Bücher von Owen Sheers

Es war an einem Samstagnachmittag im Juni, als sich ihrer aller Leben komplett veränderte: schlagartig, nur wenige Minuten, nachdem Michael Turner das Haus der Nelsons durch die Hintertür betreten hatte. In der Stille wirkte es, als wäre niemand daheim. »Ein Roman über die Folgen eines einzigen schicksalhaften Moments - so spannend, dass man fast vergisst zu atmen. Genau das Richtige für alle Fans von Ian McEwan und Donna Tartt.« The Financial Times

A meditation on war, memory and the nature of time, Mametz, inspired by the writings of David Jones and Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, tells the story of the 38th Welsh Division’s attack on Mametz Wood during the Somme offensive of 1916. Set within the context of a contemporary battlefield tour and moving between the present day, the 1950s and WWI, the play transports an audience into the frontline trenches and the intimate fears, hopes and loves of the young soldiers risked and gave their lives in their attempt to take the wood.“The finest commemoration of the First World War centenary I’ve seen to-date, this deserves a much longer life.” Dominic Cavendish, DAILY TELEGRAPH“an astounding exploration – melding narrative and poetry – of the Battle of Mametz Wood” Carolyn Hitt, WESTERN MAIL

Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young friends from Bristol who join the army and are deployed to the post 9/11 conflict in Afghanistan. Within a short space of time all three return to the women in their lives - a wife, a mother, a girlfriend - all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of their service. Drawing upon interviews with soldiers and their families, Pink Mist illuminates the timeless human cost of war and its all too often devastating effect upon the young lives pulled into its orbit.