Books in the Modern Plays series

Before deciding whether to marry Chandrapore's local magistrate, Adela Quested wants to discover the "real India" for herself. Newly arrived from England, she agrees to see the Marabar Caves with the charming Dr Aziz. This adaptation explores the absurdity of Anglo-Indian life in the 1920s.

The script of On the Shore of the Wide World, a co-production between the Royal Exchange and the National Theatre, which played at both venues in 2005 and won the Olivier Award for Best New Play

"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)

These plays focus on sex and repression among gay and lesbian characters.

Interweaving lives and secrets, this is a magical tale of refuge, of treachery and of love lost and found. The play was produced at the Abbey Theatre in April 2000.

Published to tie-in with the world premier at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in March 2005.

"Trash for starters, Tories for seconds: David Eldridge is Serving it up again" (Independent)

A brilliant new thriller about poetry and fascism

Winner of the 1990 Verity Bargate Award, this play has as its theme the classic situation where a young writer betrays his family by exposing them in a novel. David Spencer's "Releevo" won the 1986 Verity Bargate Award.

After 23 years two alienated brothers are reunited in the stinking kitchen of a rotting apartment. Bob is a sociopathic slob, facing jail for throwing a man from a car; Jack seems successful and disciplined but nurses his own considerable demons. Together they piece together a dark shared history.

A child goes missing, vanishes into thin air. The witnesses' statements are inconclusive and the police struggle without a clear case or criminal motive. Two men and three women are drawn together by this tragic event and attempt to make sense of the unfathomable.

Talk about the Passion: A young child is horrifically murdered; the autobiography of the serial killer is a hit publication. Jason Carroway is forced to endure the guilt at failing to protect his son and the subsequent media attention that accompanies the controversial release of the killer's autobiography.

Since their childhood, when Heather left Jamaica for England, her half sister Bernice has claimed to be able to raise the dead. Thirty years later, when Heather returns after the murder of her son, she offers Bernice the deeds to the family house - if she can bring him back.

Published to tie in with major new production at the Royal National Theatre directed by Michael Blakemore, the play won numerous awards.

Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. This is the story of Alex and his teenage gang, "The Droogs", their life of rape and murder, and "ultraviolence", and the moral dilemma that arises when Alex is brainwashed into good citizenship.

While Anna prepares for her wedding, her father Jack, a passionate map collector, confronts the limits of his life. Although his research proves the family is related to a famous 18th-century cartographer and plantation owner, Anna is interested that they may also be descended from a slave.

Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they can finish their Christmas Eve shift: to tell the old couple at number 58 some terrible news. But what if the shock is too much for them? Maybe they'd be happier not knowing. And maybe they shouldn't be involved in a lynching.

A story of crime and redemption. Starting at the mouth of the River Thames and moving across England over twenty years. It begins with a life choice for Jamie Carris and ends with a re-union with his young daughter. It is also a story about a killer.

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.

"Heggie's cut-across dialogue crackles with life; fast, funny foulmouthed" (Times Educational Supplement)

Set in a modern-day Scotland, this caustic comedy is Iain Heggie's irreverent adaptation of Marivaux's "The Double Inconstancy".

In the 1960s in Hampstead, Bruno and Anna Mosenthal, Anna's brother Leo and his wife Ottilie wait for the potential buyer of their jointly-owned cottage, bought with money from the siblings' Jewish father. But when the buyer turns out to be German, Leo demands an apology for Nazi war crimes.

Moist von Lipwig was a con artist, a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork''s ailing postal service back on its feet.It was a tough decision.With the help of a golem who has been at the bottom of hole in the ground for over two hundred years, a pin fanatic and Junior Postman Groat, he''s got to see that the mail gets through. In taking on the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer, he''s also got to stay alive.Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.In the mad world of the mail, can a criminal succeed where honest men have failed and died? Perhaps there''s a shot at redemption for man who''s prepared to push the envelope...

Tony's ready to live-it-large and love again. But his efforts to step back on to the scene are hampered by a secret his friends, Monica and Kevin, should have told him long ago. This play is a funny and caustic exploration of love and the limits of friendship.

With the debate about evolution behind him, Darwin now finds guidance from tabloid horoscopes and trashy novels in a beach house in Mailibu. But when his friend Thomas Huxley washes up on the beach with the Bishop of Oxford, he finds himself entangled in a life and death comedy.

Confusion and fear permeate society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison. "From Zia With Love" is based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s. "A Scourge of Hyacinths", written for radio, presents variations on the same theme.

By the author of "Shopping and F***ing", this play is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual reality.