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Peter Gill showed theatre audiences that anywhere could be the centre of the world

The playwright and director, who has died aged 86, completed DH Lawrence’s revolution in spotlighting the stories of working people

The Guardian - UK · Aug 5

Peter Gill, acclaimed playwright and director behind 'The York Realist', dies aged 86

From the Royal Court to the National Theatre, Gill directed nearly 100 productions and wrote some of Britain's most acclaimed modern plays.

Euronews · Aug 5

Peter Gill: a theatrical visionary with an unsparing honesty

Gill’s dramas of divided class loyalties such as The York Realist had a clear-eyed precision matched by his rigorous work as a director

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4

‘I had to think about Andrew Tate. That was miserable’: 150 years of masculinity, all in one play

Revered for her work on Succession and Normal People, Alice Birch has now written an era-spanning play about men, novels and the manosphere. Give me a Brontë any day, she says

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2025

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read

From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present

The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2025

More sex please, we’re bookish: the rise of the x-rated novel

From the Women’s prize to the bestseller lists, authors are pushing the boundaries of how explicit the novel can be – and readers can’t get enough

The Guardian - UK · Jul 26, 2025

Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past

A landmark book exposes the history of loathing that underpins scandals like Winterbourne View. It has received next to no attention, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2025

Billy Williams obituary

Cinematographer who won an Oscar for Gandhi but did his most adventurous work on Ken Russell’s Women in Love

The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2025

‘Men need liberation too’: do we need more male novelists?

As a small press launches dedicated to new male fiction, authors including Anne Enright and Nikesh Shukla ask if men are really being pushed out of publishing

The Guardian - UK · May 31, 2025

‘It led me to some risky places’: The book that made me who I am today, by Tessa Hadley, Kate Mosse and more

HAY FESTIVAL 2025: Eight enigmatic authors speak to Annabel Nugent about the singular book to define them as writers and people

The Independent UK · May 28, 2025