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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff
Booksplease Price: £14.99A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire From Kliph Nesteroff, "the human encyclopedia of comedy" (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy.It was one of the... -
Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik 9781668065495
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668065495Author Lili AnolikFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon &... -
Marco Dante (and Other Fake Guys) by Sandy McKnight 9780557714674
RRP: £8.25Booksplease Price: £7.96Marco Dante is a cross between Robert Moses, Barry McGuire and Jack Lescoulie. But get this...he's really fake! Yes, he is the product of the mind of Sandy McKnight, comedy writer and musician... -
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago by Jane Christmas 9781553652403
Booksplease Price: £14.26To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic's warning of catfights, death, and a... -
The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life (without the Boring Bits) by Paul Hogan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79The icon and legend at last tells his story his way -- without the boring bits Paul Hogan first appeared on Australia's screens in 1971 as a 'tap-dancing knife thrower' on TV talent show New Faces... -
Lichtenstein Remembered by Daniel Belasco 9780847832354
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £55.05Lichtenstein Remembered accompanies a 2023 exhibition, curated by Irving Blum on the centennial of the artist s birth, of twenty-two sculptures and twenty-eight works on paper at Gagosian New York... -
The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022 by Peter Schjeldahl 9781419773242
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.28The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic When the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl published his widely read autobiographical essay "The... -
Heavy Hitter Sales Wisdom: Proven Sales Warfare Strategies, Secrets of Persuasion, and Common-Sense Tips for Success by Steve W. Martin 9780470052310
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.21Praise for Heavy Hitter Sales Wisdom "Steve Martin takes a much-needed look at how successful executives read verbal and nonverbal messages, which allows them to quickly understand the subtext of... -
The Life I've Picked: A Banjo Player's Nitty Gritty Journey by John McEuen 9781613738955
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.11John McEuen is one of the founding members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, NGDB. Now 50-years strong, the band is best known for its evergreen bestselling album Will the Circle Be Unbroken and for its... -
Acting for America: Movie Stars of the 1980s by Robert Eberwein 9780813547602
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.25A captivating cast of 1980s power and talent-John Candy, Tom Cruise, Robert DeNiro, Clint Eastwood, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Michael J. Fox, Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Lange, Steve Martin,... -
The Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites by Robert Benchley 9780226042183
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.32Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time; his influence-on... -
A Life in Design: Celebrating 30 Years of Interiors by Kathryn M Ireland 9781800652774
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.23Acclaimed interior designer to the A-list, Kathryn M Ireland celebrates 30 years of decorating in A Life in Design. Organized by location, the book takes an overview of the interiors Kathryn has... -
The Perfect Response: Studies of the Rhetorical Personality by Gary C. Woodward 9780739140017
Booksplease Price: £51.70The Perfect Response is a lucid account of the social origins of fluency from a scholar recognized as 'a leading analyst of the dramaturgical dimensions of politics.' In this imaginative study Gary... -
Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars Kliph Nesteroff 9781419760990
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.77From the preeminent historian of comedy, an expansive history of show business and the battles over culture that have echoed through the decades and changed the United States"Outrageous is required... -
With Nails Richard E Grant 9781035062768
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.26'You'll laugh, you'll cry, especially if you're in the book like I am' - Steve MartinWhen, in the summer of 1986, Richard E. Grant was cast as the lead in Withnail and I, his whole world shifted and... -
Jackson Pollock's Mural - The Transitional Moment by Yvonne Szafran 9781606063231
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £22.31This is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of a post-war masterpiece and its restoration. In many ways, Mural, Jackson Pollock's (1912-1956) first large-scale painting represents the... -
Climbing Rejection Mountain: An Actor's Path to Success, Stability, and Self-Esteem by Nick Wyman
Booksplease Price: £20.70The former national president of Actors Equity Association, Nick Wyman was recently acclaimed for Network on Broadway with Bryan Cranston. His fifteen other Broadway roles include Firmin in the... -
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth
Booksplease Price: £9.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060084608Author Frank B. GilbrethFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
QI: Advanced Banter by John Lloyd
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The ultimate compendium of crisp one-liners, knockout jokes, droll asides and universal truths collected over the years by the creators of QI. 'You know 'that look' women get when they want sex?... -
