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Nick Hern Books Modern Plays

The Nick Hern Books Modern Plays collection includes over 900 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights, as well as exciting new voices. It offers a wide and varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays, and is continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres.

Phoebe Waller Bridge sits on a rooftop in a blue puffer jacket on the front cover of Fleabag

A man talks to a group of young girls on the front cover of The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth

Heads of two men laying next to the other on the cover of The P Word

The cover of Blue Mist features three men embracing each other facing the camera

Cover of Shifters featuring two people looking closely at each other

The back of a young child is depicted on the front cover of a number by Caryl Churchill

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This collection features authors such as:

Mike Bartlett
Howard Brenton
Jez Butterworth
Caryl Churchill
Marcelo Dos Santos
David Edgar

Helen Edmundson
Vivienne Franzmann
debbie tucker green
Ella Hickson
Lucy Kirkwood
Liz Lochhead

Conor McPherson
Rona Munro
Iman Qureshi
Nina Raine
Jack Thorne
Enda Walsh

New additions include:

Shifters by Benedict Lombe: This emotional exploration of love and memory has been nominated for the 2025 Olivier Awards’ Best New Play. When Des and Dre meet again after years, memories from the past resurface as first love is rekindled.
Reunion by Mark O'Rowe: In a caustic, Chekhovian drama by this leading Irish playwright, a family reunion is thrown into chaos when an unexpected guest causes problems, leading to life-changing fractures.
The Women of Llanrumney by Azuka Oforka: Taking place on a Welsh plantation in Jamaica, this play explores the impact of slavery and the experiences of the women involved. Oforka won Best Writer Award at the Stage Debut Awards for the play in 2024.
The House Party by Laura Lomas: In a modern day reimagining of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Lomas transplants the classic play to a luxurious townhouse where recently dumped birthday girl Julie is having a party, while her best friend Christine tries to keep things together.

Other highlights:

Caryl Churchill: Over 40 plays by one of our greatest living writers, which blend stunning formal innovation with a clear-eyed, unflinching look at the world around us - including Escaped Alone (2016), Far Away (2000), and A Number (2002)
Top contemporary Irish playwriting: Includes strikingly original works by Enda Walsh such as Disco Pigs, Misterman and Ballyturk, and uncanny, heartfelt plays by Conor McPherson (“quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation” New York Times) including The Weir, The Seafarer, and The Night Alive
The Terence Rattigan collection: 16 plays by one of the twentieth-century’s leading dramatists, including devastating masterpiece The Deep Blue Sea, legal and family drama The Winslow Boy, and one-act play The Browning Version, twice adapted for film
NHB Drama Classics: includes foreign works in translation from Nikolai Gogol, Alfred Jarry, Molière, and more

Nick Hern Books Modern Plays

This collection features authors such as:

New additions include:

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