About
A blog of tiny dramas about working in a secondhand bookshop. All the small plays really happened, I just wrote them down.
You can contact me on emily@smallplays.com.
Latest Plays
- On Leave
- Machines
- Starting a Family
- Conjurer
- Horse Wind
- Lapsed
- Great Beaver
- Definition of Fiction
- Hares
- Cows
- Syria
- Kempt
- Trousers
- Cough
- Transylvanian Ephemera
- Books to Gold
- Shut Up, Peggy
- You can learn something
- Gay Sadist
- Jersey
- Boys In Jail
- Stains
- Fish Knives
- Demon
- Rokeham
- Do you sell books?
- Pulped
- Ukulele
- Maps
- The Ghost
- Short Film
- Oxford Street
- Book Burning
- Booze Bandits of 1910
- First People
- Sea Stories
- Sad Books
- A Little Treadmill
- Student Card
- The Clothes of Sarah Hones
- The Thief
- Illuminati
- Door
- Enquiry
- Secret Book
- Flew Round A Field For Us
- Dark Pop-Up
- Job Enquiry
- The Sea Life
- Woofters
- Drama Section
- Who’s Who
- Plutarch
- Mind and Brain
- Archive
- More Bookshops
- Have you got any Tom Clancy?
- Drama Section
"In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money."
George Orwell

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