Books published by Nick Hern Books

A deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia's dark history, telling the story of two families divided by culture and land. Adapted for the stage by Andrew Bovell from Kate Grenville's bestselling novel.

Nell and Oscar meet on a beach in Dorset. It's 1595... or maybe 1610. Oscar has returned from university and Nell is doing f**k-all. They will meet here, again and again, on this beach for the next four hundred years. Stuff will change. As it does with time. They will try to keep up. The debut play from Marek Horn

A doting husband. A troubled writer. A loaded gun. It's 2019 and Hedda Tesman returns to a life she can't seem to escape from.

Sophie Ellerby's play LIT explores the turbulent teenage years of a girl looking for love in all the wrong places.

A funny, furious monologue about navigating a world that cares so much about you keeping it together, it doesn't notice you falling apart.

A madcap adventure story for young people (and older detectives) to watch, read and perform.

Three extraordinary plays by one of the most audacious and talented playwrights of our times: Jerusalem, The River and The Ferryman. Plus his short film The Clear Road Ahead, and a conversation with playwright Simon Stephens.

Ultra-contemporary, sexy and funny, Kenny Emson's play Rust pushes the boundaries of trust, love and lust to the limit.

Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernieres' much-loved epic novel, set on an idyllic Greek island in 1941.

A beautiful, ferocious play about the bonds that tie us, and how we sometimes need to break them. One sister stayed at home to care for Dad. The other set out to 'make a difference'. Reunited under their childhood roof, Pauline and Rachel unearth more than the ten years between them.

A bittersweet exploration of love, hope and the mysteries of the cosmos.

A long summer weekend, two strangers, and a full-size table tennis table. A Table Tennis Play is a play about how everything and nothing changes as people bat a ball. It premiered at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

A riotous new stage version of the classic novel. Discovering that the musketeers have been disbanded, the young and naive D'Artagnan makes it his mission to get them reinstated. But will his feud with the femme fatale, Milady de Winter thwart him? And who the heck is she?

The Lafayette family gather at their late father's home in Arkansas to bury the hatchet and prepare the former plantation for its Estate Sale. Until, that is, they make a discovery which changes everything. A gripping play about ghosts and the legacies we are left with, and a wickedly subversive appropriation of the great American family drama.

Written specifically for young people as part of the 2018 National Theatre Connections Festival. Set in and around a swimming pool, Chris Bush's play The Changing Room follows a group of teenagers full of excitement, impatience and uncertainty. They know change is coming, but not what it'll look like.

August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power - both written in the summer of 1888 - in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton.

The club's rising star. The veteran. Two girls on a night out. The drinks are flowing in the VIP section. A spare hotel room is booked. But at the end of the night, someone is going to get hurt. Lose Yourself is a fast, wild and ultimately tragic ride into the darker side of our celebrity obsessed culture.

A radical play set in East Berlin in 1968, unfolding with all the tension of a spy thriller and the inexorable revelations of an Ibsen drama.

Five plays from Robert Holman's first decade of playwriting.

1944. America. Paul Robeson is touring the country as the eponymous hero in Shakespeare's Othello. His Desdemona is the brilliant young actress Uta Hagen. Her husband, Jose Ferrer, plays Iago. The actors are friends. But in mid-century American society, they are not all equals. Revenge takes many forms.

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.Andrea Levy's epic novel Small Island, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 - the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. It premiered at the National Theatre, London, in April 2019, directed by Rufus Norris.'Honest, skilful, thoughtful and important. This is Andrea Levy's big book' Guardian on Andrea Levy's Small Island

A collection of three plays by Irish playwright Dylan Coburn Gray.

Philip Goulding's stage adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's comedy classic is a tribute to the all-female touring theatre companies of the post-war years.1943 on the Scottish islands of Great and Little Todday, the whisky supply has dried up. Relief seems to be at hand when a ship carrying 50,000 bottles of whisky is wrecked just offshore.

It's 1972. An era of possibility and polyester and pubic hair. While Ziggy Stardust is on Top of the Pops, Penny is writing an essay on Lady Chatterley's Lover, Christine is watching Deep Throat and Brian is confused. 1972: The Future of Sex tells the story of a country on the brink of a sexual awakening.