Search results for ""Author Bert Coules""
Pearson Education Limited The Play of Flowers for Algernon
This is a powerful dramatisation of Daniel Keyes's perceptive and sad novel. Charlie is a retarded adult who desperately wants to be able to read and write. He undergoes a brain operation which increases his intelligence. Yet such an operation begs many questions - can Charlie's emotional development keep pace with the intellectual? How do the psychiatrists and psychologists view Charlie - as a man or as the subject of an experiment like the mouse, Algernon? And the biggest question of all - will the operation be successful? About the series Heinemann Plays is a well established series offering the best of contemporary drama and a wide range of established classics, in value-for-money hardback versions. The series has been specially developed to support classroom teaching and performance. Within the series there are plays for the full 11-17 age range. The series also contains the best of contemporary writing, and new editions of classic plays. Heinemann Plays are sewn and bound in sturdy hardback covers, guaranteeing longer life. Heinemann Plays are ideal for class reading and performance, many with large casts and an equal mix of parts for boys and girls.
£17.90
BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Collection 2: Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas
Clive Merrison and Andrew Sachs star in seven original BBC Radio 4 full-cast adventures for Holmes and Watson.How many times did Dr John Watson tantalise us with passing references to a mystery which his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, never wrote about in full? In these original adventures Bert Coules, the chief dramatist of BBC Radio 4’s celebrated Sherlock Holmes canon, has imaginatively fleshed out seven such unrecorded cases. The Determined Client: Miss Addleton engages Holmes to save her father's good name.The Striking Success of Miss Franny Blossom: Holmes investigates a respectable gambling club. The Thirteen Watches: Bizarre events on an express train brings a railway baron to Baker Street. The Ferrers Documents: A slum landlord and a missing witness figure in a dark tale of hatred and revenge.The Remarkable Performance of Mr Frederick Merridew: A night at the music hall ends in tragedy.The Eyes of Horus: A priceless Egyptian artefact vanishes from a locked casket in a locked vault.The Marlbourne Point Mystery: Holmes and Watson discover death, treachery and betrayal on an isolated coastal headland.
£27.00
