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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... -
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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... -
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... -
Klimowski Poster Book by Andrzej Klimowski
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.28"He leads the field by a very long furlong, out on his own, making his own weather. He is Klimowski, unafraid."-Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright In the mid-1970s, Andrzej Klimowski's... -
Sweet Sunday by John Lawton
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87A tumultuous novel about America's loss of innocence in the late Sixties.Turner Raines is Mr Heartbreak. Everybody leaves him. They walk out, they run away... they die. When his oldest friend Mel... -
Judgment and Strategy by Robin Holt 9780199671458
Booksplease Price: $228.96Holt argues strategy is the process by which an organization presents itself to itself and others. To bring this about exponents of strategic inquiry attempt t gather knowledge about the conditions... -
Character Breakdown by Zawe Ashton
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04'Entertaining...revealing, shocking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Sublime' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSActor and director Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of today's worldZawe... -
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210497
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of... -
The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson 9780099526735
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London's oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores... -
Riptide by John Lawton
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.87Written 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.1941.After ten... -
Knives in Hens by David Harrower
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $26.16The village has lied. William has lied. It is not because I am undeserving. Not because I am young and they are old. God has given them nothing. I know this now. Knives in Hens is a brutal fable... -
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"What are the Butchers For?": And Other Splendid Cricket Quotations by Lawrence Booth 9781408113318 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $5.95'What are the butchers for?' And other splendid cricket quotations is a collection of some of the finest and most memorable quotes about the sport. It contains a mixture of timeless quotations and... -
Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People by Richard Eyre
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $36.25A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it. In Talking Theatre, Richard Eyre uses his unrivalled access to leading theatre people to allow us to... -
Our Israeli Diary: Of That Time, Of That Place Antonia Fraser 9781786071538
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $16.95In May 1978 Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser visited Israel at the time of the 30th Anniversary of Independence. It was three years after they first lived together; neither had set foot in Israel... -
Selected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241964842
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.44A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected Poems This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of... -
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Stage Blood: Five tempestuous years in the early life of the National Theatre by Michael Blakemore 9780571241385 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $6.90In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its... -
Stage Blood: Five tempestuous years in the early life of the National Theatre by Michael Blakemore 9780571241385
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its... -
A Little White Death by John Lawton 9781611855890
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.1963.England is a... -
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best... -
A Lot of Hard Yakka Simon Hughes 9780747255161
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04Between 1980 and 1993, Simon Hughes was a regular on the county circuit, playing for Middlesex until 1991 before moving on to Durham at the end of his career. In that time, he played alongside some... -
Simon Gray: Plays 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept by Simon Gray
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.58'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.'Daily Telegraph on The Common... -
Mary Queen Of Scots Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474610919
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $28.06'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday TimesAn infant queen. A teenage widow... -
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life... -
A Lily of the Field by John Lawton
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40Written 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.Vienna, 1934... -
Unicorn by Mike Bartlett 9781839044410
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04'My point is we're at the frontier here. No one knows. And I find that really fucking exciting.' Polly and Nick have it all. Happily married, two children, successful careers. And yet there's... -
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A Lot of Hard Yakka by Simon Hughes 9780747255161 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $4.69Between 1980 and 1993, Simon Hughes was a regular on the county circuit, playing for Middlesex until 1991 before moving on to Durham at the end of his career. In that time, he played alongside some... -
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Stop the Clocks: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind by Joan Bakewell 9780349006093 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $7.26Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre... -
Stop the Clocks: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind by Joan Bakewell
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.18Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre... -
Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz 9780099541363
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his... -
Sap by Rafaella Marcus
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92A contemporary thriller with ancient roots, by the winner of the Most Promising New Playwright 2024 award (OffWestEnd). The bark creeps up my body like a rising sea level. I wonder what will happen... -
Nice Fish by Mark Rylance
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.28On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It's the end of the fishing season, and two old friends are out on the ice, angling for something big; something down there that... -
Four French Plays: Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache, Phaedra by Jean Racine
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28This new Penguin volume includes the 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed English translations. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature... -
Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten 9780241638798
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.77'Extraordinary . . . Anders Lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy' The TimesAn electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders LustgartenMeet... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.16The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to... -
The Cricket Pocket Bible by Greg Vaughan
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99The perfect gift for every cricket fan When was the first Ashes held? Who holds the highest individual Test runs score? And what exactly is a silly mid-off? Find the answer to all these and more... -
Jez Butterworth Plays: One by Jez Butterworth
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $36.25Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem. Jez Butterworth burst onto the theatre scene aged twenty-five with Mojo, 'one of the...