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The Art Gallery on Stage: New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting Mariacristina Cavecchi 9781350330733
Booksplease Price: £30.84Winner of the AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) Book Prize 2024The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage... -
![The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay 9780099505556 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9701321/10718025/9780099505556__05644.1781355923.jpg?c=1 "The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay 9780099505556 [USED COPY]")
The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay 9780099505556 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.62Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities and eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread, everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of nostalgia... -
![The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through My Childhood by Bill Bryson 9780552772549 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9709013/10725701/9780552772549__31814.1781367727.jpg?c=1 "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through My Childhood by Bill Bryson 9780552772549 [USED COPY]")
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through My Childhood by Bill Bryson 9780552772549 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of... -
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking... -
Legoland by Gerard Woodward
Booksplease Price: £10.42A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author.Many of Legoland's stories begin with the seemingly every day, only for a turn of events to land... -
Queers: Eight Monologues by Mark Gatiss
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A young soldier returning from the trenches of the First World War recollects a love that dare not speak its name. Almost one hundred years later, a groom-to-be prepares for his gay wedding. ... -
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two by David Sedaris 9780349141909
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £5.83There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly... -
The Need for Words: Voice and the Text by Patsy Rodenburg 9781350290112
Booksplease Price: £27.79As one of the world's leading voice coaches, Patsy Rodenburg describes practical ways to approach language, using Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, modern prose and a range of other texts to help each of... -
![Remain Silent (Manon Bradshaw, Book 3) by Susie Steiner 9780008273842 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9661972/10678692/9780008273842__84643.1781285067.jpg?c=1 "Remain Silent (Manon Bradshaw, Book 3) by Susie Steiner 9780008273842 [USED COPY]")
Remain Silent (Manon Bradshaw, Book 3) by Susie Steiner 9780008273842 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.05LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AN UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I'm so... -
The BBC Puzzle Book Ian Haydn Smith 9780711277663
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £7.34From Eastenders to Dr Who, Desert Island Discs to Monty Pyton, The Office to Peaky Blinders, test your knowledge of the history of the BBC and all your favourite programmes with this OFFICIAL puzzle... -
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution by Travis Elborough 9780224099820
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.28Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life. You might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there - and that they always will. In fact, the roots of even the most humble... -
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple 9780006547747
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John... -
Lives in Writing by David Lodge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography,... -
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim by David Sedaris 9780349116709
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.66David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions... -
![Straight Face by Nigel Hawthorne 9780340769430 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9955597/10972064/9780340769430__06915.1786542447.jpg?c=1 "Straight Face by Nigel Hawthorne 9780340769430 [USED COPY]")
Straight Face by Nigel Hawthorne 9780340769430 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.96Very sadly, Nigel Hawthorne died on Boxing Day 2001. He had just completed his exceptional autobiography about a life which had by no means taken a straight path. His ambitions to be an actor when... -
Hotel du Jack by Dan Brotzel
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A woman granted a superpower discovers it's more trouble than it's worth. A neighbourhood forum becomes the setting for a bizarre ghost story. A children's entertainer wrestles with problems that are... -
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.19'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'This is the story of Jeanette, adopted... -
Collected Poems: Volume One by Henry Normal 9781838118563
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.40Collected Poems, Vol. 1 includes all of the poems from Henry's first three titles with Flapjack Press - Staring Directly at the Eclipse, Travelling Second Class Through Hope, and Raining Upwards. ... -
Driving Short Distances by Joff Winterhart
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.49Sam is 27 and needs to get a job. Keith, who claims to be a second cousin of his (absent) father, offers him one. On Keith's card it says he does 'distribution and delivery', which seems to consist... -
William Golding: The Faber Letters William Golding 9780571374427
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £41.17The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years.Three people have been of major importance and influence in my life and you are one... -
![Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater 9781841154718 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9693596/10710312/9781841154718__45810.1781314281.jpg?c=1 "Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater 9781841154718 [USED COPY]")
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater 9781841154718 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.87Winner of the British Book Awards Biography of the Year Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir of a childhood remembered through food, featuring a new introduction... -
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two David Sedaris 9781408707852
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.04There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly... -
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the... -
Lessons for Young Artists David Gentleman 9780241692813
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38You learn something instantly every time you pick up a pencil. We are all artists as children, painting and drawing each day. Most of us stop when we get older - but David Gentleman kept going. For... -
Blasted with Antiquity: Old Age and the Consolations of Literature by David Ellis 9780718897185
Booksplease Price: £22.60Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historians or social scientists and, when those with a... -
The Boy in the Jam Jar: A Bloomsbury Reader: Lime Book Band by Joyce Dunbar
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68Book Band: Lime, ideal for ages 6+ A powerful and personal story from Joyce Dunbar about what it's like to experience hearing difficulties. 'Joyce Dunbar is one of the best writers for children... -
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. ... -
All in One Basket: Nest Eggs by by Deborah Devonshire 9781848545939
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Entertaining, instructive, thought-provoking and hilarious, the unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire rings out of this volume which combines her two collections of 'occasional' writings - Home... -
The Reluctant Carer: Dispatches from the Edge of Life by The Reluctant Carer 9781529029390
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.71An irresistibly moving, funny and urgent memoir about the reality of caring for your parents, when you can barely care for yourself.'Hilarious, bitter, poignant and profound, this is the human... -
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution by Travis Elborough
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public... -
Fell by Jenn Ashworth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Dark, compelling, beautifully written'Andrew Michael HurleyIn this eerie, atmospheric and mysterious tale, a woman returns to the house in Morecambe Bay where she grew up in the 1960s to find it... -
Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker 9780007356287
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit. Reading other people's letters is always a guilty pleasure. But... -
The Bucket: Memories of an Inattentive Childhood by Allan Ahlberg 9780241965665
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Bucket by Allan Ahlberg - the enthralling childhood story one of Britain's best-loved children's authors'My mother, who was not my mother, I see her now, her raw red cleaner's hands twisting away... -
Speak to Me: A love triangle with a difference: 'Addictive... her sharp observations steal the show' Guardian by Paula Cocozza 9781472299963
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Sharp as a skewer about the devices and desires in many modern marriages. I loved it' Amanda Craig'Charming, very touching and very funny. Taut and full of surprises' Tessa HadleyI shall explain... -
Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing by Tracey Thorn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there... -
![Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson 9780552996181 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4866569/8618432/9780552996181__45057.1743196109.jpg?c=1 "Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson 9780552996181 [USED COPY]")
Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson 9780552996181 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.24Kate Atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize.'Delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as Dickens...outrageously... -
Still Standing: The Savage Years Paul O'Grady 9780857501028
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Funny, forthright and sharp as a knife . . . O'Grady writes just as he speaks.' Daily MirrorLilian Maeve Veronica Savage, international sex kitten, was born on the steps... -
Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Kate Atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize.'Delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as Dickens...outrageously... -
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £5.99A hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,' New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris (Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt)Anyone who... -
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell 9781800812437
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun...