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The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 1: East; West; Greek; Sink the Belgrano!; Massage Lunch; The Bow of Ulysses; Sturm und Drang by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $26.56Steven Berkoff is a phenomenon. Among the artists working in the theatre today he is probably the most theatrical - his special combination of speech, movement and spectacle is uniquely powerful... -
The Animator's Survival Kit: Dialogue, Directing, Acting and Animal Action: (Richard Williams' Animation Shorts) by Richard E. Williams
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.84DIRECTING, DIALOGUE AND ACTINGFrom Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form.The Animator's Survival Kit is the essential tool for animators. However, sometimes... -
The Wall by D. C. Jackson 9780571242290
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11In the small Ayrshire town of Stewarton, the school holidays are like a microwave. So much happens and it all happens so fast. Norma Gordon has got a problem. She's going to be in big trouble if her... -
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Steven Berkoff Plays 1: East; West; Greek; Sink the Belgrano!; Massage Lunch; The Bow of Ulysses; Sturm und Drang by Steven Berkoff 9780571207213 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $4.39Steven Berkoff is a phenomenon. Among the artists working in the theatre today he is probably the most theatrical - his special combination of speech, movement and spectacle is uniquely powerful... -
One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the... -
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Michael Caine: A Class Act by Christopher Bray 9780571216833 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $5.62From Alfie and Zulu to Batman Begins, Michael Caine's brilliant career has spanned five decades and over a hundred films. This son of a London fish-market porter made his name as an iconic rogue in... -
The Children of Green Knowe Collection by Lucy M. Boston
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89The Children of Green Knowe Collection brings the Lucy Boston classics The Children of Green Knowe and River at Green Knowe together in one beautifully packaged edition.These enchanting, haunting... -
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The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall 9780571219292 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $4.81This title was shotlisted for the Booker Prize. Opening on the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, on the remote north-west coast of England, "The Electric Michelangelo" is a novel of love, loss and... -
Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the end of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.08It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey back home - a journey of hundreds of miles, north from... -
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 9780571223435
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
D. H. Lawrence by Tom Paulin 9780571234912
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.89David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottinghamshire in 1885. Predominantly remembered as a novelist, Lawrence began writing poetry when he was nineteen and published his first pieces in 1909 in the... -
Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $27.89In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist... -
Woods etc. by Alice Oswald
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Woods etc. is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem Dart, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of... -
The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet by Alice Oswald 9780571218578
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Taking for her subject our human planet, or what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems which map the border between the personal and natural worlds... -
Woman in Mind by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11The central character of Alan Ayckbourn's new play is Susan, a parson's wife, 'one of the most moving and devastating that he has created...'Robin Thornber reviewing the first production in... -
Nick Dear Plays 1: Art of Success; In the Ruins; Zenobia; Turn of the Screw by Nick Dear
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.09This first collection of Nick Dear's work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 3 by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.09This is a collection of three history plays, each displaying the sparkling muscularity of language that marks Berkoff out as one of the foremost wordsmiths in the English language. Set in... -
John Betjeman by Sir John Betjeman 9780571247028
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment... -
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Widely praised on its first publication in 1978, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the... -
Keith Douglas: The Complete Poems by Keith Douglas 9780571276714
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.58By the time he was killed in Normandy, aged only twenty-four, in June 1944, Keith Douglas had achieved a body of work that has earned him the reputation as the most brilliant and promising poet of... -
The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty... -
N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89N.P. is the title of a last collection of short stories by a celebrated Japanese writer. Written in English while he was living in Boston, the book may never see print in his native Japan: each time... -
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The Vegan Cookbook by Alan Wakeman 9780571178049 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.39This classic cookbook offers more than an authentic cuisine - it proffers a way of life based on compassion for all living things. For veganism is grounded in the simple truth that primary food -... -
The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.' Times Literary... -
Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10 by Stephen Taylor 9780571224678
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54The Indian Ocean, 1809. At stake: Britain's commercial lifeline to India and naval supremacy. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and... -
Heroes by Gerald Sibleyras 9780571231003
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $12.29One must strive a little for the epic, old boy.It's 1959 and Philippe, Gustave and Henri, three veterans from the first world war, dream of making their escape from the soldiers' home, if not to... -
John Clare by John Clare 9780571234639
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.78John Clare (1793-1864), the 'peasant poet', worked as an agricultural labourer in Northamptonshire until a deterioration in his mental health saw him committed to an insane asylum. He published four... -
Music for Life: 100 Works to Carry You Through by Fiona Maddocks 9780571342747
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries,... -
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of... -
High Ground: and Other Stories by John McGahern
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11The stories in High Ground are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish... -
Twilight by William Gay 9780571235650
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $16.09When teenagers Kenneth and Corrie Tyler venture to their father's graveside they make a horrific discovery: their father is not buried in the casket they bought for him. The undertaker, Fenton... -
The Curtain: Essays by Milan Kundera
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often,... -
Blue Remembered Hills: and other plays introduced by the author by Dennis Potter 9780571179060
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $22.17Dennis Potter here introduces three of his acclaimed works, Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Joe's Ark (1974) and Cream in My Coffee (1980), and discusses the artistic potential and the limitations of a... -
Selected Poems by Marianne Moore
RRP: $19.00Booksplease Price: $12.29A reissue of the 1935 Selected Poems, which, with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot, brought Moore's work to the attention of a wider public. This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of... -
The Animal Factory: Faber art notebooks, no.1 by Jerome Duval-Hamel 9782330166090
Booksplease Price: $30.02Art faber is an umbrella term for works of art - whether pictorial, literary, photographic, musical or cinematographic - whose main or secondary themes are work, business and the world of economics... -
River: Poems by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes 9780571278756
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54First published in 1983, River celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers.Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, the poems are a... -
My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain by Patricio Pron
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54This is a daring, deeply affecting novel about the secrets buried in the past of an Argentine family; a story of fathers and sons, corruption and responsibility, memory and history, with a mystery... -
Birth School Metallica Death: 1983-1991 by Paul Brannigan
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.62Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world's biggest stadia has been an epic and often... -
101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason 9780571209767
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11Hlynur Bjoern is an unemployed 30-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub. But Hlynur's cosy,...