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Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary by Rebecca Front
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'Hilarious' The Times'I was completely captivated' David SedarisPeople are odd. Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations. Add to that the tricks that life plays on us and the world... -
The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From a Hidden World by Aliyah Whiteley 9781783966042
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Fungi are not like us - they are entirely, magically, something else. Welcome to the astonishing secret world of fungi. Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with fungi - from a childhood taking... -
The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal 9781840027686
Booksplease Price: £53.26Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive... -
Dandruff Hits the Turtleneck by John Mayfield 9781291723298
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.60From the moment pub landlord and keen amateur entomologist, Arnold Matson, arrives in Blinkington-on-the-Treacle to take over his new hostelry, we are led through a colourful collection of vignettes... -
Attention All Shipping Kathy Biggs 9780008736941
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63'Kathy Biggs reminds me of Alan Bennett... she walks the fine line between humour and utter sadness in a way that is very rare' JAN NEWTON When... -
All Quiet on the Orient Express: reissued by Magnus Mills
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A dark, surreally funny novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic' Daily Mirror... -
The Shakespeare Revue by Christopher Luscombe 9781854592590
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard. Devised for, and first performed by, the Royal Shakespeare Company, this show has been a hit with audiences all over the world. It... -
Extramural: Literature and Lifelong Learning by Adrian Barlow 9780718892791
Booksplease Price: £25.72More than a personal account of a career in education, but an argument for an idea, Extramural is an argument for the lifelong pursuit of knowledge and the invaluable part Cambridge Institute of... -
Typo by Frances Tara 9781910125946
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29A surreal and original stream of random consciousness which continually surprises.About the AuthorFrances lives in Perthshire and has met lots of people once, including Leonardo Di Caprio. She... -
Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors by D. Wu 9780333740019
Booksplease Price: £90.86Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight... -
Bird Photographer of the Year by 9780008175238
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.80Foreword by Chris Packham This beautiful book accompanies a new photographic competition celebrating some of the best bird photography of the year. ... -
Six Contemporary Dramatists: Bennett, Potter, Gray, Brenton, Hare, Ayckbourn by Duncan Wu 9781349237203
Booksplease Price: £91.90`A most illuminating study.' - John Bayley Six Contemporary Dramatists explores, in a straightforward manner, the central concerns of six of the most important contemporary dramatists. It... -
The Blunt Affair: Official Secrecy and Treason in Literature, Television and Film, 1980–89 by Jonathan Bolton
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20The case of the Cambridge spies has long captured the public's attention, but perhaps never more so than in the wake of Anthony Blunt's exposure as the fourth man in November 1979. With the Cold War... -
The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow 9780008619176
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63'My favourite novel and one I wish I'd written.' ALAN BENNETT Winner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and... -
Paradiso by Michele Masneri 9781917544061
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29On the hottest day of one of the hottest summers anyone has ever known, young journalist Federico Desideri is sent on an apparently routine assignment; to snatch an interview with Italy’s latest... -
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two) Michael Palin 9781474625852
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £7.12The second volume of diaries from one of Britain's best-loved national treasures. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the... -
That's Another Story: The Autobiography by Julie Walters
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The number-one Sunday Times bestseller'Walters's book - also well written - has moments of Alan Bennett warmth' SUNDAY TIMES'This is a humorous and, at times, moving read from this much-loved... -
One Million Tiny Plays About Britain by Craig Taylor
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A Wonder Woman and bride-to-be finds herself worse for wear at the end of a hen night; a funeral director's love of Manchester United proves unhelpful when talking to the bereaved; two... -
A Great, Silly Grin by Humphrey Carpenter 9780306812057
Booksplease Price: £21.21A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s... -
Newspaper Curtains: Who Really Knows What Lies Behind? by Mike Leaver 9781915603173
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Two teenage girls from opposite sides of the tracks in 1960s Midlands England are forced into prostitution in this engrossing tale of loss, liberty, and love. Weep at the relationship between clever... -
