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...

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...

It's been two years since reformed bastard Carter and his treasured wife, Indi, had their happy-ever-after in the #1 bestselling BASTARD . . .Contains:LUCKIEST BASTARD, a novella with HEAFIRST WHITE CHRISTMAS, a bonus storyHOOKER, a sneak peek at J. L. Perry's forthcoming novel. COMING SOON.BASTARD, first two chapters of the bestselling full-length novelTwo years and two children after their happy ending in BASTARD, Cart...

This is the seventh in the series of stories covering the activities of DCI Victor Moyes and his second in command DS Victoria Morgan, set sometime during the nineteen sixties as they try to contain the criminal element in the fictional town of Abberford.In this particular case they are thwarted in their attempts to discover their murderer because he or she doesn’t appear to originate from the criminal fraternity, meaning they have to look at things from a different perspective whi...

The tenth in this series sees DCI Victor Moyes and his second in command DS Victoria Morgan take on the case of trying to solve the mystery surrounding a body retrieved from the River Ford, the river that runs through the fictional town of Abberford.These stories are set in the sixties before DNA and computers and means that there is a lot of paperwork and legwork that needs to be covered in order to complete their investigations.Little did they know at the start of their i...

The chance discovery of an antique wedding dress weaves together the fascinating stories of three women from different eras: Sophie, in hiding from a troubled past; Belle, who must lose everything to learn what really matters; and Martha, forced to give up those she loves in order to avoid exposure.It's 1931 and Belle Bartholomew has arrived in rural Sweet Wattle Creek to claim her inheritance – a run–down grand hotel formerly owned by Martha Ambrose. Determined to solve the myster...