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That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket by Michael Henderson 9781472132871 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.62'For those who fear the worst for the sport they love, this is like cool, clear water for a man dying of thirst. It's barnstorming, coruscating stuff, and as fine a book about the game as you'll read... -
Equus by Peter Shaffer
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the... -
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge 9781961341920
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.10A blackly comic story of the secrets, sex, and violence behind the curtain of a repertory theater's postwar production of Peter Pan: its "close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of... -
One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the Nineties by Jack Temchin 9781557831521 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $2.92Over 75 monologues for women from the contemporary stage written by these and other major dramatists: David Mamet U Brian Friel U Steve Tesich U Harold Pinter U Alan Ayckbourn U Timberlake... -
British Writers by British Library 9780712305419 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.34Booksplease Price: $3.71This three CD compilation forms part of the British Library's series of documentary recordings by English-Language authors and playwrights. Around 30 writers will be represented, talking about their... -
If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep by Anders Lustgarten 9781472513571 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.06"I believe that open markets and free enterprise are the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness. And I would go further: where they work properly, they can actually promote... -
Backstage Confidential: Secrets of a Stagehand by Eden Phillips 9781835744048
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Backstage Confidential lifts the curtain on West End Theatre from a viewpoint rarely heard: the wings. Beginning his career at seventeen, Eden Phillips rose to become London’s youngest head flyman... -
Tremor by Brad Birch
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.74This is the person I am now. It's the person I want to be, should have been for a long time. We got dark, Sophie. Things got dark, and I...I'm better now. I'm in a better place... Once our lives... -
Road to Rouen by Matthew Vine 9781917673907
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.89ROAD TO ROUEN: Fans of one or more of the following should find something to enjoy in this set of stories: motorcycling, jazz, Belgium, wordplay, Early Music, the Dutch, aesthetics, Tallis' 40-part... -
Timebends by Arthur Miller
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.23'A beautifully structured narrative: tough, very moving, a political testimony of considerable force' - Harold Pinter 'As wise and witty and funny and brave as any of his plays' - Louis... -
Ninety-Nine Poems in Translation by Anthony Astbury
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Celebrating the art of the poet-translator, this pioneering anthology shows how the very heart of the English tradition has been sustained and enriched by translation over the centuries. The three... -
Samuel Beckett: Faber Critical Guide by John Fletcher 9780571197781 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.93Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach... -
Samuel Beckett: Faber Critical Guide by John Fletcher
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach... -
Nigel Dempster and the Death of Discretion Tim Willis 9781906021849
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83For many people Dempster's Diary was the Mail. His page, with its scurrilous revelations about the great, the good, and the not-so good, was the only one to read. Bursting on to the national stage in... -
"Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48New York, summer 1954 Criminal Courts Building A man is dead The life of another is at stake A "guilty" verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more... -
Uncle Vanya by Conor McPherson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28In the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside, visited occasionally by the only local doctor Astrov. However, when Sonya's... -
The Noel Coward Diaries by Noel Coward 9780306809606
Booksplease Price: $33.63Noel Coward is remembered as the most witty and elegant of theatrical personalities. He left behind over fifty plays, twenty-five films, hundreds of songs, and several books. Fortunately, he also... -
Between Two States: An Italo-Scots Story Diane Pacitti 9781836283829
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19Between Two States tells the story of anti-fascist Vincenzo Pacitti's family as he flees Mussolini's Italy, forcing his wife to decide which two children they will take to Glasgow, and which two will... -
From Eves Rib by Gioconda Belli 9781880684139
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $12.93Gioconda Belli's poetry, widely published and revered in Latin America and Europe, celebrates the longing for a society in which humanity constructs its future, animated by an inextinguishable... -
Artists Michael Karwowski 9781803133317
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Playwright Harold Pinter, singer-songwriters Bob Dylan, David Gray, and Ian Curtis, of 1970s band Joy Division, would appear to have little in common as artists. But delve beneath the surface and... -
New Collected Poems by W. S. Graham
