Editing Dennis Potter (section)

===Novels===
''Hide and Seek'' (1973) is a [[meta-fiction]]al novel exploring the relationship between reader and author and contains a protagonist, Daniel Miller, who is convinced he is the plaything of an [[omniscient narrator|omniscient author]]. This concept forms the core of Potter's next two novels, and portions of ''Hide and Seek'' would reappear in several of his television plays, especially ''[[Follow the Yellow Brick Road]]'' (1972) and ''The Singing Detective''.

''Ticket to Ride'' (1986) was written between drafts of ''The Singing Detective'' and concerns a [[herbarium|herbithologist]] who is unable to make love to his wife unless he imagines her as a prostitute. This was followed in 1987 by ''Blackeyes'': a study of a model whose abusive uncle, a writer, has stolen details of his niece's experiences in the glamour industry as the basis for his latest [[potboiler]].

To tie in with the release of the [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] production of ''Pennies from Heaven'' in 1981, Potter wrote a novelisation of the screenplay. Potter turned down the option of writing a novelisation for the film version of ''Brimstone and Treacle'', allowing his daughter [[Sarah Potter]] to write it instead.