Nick Hern Books: 842 books

An epic and incendiary thriller about the Gunpowder Plot, weaving together the lives of kings, terrorists, priests and spies. It's 1605, and England is riven between Catholic and Protestant. An aristocratic group of young religious fanatics has recruited a mercenary, Guy Fawkes, to strike at...

‘Good evening. My name is Mr Charles Pooter. I have long considered the question: why should I not make public my diary?’ Charles Pooter of Upper Holloway, a middle-class clerk with social aspirations far beyond his status, has decided the world deserves to hear his diary. He has one night,...

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...

'When she was little she was obsessed with me - if I didn't play with her or sit next to her she screamed her head off. Then one day she replaced me with a Captain crunch cereal box.' When Sarah, a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome, comes to visit her sister and brother-in-law, what starts...

Elizabeth I described herself as Queen, King and Prince, thriving in a male world, and saving the country from debt and wars. Self-proclaimed wife and mother to England, her virgin status was part of her myth, as she consistently refused marriage, citing herself as already taken. Here we see Elizabeth...

Astrid Wentworth is a City trader, a ruthless player in a man’s world. If there is a special hell for women who don’t help each other, Astrid’s got the top table reserved and a Martini waiting. But, when the young and ambitious Priya applies for a junior position on the trading floor,...

Depicting a teenage girl’s solo journey to the North Pole with her father’s ashes, A Hundred Words for Snow is a complex, epic and undulating story by Tatty Hennessy that pitches themes of death and rebirth against a shifting backdrop of climate change, exploration and the uncertain geography...

The story of Tom and Viv, their love and the life they’ve shared together – from first spark to dying light. But not necessarily in that order. Tristan Bernays’ Old Fools is a surprising and touching play about a couple, their experience of Alzheimer’s, and their enduring efforts to...

A futuristic comedy about conception, state control and rebellion. Three women meet at a baby shower. But darker things than cupcakes and babygrows are on their mind.

A darkly comic story about social inequality and upheaval, told in reverse. katzenmusik (German, n.) caterwaul; a shrill howling or wailing noise (of a cat). A viral video, a company capitalising on fear, prank calls, class divide and a cat memorial. The increasing income gap...

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa. Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria) 603 by Imad Farajin (Palestine) Damage by Kamal Khalladi (Morocco) The House by Arzé Khodr (Lebanon) Egyptian Products by Laila...

A bold, quirky play from the renowned Quebecois writer, translated by Martin Bowman & Bill Findlay into a robust earthy Scots. On six moonlit Montreal balconies on a sultry summer's evening, eleven people tell their stories of love. Isabelle and Yannick are alive and ecstatic with the thrill...

Green Shield stamps, a million of them, and Ger Lawless has won them all. It’s Ballymun, it’s 1973 and she’s got 15 friends round for a stamp-sticking party. Over one night, the lives of 15 women collide in Deirdre Kinahan’s new version of Michel Tremblay’s fêted Quebecois comedy, Les Belles-Soeurs. Premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in February 2018.

A play about a man who cannot, or will not, get out of bed one morning for 'metaphysical reasons'. As the day progresses he is visited by his brother, neighbours, doctor, Death and Immanuel Kant. First staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 1997.