Morality Play

Short-listed for the Booker Prize. It is a cold winter in the 14th century, and a young renegade priest, Nicholas Barber, joins an acting troupe who prepare to play the drama of their lives. Breaking the tradition of only performing religious play, the group's charismatic leader, Martin, wants them to enact the brutal murder that has torn apart the rural village into which they have wandered; a dark world of intrigue that may prove their undoing. 206p.