Owen Sheers

Que fait Michael Turner dans la maison de ses voisins en leur absence ? Pourquoi s'attarder ainsi sur les photos de famille, les dessins d'enfants ? Depuis la disparition de sa femme Caroline, journaliste tuée au Pakistan, il vit à Londres. En un... Lire la suite

Unicorns, Almost portrays the short life of World War II poet Keith Douglas, from his childhood through four engagements to his fighting in the Western desert, his accelerated education as a poet and his early death three days after the Normandy D... Lire la suite

July 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. Owen Sheers, the author of Pink Mistand the BAFTA nominated The Green Hollow, has created a virtuosic 'film-poem' to coincide with the Vox Pictures/BBC production broadcast to... Lire la suite

'"For years afterwards the farmers found them - the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades." So run the blunt, grimly beautiful opening lines of the Welsh poet Owen Sheers's elegy for the men, 4,000 of them from the 38th (Welsh) Division... Lire la suite

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and using their collective... Lire la suite

Résistance explore un chemin que l'Histoire n'a pas emprunté : l'Allemagne nazie, victorieuse sur le front de l'Est, a rapatrié un grand nombre de ses troupes à l'ouest, le débarquement de juin 1944 a été un fiasco et la Wehrmacht a envahi la Grande... Lire la suite

Ein atemberaubendes Drama über die Last von Geheimnissen Nach dem tragischen Tod seiner Frau Caroline, die als Journalistin bei einem Auslandsdreh in Afghanistan ums Leben gekommen ist, erträgt Michael es nicht länger im gemeinsamen Heim in Wales.... Lire la suite

Una novela literaria escrita con el pulso de un thriller. Una magistral exploración de las relaciones humanas, el dolor, la culpa y la redención. «El acontecimiento que les cambió la vida a todos tuvo lugar una tarde de sábado de junio, pocos... Lire la suite

This edition has been fully updated to include the 2013 Six Nations and the British and Irish Lions Tour. What does rugby mean to Wales? Where does the heart of Welsh rugby lie? In Calon, Owen Sheers takes a personal journey into a sport that... Lire la suite

Michael laisse planer le doute jusqu'à la dernière page, tel un héros de Hitchcock. Est-il simplement un mari détruit par la mort de sa femme, reporter de guerre tuée au Pakistan ? Ou un personnage manipulateur ? J'ai vu un homme est un formidable... Lire la suite

Welcome to our war The Two Worlds of Charlie F. is a soldier's view of service, injury and recovery. Moving from the war in Afghanistan, through the dream world of morphine-induced hallucinations to the physio rooms of Headley Court, the play... Lire la suite

Résistance explore un chemin que l'Histoire n'a pas emprunté : l'Allemagne nazie, victorieuse sur le front de l'Est, a rapatrié un grand nombre de ses troupes à l'ouest, le débarquement de juin 1944 a été un fiasco et la Wehrmacht a envahi la Grande... Lire la suite

Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short... Lire la suite

Two stories, two different times, but the thread of an ancient tale from the medieval Celtic Mabinogion cycle runs through the lives of twenty-first-century farmer's daughter Rhian and the mysterious Branwen, in this tale by Owen Sheers. Wounded in... Lire la suite

In The Gospel of Us, Owen Sheers reimagines as fiction his play The Passion, a three-day dramatisation set in the streets, beaches and clubs of Port Talbot, co-directed by and starring Michael Sheen. Sheers' novella is told through the eyes of a... Lire la suite