Bøger af Shirin Laghai

Today, for the first time in longer than anyone can remember, the family are gathering. All of them. They are gathering to celebrate the engagement of the maternal niece, they are gathering to celebrate the last birthday of the patriarch, they are gathering to welcome home the prodigal son and his beautiful girlfriend. They are going to celebrate all this with a slideshow. But this is a family with secrets. A family that believes in sweeping things under the carpet. Of keeping things in the family. Of staying together no matter what the cost. This is a family that believes in taking photographs. Candid photographs. Photographs of things no one thought anyone else knew about. Photographs of each and every dark and secret moment they have kept hidden. Photographs of people when no one else was there. Photos that deal with the remnants of child abuse, infidelity, loss, destruction, and missed birthday parties. It's all coming out today. In black and white. On slides for everyone to see. It's all coming out tonight and everyone's going to know everything. No one's sleeping, and when it's over, there may not even be a family left.

Tom, a charming Yankee recruiter comes to an unspecified English town and falls in love with the conference centre manager, Julia. But what exactly is he recruiting for? Why does everyone who joins never return, and what's on the other side of the door he ushers them through? When Julia starts to get interested in joining Tom tries to do everything to dissuade her, but who is he protecting and what exactly are the benefits of becoming a recruit? An existential love story that asks questions of who we are, what we want from life and whether we're getting it, The Recruitment Officer is a remodelling of the 1706 play by George Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer.

On a remote headland in North Wales a man and his paraplegic son dream of life beyond the confines of their four walls. But when a woman offers them the escape they so crave, they find they are bound by more than their dreams. The jealousy of a bored policeman and the kindness of a mail-order bride set them on a path of hope and destruction about a the ship the dreams.

Set in real time with a script that allows for the incorporation of up to the minute news stories from the time of production, The Last Christmas is a newsroom drama in the Hollywood tradition, exposing the corporate underbelly of national news in a furious, fast-paced moral comedy/drama where the clock is always ticking. When a leading young producer on a national network runs a story her network disagrees with she finds herself bumped to the graveyard shift along with her on-air anchor. Forced to work Christmas morning amidst a skeleton staff of misfits, Sarah once more finds herself up against the network when the story of the millennium falls into her lap. With less than an hour until air, Sarah finds her sense of morality pushed to its limit as she battles to put on a story that nobody wants to hear and everybody refuses to tell. A story which could ruin Christmas once and for all.

Blending quotes and actual events with fictional dialogue, The Crossroads Country dramatizes the last thirty years of Afghan history up to and including the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent invasion. Merging international intrigue with the life of a single Afghan family the play utilizes humour and music as a backdrop to the international catalysts that conceived, created, and implemented the birth of global terror. Why did the Soviets invade Afghanistan? Why did the Americans fund the Jihad? Why did Osama bin Laden go to Afghanistan? Who funded the Taliban? And why was Massoud killed two days before 9/11? With over a hundred historical characters and well over a thousand quotes The Crossroads Country is a fast paced political play that provides an open door to anyone interested in current events as a detailed overview of Afghan history to students of this era and an innovative, informative, and entertaining theatrical experience.

Set around the startling true story of the assassination of Russian journalists Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya, Murder Me Gently blends real life events with Film Noir style storytelling to help highlight the human rights abuses and government oppression systemic in modern day Russia. When a Russian journalist is shot dead on her doorstep, a conman and a spy join forces to wreak revenge on those they consider responsible. But while all is fair in love and war, little is ever civil in the world of international espionage. Who is fooling who? Who is on whose side? And what wouldn't you give to torture an ex? In the classic tradition of Film Noir comes a thriller/ comedy that pits lover against lover, friend against foe, and nation against nation in a global game of cat and mouse that will affect us all.