Books by Stephen (Playwright Poliakoff

A series of three-hour-long linked plays for BBC2 plus two shorter plays

Following the life and times of Prince John, the forgotten youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, this dramatization reveals how, diagnosed as epileptic and suffering from learning difficulties he was shut away at the age of 12 to prevent the family from public embarrassment.

The third volume of Poliakoff's plays in the "Contemporary Dramatists" series contains his award-winning screenplays, "Caught on a Train" (BAFTA for Best Single Play, 1980), and "Close My Eyes" ("Evening Standard" Best Picture of 1991), and the play "Coming in to Land".

Glorious 39 is the screenplay of the new blockbuster film by award-winning writer/director Stephen Poliakoff released in cinemas this autumn. In this tense psychological thriller set on the eve of WWII, a young woman stumbles across evidence of a sinister Nazi appeasement plot that will stop at nothing to achieve its aims.

Two major new screenplays by the inimitable, award-winning Stephen Poliakoff made for the BBC and HBO Films and due to be broadcast in autumn 2007 . A stellar cast led by Michael Gambon and Dame Maggie Smith feature in these exquisite, major new films that are linked by a grand house and memories of the past.

This collection of Poliakoff's plays from the 1970s includes his first major success, "Clever Soldiers", and "Hitting Town", "City Sugar", "Shout Across the River", "American Days" and "Strawberry Fields".

One of a series of drama texts published to coincide with theatrical premieres of new plays and translations.