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That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket Michael Henderson 9781472132888
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $15.54Included in the Financial Times best books of 2020 selection'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,... -
That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of County Cricket by Michael Henderson 9781472132888 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.15Included in the Financial Times best books of 2020 selection'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,... -
That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket by Michael Henderson 9781472132871 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.48'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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Self-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: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.46A 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... -
Just Play: Beckett's Theater by Ruby Cohn 9780691616025
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $52.15The author ranges through Beckett's drama to analyze his approach to place, time, soliloquy, fiction, and repetition. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the Nineties by Jack Temchin 9781557831521 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.81Over 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: $21.50Booksplease Price: $3.57This 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... -
W. S. Graham: Speaking Towards You by Ralph Pite 9780853235798
Booksplease Price: $40.20Graham's work was published by T. S. Eliot in the 1940s and 50s, but as a major post-war poet, his work has received astonishingly little critical attention given its prestige and influence. This... -
Backstage Confidential: Secrets of a Stagehand by Eden Phillips 9781835744048
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Backstage 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... -
If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep by Anders Lustgarten 9781472513571 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.94"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... -
Road to Rouen by Matthew Vine 9781917673907
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.41ROAD 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... -
Tremor by Brad Birch
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.11This 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... -
Ninety-Nine Poems in Translation by Anthony Astbury
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Celebrating 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... -
Timebends by Arthur Miller
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $10.81'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... -
Nigel Dempster and the Death of Discretion Tim Willis 9781906021849
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20For 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87New 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... -
Samuel Beckett: Faber Critical Guide by John Fletcher 9780571197781 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.83Do 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Do 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... -
Artists Michael Karwowski 9781803133317
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Playwright 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... -
From Eves Rib by Gioconda Belli 9781880684139
RRP: $18.00Booksplease Price: $12.45Gioconda 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... -
Uncle Vanya by Conor McPherson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86In 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: $32.38Noel 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... -
King Charles II Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753814031
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Following 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.98Stoke 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... -
Between Two States: An Italo-Scots Story Diane Pacitti 9781836283829
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74Between 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... -
New Collected Poems by W. S. Graham
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.55'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... -
Not One More Death by John Le Carre
Booksplease Price: $18.46Not 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: $17.13The 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Tom 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26And 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.68Before 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... -
Barbara Bray, A Woman of Letters: Translator, Radio Producer, Scriptwriter, Critic, and Theatre Director by Pascale Sardin 9781032814292
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $55.57Barbara Bray (1924-2010) was an English woman of letters who translated some hundred novels, plays, and essays from French to English and was Marguerite Duras's preferred translator. She also... -
Three Poems: Northleigh, 1940; In Stereo; all of it Mr Alistair McDowall 9781350427051
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.16I 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $4.57Isn'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... -
Brief Lives by Paul Johnson
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights, even the foul-mouthed publican... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1960s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Steve Nicholson 9781408129579
Booksplease Price: $41.77Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s... -
Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31Eigengrau / [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... -
Absolute Turkey(Trans. Nicki Frei/Peter Hall) by Georges Feydeau 9780948230745
Booksplease Price: $18.37Georges 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $9.75'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...