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QI: Advanced Banter by John Lloyd 9780571323883 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41The ultimate compendium of crisp one-liners, knockout jokes, droll asides and universal truths collected over the years by the creators of QI. 'You know 'that look' women get when they want sex?... -
Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore 9780060735456
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060735456Author Christopher MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022 Peter Schjeldahl 9781419773259
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10"Sensitive and moving. Schjeldahl wrote until the end. We can be grateful for that because we have this book." (Dwight Garner, New York Times)The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter... -
The Last Laugh: The World of Stand-Up Comics by Phil Berger
Booksplease Price: £17.40The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the standup comic, from the classic years of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Shecky Greene, to today's comedy... -
God Says No by James Hannaham 9780802144966
Booksplease Price: £10.11Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family,... -
Broadway: The American Musical by Laurence Maslon 9781493047673
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.81A comprehensive companion to the six-part Emmy-winning PBS documentary series, Broadway: The American Musical is the gold standard of musical theater history books, tracing the roots of the art form... -
Ham: Slices of a Life: True Life Tales by Sam Harris 9781476733449
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.52In a collection of personal essays that are "both rip-roaringly funny and sentimental, drawing natural (and justified) comparisons to David Sedaris and David Rakoff" (Esquire), longtime... -
Awesome Facts for Curious Kids: 8 Year Olds by Andrew Pinder
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92This info-packed book is bursting with over 250 mind-blowing facts and illustrations on a range of fascinating subjects, from extreme animals and record-breaking sports to amazing technology and... -
Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Your All-Access Guide to the World's Amazing Museums by DK
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Take an exclusive tour of the world's most exciting museums and discover their hidden treasures.This behind-the-scenes guide showcases a huge range of incredible artefacts from history and reveals... -
Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen by Dean Smith 9781682831489
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.09Dean Smith has taken falls from galloping horses, engaged in fistfights with Kirk Douglas and George C. Scott, donned red wig and white tights to double Maureen O'Hara, and taught Goldie Hawn how to... -
Awesome Facts for Curious Kids: 7 Year Olds by Andrew Pinder
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92This book is bursting with over 250 mind-blowing facts and quirky illustrations on a range of fascinating subjects, from prehistoric animals and Ancient Romans to curious inventions and foody trivia... -
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee by Jerry Seinfeld
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18A celebration of and behind-the-scenes look at Jerry Seinfeld's groundbreaking streaming series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.Over eleven seasons and eighty-four episodes, Jerry Seinfeld drove... -
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Funniest Thing You Never Said 2 by Rosemarie Jarski 9780091924515 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.40The bestselling, blockbusting, bumper book of humorous quotations rides back into town with 6,000 more hilariously funny quotes. From times past to the modern day, classic funnies to contemporary... -
Awesome Facts for Curious Kids: 6 Year Olds by Andrew Pinder
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92This info-packed fact book is bursting with over 250 mind-blowing facts and illustrations on a range of fascinating subjects, from space and science to dinosaurs and minibeasts.Did you know ...The... -
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport 9781455509126
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.43Cal Newport's clearly-written manifesto flies in the face of conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person's talent and skill -- and not necessarily their passion -- that determines... -
Kinds of American Film Comedy: Six Core Genres and Their Literary Roots by Wes D. Gehring 9781476688992
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £45.17This groundbreaking film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading up to and overlapping the advent of film--including some who worked both on the page and on the... -
Homo Ludens as a Comic Character in Selected American Films by Artur Skweres 9783319479668
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories developed by Johan Huizinga in his classic study Homo... -
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.70Cal Newport's clearly-written manifesto flies in the face of conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person's talent and skill - and not necessarily their passion - that determines... -
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance by Larry Gonick
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.50Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature... -
Nichols and May: Interviews by Robert E. Kapsis 9781496828330
Booksplease Price: £94.23In the late 1950s, Mike Nichols (1931-2014) and Elaine May (b. 1932) soared to superstar status as a sketch comedy duo in live shows and television. After their 1962 breakup, both went on to long and... -
John Candy: A Life in Comedy by Paul Myers 9781487009526
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.43From the bestselling author of Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, the definitive biography of John Candy-a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy's most beloved and enduring stars. From his humble...