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".

Heralding a return to the stage for renowned dramatist Stephen Poliakoff, My City is a lyrical exploration of storytelling, interwoven personal and political histories, memory and the ties of the past.

When Cecilia, the beautiful wife of the area manager takes an interest in the running of one of a chain of DIY stores, strange upheavals begin to take place. Taking place in a simulated garden scene, this book is published to tie in with the play's opening at the Playhouse Theatre in London.

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.

The text of the new Poliakoff play to be premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company, London, in the summer of 1998.

In "Remember This", the author looks at the role that technology plays in all our lives. The video camera becomes an interruption in the daily existence of Rick and Victoria as the couple prepare for their wedding, and begins to take over their lives.

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".

This volume includes "Blinded by the Sun" and "Sweet Panic". In both plays, Poliakoff draws on the recurrent themes of modern urban life.

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

The second volume of Poliakoff's plays in the "Contemporay Dramatists" series contains his film-script, "Century", together with "She's Been Away" (filmed by Peter Hall with Peggy Ashcroft), and the stage plays for the RSC, "Breaking the Silence" and "Playing with Trains".