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| List of written and mainly published works. | ||
| The Kitchen | 1957 | |
| Chicken Soup with Barley | 1958 | |
| Roots | 1959 | |
| I'm Talking About Jerusalem | 1960 | |
| Chips with Everything | 1962 | |
| The Four Seasons | 1965 | |
| Their Very Own and Golden City | 1966 | |
| The Old Ones | 1970 | |
| The Friends | 1970 | |
| Fears of Fragmentation (essays) | 1971 | |
| Six Sundays in January (Stories, TV Play 'Menace', diary for Stockholm) | 1971 | |
| The Journalists | 1972 | |
| The Wedding Feast | 1974 | |
| Say Goodbye You May Never See Them Again (text to paintings by naive painter,John Allin) | 1974 | |
| Love Letters on Blue Paper (stories) | 1974 | |
| Shylock (previously 'The Merchant') | 1976 | |
| Words - as definitions of experience (essay) | 1976 | |
| Love Letters on Blue Paper (the play) | 1976 | |
| Journey into Journalism (record of two months spent in offices of The Sunday Times) | 1977 | |
| One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round | 1978 | |
| Said The Old Man to The Young Man (stories) | 1978 | |
| Fatlips (book for young people) | 1978 | |
| The Wesker Trilogy (a film script) | 1979 | |
| Fatlips (the play adapted from book) | 1980 | |
| Caritas | 1980 | |
| Lady Othello (original film script) | 1980 | |
| Sullied Hand (one-act play) | 1981 | |
| Breakfast (original play for TV) | 1981 | |
| Annie Wobbler (One Woman Play cycle - full length) | 1982 | |
| Four Portraits - of Mothers (One Woman Play cycle - one act) | 1982 | |
| Yardsale (One Woman Play cycle - one act) | 1983 | |
| Cinders (play based on Paul Bailey's life of Cynthia Payne) | 1983 | |
| Bluey (90-minute play for radio: The European Radio Commission) | 1984 | |
| Distinctions (essays, lectures, etc.) | 1985 | |
| Thieves in the Night (adaptation for German TV, four 90-min. parts of Koestler novel) | 1984/85 | |
| Whatever Happened To Betty Lemon (one-act One Woman Play cycle) | 1986 | |
| When God Wanted A Son | 1986 | |
| Badenheim 1939 (adapted from Aharon Appelfeld's novel) | 1987 | |
| Shoeshine & Little Old Lady (two one-act plays for young people) | 1987 | |
| Lady Othello (play adapted from film script) | 1987 | |
| Caritas (libretto for opera, music by Robert Saxton) | 1988 | |
| Beorhtel's Hill (community play to celebrate town of Basildon's 40th) | 1988 | |
| The Mistress (one-act One Woman Play cycle) | 1988 | |
| Diary of a Good Neighbour (adaptation in four parts for BBCTV of Doris Lessing novel) | 1989 | |
| Three Women Talking | 1990 | |
| Letter to a Daughter | 1990 | |
| Homage to Catalonia (film script) | 1990/91 | |
| Blood Libel (commissioned to open new theatre in Norwich,1995) | 1991 | |
| Wild Spring (play for Brenda Bruce) | 1992 | |
| Bluey (adapted for stage from radio play) | 1993 | |
| The Kitchen - a musical. (Commissioned by Japanese director, Koichi Kimura. Original music by Barrington Pheloung, orchestrated, changed and added to by Derek Barnes; lyrics by Nigel Forde; book by Arnold Wesker.) | 1993 / on-going | |
| As Much As I Dare (autobiography commissioned by Century Random House). | 1994 | |
| Maudie (film adaptation of Doris Lessing's novel 'Diary of a Good Neighbour) | 1995 | |
| Circles of Perception (substantially re-worked version of 'The New Play'.) | 1996 | |
| Denial (play about 'the false memory syndrome') | 1997 | |
| Break, My Heart (half hour play commissioned by Sherman Theatre, and HTV) | 1997 | |
| The BIRTH of Shylock and the DEATH of Zero Mostel (diaries of New York rehearsal of Shylock in 1976. Pub. Quartet). | 1997 | |
| The King's Daughters (erotic stories Pub.Quartet.) | 1998 | |
| Denial - world premiere, The Bristol Old Vic | 2000 (May) | |
| The Kitchen - the musical. World premiere, Tokyo | 2000 (July) | |
| Groupie - Commissioned for Radio, adapted for stage. Scheduled for performance 2002. | 2001 | |
| Longitude - adapted from the book by Dava Sobel. Scheduled for performance 2003. | 2002 | |
| Penguin Books published seven volumes of the plays which are gradually being phased out of print, and taken over by Methuen Books. | ||