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The Cambridge Footlights: A Very British Comedy Institution Robert Sellers 9781350412187
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.69In the league table of the funniest universities in the world, Cambridge wears the crown. Home of Britain's oldest student sketch comedy troupe, the Cambridge Footlights, it has been a veritable... -
Toward a Rhetoric of Insult by Thomas M. Conley 9780226114774
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, from "The Daily Show" to every comments section on the internet, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and... -
High Hopes: My Autobiography by Ronnie Corbett 9781785034695
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A true great of British comedy, Ronald 'Ronnie' Corbett, is hailed as one of the finest comedians of his generation.Son of an Edinburgh baker, Ronnie rose to fame as one half of the infamous Two... -
The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads by Robert A. Kaster
Booksplease Price: £15.82To walk on remnants of the storied Appian Way today, from Rome to the heel of Italy, is to walk in the footsteps of ghosts. Our guide to those ghosts-and the layers of history they represent-is... -
The Middle Ages and the Movies: Eight Key Films by Robert Bartlett
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.29In The Middle Ages and the Movies eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century... -
Toward a Rhetoric of Insult by Thomas M. Conley
Booksplease Price: £23.87From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, from "The Daily Show" to every comments section on the internet, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and... -
The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads by Robert A. Kaster 9780226425719
Booksplease Price: £21.05The Roman poet Statius called the Via Appia "the Queen of Roads," and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel... -
So, Anyway...: The Autobiography by John Cleese
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.37A candid and brilliantly funny memoir......of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed comedy legend.En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-wracking first... -
Knight's Dawn: The Red Pavilions: Book One Kim Hunter 9780356503103
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A SOLDIER WITHOUT A PAST A wounded knight awakens alone on a hillside. His only memory is that of a mighty battle - but there has not been a battle in this place for more than a hundred years. Tired,... -
Whisky, Kilts and the Loch Ness Monster: Traveling Through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson by William W. Starr 9781611170702
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottish journey of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, two... -
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide by John Cleese
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17____________________________We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how.Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to differ, and in... -
A Sackful of Limericks by Michael Palin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar...If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack...And if... -
Wizard's Funeral: The Red Pavilions: Book Two by Kim Hunter
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A LAND WITHOUT A KING In the troubled kingdom of Zamerkand, the enemies within are as dangerous as those at the borders. For Soldier, the warrior whose influence is already too great for some... -
Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain Dominic Strinati 9780415063272
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Come on Down represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key... -
The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.21'Horrific and hilarious ... a dystopic vision of an England that would have given Orwell the heebie-jeebies' Independent 'A brilliant work of satire' The Quietus A... -
Education: Its Nature and Purpose by M. V. C. Jeffreys
Booksplease Price: £54.29This book discusses the very nature and purpose of education and provides a foundation upon which more specialized studies in the psychology, history and sociology of education can be based. The book... -
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Families And How To Survive Them by Robin Skynner 9780749314101 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.19What makes a family happy? Why do some marriages 'succeed' and others end in divorce? How can we free ourselves from the legacy of past mistakes and bring about positive change? Love, sex and... -
The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) by William Shakespeare 9781557831576
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72The complete script to the critically acclaimed play.THTH Shakespeare as written by EReader's DigestE acted by Monty Python and performed at the speed of the minute waltz.Book InformationISBN... -
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Spike Milligan: Man of Letters by Spike Milligan 9780241966921 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been... -
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: The Best of Forty Years: Foreword by Stephen Fry by Barry Cryer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Know your Mornington Crescent from your Cheddar Gorge? Are you partial to a bad-tempered clavier? Would you like some unhelpful travel advice?Featuring the very best moments from a forty-year history... -
Small Gods: A Discworld Graphic Novel by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.30Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett will love this stunning graphic novel adaptation of his bestselling standalone Discworld novel Small Gods. Beautifully brought to life by illustrator Ray Friesen, it takes... -
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: The Best of Forty Years: Foreword by Stephen Fry by Barry Cryer 9780099510543 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Know your Mornington Crescent from your Cheddar Gorge? Are you partial to a bad-tempered clavier? Would you like some unhelpful travel advice?Featuring the very best moments from a forty-year history... -
English: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather by Ben Fogle
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite - or is it something less easily defined? ... -
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English: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather by Ben Fogle 9780008222284 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite - or is it something less easily defined? ... -
Families And How To Survive Them by Robin Skynner
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74What makes a family happy? Why do some marriages 'succeed' and others end in divorce? How can we free ourselves from the legacy of past mistakes and bring about positive change? Love, sex and... -
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47DISCOVER PUCKOON, SPIKE MILLIGAN'S CLASSIC SLAPSTICK NOVEL'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily MailIn 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with... -
The Spam Cookbook by Marguerite Patten
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMarguerite Patten worked for the Ministry of Food during the Second World War, in East Anglia and London... -
Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva by George Bernard Shaw 9780140450309
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78While some of Shaw's earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet,... -
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'We go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves' Jeanette WintersonBeatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each... -
The Discworld Graphic Novels: The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic: 25th Anniversary Edition by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.71A beautiful gift edition of the first two Discworld novels - The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic - stunningly depicted in comic format for the first time - a fun read for established fans and... -
Three Restoration Comedies by Sir George Etherege
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit... -
There Once Was A Man With Six Wives: Our Kings and Queens in Limericks Mick Twister 9781911042235
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58A hugely entertaining collection of clever and fun limericks, one for each monarch in British history - and more! Royal history as you've never seen... -
Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail ... -
Spike Milligan: Man of Letters by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been... -
My Turn: An Autobiography by Norman Wisdom
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.93Norman Wisdom's early years could easily have come straight from the pages of a Dickens novel. Left by their frightened mother, ill-treated by a brutal father, Norman and his brother were forced to... -
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Frost: That Was The Life That Was: The Authorised Biography by Neil Hegarty 9780753556702 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.58Sir David Frost, who died suddenly in August 2013, was the only person to have met and interviewed every British Prime Minister since Harold Wilson as well as seven Presidents of the United States... -
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in... -
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42_______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most... -
Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13) by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'Deftly weaves themes of forgiveness, belief and spiritual regeneration' The TimesThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four... -
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Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin 9781784758578 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.30_______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most...