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Olivier Philip Ziegler 9781782067887
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. His era abounded in greats - Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole - but none could challenge... -
Shadowman: Records of a Life Corrupted by Johnny Daukes 9781999770143
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'Shadowman is an emotional and powerful read, deeply honest and very personal, and at times made bearable only by Johnny Daukes' ability to find comedy in horrific circumstances. An astonishing piece... -
One of Them Michael Cashman 9781526612366
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'An extraordinary life, depicted with searing honesty ... A colourful journey sprinkled with delicious anecdotes' Daily Express 'Extraordinary ... You'll be ugly-sobbing at the end' Graham Norton ... -
Amorous or Loving: The Highly Peculiar Tale of English and the English Sir Rupert Gavin 9781917458085
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.81How did a marginal dialect spoken in the late ninth century by 200,000 people become the world's language spoken by 1.6 million people today? In Amorous or Loving? - The Highly Peculiar Tale of... -
The Merry Wives of Windsor by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's enduringly popular comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a... -
Odd Men out: Male Homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation: Revised and Updated Edition by John-Pierre Joyce
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.97From 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... -
Equus by Peter Shaffer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Self-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
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Essential 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... -
Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples: with Sketches of Young Ladies by Edward Caswall by Charles Dickens 9780199603282
Booksplease Price: £16.18Following the phenomenal popularity of Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers, Dickens produced two short volumes of Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples, in response to the appearance of... -
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.00SHORTLISTED 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75For 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Acclaimed 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... -
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'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... -
Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle by Rhonda K. Garelick
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Celebrity 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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.87In 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... -
![The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems ... and Create More by Luke Dormehl 9780753541685 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5848278/5925339/9780753541685__19822.1728020427.jpg?c=1 "The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems ... and Create More by Luke Dormehl 9780753541685 [USED COPY]")
The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems ... and Create More by Luke Dormehl 9780753541685 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.80What 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... -
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman 9780300251814
Booksplease Price: £16.01A 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: £135.00Booksplease Price: £118.97Michael 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: £39.99Booksplease Price: £29.79How 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,... -
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Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens 9780099540854 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.05WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW Wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit is surrounded by a host of grasping, unscrupulous relatives and suspects the family vices of selfishness and greed are already... -
Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle by Paula Byrne
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58The 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... -
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'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... -
![Straight Face by Nigel Hawthorne 9780340769430 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9955597/10972064/9780340769430__06915.1786542447.jpg?c=1 "Straight Face by Nigel Hawthorne 9780340769430 [USED COPY]")
Straight Face by Nigel Hawthorne 9780340769430 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.96Very sadly, Nigel Hawthorne died on Boxing Day 2001. He had just completed his exceptional autobiography about a life which had by no means taken a straight path. His ambitions to be an actor when... -
Constructing Stories, Telling Tales: A Guide to Formulation in Applied Psychology Sarah Corrie 9781855756427
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79Formulation 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... -
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE 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 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9679284/10696004/9780007358342__51381.1781301210.jpg?c=1 "The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 9780007358342 [USED COPY]")
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 9780007358342 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.53Who 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: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.79Intended 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... -
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The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 9780007358328 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.81THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It is good to meet the real Jane Austen at last' Independent on Sunday ... -
Women Who Led The Way: Great Explorers and Adventurers Mick Manning & Brita Granstroem 9781915659088
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.22From 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: £85.95Intended 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... -
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 9780007358342
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Who 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. ... -
How to Direct Shakespeare Adrian Noble 9781350231238
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.37You 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... -
Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde was Shaped by the Women he Knew by Eleanor Fitzsimons 9780715651193
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64'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... -
The Castle on Sunset: Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont Shawn Levy 9781474611848
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02For 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.53The 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... -
How to Direct Shakespeare by Adrian Noble 9781350231245
Booksplease Price: £75.81You 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... -
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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.22An 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
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.51Brilliant, 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15WINNER 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...