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Marching Song: A Play by Orson Welles 9781538125526
Booksplease Price: $43.22Before 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 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... -
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Maybe The Moon by Armistead Maupin 9780552998758 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $2.54Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast... -
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... -
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... -
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Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes by Gyles Brandreth 9780198749585 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $3.11This 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... -
Marley: A Novel by Jon Clinch
Booksplease Price: $16.46The 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... -
Diana: The Voice of Change by Stewart Pearce
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $18.32Diana The Voice of Change throws a new light on the most famous woman of her time. Discover the truth about Diana s extraordinary life principles. Learn what created her love and the secret keys that... -
I Will Never See the World Again Yasemin Congar 9781783785155
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.48'A deeply moving memoir... We owe Ahmet Altan a tremendous debt for the strength he has shown in sharing his story with us' Jon McGregor Written from the confines of a prison cell in Istanbul, one... -
Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes by Gyles Brandreth 9780198749585
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.75This 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... -
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Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett 9780349120584 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.10'Hilariously honest. . . a kind of rake's progress' Daily MailAn element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in 'Another... -
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.18SHORTLISTED 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... -
Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.75'Hilariously honest. . . a kind of rake's progress' Daily MailAn element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in 'Another... -
The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $16.47This 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... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.38From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of... -
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma 9781838957674
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.' Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in... -
Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 by Simon Szreter 9780521760041
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $116.09What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book... -
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $25.37'A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.' Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in... -
Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 by Simon Szreter
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $29.95What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book... -
John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star by Jonathan Croall 9781408179451
Booksplease Price: $39.15New in paperback, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of the finest classical actor of the twentieth century. This entertaining but critical... -
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown Alexander Larman 9781474623971
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good political thriller'WALL STREET JOURNALAt the outbreak of war, the British monarchy was in turmoil. Edward VIII... -
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others by Frank Cottrell Boyce
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers... -
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays by Eric Rasmussen 9781137271440
Booksplease Price: $53.44Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of the fascinatingly varied body of plays that has become known as 'The Shakespeare... -
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617204
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer,... -
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No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781911344292 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.10Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly... -
Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare Greg Doran 9781526694379
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.81'A deeply involving, humane book' ROWAN WILLIAMS'Intimate, humorous, yet profoundly moving' STANLEY WELLS'Deeply enjoyable' HARRIET WALTERA compelling blend of memoir, travelogue and investigation,...