Bøger af Stuart Slade

Alexander the Great: Conqueror of the known world whose Macedonian phalanx defeated all who dared challenge it. Poisoned at the peak of his power by an unknown hand. Who shall succeed him? On his death-bed, Alexander left his empire "to the strongest." In doing so he condemned the vast empire he had ruled to a catastrophic series of civil wars as his generals tried to carve out realms of their own. As old friends and allies turn on each other in a deadly struggle to prove themselves "the strongest", a bitter and relentless blood feud cuts them down, one by one. With their eyes fixed on the battlefield, Alexander's Generals never realize that their deadliest enemy is a man they believe to be already dead. The only thing they might think more unlikely than their enemy is the unconventional ally he has chosen to aid him in bringing about their destruction.

Lola is sixteen years old, sharp-witted and has her whole life ahead of her - until she's diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. Now her brilliant mind is rapidly turning into useless mush.So she's promised herself two things before she dies:1. She's going to get All The Sex and2. She'll definitively discover the Meaning of Life.Stuart Slade's play Glee & Me is an unexpectedly optimistic portrayal of love and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit. It won the Judges Award in the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in September 2021.

Six young people are caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in the heart of London. By turns terrifying, inspiring, brutal, heartbreaking and hilarious, Stuart Slade's play, comprising six interlinking monologues, is verbatim theatre from the very near future.

Conrad de Llorente, Inquisitor: A Soul Eternally Damned After centuries tormented by guilt, Conrad's work saving the innocent finally won him a measure of peace and at least some of the Redemption he craves Now, respected by his peers, he lives in Bangkok and carries on his work protecting those unjustly condemned and who have nowhere else to turn. It is here that he faces his greatest ever challenge,a young woman who survived a horrifying attack as a child and has now become a career criminal. Conrad faces a new and unprecedented challenge.Knowing that Angel was betrayed by her family and believing his Church was responsible for the path her life has taken, he feels obliged to try and save her soul. Yet, how does he go about saving somebody who does not want to be saved and redeeming a soul that spurns redemption? Driven by the principle of "hating the sin but loving the sinner" Conrad accepts this new challenge and is determined to save Angel's soul- if necessary at cost of his own.

SECOND EDITION - A year after The Big One ended World War Two, a catastrophic famine has struck Europe, spreading starvation to every country in its path. Winners and losers alike struggle to feed their populations as food supplies run out and they must depend on aid from the rest of the world.Yet the fighting is not yet over. Germany may have been utterly destroyed but its armies on foreign soil survive. Now, Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel and Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky must struggle to put aside the legacy of seven year vicious fighting and try to avoid more bloodshed. As they maneuver to save the lives of the men under their command, a shipyard worker in a shattered and defeated Britain must fight to find a future for his family.Yet, there are still those who would resort to war in order to achieve their ends. Now is the time for nations across the world to band together and remember that hard decisions are not made from desire but on the anvil of necessity.

The Volga River is the heart of the Russian People and the last line of defense against the German invasion. The Russian Army is fighting desperately to defend against the German onslaught and to hold the last bridgeheads on the west bank of the Volga. But, help is coming. American personnel, supplies and equipment are pouring into Russia and at the head of the flood are the B-17 Flying Fortresses and P-47 Thunderbolts. Together the heavy bombers and their fighter escorts strike at targets deep in the heart of German-occupied Russia. As the great air battles take place, the Luftwaffe pilots realize that their days of air superiority and easy victories are over and they now face a fight just to survive. Meanwhile, as Russians and Americans fight side by side, what began as an uneasy alliance matures into a firm friendship.

SECOND EDITION - Great Britain has walked a long, hard road back from defeat and occupation. In the process it has rebuilt its armed forces and created an army and a navy that are at the cutting edge of modern operational technology. But, they are untested and untried. Now, as the Argentine Government casts covetous eyes on the Falkland Islands, Britain must show the world that it is, once again, a worldwide presence with a voice to be heard in the halls of power. To do so, they must fight an unprecedented campaign at the end of an 8,000 mile long supply line and endure a brutal slugging match with its enemies. Has their army shaken off the specter of defeat and rebuilt itself? Is the Royal Navy capable of fighting so far from its home bases? Who are the mysterious Auxiliary units whose very existence is denied? Most of all, is the Lion Resurgent?

SECOND EDITION -- One great German offensive has broken through the Russian defenses, leaving an allied army trapped in the frozen wasteland of the Kola Peninsula. While the armies try and survive the bitter cold, ski troops fight a vicious private war to dominate the ground between their armies. Desperate to break the deadlock, the German Navy sets sail in an effort to destroy the convoys that keep the allied armies on Kola alive. And so, an epic naval battle brews in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. In the midst of the fighting, the crew of a U.S. Navy railway gun, Russian railway engineers and Siberian ski troops come together in a desperate struggle to save the great guns from the advancing German troops. Behind the scenes, in a war-weary America, a political battle is being fought. One in which a supposed friend can be as deadly an enemy as any to be found on the Kola Peninsula.

During the middle and late 1970s, the United States Air Force Historical Research Center produced a series of 17 monographs that detailed the history of the Vietnam War. These remarkable documents contain a wealth of historical data that explain the background and reasoning behind many controversial decisions. Air War Vietnam is a compilation of these monographs that casts new light on why the Vietnam war was fought the way it was and why a war that could and should have been won was instead lost.

Living and working in space is man's greatest challenge. The men and women serving on the Manned Orbiting Laboratories and the new Manned Orbital Weapons Station know the are the leading edge of most important project humanity has ever attempted. The conquest of space will guarantee man's survival. Yet, there may not be enough time left. On Earth, one empire is collapsing under its own weight and there are those in its government who would prefer to suffer utter destruction rather than defeat. Will a conspiracy to stop them succeed? Another is trying to repair the damage from previous blunders and rebuild its relations with the rest of the world. Can they succeed before their enemies use a horrifying new weapon against them? As these crises converge to threaten destruction, a baffling mystery is solved. But, the question remains, will humanity have time to scale The High Frontier?

A searingly funny debut play about death, betrayal, and the possibility of forgiveness. And cider.