Books By Peter Straughan - Author

Peter Straughan was writer-in-residence at Live Theatre in Newcastle in 1999/2000 where he wrote Bones. His play COld, a black comedy about a string quartet of psychopathic young men toured during 2001 to great acclaim. His feature fims Five Psychopaths and The Edward Stark Trilogy are under commission from Contagious Films. His half-hour television film Waiters was broadcast in 2001 starring Lee Hall and Robson Green. He won the Alfred Bradley radio award for the adaptation of his own stage play The Ghost of Frederico Garcia Lorca Which Can Also Be Used As A Table. The radio version was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2001. Other plays include Fetish (Live Theatre, Newcastle, 2000), Rat (Pink Ponyt THeatre, New York, 1996), and A Rhyme for Orange (winner of the 1997 North East People's Play Award. He also adapted Toby Young's memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People for the screen and is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for whi