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In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages by Ariel Dorfman 9780822329879
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the world of Chilean poet Ariel Dorfman, men and women can be forced to choose between leaving their country or dying for it. The living risk losing everything, but what they hold onto-love,... -
Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks Ruby Cohn 9781350425965
Booksplease Price: £90.57This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American... -
Star Trek: Picard: No Man's Land Kirsten Beyer 9781668066133
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A thrilling adventure based on the hit television series Star Trek: Picard. Star Trek: No Man's Land picks up right after the action-packed season one conclusion of Star Trek: Picard. While Raffi and... -
Saint George and the Dragon by Rory Mullarkey 9781350064430
Booksplease Price: £14.24A village. A dragon. A damsel in distress.Into the story walks George: wandering knight, freedom fighter, enemy of tyrants the world over. One epic battle later and a nation is born.As the village... -
William Shakespeare by William Baker 9781847064097
Booksplease Price: £27.89This is a concise, accessible introduction to Shakespeare's life and work which focuses on what we know, assessing the differing theories and avoiding speculation. William Shakespeare's work and life... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature... -
Kill Billionaire by Anders Lustgarten 9781784746407
Booksplease Price: £12.94Perhaps one reason not enough people kill billionaires is it's actually quite tricky...'Hopeful and exciting. Funny and heartbreaking ... I want to read more books like this!' Mikaela Loach'I... -
![Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story by Brian Blessed 9780283072314 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9705313/10722009/9780283072314__16151.1781362228.jpg?c=1 "Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story by Brian Blessed 9780283072314 [USED COPY]")
Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story by Brian Blessed 9780283072314 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.32There is no one quite like Brian Blessed. He's an actor, film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, secret romantic, martial artist and mountaineer. He's also a brilliant storyteller who will... -
Then We Take Berlin by John Lawton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81A gripping, meticulously researched and richly detailed historical thriller moving from London during the Blitz, to divided post-war Berlin.John Holderness, known to most as 'Wilderness', comes of... -
Pop-Porn: Pornography in American Culture by Ann C. Hall 9780275999209
Booksplease Price: £51.71There is a new wave of pornographic entertainment in contemporary American culture. Liberated from X-rated bookstores and strip clubs, porn is everywhere, and Pop-Porn seeks to examine this... -
Perilous Question by Antonia Fraser 9781610393782
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Antonia Fraser's Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain's history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at... -
![Freedom Next Time by John Pilger 9780552773324 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9709023/10725711/9780552773324__65726.1781367740.jpg?c=1 "Freedom Next Time by John Pilger 9780552773324 [USED COPY]")
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger 9780552773324 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.41John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of... -
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn't keep her...'In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s London. With three... -
![Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten 9780241638798 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5858365/5935409/9780241638798__70426.1728788072.jpg?c=1 "Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten 9780241638798 [USED COPY]")
Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten 9780241638798 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.88'Extraordinary . . . Anders Lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy' The TimesAn electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders LustgartenMeet... -
British Musical Theatre since 1950 by Robert Gordon 9781472584373
Booksplease Price: £111.35This critical introduction to British musical theatre since 1950 is the first book to discuss its post-war developments from the perspective of British - as opposed to American - popular culture. The... -
Lovesong of the Electric Bear by Snoo Wilson 9781474255301
Booksplease Price: £14.24Nothing is stronger than this love, for I am nothing indeed without you, MasterAwoken from his deathbed by his favourite childhood teddy bear, Turing is led by the hand through the journey of his... -
Money & Politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht Bernard F. Dukore 9781041147114
Booksplease Price: £90.68Originally published in 1980, each of the three playwrights discussed in this lively book was a radical in his own way, concerned with the moral and social implications of capitalism. In addition, as... -
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of... -
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov 9781350086029
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30A civilised and complacent culture is on the brink of collapse...The tide of change is coming. Madam Ranyevskaya's liberal world of privilege and pleasure is beginning to show cracks, but she and her... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.99The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to... -
Beckett at 100: Revolving It All by Linda Ben-Zvi 9780195325478
Booksplease Price: £59.88The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading... -
The Cricket Pocket Bible by Greg Vaughan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The perfect gift for every cricket fan When was the first Ashes held? Who holds the highest individual Test runs score? And what exactly is a silly mid-off? Find the answer to all these and more... -
Jez Butterworth Plays: One by Jez Butterworth
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem. Jez Butterworth burst onto the theatre scene aged twenty-five with Mojo, 'one of the... -
PEN International: An Illustrated History by Carles Tonner
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £26.92'I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of England? by Randall Stevenson 9780199288359
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £43.26English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during... -
Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten 9780241638798
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.88'Extraordinary . . . Anders Lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy' The TimesAn electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders LustgartenMeet... -
Kill Billionaire by Anders Lustgarten 9781784746391
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43Perhaps one reason not enough people kill billionaires is it's actually quite tricky...'Hopeful and exciting. Funny and heartbreaking ... I want to read more books like this!' Mikaela Loach'I... -
![Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story by Brian Blessed 9781447292975 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9650047/10666767/9781447292975__62795.1781273360.jpg?c=1 "Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story by Brian Blessed 9781447292975 [USED COPY]")
Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story by Brian Blessed 9781447292975 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.32There is no one quite like Brian Blessed. He's an actor, film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, secret romantic, martial artist and mountaineer. He's also a brilliant storyteller who will... -
Ibn Saud: The Desert Warrior Who Created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Barbara Bray 9781634502672
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.48The true and fascinating origin story of Saudia Arabia.Ibn Saud grew to manhood living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham... -
The Lost Diaries by Craig Brown 9780007436491
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown. Arranged on a... -
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth 9780099476610
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John UpdikeWith his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his... -
![State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210343 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9709393/10726081/9780571210343__42877.1781368229.jpg?c=1 "State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210343 [USED COPY]")
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210343 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.42State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of... -
![The Cricket Pocket Bible by Greg Vaughan 9781907087141 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9789807/10806380/9781907087141__72931.1782281635.jpg?c=1 "The Cricket Pocket Bible by Greg Vaughan 9781907087141 [USED COPY]")
The Cricket Pocket Bible by Greg Vaughan 9781907087141 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.97The perfect gift for every cricket fanWhen was the first Ashes held? Who holds the highest individual Test runs score? And what exactly is a silly mid-off? Find the answer to all these and more... -
Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an... -
Prima Facie: Special Edition by Suzie Miller 9781839042317
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78This special edition of the international hit play Prima Facie features the definitive version of the award-winning script, together with colour photos and exclusive additional content, giving you a... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9781839042867
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'O, full of scorpions is my mind.' The spellbinding story of love and murder, power and paranoia, and the internal struggles of a married couple as they try to control their destiny, and one... -
Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production Lucy Jeffery 9789048574322
RRP: £122.00Booksplease Price: £108.13Repercussions of communism are still felt throughout Central and Eastern Europe. In fact, specters of communism remain vivid enough to inspire a wide range of contemporary cultural production, from... -
A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins by Alannah Hopkin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.73This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and... -
Beckett at 100: Revolving It All by Linda Ben-Zvi 9780195325485
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.71The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading... -
Marie Antoinette by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and...