Nick Hern Books is a London-based independent specialist publisher of plays, theatre books, and screenplays. Their list includes work by many of the UK’s preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. They work with major theatres across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their premieres. Nick Hern Books titles are available in Canada through Playwrights Canada Press.
A classic of Scots literature, brilliantly adapted for the stage.
Sunset Song is the first novel in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy, a rich evocation of growing up on a farm in Scotland in ...
The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her. Written by acclaimed director Rufus Norris for the Young Vic Theatre, London.
Once upon a time there ...
A turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future.
Lucy thinks she's finally cracked the love thing. Joe, her handsome American boyfriend, is moving to London. So how come he ...
An exciting innovation: three of Scotland's top playwrights combine forces on a single play - staged by 7:84 Scotland in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.
Some people need help. Some people find themselves ...
Flaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the well-known novelist.
Emma Bovary and her reviled husband are at breakfast on the morning of ...
The extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia.
A series of seemingly unrelated scenes portray the ordinary frustrations of everyday life: office workers bickering, a couple ...
Gus and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a pushy young female journalist—on ...
The play takes place over the course of a hot summer’s day in an imagined area of present-day Belfast. We see a day in the life of over twenty inhabitants of the district as their stories interweave ...
It’s 1967. Alex and Mary are "homers," sent from care homes in Glasgow to live with a new family in the Islands. They are thrown into the kaleidoscope of island life: the teacher who barks in a strange ...
The book is both an in-depth analysis of the play, in which Davies looks at the many possible interpretations of both play and character, and a rehearsal diary in which we see the author’s personal ...