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  • Girl with a Meat Axe and Other Stories
    Michael Yates
    A collection of short stories.Annie thinks her husband is unfaithful, and she’s got herself a meat axe to bring him back in line... Gillian makes a pass at Miles - on the day of his wife’s funeral... Disturbed Dorothy discovers from a crossword clue that her doctor is madly in love with her... When his mistress gives him the elbow, film critic Mark takes lessons from Anthony Qu...
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    17,41 €

  • Dying is the Last Thing You Ever Want to Do
    Michael Yates
    Dying is the Last Thing You Ever Want to Do Seventeen-year-old Josie is a miner’s daughter, a good Catholic girl and brilliant at school. She might even get to University because her Aunt May has come into some insurance money. But then a man called Hitler invades Poland and her whole world is ravaged by the violence of war. And then there’s a different violence close to her Yo...
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    16,01 €

  • The Navigator’s Daughter
    Michael Yates
    Alice searches passionately for a man to love as fiercely as she once loved her father. But, with a history of violent relationships, she seems destined to fail. Meanwhile her daughter Maudie fights for a life of her own but cannot escape the mother who will never let her grow up. A moving play about love and family through poverty and prosperity, war and peace. With moments of...
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    10,39 €

  • 20 Stories High
    Michael Yates
    A dead author dictates his novel to a friend. A loser in love tries plastic surgery. A boy comes home early to discover his father’s infidelity.A born-again Christian takes a lesson from Chairman Mao. A drug addict’s dead parents come to visit. A have-a-go hero becomes an internet villain.A murderer’s dad counts his blessings. And the dead find themselves on a very slow train j...
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    17,46 €

  • The Bronte Boy
    Michael Yates
    In this play, young Branwell Bronte, who once ruled an imaginary world, is now a man, grown mad trying to cope with the real one. Having failed as a poet and painter, as doomed in love as he is in literature, he slips ever more quickly down the road of drink, drugs and despair. His loving father Patrick and talented sister Charlotte fight a last-ditch stand for his salvation, b...
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    8,94 €

  • QWERTYUIOP
    Michael Yates
    Remember when typewriters ruled the world? It's the age of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister. But the best chance most women have to get close to power - or even close to a job - is to join a Government-sponsored training course for shorthand typists. So prim Susan and sexy Frankie and depressive Sandra and busybody Pat get together to conquer the keyboar...
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    8,08 €

  • The Gangers
    Michael Yates
    The Gangers: High Noon in Yorkshire The avenger rides into town looking for the men who killed his friend. In his saddlebag, he carries a Colt 44. But this is no wild west scenario. This is Yorkshire. The avenger is Sergeant Lorenzo Joseph of the British army. And the background is the Railway Boom of the 1870s. This is a world where progress and poverty, industry and ana...
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    14,93 €

  • The Great Inequality
    Michael D Yates / Michael Yates
    A growing inequality in income and wealth marks modern capitalism, and it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, especially those of the working class. It is and will continue to be the central issue of politics in almost every nation on earth. In this book, the author explains inequality in clear, passionate, and intelligent prose: what it is, why it matters, how...
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    89,59 €

  • Homer's ODC
    Michael Yates
    It's the start of the 21st century. And a single bullet will change two lives. Raymond is a shy young man. He wishes he'd gone to Uni. But his father wants him in the family business. And his father is a gangster and a killer. Barry wants to be a poet. But he's also - in his own words - a user of the mental health services. And his two best friends are the late John Lennon a...
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    15,33 €

  • Wireless Mysteries Old Testament
    Michael Yates
    With the Medieval Mystery Plays, religious drama left the churches and took to the streets, involving whole communities. But when playwright Michael Yates decided to write a modern version, he knew he could never compete with CGI - no massive crowds, no huge cast. So he wrote an audio version for a small group of actors to play many parts. And here it is. The material is pre...
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    8,63 €

  • Short Shorts Volume 2
    Michael Yates
    Three one-act plays by Michael Yates. A REAL CUSHY NUMBER: It’s the night shift at a major hospital and the porters sip their hot tea and talk about life as they wait for a patient to die. ALL GOOD MEN: Party conference time - and the sudden death of the prime minister triggers a power struggle as young speech-writer Simon goes to war with ambitious minister Darius and sexy, ru...
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    12,36 €

  • Branwell & Other Stories
    Michael Yates
    In these six exciting stories, Branwell, the Bronte boy who ruled an imaginary childhood world, has failed as poet and painter and slips down the road of drink and despair; passionate Alice, searching for a man she can love as she once loved her father, ignores the desperate struggle of her daughter Maudie to make a life of her own; idealistic Mr Berry, trapped in a dead-end j...
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    17,13 €

  • Short Shorts
    Michael Yates
    Three one-act plays by Michael Yates.LIFE SENTENCE: Hell hath no fury like a womanscorned - especially when she has a meat cleaver in herhand! A dark comedy about the violent games loversplay. Winner of the Stanley Arnold Trophy at SheffieldOne-Act Play Festival.TILL MY EYES BLEED: Loyal Mel hires the theatreto host a wake for his best friend Adrian. But itbecomes apparent - to...
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    10,58 €

  • The Bronte Boy
    Michael Yates
    In this play, young Branwell Bronte, who once ruled an imaginary world, is now a man, grown mad trying to cope with the real one. Having failed as a poet and painter, as doomed in love as he is in literature, he slips ever more quickly down the road of drink, drugs and despair. His loving father Patrick and talented sister Charlotte fight a last-ditch stand for his salvation,...
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    8,81 €

  • Life Class
    Michael Yates
    ''A poet of the everyday world, he is consistently good'' says Brian Patten.''I like the humanity, the way his poems seem to be full of real people feeling real emotions'' says Ian McMillan''He has an ear for popular diction reminiscent of Alan Bennett. His eye for comic fiction reminds me of Roger McGough'' - Bradford Telegraph & Argus ...
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    25,03 €

  • Hongyun
    J. Michael Yates / JMichael Yates
    'When Yates and I first met and had dinner at the University of Missouri, he was an undergraduate. His work was brilliant then. This I told him and his department head. This Canticle for Electronic Music underscores the acuity of my forecasting.'-W.H. Auden, The Quest 'With great admiration for your work.'--Joyce Carol Oates 'I appreciate this poet’s concentration, swiftness, d...
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    17,15 €