Hanif Kureishi is the author of novels (including The Buddha of Suburbia , The Black Album and Intimacy), story collections ( Love in a Blue Time , Midnight All Day , The Body), plays (including Outskirts , Borderline and Sleep With Me), and screenplays (including My Beautiful Laundrette , My Son the Fanatic and Venus). Among his other publications are the collection of essays Dreaming and Scheming , The Word and the Bomb and the memoir My Ear at his Heart .