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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... -
Advice from the Players by Laura Barnett
Booksplease Price: $10.45Essential tips and advice from stars of stage and screen. Actors know the best source of advice on the profession is other actors. Nothing compares with the wisdom and practical know-how acquired... -
Odd Men out: Male Homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation: Revised and Updated Edition by John-Pierre Joyce
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.44From government ministers and spies to activists, drag queens and celebrities, Odd men out charts the tumultuous history of gay men in 1950s and 60s Britain. It takes us from the earliest tentative... -
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.90SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIt is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . . . in its own eccentric way, [The Owl and... -
Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison by Jerry White
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03For Londoners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, debt was a part of everyday life. But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be thrown into one of the capital's most notorious... -
Music and Sentiment by Charles Rosen
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01Acclaimed pianist and writer Charles Rosen explores music's profound ability to convey emotion through sound How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or... -
Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle by Rhonda K. Garelick
Booksplease Price: $42.34Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self... -
What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare by Andrew McConnell Stott 9780393248654
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $23.05In September 1769, three thousand people descended on Stratford-Upon-Avon to celebrate the legacy of the town's most famous son. For three days, attendees paraded through garlanded streets, listened... -
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The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems ... and Create More by Luke Dormehl 9780753541685 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.59What if everything in life could be reduced to a simple formula? What if numbers were able to tell us which partners we were best matched with - not just in terms of attractiveness, but for a... -
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature' John le Carre The Third Man, Graham... -
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman 9780300251814
Booksplease Price: $20.65A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American... -
To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting by Michael Chekhov
RRP: $174.15Booksplease Price: $153.47Michael Chekhov's classic work To the Actor has been revised and expanded by Mala Powers to explain, clearly and concisely, the essential techniques for every actor from developing a character to... -
To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting by Michael Chekhov 9780415258760
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $38.43How does an actor learn to: * Call up emotion? * Develop a character? * Strengthen awareness? These are essential techniques for every actor, and Michael Chekhov's classic work To the Actor explains,... -
Constructing Stories, Telling Tales: A Guide to Formulation in Applied Psychology Sarah Corrie 9781855756427
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.17Formulation remains one of the most important activities that those using psychological approaches undertake as part of their work. Arguably, however, formulation is an activity that remains poorly... -
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle... -
Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle by Paula Byrne
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.51The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the... -
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A virtuosic memoir . . . elegant, frank and well-structured, that entirely resists cliche . . . readable for both diehard classical music fans and complete newcomers... -
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 9780007358342
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. ... -
Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique: A Practitioner's Guide Sinead Rushe (Central School of Speech and Drama, UK) 9781408156889
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.98Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting technique developed by Michael Chekhov. Sinead... -
Women Who Led The Way: Great Explorers and Adventurers Mick Manning & Brita Granstroem 9781915659088
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.58From Aud the Deep-Minded, an early voyager to Iceland, and Sacagawea who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition across the USA, to Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space and Arunima Sinha, the... -
Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique: A Practitioner's Guide by Sinead Rushe 9781350090033
Booksplease Price: $110.88Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting technique developed by Michael Chekhov. Sinead... -
How to Direct Shakespeare Adrian Noble 9781350231238
Booksplease Price: $34.47You may be a student, or just starting out in the theatre profession, or an actor contemplating a switch to directing, or anyone dreaming of a life in the theatre. Know this: by developing and... -
How to Direct Shakespeare by Adrian Noble 9781350231245
Booksplease Price: $97.79You may be a student, or just starting out in the theatre profession, or an actor contemplating a switch to directing, or anyone dreaming of a life in the theatre. Know this: by developing and... -
The Castle on Sunset: Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont Shawn Levy 9781474611848
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35For nearly ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favoured the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. Filled with deep secrets but hidden in plain sight, its evolution parallels the growth... -
Out of Silence - A Pianist`s Yearbook by Susan Tomes 9781843835578
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.35The author of Beyond the Notes demonstrates how a working musician draws energy from the events of daily life, and sometimes seeks a refuge from them in music. Out of Silence is a diary of a year... -
Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde was Shaped by the Women he Knew by Eleanor Fitzsimons 9780715651193
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.31'A remarkable book... the breadth and depth of research is astonishing' Emma Thompson 'An illuminating study... fascinating' Independent Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar... -
This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL by Miriam Margolyes
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY'As outrageously entertaining as you'd expect' Daily ExpressBAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel... -
Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar by Oliver Hilmes
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.79An engrossing new biography of Franz Liszt, the musical revolutionary who became the world's first international megastar"Makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of Liszt as a man and... -
The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking: Conversations about Art and Performance by Charles Rosen
Booksplease Price: $21.30Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century's greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its... -
On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place Mike Parker 9781786090492
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2020__________________________'A moving story of love, tradition and landscape.' Evening Standard, 'Books of the... -
Marching Song: A Play by Orson Welles 9781538125526
Booksplease Price: $43.68Before The Cradle Will Rock, before War of the Worlds, before Citizen Kane-there was Marching Song. At the age of 25 Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded... -
The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough Hugo Vickers 9781529390742
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.00**The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020****The Times Best Biography Audiobook of the Year 2021**'Vickers gives breathing, alarming life to a woman who puzzled and thrilled her... -
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens by Jenny Hartley 9780199591411
Booksplease Price: $25.67What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection... -
The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi: Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain's Greatest Comedian Andrew McConnell Stott 9781847677617
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face make-up and wear outrageous coloured clothes, he completely... -
God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20*Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize**Longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction**A Sunday Times Book of the Year**A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year* *A Times Book of the Year**An... -
Questors, Jesters and Renegades: The Story of Britain's Amateur Theatre by Michael Coveney
Booksplease Price: $26.57This is the vital story of the amateur theatre as it developed from the medieval guilds to the modern theatre of Ayckbourn and Pinter, with a few mishaps and missed cues along the way. Michael... -
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $13.33SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a... -
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY 'Superb' Stephen Fry 'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones 'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor 'Astonishing' Peter Frankopan We like to... -
Marley: A Novel by Jon Clinch
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.45The acclaimed author of Finn "digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature" (Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author) with this "clever riff" (The Washington... -
The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $16.03This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the...