Nick Hern Books
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| Founded | 1988 |
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| Founder | Nick Hern |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Shepherd's Bush, London |
| Publication types | books, play-scripts |
| Official website | www |
Nick Hern Books is a London-based independent specialist publisher of plays, theatre books and screenplays. The company was founded by the former Methuen drama editor Nicholas Hern in 1988.
Nick Hern Books came into being in June 1988, when Nick Hern left Methuen to set up his own imprint under the aegis of Walker Books. In 1990 the NHB imprint was taken on by Random House. It became a fully independent company on 1 January 1993 when Nick Hern acquired the list from Random House, and he subsequently won the Sunday Times "Small Publisher of the Year Award" in 1994.
The first title published by Nick Hern Books was Nicholas Wright’s Mrs. Klein, which opened at the National Theatre in August 1988 before transferring to the West End and Broadway.
There followed plays by Caryl Churchill, Arthur Miller, Mike Leigh and Stephen Sondheim, alongside theatre books by Simon Callow, Michael Coveney and Antony Sher.
Notable titles published by Nick Hern Books include the following plays:
Nick Hern Books has also published theatre books (biographies, journals, practical books, how-to guides, etc.) by, amongst others, Peter Brook, Simon Callow, Declan Donnellan, Oliver Ford Davies, William Gaskill, Barbara Houseman, Antony Sher, Max Stafford-Clark, Harriet Walter and Timothy West.
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