Books from Nick Hern Books
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Shibboleth
By Stacey GreggDevelopment. Hotels, spas, Nando's, boutiques.
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The Wardrobe
By Sam HolcroftIt's the safest place they know but is it safe enough?The Wardrobe is a gripping journey through British history that brilliantly shows both how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past.
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Dark Sublime
By Michael DennisA love-letter to British sci-fi television, both those that make it and those that adore, this work asks the question: Can you really be friends with a fan?
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Vernon God Little
By Tanya RonderVernon Little is fifteen years old and lives with his mother in Martirio, a flea-bitten Texan town. His best friend just massacred sixteen of their classmates before killing himself. The...
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Performing Shakespeare
By Oliver Ford DaviesDrawing on a lifetime’s experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies offers practical advice to actors, directors, and drama students on a wide variety of scenes, characters, speeches, and...
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Petrol Jesus Nightmare #5: (in the Time of the Messiah)
By Henry Adam"In the time of the Messiah, everything is permitted. The zealots are gathering, the city burns. The final war is coming - but no one told the men on the...
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Game
By Mike BartlettAn invasive and unnerving new play from celebrated writer Mike Bartlet (Cock, King Charles III).
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Contemporary Monologues for Men
By Jane MaudFifty fantastic speeches for men, from top plays by some of Britain's most exciting dramatists.
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Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
By Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellSet in Manchester between 1837 and 1842, Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England. It concerns Mary Barton, a mill worker's...
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Ghost Stories
By Jeremy Dyson, Andy NymanDyson and Nyman's worldwide cult phenomenon--in print for the first time.time.
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Being a Playwright: A Career Guide for Writers
By Chris Foxon, George TurveyThe essential playwriting career guide, from the team behind acclaimed new writing theatre company Papatango.
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Stacy: Fanny and Faggot : Two Plays
By Jack ThorneIn Stacy, the sole protagonist finds life confusing in a world of unwritten rules. If there's no one around to tell him right from wrong, he just has to guess....
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Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition
By William Shakespeare"The First Folio of 1623 is the definitive edition of Shakespeare's plays. It is more often than not the closest we can now get to what Shakespeare actually wrote.
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Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People
By Richard EyreIn Talking Theatre Richard Eyre gets behind the scenes of the theatre industry with many of the biggest names in the business.
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Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops
By Jessica SwaleA hundred-and-one great drama games for everyone from 6 upwards. For teachers, workshop leaders and directors.
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Drama Menu
By Glyn Trefor-JonesPacked full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
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Monty Python at Work
By Michael PalinThe behind-the-scenes story of the world's most famous alternative comedy group, told as it happened.
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Shakespeare on Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles
By Julian CurryThis title features enlightening, in-depth interviews with 13 star actors on performing Shakespeare's greatest characters.
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Dara
By Tanya Ronder, Shahid NadeemAn intense domestic drama of global consequence - for India then and for our world now.
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Beside Myself: An Actor's Life
By Antony SherRepublished to mark Antony Sher's sixtieth birthday. In Beside Myself, Sher takes us to the heart of what it is to be an actor today, describing the journeys he undertakes...