Carla's Song tells the story of the relationship between George, a feckless Scottish bus driver, and Carla, a refugee from Nicaragua, adrift in Glasgow. It is 1987 and in Carla's home country the US-backed Contra rebels are mounting their final lethal assault against the Sandinista government. At first, Carla resists George's attentions. But he persists, fascinated both by her beauty and by the traumatic mystery that he senses in her past. Emboldened by her love for George, Carla returns with him to Nicaragua and to the turmoil which has engulfed her country. Carla's Song reflects on the burden the past imposes on the present - both politically and emotionally - while celebrating, with distinctive Glaswegian humour, the unquenchable strength of the human spirit.

Carla's Song

Arts & Photography

Laverty, Paul

Performing Arts

Faber&Faber

I, Daniel Blake (Nick Hern Books)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Nick Hern Books

Joe is on the waggon, but still raw after chaotic years of drinking. He is bursting with energy and determined to live life to the full although he runs the worst football team in Glasgow. Sarah, private and independent, is a health visitor who lives for her work. They cross swords over a young couple and begin a wild romance where choices are never simple.

My Name Is Joe

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Screenpress Books

In this emotionally–charged screenplay, Paul Laverty’s third collaboration with director Ken Loach, the writer explores the most marginalized of LA communities. “Bread and Roses” is a look at “the other America” as seen through the eyes of Maya, a young Mexican woman who’s been smuggled across the border to join her sister Rosa in Los Angeles. Against Rosa’s wishes, Maya takes a cleaning job at a prestigious downtown office block, where she begins to confront the realities of life on the edges of American society. The arrival of Sam, a dedicated and uncompromising union organizer who’s determined to improve the lot of the workers, sets in motion a series of events that has devastating consequences for them all.

Bread and Roses (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)

Loach, Ken

Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers. His chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don't help, but it is Eric's own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved thirty years ago? Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink. In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend from foreign parts to challenge a lost postman to make that journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past. As the Chinese, and one Frenchman, say, `He who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six.'

Looking for Eric

Barratt, Joss

Route

Fergus met Frankie on his first day at school and they've been in each others' shadow ever since. As teenagers they skipped school and drank cider on the ferry over the River Mersey, dreaming about travelling the world. In September 2004, Fergus persuaded Frankie to join his security team in Baghdad: GBP10,000 a month, tax free; their last chance to 'load up' in this increasingly privatised war. Together they risked their lives in a city steeped in violence, terror and greed, and awash with billions of US dollars. Three years later, Frankie is killed on Route Irish, the most dangerous road in the world. Back in Liverpool, a grief-stricken Fergus rejects the official explanation that Frankie was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and begins his own investigation into his soul mate's death. Only Rachel, Frankie's partner, grasps the depth of Fergus's sorrow, and the lethal possibilities of his fury as he struggles to find his old self and the happiness he shared with Frankie twenty years earlier on the Mersey. Features the full screenplay, character backstory, production notes and photographs from the film, plus background essays by Mark Townsend, Haifa Zangana and Mike Phipps.

Route Irish

Route Publishing

This official tie-in book for the eponymous Palme d'Or winning film features the screenplay and exclusive material, including an introduction from Paul Laverty, an interview with Ken Loach, production notes from cast and crew plus stills from the film. The plot is of an injured construction worker and a single mother who find common ground while living on government assistance in modern day Britain.

I, Daniel Blake

Arcade Fire

Schwarzkopf + Schwarzkopf

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