Nick Hern Books
Ebooks

The titles listed below are available to buy as an ebook from this site, and are also available from most ebook retailers.

How to access your ebooks

All ebooks purchased via this website from 1 February 2024 onwards should be read on the Glassboxx app, which is free to download to any device or computer, or online via the Glassboxx Browser Reader. For full details, visit our Ebooks Help page.

All ebook purchases made up to and including 31 January 2024 remain available to read via Adobe Digital Editions.

Showing 1-12 of 1,479 items.
...blackbird hour

...blackbird hour

By babirye bukilwa

A visceral and moving exploration of caring, belonging, and a queer Black woman's attempts to love herself. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2025.

...cake

...cake

By babirye bukilwa

A psychological drama that asks if the cycle of generational trauma can ever be broken. Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them – and the climate around them – is hostile?

"Daddy": A Melodrama

"Daddy": A Melodrama

By Jeremy O. Harris

A blistering melodrama from Jeremy O. Harris, whose play Slave Play received a record twelve nominations at the 74th Tony Awards.

(Not) the End of the World

(Not) the End of the World

By Chris Bush

A daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and colonialism.

(the) Woman

(the) Woman

By Jane Upton

A fiercely funny and brutally honest play about motherhood, premiered in a touring production by New Perspectives in 2025.

#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

By Howard Brenton

A timely play based on the true story of an imprisoned Nobel Laureate.

100

100

By Christopher Heimann, Neil Monaghan and Diene Petterle

A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body. Winner of a Fringe First Award at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

100 Great Plays for Women

100 Great Plays for Women

By Lucy Kerbel Foreword by Kate Mosse

An inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers centre stage, dispelling the myth that 'There just aren't any good plays for women'. With a foreword by Kate Mosse.

100 Plays to Save the World

100 Plays to Save the World

By Elizabeth Freestone and Jeanie O'Hare

A guide to one hundred brilliant plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate emergency.

15 Heroines

15 Heroines

15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid

By various

Drawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifteen classical heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century.

1536

1536

By Ava Pickett

A fiendishly smart and funny play set in Tudor England, asking whether female solidarity can survive in a world where barbarism and misogyny are state sanctioned. Winner of the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2025.

  • Paperback£10.99 £8.79
    Pre-order
  • Ebook£10.99 £8.79
    Available soon
1972: The Future of Sex

1972: The Future of Sex

By The Wardrobe Ensemble

A devised play about three couples having sex for the first time – and a country on the brink of a sexual awakening.