Nork from Nowhere: An Orphan Boy's Amazing Journey to Belonging... by Mike Leaver 9781913913342
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Upper-class teen Sara flees her parents' middle-England mansion after a disastrous party. She happens upon Nork, a mysterious young, orphan boy seemingly from nowhere. Together they go on the run... -
Codpieces by Perry Pontac 9781849430555
Booksplease Price: £12.72'To be or not to be?' may be The Question, but it is not the only one. Hamlet, Part II, for example, answers a question about Hamlet that has plagued scholars, readers and play-goers for over four... -
Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature by Dirk Van Hulle 9781851246182
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.76Imagine looking over the shoulder of your favourite author and witnessing the moment they begin writing the opening chapter of their best-loved novel. What you might see is that the author has to... -
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"London Review of Books": An Anthology: No. 3 by London Review of Books 9781859841211
Booksplease Price: £25.69Erudite, witty and often controversial, The London Review of Books informs and entertains its readers with a fortnightly dose of the best and liveliest of all things cultural.This anthology brings... -
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian by David Sedaris 9781408714102
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.26The latest instalment from always funny, sometimes bizarre humourist David Sedaris. Praise for Theft By FindingThe writing here is funnier, (even) sharper . . . There isn't a dull word among these... -
Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One by David Sedaris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.75THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a... -
A Certain Age by Lynne Truss
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49From the bestselling author of 'Eats Shoots & Leaves', a wonderfully funny collection of twelve monologues. In the tradition of Alan Bennett's 'Talking Heads' come Lynne Truss's twelve... -
![Our Thora: Celebrating the First Lady of Showbusiness by Morris Bright 9780340785959 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9706483/10723179/9780340785959__91941.1781363828.jpg?c=1 "Our Thora: Celebrating the First Lady of Showbusiness by Morris Bright 9780340785959 [USED COPY]")
Our Thora: Celebrating the First Lady of Showbusiness by Morris Bright 9780340785959 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.53Universally loved and cherished, not just by the nation but by the acting industry, this book, with a heavy emphasis on pictures from performances across her long and illustrious career and Thora's... -
![Something Like Fire by Lin Cook 9780099460350 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9907822/10924353/9780099460350__09462.1786474820.jpg?c=1 "Something Like Fire by Lin Cook 9780099460350 [USED COPY]")
Something Like Fire by Lin Cook 9780099460350 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.87An intimate and entertaining portrait of one of comedy's greatest geniuses by those who knew Peter Cook best and can write abut his rare talent. The contributors include Clive Anderson, Alan Bennett,... -
Postcard From The Past Tom Jackson 9780008351816
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real... -
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author,... -
Handwritten: Remarkable People on the Page by Lesley Smith 9781851245956
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.08The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents... -
Yeti Seeks Mate: In Pursuit of Dreams by Mike Leaver
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.44Yeti (male 28) seeks mate. Can be seen Christmas/Easter roaming Ben Nevis, Snowdon some weekends in between. Migrates to Alps around June. Very friendly, generally harmless, except on ski-slopes... -
Maurice's Jubilee by Nichola McAuliffe 9781849434089
Booksplease Price: £14.68A Royal encounter. An enduring love. A bungalow in Penge. For 60 years Helena has been Queen of Maurice's heart. But his Great Love is another Queen. The Queen Helena says he's never met. Maurice's... -
Witchfinder General by Ian Cooper
Booksplease Price: £18.80Witchfinder General (1968), known as The Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by Michael Reeves and occupies a unique place in British cinema. Equally praised and vilified, the film fictionalizes... -
Backstage Stories by Barbara Baker 9780826492470
Booksplease Price: £47.28Gaining a view behind the scenes into the jobs and personalities of people who work in the theatre is a privilege afforded to few. This book grants that privilege to all its readers. Twenty-one... -
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography... -
Bombshells: Six Monologues for Women by Joanna Murray-Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life. Meryl Davenport - A mother who tells the story of her non-stop day in a rapid-fire internal monologue. Tiggy... -
The Age of Consent by Peter Morris 9780413771865
Booksplease Price: £14.79Condemned by the mother of Jamie Bulger and acclaimed by the critics - for tackling the subject of child killers - this is the controversial new play from the winner of the Sunday Times Playwriting... -
Contemporary Monologues: Men by Michael Earley 9780413681201
Booksplease Price: £20.70A collection of the best stage monologues of the eighties and nineties (including new translations) This volume brings together monologues of all types - from serious to comic and shades in between -...