A collection of plays from the acclaimed author of My Night With Reg, spanning twenty years of work from a playwright who brilliantly captured the comedy of pain.Included in this volume are:Coming Clean (Bush Theatre, London, 1982), Elyot's first play, winner of the Samuel Beckett Award, an examination of infidelity within a gay relationship. 'A very funny and acute comedy about the gay life' Sunday Times. 'In time, it will be rec...

A moving, bittersweet play from the writer of the classic comedy My Night with Reg.Set over a series of summer evenings in the 1960s and the present day, Twilight Song traces one family's hidden liaisons over half a century.A mysterious stranger turns up in their past and present – could he be the missing piece of the jigsaw they've been yearning for? Hilarious and heartbreaking, Kevin Elyot's evocative final play proves how powerful our past can be in the...

A poignantly funny drama from the author of My Night With Reg, about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories.In the 60s, Horace, Jerry and Judy were teenagers. They were into drink, drugs, Hendrix, The Hobbit and, of course, each other. Thirty years later, Jerry is dead, Judy is in love and the gay-but-hesitant Horace is unable to get on with his life - until he receives a surprise visitor.Kevin Elyot's play The Day I Stood Still

A brilliantly acerbic tragi-comedy from the author of My Night With Reg.At a homecoming party for Dennis and Laura's teenage son, the reappearance of an old family friend throws up secrets from the past and paves the way for fresh disaster.Kevin Elyot's play Mouth to Mouth pins down the pretension and self-centredness of his characters with unerring and hilarious accuracy. It was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2001.

Funny, fresh and packed with razor-sharp wit, Kevin Elyot's landmark drama questions the nature of fidelity and the limits of love. Winner of the Samuel Beckett Award.Tony and Greg have love all figured out. They're in a committed relationship, with room for a little sex-on-the-side whenever it takes their fancy. Their only rule? Never sleep with the same man twice.Then drop-dead gorgeous Robert walks into their lives, and nobody plays by the rules.Coming Clean

Kevin Elyot's Olivier and Evening Standard Award-winning comedy, My Night with Reg, defined a moment in the lives of gay men and became an instant classic on its premiere at the Royal Court and in the West End.At Guy's London flat, friends old and new gather to party through the night. This is the summer of 1985, and for Guy and his circle the world is about to change forever. Deliciously funny and bittersweet, Kevin Elyot's play captures the fragility of friendship, happi...

The Breakdown is now released as the major movie, Blackwater Lane‘Brilliant, chilling, scary and unputdownable’ Lesley Pearse'Utterly compelling, brilliant and tense’ Lisa Hall‘You’ll be unable to rest until you’ve followed the twists and turns to an ending you didn’t foresee’ Daily Express*****If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?...

Remember the person you sat next to on your first day at school? Still your best friend? Or disappeared from your life for good? In PRECIOUS THING, Rachel and Clara promised theirs would last for ever.They met when Rachel was the new girl in class and Clara was the friend everyone wanted. Now in their late twenties Rachel has everything while Clara's life is spiralling further out of control. Then Clara vanishes.Imagine discovering something about your oldest friend that fo...

A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Lie With Me and Dead Heat.It's true what they say: one moment can change your life completely.I found a woman's body on the common.I touched her; that was all.But now the police won't leave me alone.Because all the evidence is leading to me.And I don't know who I can trust...Gaby Mortimer thought she had a perfect life: a high-power...

The Top 10 E-book Hit: over 200,000 copies sold to dateCC is trapped by a job she no longer loves in an unfriendly city. So when her new boyfriend decides it's time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her life. After all, who wouldn't pick an azure sea, aperitifs and sunshine over a dreary commute and a rainy climate?She hadn't expected a tumbledown farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. Or a motley assortment of surly ...

A RELUCTANT PSYCHIC, A TROUBLED DETECTIVE… AND A DEEPLY TWISTED SERIAL KILLER CASS THOUGHT SHE HAD EXPERIENCED EVERY KIND OF DEATH Moving to the city, Cass Lehman hoped to leave her recent notoriety behind her. Her ability to experience the final moments of a violent death helped the local police capture a serial killer, but also meant she was almost his final victim... With a place of her own and a new job, things are looking up for Cass. But just as she starts to feel settled, Cass is ta...

'A delightful, well researched story that really does depict nursing and the living conditions in the East End at the end of the war' Lesley PearseLondon is putting itself back together and twenty-five-year-old Millie is at the forefront of the effort as she tends to the East End community around her.While she witnesses tragedy and brutality in her job, Millie also finds strength and kindness as her training begins to pay off, helping her to bring her pat...