Books from Nick Hern Books

  • Vernon God Little
    By Tanya Ronder

    A revised version, as the centrepiece of the Young Vic's celebratory fortieth anniversary season.

  • An Attitude for Acting: How to Survive (and Thrive) as an Actor
    By Andrew Tidmarsh, Tara Swart

    Invaluable for student actors at the start of their career and for those whose careers have stalled.

  • Drama Menu at a Distance: 80 Socially Distanced Or Online Theatre Games
    By Glyn Trefor-Jones

    An essential "recipe" book for drama teachers that eliminates the challenges of planning lessons and workshops in the "new normal" of COVID-19 online learning.

  • Jerusalem (Broadway Tie-In Edition)
    By Jez Butterworth

    Winner of Best Play, 2009 Evening Standard Awards, Best New Play, Critics Circle Awards and Best New Play, Whatsonstage.com Awards.

  • Stones in His Pockets: &, A Night in November
    By Marie Jones

    Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in Stones in His Pockets - a hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.A two-man show about the filming of a Hollywood epic in rural Ireland, Stones in His Pockets features a ...

  • Any Given Day
    By Linda McLean

    A sharply perceptive, darkly funny riff on urban isolation by one of Scotland's leading playwrights.

  • Jack Thorne Plays: One
    By Jack Thorne

    Acclaimed for his TV screenplays (Skins, This is England), as well as his original plays and adaptations (Let the Right One In), Jack Thorne is one of the most distinctive...

  • Superhoe
    By NicĂ´le Lecky

    Lecky's play premiered by Talawa Theatre and the Royal Court at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2019.

  • Ugly Lies the Bone
    By Stephen Laughton

    Set over one unforgettable summer and encompassing all of space and time, Run explores what it means to love, to lose and how to grow from a boy into a man.

  • The Loves of Shakespeare's Women
    By William Shakespeare, Susannah York

    From a well-known actress comes this fascinating anthology of Shakespeare's multifarious female characters