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Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind by Joshua Gang
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.24What 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: £23.54Trauma-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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16This 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... -
X by Alistair McDowall
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78"McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss ... a play that will gnaw away at... -
Fortune in My Eyes: A Memoir of Broadway Glamour Social Justice and Political Passion by David Rothenberg 9781495003158
Booksplease Price: £16.21David Rothenberg's multilayered life thrust him into Broadway's brightest lights prison riots political campaigns civil rights sit-ins and a Central American civil war. In his memoir EFortune in... -
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Democracy in Print: The Best of ""The Progressive"" Magazine, 1909-2009 by Matthew Rothschild 9780299232245
Booksplease Price: £20.90From Addams to Zinn, a century of voices is speaking out on war, peace, human rights, labor, and democracy. ""Democracy in Print"" captures many of the most influential voices from a century of... -
Contemporary British Drama by Catherine Rees 9781137610270
Booksplease Price: £28.57This guide offers a comprehensive account of British theatre from the 1960s to the present day. Placing critical commentary at the heart of its analysis, it explores how theatre critics and scholars... -
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The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger 9781859844120 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.03John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern... -
Black Out by John Lawton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' - Daily TelegraphThe first book in John Lawton's Inspector Troy series, selected by Time magazine as one of 'Six Detective... -
The Seven Acts of Mercy by Anders Lustgarten 9781350004917
Booksplease Price: £14.24You have to be tough to be kind. That's what I've learned from you, Granddad. Tough and fearless and strong. So that's what I'm going to be.Naples, 1606. Inside an unfinished church, a painting is... -
Contemporary British Drama by Catherine Rees 9781137610287
Booksplease Price: £85.65This guide offers a comprehensive account of British theatre from the 1960s to the present day. Placing critical commentary at the heart of its analysis, it explores how theatre critics and scholars... -
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474610933
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who... -
Mates in Chelsea Rory Mullarkey (Author) 9781350448353
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86But I do have a job. I'm a professional viscount. Things aren't looking good for Theodore 'Tug' Bungay. His mother, Lady Agrippina, has a plan to cut off his funds. His fed-up fiancee wants to... -
Star Trek: Voyager: Unworthy by Kirsten Beyer 9781476738871
Booksplease Price: £16.21The greatest threat to the Federation was wiped out in one thought by the Caeliar. Starfleet needs to know if Caeliar are gone-so they send out the crew who can find answers in the Delta... -
Stardust Nation by Deborah Levy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10For the high-flying, heavy-drinking advertising boss Tom Banbury, the art of persuasion relies on an infiltration of the consumer's mind. In the case of his colleague and confidante Nikos Gazidis,... -
Pity by Rory Mullarkey 9781350093898
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Two bombs in one day is a foul coincidence Don't forget the lightning strike A normal day. A person stands in the market square watching the world go by. What happens next verges on the... -
The Musicals of Kander and Ebb Robert Gordon 9781350107090
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.94Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since Rodgers and Hammerstein, in a brand new way.Identifying the theatrical approach... -
A Hero of the People Brad Birch 9781350181885
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.50Do you know what I believe in? I believe in us. Me and you, right here. This town was once an incredible place. We have to have courage to fight for it again. Hero or enemy? Who can actually tell... -
John Gielgud by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.77'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... -
Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values by Sharon Beder
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68In her recent book Suiting Themselves, bestselling author Sharon Beder exposed how the global corporate elite have brazenly rewritten the rules of the global economy to line their pockets. In this... -
Prima Facie (NHB Modern Plays) by Suzie Miller 9781839040641
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and winning. But an unexpected event forces her to... -
A Reluctant Memoir by Robert Ballagh 9781786695314
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.99A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist. Making his name as a Pop artist in the late 1960s and 70s, Robert Ballagh quickly... -
The Musicals of Kander and Ebb by Robert Gordon 9781350107083
Booksplease Price: £65.97Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since Rodgers and Hammerstein, in a brand new way.Identifying the theatrical approach... -
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Acting My Life by Ian Holm 9780593052143 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.70Ian Holm is an actor. Over the last fifty years, he has become one of the most respected and widely admired actors of his generation. He has worked on stage, screen, television, and radio. After... -
Sweet Sunday by John Lawton
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A tumultuous novel about America's loss of innocence in the late Sixties.Turner Raines is Mr Heartbreak. Everybody leaves him. They walk out, they run away... they die. When his oldest friend Mel... -
Judgment and Strategy by Robin Holt 9780199671458
Booksplease Price: £96.20Holt argues strategy is the process by which an organization presents itself to itself and others. To bring this about exponents of strategic inquiry attempt t gather knowledge about the conditions... -
Blue Rondo by John Lawton 9781611855876
Booksplease Price: £9.23Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.1959.An old flame... -
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753822937
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's... -
Tartan Tragedy: A Jemima Shore Mystery by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An atmospheric and gripping mystery set in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series.'I warned you, Jemima Shore, things up here are seldom all they seem . . ... -
Second Violin by John Lawton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.1938.The Germans... -
The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide by Victor L. Cahn 9780313309816
Booksplease Price: £66.89Touching viewers and readers with his presentation of social, moral, and political issues, Shakespeare holds ageless and unequaled appeal primarily because of the universal themes at the heart of his... -
Oscar Wilde in Context by Kerry Powell 9781316647585
Booksplease Price: £30.85Oscar Wilde was a courageous individualist whose path-breaking life and work were shaped in the crucible of his time and place, deeply marked by the controversies of his era. This collection of... -
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.48John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern... -
Open Hatch: The Theater Criticism of Robert Hatch, 1950-1970 by James R Russo 9781789762082
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.42Robert Hatch's critical life spanned five decades. Starting in 1947 and continuing until 1984, he wrote about drama (and film) for The New Republic, The Nation, Theatre Arts, The Reporter, and... -
Thatcher's Theatre: British Theatre and Drama in the Eighties by D. Keith Peacock 9780313299018
Booksplease Price: £102.51The Thatcher administration of 1979 to 1990 had a profound and apparently lasting effect on British theatre and drama. It is now roughly a decade since the fall of Margaret Thatcher and, with the... -
Tolkien's Gown by Rick Gekoski 9781845292393
Booksplease Price: £18.18In Tolkien's Gown, a book based loosely on that hugely successful radio series, he discusses twenty great works of modern literature as both texts and objects. At once erudite and funny, the essays... -
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753822937 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's... -
Riptide by John Lawton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.1941.After ten... -
Knives in Hens by David Harrower
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.99The village has lied. William has lied. It is not because I am undeserving. Not because I am young and they are old. God has given them nothing. I know this now. Knives in Hens is a brutal fable... -
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Fowles's "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by William Stephenson 9780826490094
Booksplease Price: £27.02John Fowles' 1969 novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" has become a modern classic but it is a complex novel and can be daunting to study. This accessible guide offers detailed readings of the text...