Michael Frayn, Daunt Books

Frayn is renowned, not only as a playwright (with successful plays ranging from farce, Noises Off, to dramas Copenhagen and Democracy), but also as a journalist, novelist, screenwriter and philosopher. Frayn has achieved the rare feat of being crtitically acclaimed for both novels and plays, having been bestowed with countless awards for both mediums, including, for Copenhagen, the 1998 Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play, as well as being given the Whitbread Best Novel Award for Spies (the same year that the main Whitbread Prize went to his wife, Claire Tomalin). 
 Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments is a collection of dialogues and monologues, which Frayn intends to be performed in what is described as the smallest theatre in the world, the "matchbox" sized theatre, being the reader’s mind. Frayn gives us the scripts and the reader we must furnish the rest, costumes, setting and tone, with our imagination.
It is apposite that this novel creation of a private theatre for the mind has been borne of the writer, praised both for his talent for exciting the imagination in his novels, as well as for producing great dialogue in his plays.
This collection, not for the lazy theatregoer, cannot fail to be both a compelling read and perhaps as varied as Frayn's oeuvre. The author himself explaining the concept to us is an opportunity not to be missed.