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Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.26The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of... -
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 4 by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66The Revengers' ComediesA hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after... -
Surprises by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Love stories yet to happen, in a future filled with surprises.Who is the amorous stranger, Titus, who materialises in young Grace's bedroom? Can she believe he is who he says he is? For her parents,... -
Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn 9780713685510
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55A student edition of five one-act plays by Britain's most popular playwright. Ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. First produced in 1976, the... -
Woman in Mind by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The central character of Alan Ayckbourn's new play is Susan, a parson's wife, 'one of the most moving and devastating that he has created...'Robin Thornber reviewing the first production in... -
Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn 9780571273478
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.99Now we don't want to start Christmas like this, do we?Cheating at snakes and ladders, fighting over comic books, a bungled infidelity beneath the tree. Christmas has arrived in the Bunker household... -
Invisible Friends by Alan Ayckbourn 9780571144761
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy. With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother preoccupied with neighbourly gossip and her brother enclosed in his... -
The Crafty Art of Playmaking by Alan Ayckbourn 9780571215102
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05With over sixty plays written and premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough before going on to play in the West End or the Royal National Theatre, London, or Broadway, Alan Ayckbourn's... -
The Boy Who Fell into a Book by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Rockfist Slim's enemies have just plunged him into yet another desperate situation when Kevin has to close his detective book and go to sleep. But his own adventure is only just beginning... -
A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays by Paul Allen
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Do you belong to an amateur theatre group wanting to 'do an Ayckbourn'? Are you the Artistic Director of a professional theatre seeking to slot an Ayckbourn into next season? Are you a fan of... -
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 3: Haunting Julia; Sugar Daddies; Drowning on Dry Land; Private Fears in Public Places by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41This third volume of Alan Ayckbourn plays includes Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land and Private Fears in Public Places, with an introduction by the author.Haunting Julia'A play for... -
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 5: Snake in the Grass; If I Were You; Life and Beth; My Wonderful Day; Life of Riley by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.26Snake in the Grass"A terrific piece - brilliant, bizarre and yet totally believable... In fact, it's more than classic; it's close to the top of its class." Yorkshire PostIf I Were You"A blissfully... -
Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny'Daily TelegraphIn Three Plays Ayckbourn's... -
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One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the Nineties by Jack Temchin 9781557831521 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $2.92Over 75 monologues for women from the contemporary stage written by these and other major dramatists: David Mamet U Brian Friel U Steve Tesich U Harold Pinter U Alan Ayckbourn U Timberlake... -
I'm a Minger by Alex Jones 9781840028737
Booksplease Price: $19.08A turbulent and triumphant tale of a totally troubled teen.A turbulent and triumphant tale of a totally troubled teen.About the AuthorAlex Jones writes for theatre, radio and film. Credits include... -
In Confidence: Talking Frankly about Fame Laurie Taylor 9781782797678
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A study of celebrity based on the seventy odd interviews featured in the Sky Arts television series, In Confidence. Informants include David Schwimmer, Stephen Fry, Harry Belafonte, Alan Ayckbourn,... -
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present by Michael Billington
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Having surveyed post-war British drama in State of the Nation, Michael Billington now looks at the global picture. In this provocative and challenging new book, he offers his highly personal... -
Widows and Orphans Michael Arditti 9781910050644
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Lyrical and witty, moving and profound: the story of a good man fighting for his principles in a hostile world'An uncomfortable but very readable novel about the careless greeds of the way we live... -
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.52Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the... -
My Boy Jack by David Haig
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The tragic story of how Rudyard Kipling sent his son to his death in the First World War. The year is 1913 and war with Germany is imminent. Rudyard Kipling's determination to send his severely... -
Dark Star by Alan Strachan
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $38.93Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the... -
Finding a Leg to Stand On: New & Selected Poems 1980-2012 Connie Bensley 9781852249564
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $10.72Connie Bensley's poems are sharply satirical, often poking fun at social pretence and suburban pretension. They present a comedy of manners in which mismatched characters are bounced between love,... -
Harold Pinter by Michael Billington
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Michael Billington brings up to date The Life and Work of Harold Pinter with an additional chapter and plate section covering the years 1996-2006. During the past ten years Harold Pinter has written... -
Stage Management: The Essential Handbook by Gail Pallin 9781848420144
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63The highly successful 'Bible for any stage manager', now in a revised and updated edition. The stage manager is at the core of every successful theatre production: organising, managing and running... -
Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People by Richard Eyre
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.41A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it. In Talking Theatre, Richard Eyre uses his unrivalled access to leading theatre people to allow us to... -
I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die by Mark Wheeller
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48I'd had a conversation specifically with Dan about ecstasy. It's one of the things you do as a parent, isn't it? Wear your helmet when you're out on your bike, you know, don't take drugs. To be... -
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Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education by Michael Simkins 9780091927523 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $4.73Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her... -
The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.73'A comic master' David Walliams'Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale . . . A world for us to live and delight in' Evelyn WaughA veritable feast of comedy awaits with this delightful collection... -
Weekend Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOCIn the course of a career that encompassed nearly one hundred novels and short story collections (written over more than seventy years), P.G. Wodehouse... -
The Last Flannelled Fool: My small part in English cricket's demise and its large part in mine by Michael Simkins 9780091927554
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.20Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer - passionate, obsessive, technically inept, and hopelessly deluded. When an injury rules him out of an entire season, not only might it spell the end... -
The World of Blandings: (Blandings Castle) by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'P. G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century' Sebastian Faulks'Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny' Arabella WeirWelcome to Blandings Castle -... -
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210497
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of... -
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Laughing Gas by P. G. Wodehouse 9780099514121 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.19'A lifelong treat' Simon Garfield, EsquireA P.G. Wodehouse novelJoey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on... -
![The More the Merrier by Anne Fine 9780440867333 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9666440/10683160/9780440867333__14291.1781289510.jpg?c=1 "The More the Merrier by Anne Fine 9780440867333 [USED COPY]")
The More the Merrier by Anne Fine 9780440867333 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.63Christmas comes but once a year. Luckily . . . The Christmas holiday is, traditionally, a time when families gather together. In Ralph's case this means ten or more relatives coming to stay,... -
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Pigs Have Wings: (Blandings Castle) by P. G. Wodehouse 9780099513988 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.95A Blandings novelCan the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler and others have put their shirt on this,... -
The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. Wodehouse 9780099513865 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $5.99A Golf collectionThe Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides.Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance. He's helplessly in love with... -
The More the Merrier by Anne Fine
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Christmas comes but once a year. Luckily . . . The Christmas holiday is, traditionally, a time when families gather together. In Ralph's case this means ten or more relatives coming to stay,... -
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The Girl in Blue by P. G. Wodehouse 9780099514190 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.87A P.G. Wodehouse novelYoung Jerry West has a few problems. His uncle Crispin is broke and employs a butler who isn't all he seems. His other uncle Willoughby is rich but won't hand over any of his... -
Eclipse by John Morton 9781839045783
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'It's hard to imagine things getting back to normal after this though. I don't suppose they do from now on, not really.' In the kitchen of an old Devon rectory, the daughter who stayed and the... -
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Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) by P. G. Wodehouse 9780099513995 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.92A Blandings novelAs a peer of the realm, Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has an occasional duty to leave the Empress of Blandings, surely the most considerable pig in the whole world, and travel to...