the wife of an Italian aristocrat, and a new life awaits her. But when she goes to Italy to pursue this dream, she is greeted only by problems and disappointments. Pirandello ...
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    18,60 €

  • Breaking the Code
    Hugh Whitemore
    Derek Jacobi took London and Broadway by storm in this exceptional biographical drama about a man who broke too many codes: the eccentric genius Alan Turing who played a major role in winning the World War II; he broke the complex German code called Enigma, enabling allied forces to foresee German manoeuvres. Since his work was classified top secret for years after the war, no ...
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    20,33 €

  • Pack of Lies - A Play
    Hugh Whitemore
    By the acclaimed author of plays including 'Breaking the Code' and 'As You Desire Me.' ...
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    20,30 €

  • Stevie
    Hugh Whitemore
    Smith commutes to the West End to her work as a secretary at a publishing company. Her evenings are spent at home with her beloved aunt - a world of battenberg cake, gossip, ginger nuts and sherry in tiny glasses. But at the same time as leading this seemingly mundane suburban existence, she is writing the piercing poetry and prose that will one day make her famous. Stevie is a...
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    18,63 €