Joe Orton and his partner Kenneth Halliwell were jailed in 1962 after defacing book covers at a library in Islington Prints of library book covers defaced by playwright Joe Orton will go on sale ...

Joe Orton is seen here at home in 1964. Orton had previously surreptitiously removed books from London libraries and modify the cover art with rude messages. They also decorated their flat with ...

On 25 April, it will be 50 years since Joe Orton, the playwright best known ... and Halliwell reveal a genuine flair for book design: the plain covers of the Arden edition are embellished with ...

Production notebooks belonging to Samuel Beckett, letters written by JB Priestley from the First World War front line and an uncensored version of Joe ... book covers defaced by Orton and his ...

Prints of library book covers defaced by playwright Joe Orton will go on sale to help raise funds for a statue in his hometown. The rebellious Leicester-born playwright was jailed after he and his ...