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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... -
Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why by Stephen Martin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81____________________________Why can some people effortlessly command the attention of everyone in the room?What makes some individuals seem immediately credible and others appear inherently... -
Nichols and May: Interviews by Robert E. Kapsis 9781496831040
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In 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... -
Woody Allen: Interviews by Robert E. Kapsis 9781496804457
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This revised and updated edition gathers interviews and profiles covering the entire forty-five-year span of Woody Allen's career as a filmmaker, including detailed discussions of his most popular as... -
Faith Negotiating Loyalties: An Exploration of South African Christianity through a Reading of the Theology of H. Richard Niebuhr by Stephen W. Martin 9780761841111
Booksplease Price: £61.04Faith Negotiating Loyalties draws readers into the world of Christian faith in South Africa and the question of loyalties in the new post-apartheid state. It carries out its investigation in two... -
Public Services Inspection in the UK by Howard Davis
Booksplease Price: £28.51Public Services Inspection in the UK provides a detailed account of the changing role of inspection in public services management. It analyses the key debates about the role that inspection plays in... -
The Green Hour: A Novel by Frederic Tuten 9780393325331
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £16.82Set in Paris and New York, The Green Hour tells the story of Dominique, a brilliant art historian who has recently recovered from a bout with cancer. The novel follows Dominique from her college... -
Industrial Organization in Context by Stephen Martin 9780199291199
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £68.91Industrial Organization is a central branch of microeconomics that has historically provoked a great deal of debate among economists. Steve Martin draws on this debate and economic history in order... -
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy by Judd Apatow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Before becoming one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, Judd Apatow was the original comedy nerd. At fifteen, he took a job washing dishes in a local comedy club-just so he could watch... -
What Works Now?: Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice by Annette Boaz
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.79Building substantially on the earlier, landmark text, What Works? (Policy Press, 2000), this book brings together key thinkers and researchers to provide a contemporary review of the aspirations and... -
The Incredible Shrinking Mind: What Happens When The Human Equation Gets Lost by Gerald Alper
Booksplease Price: £26.09Within the last few decades a dizzying array of scientific disciplines and "explanations" of the motivating forces behind the profound enigmas of human behaviour have emerged: sociobiology, cognitive... -
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The Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book by Tim Vine 9781846058271 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.27The hilarious joke book from the Punslinger, Tim Vine, the undisputed king of the one-liner.The irrepressible, hysterical, puntastical Tim Vine, star of stage and screen, treats all of us here in his... -
Homo Ludens as a Comic Character in Selected American Films by Artur Skweres 9783319838694
Booksplease Price: £46.28This 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... -
Candice Breitz Marcella Beccaria 9788876243684
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £11.40The art of the up-and-coming South African artist Candice Breitz draws on contemporary mass culture, devising new systems for understanding reality. Published in association with the Castello di... -
What Works Now?: Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice by Annette Boaz 9781447345473
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.09Building substantially on the earlier, landmark text, What Works? (Policy Press, 2000), this book brings together key thinkers and researchers to provide a contemporary review of the aspirations and... -
Listening to Music by Lorenzo Candelaria 9780357133286
Booksplease Price: £83.61Combining a student-friendly presentation with cutting-edge digital resources, Wright/Candelaria's LISTENING TO MUSIC, 9th EDITION, equips you with the tools to actively listen to and inspire a... -
Homework: A Memoir Geoff Dyer 9781837261987
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38'Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny - I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly gone. What a... -
Robin by Dave Itzkoff
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99'This well-written page-turner is the definitive biography of the genius of Robin Williams, whose life redefines the highs and lows of the American dream' - Steve Martin 'Tenderly written . . ... -
Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher 9781849833646
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40** THE NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL ** ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry **'I don't think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live... -
The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness by Paula Poundstone 9781616208066
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88"A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat." -Lily Tomlin "Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known." -Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! and... -
Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook by David Galef
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05In Brevity, David Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a... -
The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging by The Editors of Huffington Post 9781439105009
Booksplease Price: £12.37The editors of The Huffington Post -- the most linked-to blog on the web -- offer an A-Z guide to all things blog, with information for everyone from the tech-challenged newbie looking to get a... -
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle 9781474610292 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.40THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Funny, wicked, naughty, eye-popping and compulsively, joyously brilliant'STEPHEN FRYFrom the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of... -
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography Eric Idle 9781474610292
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Funny, wicked, naughty, eye-popping and compulsively, joyously brilliant'STEPHEN FRYFrom the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of... -
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle 9781474610278 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.69'As funny, wicked, naughty, eye-popping and compulsively, joyously brilliant as the genius who wrote it' Stephen FryWe know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python - from the Flying... -
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris 9780393357868
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.25In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades... -
Are You a Team or a Meeting?: How to Build Teams That Win: An Economist Edge book Nick Pope 9781800819092
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Winning is a team sport, right? True, we need to collaborate to make sense of today's challenges. But simply bringing people together is no guarantee of success. Too often, so-called teams are... -
A Tale of Warp and Weft by Brad Davis
RRP: £62.50Booksplease Price: £47.26This book provides a fascinating look at the intricate transformation of a watercolour painting to a beautiful silk carpet, examining the step-by-step process that led to a revolutionary painterly ... -
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence Geoff Dyer 9781782115137
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Sitting down to write a book about his hero D.H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write... -
The Positive Deviant: Sustainability Leadership in a Perverse World Sara Parkin 9781138384118
Booksplease Price: £26.39An economy low in carbon and high in life satisfaction will require thousands, if not millions of exceptional leaders. This book is the first to bring together sustainability knowledge with the... -
101 Two-Letter Words Stephin Merritt 9780393240191
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.74The country folk say "howdy-do" but here in town, it's "yo"; they'll say it in the country too in twenty years or so. Rolling Stone magazine has called songwriter Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic... -
Earl Scruggs: Banjo Icon by Gordon Castelnero 9781538114544
Booksplease Price: £33.49As Earl Scruggs picked his banjo with machine gun precision at his 1945 debut at the Ryman Auditorium, he set in motion a successful career and enduring legacy that would eclipse anything the humble... -
Earl Scruggs: Banjo Icon by Gordon Castelnero 9781442268654
Booksplease Price: £42.78As Earl Scruggs picked his banjo with machine gun precision at his 1945 debut at the Ryman Auditorium, he set in motion a successful career and enduring legacy that would eclipse anything the humble... -
The Little Book of Yes: How to win friends, boost your confidence and persuade others by Noah Goldstein
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68From the authors of the international bestseller Yes! This travel-sized handbook will become your go-to key for ensuring that the world says 'yes' to you, your ideas and your requests. We all... -
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen Mary Norris 9781324001270
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.10In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades... -
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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher 9781782112235 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £3.94Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of... -
Best. State. Ever. by Dave Barry
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.65A New York Times bestseller-a brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We... -
Listening to Western Music, International Edition (with Introduction to Listening CD) by Craig Wright 9781285167664
Booksplease Price: £71.05LISTENING TO MUSIC, International Edition is designed to help you develop and refine your listening skills and to inspire a lifelong appreciation of music. Author and award-winning scholar-teacher... -
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor by Keegan-Michael Key 9781797216836
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.08Authors Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key build on the popularity of their 2022 Webby Award-winning podcast and delve deeper into the world of sketch, helped along with new essays created expressly for... -
Re-viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives Robert E. Kapsis 9781839026201
Booksplease Price: £106.65Re-viewing Hitchcock approaches Alfred Hitchcock's prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur's work from 1926's silent The...