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27'I first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.' Harold Pinter. From his first... -
King Charles II Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753814031
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually... -
Stoke Newington: The Story of a Dissenting Village by Rab MacWilliam 9780750990912
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.63Stoke Newington has long been one of London's most intriguing and radical areas. Famous residents included Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, and it was home to a variety of... -
Not One More Death by John Le Carre
Booksplease Price: $19.18Not One More Death examines the record of US and UK troops in Iraq, questions Bush and Blair's position under international law, and considers the responsibilities of artists, writers and the wider... -
To Lose the Earth by Kirsten Beyer
Booksplease Price: $17.80The long-awaited follow-up to Voyager: Architects of Infinity from the New York Times bestselling author and cocreator of Star Trek: Picard! As the crew of the Full Circle fleet works to determine... -
Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide by Jim Hunter
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide by Jim Hunter is the essential introduction, analysis and exploration of Tom Stoppard's enormously influential body of plays.Are you fascinated by Stoppard's plays... -
Strategic Love Play by Miriam Battye 9780571387687
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65And when you see what's out there. What do you want with it. Do you want to fuck it. Like, weekly? Or do you want to sort of. Put your hands in its pockets. Take it to your mother. Love it until... -
Dracula: A Thriller in Two Acts by Neil LaBute 9781468315479
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $13.12Before acclaimed playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute became the creator and showrunner of Syfy's new hit series Van Helsing, he had already adapted Bram Stoker's Dracula for the stage-with a... -
Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71Eigengrau / [ay-gen-gr-ow ] - noun. intrinsic light; the colour seen by the eye in perfect darkness Rose believes in true love and leprechauns. Her flatmate Cassie is engaged in a fervent struggle... -
Three Poems: Northleigh, 1940; In Stereo; all of it Mr Alistair McDowall 9781350427051
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.82I suppose I never questioned why I was only one piece before A woman trapped at home during an air raid. A mother who starts to see double. A whole life in one breath. Three short plays by... -
The Village Bike by Penelope Skinner 9780571279487 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $4.74Isn't she gorgeous? Hardly been ridden. She's been in the garage just gathering dust.Becky's pregnant and frustrated. But her husband is more interested in the baby manual than her new underwear, so... -
Absolute Turkey(Trans. Nicki Frei/Peter Hall) by Georges Feydeau 9780948230745
Booksplease Price: $19.08Georges Feydeau, master of farce, displays all his tricks of the trade in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation. An Absolute Turkey was a West End hit following its London premiere at... -
Conclusions by John Boorman 9780571353798
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $10.13'What a life! What a career!' Harold Pinter'Boorman is one of the world's great directors, a master storyteller.' Paul AusterJohn Boorman is one of cinema's authentic visionaries whose travels have... -
Story Of O by Pauline Reage 9780552089302
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.71The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of GreyA beautiful young French woman, known only as 'O', is taken by her lover Rene to a splendid mansion near Paris. Here, she is... -
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.11Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.Martha: Look,... -
Linda by Penelope Skinner
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65I'm an award-winning business woman. I'm happily married with two beautiful daughters and I still fit in the same size-ten dress suit I did fifteen years ago. What could possibly threaten me?Linda... -
Jemima Shore's First Case: A Jemima Shore Mystery by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'The screams came again: by now they sounded quite blood-curdling to the girl alone in the small room - or was it that they were getting nearer?'From murders and ghostly visitors to devious plots and... -
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present by Michael Billington
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Having surveyed post-war British drama in State of the Nation, Michael Billington now looks at the global picture. In this provocative and challenging new book, he offers his highly personal... -
Political Death: A Jemima Shore Mystery Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780228587
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Summoned by the wayward Lady Imogen Swain, Jemima is entrusted with the diaries she kept in 1964, diaries which contain an account of her passionate affair with Burgo Smyth MP; now Foreign Secretary... -
Your Royal Hostage: A Jemima Shore Mystery Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780228549
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'We don't want to hurt her. We must remember that. All of us. She is after all innocent ... Well, isn't she?'As preparations for the royal wedding advance, a secret organisation is formulating plans...