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How It All Began by Penelope Lively
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70From Penelope Lively, winner of the Booker PrizeWhen . . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece... -
Echoes of Memory by John O'Donohue 9781848270749
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39In this powerful, evocative collection, master storyteller John O'Donohue explores themes of love and loss, beginnings and endings. Inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Celtic tradition and the... -
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The "Sneeze" by Anton Chekhov 9781408105221
Booksplease Price: €16.95Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest... -
The Sneeze by Anton Chekhov 9780573625244
Booksplease Price: €14.60Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest... -
![Chekhov Plays: "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/620527/620242/9780413181602__74538.1687396713.jpg?c=1 "Chekhov Plays: "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov")
Chekhov Plays: "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Booksplease Price: €23.92This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation... -
Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups William Miller 9781788160377
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.79Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady... -
Death Match by Lincoln Child 9780099478638
Booksplease Price: €34.27A young couple are found dead in their apartment, and double suicide seems to be the only interpretation- Alarm bells ring in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech... -
The Chemistry of Death: (David Hunter 1) by Simon Beckett
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70* Don't miss 'THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH' TV SERIES - now streaming on Paramount+ * Adapted from The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David Hunter'A classy debut'... -
History: The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp Miles Jupp 9781472239976
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02A satirical, tragicomic story about a man on the edge from actor and comedian Miles Jupp. For readers of Jonathan Coe, Mark Watson, Michael Frayn and David Nicholls.Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck... -
History: The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp Miles Jupp 9781472239952
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.05'The funniest man in Britain has written a wonderful novel. Rejoice!' - Richard Osman'Very funny set pieces and one-liners' - Daily MailClive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private school he teaches... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780413771001
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation 'The play has been flooded with light, like a room with the curtains drawn back' John Peter, Sunday... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9781474260954
Booksplease Price: €50.91A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation 'The play has been flooded with light, like a room with the curtains drawn back' John Peter, Sunday Times... -
File on Frayn by Malcolm Page 9780413653109
Booksplease Price: €23.75"Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Michael Frayn is a... -
Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.97Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of "science plays"--theatrical events that weave scientific content into the plot lines of the drama. The book investigates the... -
Wild Honey by Anton Chekhov 9781350032293
Booksplease Price: €21.27Oh, Misha, it's terrible to be an educated woman. An educated woman with nothing to do. What am I here for? Why am I alive? They should make me a professor somewhere, or a director of something ..... -
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"The Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov
Booksplease Price: €13.80Chekhov's widely performed classic study of provincial life explores the irony of hope and the inadequacy of consolation.Michael Frayn's hugely popular translation is an AQA recommended text. For... -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Booksplease Price: €14.13A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of... -
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The "Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €10.04'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive ...will be acted again and again' New Statesman In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Monologues for Women by Chrys Salt
Booksplease Price: €23.79This book of contemporary monologues for women includes pieces from the best of the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, from Caryl Churchill and Michael Frayn to Martin McDonagh and Sarah... -
Comedy Acting for Theatre: The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies by Sidney Homan 9781350012769
Booksplease Price: €102.85Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable - and hilarious - performances... -
Boys and Girls Come Out to Play by Nigel Dennis 9780571260478
Booksplease Price: €23.47'Everyone who now remembers Nigel Dennis thinks that his first novel was Cards of Identity (1955). But in fact he had already written Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (1949)... what I recall liking so... -
Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors by D. Wu 9780333740019
Booksplease Price: €108.12Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight... -
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire Tomalin 9780241963296
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €20.58Mrs Jordan's Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin'Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction' Independent... -
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire TomalinWinner of the Whitbread First Book PrizeWitty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was... -
Laruelle and Art by Dr Jonathan Fardy 9781350114722
Booksplease Price: €102.85Francois Laruelle emerged from the hallowed generation of French postwar philosophers that included luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Luce Irigaray, and Jean Baudrillard, yet his... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' ... -
Understanding Julian Barnes by Merritt Moseley 9781570038754
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74This is a telling assessment of the divergent works of a daring British writer. ""Understanding Julian Barnes"" surveys the career of an innovative British novelist who has been shortlisted for the... -
Stage-Play and Screen-Play: The intermediality of theatre and cinema Michael Ingham 9781138841048
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.67Dialogue between film and theatre studies is frequently hampered by the lack of a shared vocabulary. Stage-Play and Screen-Play sets out to remedy this, mapping out an intermedial space in which both... -
A Great, Silly Grin by Humphrey Carpenter 9780306812057
Booksplease Price: €25.48A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s... -
The Heart Of A Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a... -
A History of the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction Since 1992 Merritt Moseley 9781032019109
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists,... -
In Confidence: Talking Frankly about Fame Laurie Taylor 9781782797678
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81A study of celebrity based on the seventy odd interviews featured in the Sky Arts television series, In Confidence. Informants include David Schwimmer, Stephen Fry, Harry Belafonte, Alan Ayckbourn,... -
Nightfall by Barney Norris 9781786823182
Booksplease Price: €14.60On a farm outside Winchester, Ryan struggles to make a living off the land. His sister Lou has returned home after the death of their father to support Jenny, their formidable mother. Now, when Lou's... -
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain Barney Norris 9781784161354
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70A Times bestseller'Wonderful...I was hooked from the first page. It's the real stuff.' - Michael Frayn'Deeply affecting' - Guardian'Superb' - Mail on Sunday'Barney Norris is a rare and precious... -
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin 9780241963258
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin is the acclaimed story of Nelly Ternan and Charles DickensWinner of the NCR Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize'This is the... -
A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights by John Louis DiGaetani 9780313273643
Booksplease Price: €73.70Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their views on their own work and contemporary drama, and offer projections about theater for the... -
Radioactive Monologues for Women: For Radio, Stage and Screen by Marilyn Le Conte 9780413775801
Booksplease Price: €24.93Radioactive Monologues for Women draws together over thirty extracts from the best contemporary plays for radio and stage. Designed as a resource for actors working in radio, theatre or television,... -
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The seminal biography of a great poet, novelist and sacred figure in English writing, Thomas Hardy, from bestselling author Clare Tomalin. 'An extraordinary story, beautifully told. Tomalin is the... -
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"The Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov 9780413393401
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.96"Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive...will be acted again and again" (New Statesman) In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is... -
Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos and Walter Benjamin by Carl Djerassi 9780299283346
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno were intellectual giants of the first half of the twentieth century. The drama Foreplay explores their deeply human and psychologically...