Caryl: 102 books

Book cover of The European Tribe
by Caryl Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017

In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map.  Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and...
Book cover of The Atlantic Sound
by Caryl Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009

In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade. Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel essayist...
Book cover of Cell 2455, Death Row

Cell 2455, Death Row

A Condemned Man's Own Story

by Caryl Chessman
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009

In June 1948, 27-year-old petty criminal Caryl Chessman was sentenced in California on two counts of sexual assault, receiving two death sentences as punishment in a case that remains one of the most baffling episodes in American legal history. Maintaining his innocence of these crimes, Chessman lived...
Book cover of The Right Set

The Right Set

A Tennis Anthology

by Caryl Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010

From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams: 65 great writings on tennis that chronicle the transformation of the sport. Since its inception, tennis has embraced traditions more patrician than plebeian. But times--and tennis--have changed. The game once reserved...
Book cover of Strange Rebels

Strange Rebels

1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century

by Christian Caryl
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014

Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a global political force, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings...
Book cover of The New Soft War on Women

The New Soft War on Women

How the Myth of Female Ascendance Is Hurting Women, Men--and Our Economy

by Caryl Rivers, Rosalind C. Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013

For the first time in history, women make up half the educated labor force and are earning the majority of advanced degrees. It should be the best time ever for women, and yet... it’s not. Storm clouds are gathering, and the worst thing is that most women don’t have a clue what could be coming....
Book cover of Rough Crossings
by Caryl Philips, Simon Schama
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

Simon Schama’s extraordinary novel in a new stage adaptation by Caryl Philips. As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers of race but united in their ambitions for...
Book cover of The Truth About Girls and Boys

The Truth About Girls and Boys

Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children

by Caryl Rivers, Rosalind Barnett,
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011

Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett are widely acclaimed for their analyses of women, men, and society. In The Truth About Girls and Boys, they tackle a new, troubling trend in the theorizing of gender: that the learning styles, brain development, motivation, cognitive and spatial abilities, and...
Book cover of Here We Go (NHB Modern Plays)
by Caryl Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015

A short play about death by Caryl Churchill. A funeral party for a man with an adventurous past and a ginger cat that needs a home. Where is he now? Is his heart lighter than a feather? How did he die? And what happens to his friends? Here We Go premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2015.
Book cover of In the Falling Snow
by Caryl Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.   Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is...
Book cover of Extravagant Strangers

Extravagant Strangers

A Literature of Belonging

by Caryl Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010

Shakespeare called Othello "an extravagant and wheeling strangers/Of here and every where."  In this exciting anthology, Caryl Phillips has collected writings by thirty-nine extravagant strangers: British writers who were born outside of Britain and see it with clear and critical eyes. ...
Book cover of Classic Plays by Women

Classic Plays by Women

From 1600 to 2000

by Hrotswitha, Elizabeth Cary, Aphra Behn
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

Classic Plays by Women: an anthology of the best plays by female dramatists from 1600-2000 Staged in theatres by successive generations and proving relevant to contemporary audiences, the plays demonstrate the wit, theatrical skill and innovation of their creators in exploring timeless topics...
Book cover of The Nature of Blood
by Caryl Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009

A German Jewish girl whose life is destroyed by the atrocities of World War II . . . her uncle, who undermines the sureties of his own life in order to fight for Israeli statehood . . . the Jews of a 15th-century Italian ghetto . . Othello, newly arrived in Venice . . . a young Ethiopian Jewish woman...
Book cover of Escaped Alone (NHB Modern Plays)
by Caryl Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016

“I’m walking down the street and there’s a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I’ve seen before.” Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill's Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2016.
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