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![The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665485/10682205/9780340823118__72774.1781288345.jpg?c=1 "The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]")
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.36'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
The Cavalier Case: A Jemima Shore Mystery Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780228563
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'As he turned ... he had the extraordinary impression of a man in full armour rearing up in front of him ... It was the last thing he saw, before he hurtled downwards to a certain death'An untimely... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd by Michael Y. Bennett
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €24.29Michael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted... -
The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie: The Formation of Modern China by Anders Lustgarten 9781350004771
Booksplease Price: €16.95Our China is now the worst of all worlds. Communist politics controlled by greedy capitalists, raw capitalist economics controlled by corrupt Communists. Because they're all the same people! At least... -
Star Trek: Voyager: The Eternal Tide by Kirsten Beyer 9781451668186
Booksplease Price: €9.96As the Voyagerfleet continues its exploration of the Delta Quadrant, investigating the current status of sectors formerly controlled by the Borg becomes the fleet's priority. Two of the fleet's... -
Simon Gray: Plays 3: Quartermaine's Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe by Simon Gray
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €14.24'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.'New York Times on Quartermaine's... -
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner 9781839041457
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.46'Let's just talk until it goes.' The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out. Lemons Lemons Lemons... -
This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Capture of Childhood Sharon Beder 9780745329154
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €25.22This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future. Sharon Beder... -
Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind by Joshua Gang 9781421440842
RRP: €89.85Booksplease Price: €64.51What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature? If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about... -
This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Capture of Childhood by Sharon Beder 9780745329161
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.11This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future. Sharon Beder... -
Imposter 22 Ms Molly Davies 9781350447721
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92We need to start at the start. Yes, yes, we do or the Neurotypicals will be confused. There was something off about the new guy. But now he's dead, and the sirens are fast approaching. Who to... -
Lions of Grunewald by Aidan Higgins
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €12.97Here is the great Irish novel of Berlin, way back before the Wall came down. Dallan Weaver, a writer and professor who's been feted and flattered but has seen better days, has come to the great... -
Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men by Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753813317
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.58The bestselling historian's biography of a decisive figure in England's history.No Englishman has made more impact on the history of his nation than Oliver Cromwell; few have been so persistently... -
Simon Gray: Plays 2: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car by Simon Gray
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour.' Punch on Otherwise Engaged'Life in the theatre hasn't brought me anything... -
![The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie: The Formation of Modern China by Anders Lustgarten 9781350004771 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5846997/5924062/9781350004771__06317.1728013827.jpg?c=1 "The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie: The Formation of Modern China by Anders Lustgarten 9781350004771 [USED COPY]")
The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie: The Formation of Modern China by Anders Lustgarten 9781350004771 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.17Our China is now the worst of all worlds. Communist politics controlled by greedy capitalists, raw capitalist economics controlled by corrupt Communists. Because they're all the same people! At least... -
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 by Lawrence Goldman
Booksplease Price: €131.86Who made modern Britain? This book, drawn from the award-winning Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, tells the story of our recent past through the lives of those who shaped national life... -
Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he... -
A Splash of Red: A Jemima Shore Mystery Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780228488
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54An atmospheric and gripping mystery from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series.How well do we ever know our friends? When Jemima Shore offers to flat-sit for her friend Chloe, the last thing she... -
From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.59In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the... -
The Great Gambon: Michael Gambon in his own words (and others) by Milly Ellis 9780349147987
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95Sir Michael Gambon was one of the greatest actors of the last 50 years, with a career that began as second spear carrier in Hamlet, alongside Anthony Hopkins (he had to lift Peter O'Toole - Hamlet -... -
Walking on Fire: The Shaping Force of Emotion in Writing Drama by Jim Linnell
Booksplease Price: €38.75In this bold new way of looking at dramatic structure, Jim Linnell establishes the central role of emotional experience in the conception, execution, and reception of plays. Walking on Fire: The... -
The Night Alive by Conor McPherson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.75An inimitably warm and stylish play that deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations. Tommy's not a bad man, he's getting by. Renting a run-down room in his uncle... -
Mojo by Jez Butterworth
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83A slick and violent black comedy set in the Soho clubland of the 1950s. The hit debut play from the author of Jerusalem. In the seedy gangster underworld of the rock'n'roll scene, club owners... -
Warrior Queens Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126363
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50An inspired evaluation of women leaders in war by a bestselling historian.Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queens are those women who have both ruled and led in war. They include Catherine the Great,... -
Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance Patrick Duggan 9780719085420
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €73.32Trauma-tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could... -
The Theatre and its Double by Mark Taylor-Batty 9781350288713
Booksplease Price: €24.51In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of... -
Falkland Sound Brad Birch 9781350427013
Booksplease Price: €16.29I stand at my open window. I feel like I'm on the edge of reality. April 1982. The Falkland Islands are invaded by Argentine forces. The shockwaves reverberate around the world. For some, it's... -
Pinter and Stoppard: A Director's View by Carey Perloff 9781350243385
Booksplease Price: €85.14It can be argued that Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008) and Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) are the central figures of C20th Anglophone playwriting. It is generally assumed, however, that they sit at opposite ends... -
Shakespeare's Advice to the Players by Sir Peter Hall
Booksplease Price: €24.22The best-selling guide to acting Shakespeare in a new smaller and lighter handbook size. Shakespeare tells the actor when to go fast and when to go slow; when to pause, when to come in on cue and... -
Captain Amazing by Alistair McDowall 9781350513327
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92What do you do as Captain Amazing?Fight... baddies and things. Save people... make people go to bed when they're supposed to go to bed...Join the world's most unassuming superhero in Alistair... -
Cool Repentance: A Jemima Shore Mystery by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54An atmospheric and gripping mystery from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series.'Was that what you thought - that you would come back, come back here to beautiful Lark, and get away with it, did... -
Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement by Toni Morrison 9780061774010
Booksplease Price: €12.72As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight... -
John Gielgud: An Actor's Life by Gyles Brandreth 9781803995540
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.61'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... -
The Servant by Amy Sargeant
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.76Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from... -
Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind by Joshua Gang
RRP: €34.51Booksplease Price: €26.47What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature?If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about... -
Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance by Patrick Duggan 9780719099885
Booksplease Price: €28.01Trauma-tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could... -
Kalakuta Republic: A Book of Poetry by Christopher Abani 9780863563225
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s. Abani vividly describes... -
Bernard Kops: Fantasist, London Jew, Apocalyptic Humorist by William Baker 9781611476569
Booksplease Price: €96.07This is the first book-length study of the work of contemporary writer Bernard Kops. Born on November 28, 1926 to Dutch-Jewish immigrants, Bernard Kops became famous after the production of his play... -
The Secret Theatre by Anders Lustgarten
Booksplease Price: €16.95'It's not enough that men are watched; they must think themselves watched, even when they are not' Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham oversees a vast surveillance network from the heart of... -
Alistair McDowall Plays 2: X; The Glow; All of It; Northleigh 1940; Zero For the Young Dudes Alistair McDowall 9781350547407
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.41ALISTAIR MCDOWALL 'uses language with virtuosity. He folds it, unfolds it, dirties it, mishandles it, and in doing so, he celebrates it...It is as a poet that he uses writing to honour its promises:...