Includes the plays The Mentalists, Under the Whaleback and The God Botherers

"The Mentalists confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguilling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart" - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph on The Mentalists

"An instant modern classic" - Kate Bassett, The Guardian on Under the Whaleback

"Richard Bean must have had a hell of a life" - Michael Billington, The Guardian on The God Botherers

Jonathan Bernstein is a full-time research historian for a major military museum in the US, specialising in the collection of oral histories from servicemen involved in the Vietnam War.

Jim Laurier is a native of New Hampshire. He graduated with honours from the Paiers School of Art, Connecticut, in 1978, and has worked as a freelance illustrator ever since, completing assignments in a wide variety of fields. Jim has a keen interest in military subjects, both aviation and armour, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Aviation Artists, the New York Society of Illustrators and the American Fighter Aces Association.