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The World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End Danny Dyer 9781784297435
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04This book is a window into the world of Danny Dyer - and he's seen more of the world than most so he's got one or two things to say about it.Tackling such vital questions as 'Where have all the old... -
Norfolk Summer: Making the Go-Between by Christopher Hartop
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.46Norfolk Summer presents the story about the making of a film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates Joseph Losey's award-winning movie The Go-Between was filmed entirely on location in Norfolk in... -
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present by Michael Billington
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Having 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... -
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave: A Jemima Shore Mystery Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780228600
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09From treachery in the Caribbean to mischief in the Mediterranean, from murderous drama to sleek black comedy, from a baffling number of suspects to a single confrontation with a maniacal rapist, here... -
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $4.71'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
Simon Gray: Plays 2: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car by Simon Gray
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.58'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour.' Punch on Otherwise Engaged'Life in the theatre hasn't brought me anything... -
Imposter 22 Ms Molly Davies 9781350447721
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85We need to start at the start. Yes, yes, we do or the Neurotypicals will be confused. There was something off about the new guy. But now he's dead, and the sirens are fast approaching. Who to... -
The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie: The Formation of Modern China by Anders Lustgarten 9781350004771 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.35Our China is now the worst of all worlds. Communist politics controlled by greedy capitalists, raw capitalist economics controlled by corrupt Communists. Because they're all the same people! At least... -
Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men by Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753813317
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $33.15The bestselling historian's biography of a decisive figure in England's history.No Englishman has made more impact on the history of his nation than Oliver Cromwell; few have been so persistently... -
From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger 9781804299890
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.75From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms its highest values through struggle. John Berger presents a community which, besieged by economic and military oppression, finds... -
Simon Gray: Plays 3: Quartermaine's Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe by Simon Gray
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $28.49'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.'New York Times on Quartermaine's... -
The Cavalier Case: A Jemima Shore Mystery Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780228563
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09'As he turned ... he had the extraordinary impression of a man in full armour rearing up in front of him ... It was the last thing he saw, before he hurtled downwards to a certain death'An untimely... -
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner 9781839041457
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04'Let's just talk until it goes.' The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out. Lemons Lemons Lemons... -
Cool Repentance: A Jemima Shore Mystery by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09An atmospheric and gripping mystery from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series.'Was that what you thought - that you would come back, come back here to beautiful Lark, and get away with it, did... -
John Gielgud: An Actor's Life by Gyles Brandreth 9781803995540
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.23'A sense of delight permeates Gyles Brandreth's John Gielgud: An Actor's Life ... Brandreth combines neat reportage, deft evocation and lovely tales about a man he knew and relished.' - The Times'A... -
A Splash of Red: A Jemima Shore Mystery Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780228488
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09An atmospheric and gripping mystery from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series.How well do we ever know our friends? When Jemima Shore offers to flat-sit for her friend Chloe, the last thing she... -
Warrior Queens Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126363
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99An inspired evaluation of women leaders in war by a bestselling historian.Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queens are those women who have both ruled and led in war. They include Catherine the Great,... -
Captain Amazing by Alistair McDowall 9781350513327
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85What do you do as Captain Amazing?Fight... baddies and things. Save people... make people go to bed when they're supposed to go to bed...Join the world's most unassuming superhero in Alistair... -
The Night Alive by Conor McPherson
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04An inimitably warm and stylish play that deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations. Tommy's not a bad man, he's getting by. Renting a run-down room in his uncle... -
Mojo by Jez Butterworth
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $21.66A slick and violent black comedy set in the Soho clubland of the 1950s. The hit debut play from the author of Jerusalem. In the seedy gangster underworld of the rock'n'roll scene, club owners... -
Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he... -
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger 9781859844120 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $4.83John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern... -
Black Out by John Lawton
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $23.25Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' - Daily TelegraphThe first book in John Lawton's Inspector Troy series, selected by Time magazine as one of 'Six Detective... -
The Servant by Amy Sargeant
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.70Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from... -
Kalakuta Republic: A Book of Poetry by Christopher Abani 9780863563225
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.66This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s. Abani vividly describes... -
Old Flames by John Lawton
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.97Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack'- Daily TelegraphThe Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.London, 1956... -
John Gielgud by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $7.45'A sense of delight permeates Gyles Brandreth's John Gielgud: An Actor's Life ... Brandreth combines neat reportage, deft evocation and lovely tales about a man he knew and relished.' - The Times'A... -
Prima Facie (NHB Modern Plays) by Suzie Miller 9781839040641
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and winning. But an unexpected event forces her to... -
Acting My Life by Ian Holm 9780593052143 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $6.24Ian Holm is an actor. Over the last fifty years, he has become one of the most respected and widely admired actors of his generation. He has worked on stage, screen, television, and radio. After... -
Mates in Chelsea Rory Mullarkey (Author) 9781350448353
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85But I do have a job. I'm a professional viscount. Things aren't looking good for Theodore 'Tug' Bungay. His mother, Lady Agrippina, has a plan to cut off his funds. His fed-up fiancee wants to... -
Tartan Tragedy: A Jemima Shore Mystery by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09An atmospheric and gripping mystery set in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series.'I warned you, Jemima Shore, things up here are seldom all they seem . . ... -
Stardust Nation by Deborah Levy
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.66For the high-flying, heavy-drinking advertising boss Tom Banbury, the art of persuasion relies on an infiltration of the consumer's mind. In the case of his colleague and confidante Nikos Gazidis,... -
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474610933
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who... -
A Hero of the People Brad Birch 9781350181885
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $17.85Do you know what I believe in? I believe in us. Me and you, right here. This town was once an incredible place. We have to have courage to fight for it again. Hero or enemy? Who can actually tell... -
Blue Rondo by John Lawton 9781611855876
Booksplease Price: $21.97Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.1959.An old flame... -
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753822937
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.27Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's... -
Second Violin by John Lawton
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.97Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.1938.The Germans... -
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
Booksplease Price: $52.50John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern... -
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753822937 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $5.74Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's...