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Who Was Charlie Chaplin? by Patricia Brennan Demuth
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $6.67Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way out of a life of hardship and poverty. Success came early and made... -
Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.44He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The... -
My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A silent comedy star whose legendary slapstick routines are recognisable to this day, Charles 'Charlie' Chaplin's My Autobiography is an incomparably vivid account of the life of one of the greatest... -
Charlie Chaplin Waved to Me by Adam YAMEY 9781291845051
RRP: $22.91Booksplease Price: $22.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Charlie Chaplin's Own Story by Harry M. Geduld
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Charlie Chaplin once said, "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long shot."Chaplin released the first of his four autobiographies in 1916 when he was on top of the world. He had... -
Making Music with Charlie Chaplin: An Autobiography by Eric James 9780810837416
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Charlie Chaplin's Wishbone and Other Stories by Aidan Mathews 9781843516415
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.42These twelve masterful short stories are by one of Ireland's leading practitioners of the art (previous collections include Adventures in a Bathyscope, 1998, and Lipstick on the Host, 1992). Mathews... -
Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis: The Long German Campaign Against the Artist by Norbert Aping 9781476687407
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When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law Diane Kiesel 9780472133581
Booksplease Price: $35.99Charlie Chaplin, the silent screen's "Little Tramp," was beloved by millions of movie fans until he starred in a salacious, real-life federal courtroom drama. The 1944 trial was described by ace New... -
Charlie Chaplin's Red Letter Days: At Work with the Comic Genius by Fred Goodwins 9781442278080
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Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by Scott Eyman 9781982176358
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.67The remarkable, must-read story of Charlie Chaplin's years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman... -
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided Scott Eyman 9781982176365
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.89The "shocking" (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin's years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling... -
The Early Years of Charlie Chaplin: Final Shorts and First Features by Lisa Stein Haven 9781526780720
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.27Charlie Chaplin's career has been described, critiqued, and scrutinized. There are book-length studies on Chaplin's music hall career, his career at Keystone Studios and the Mutual Studios. Somehow,... -
The Chaplin Conspiracy: The Ballashiels Mysteries by Stewart Ferris 9781786151858
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $4.49When hard-up aristocrat Lord `Ratty' Ballashiels finds an old film reel in his attic he discovers that it's a home movie of Charlie Chaplin's visit to Rennes-le-Chateau in the south of France. But... -
Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry by Christophe Wall-Romana 9780823245482
Booksplease Price: $69.85Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to... -
A Fallen God by Michael J Chaplin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.99In a bustling marketplace, an extraordinary encounter sets in motion a series of events that intertwines the fates of two individuals, defying expectations and leading to an indelible love story. ... -
Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties,... -
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe Sarah Churchwell 9781526613349
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.33'Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight' VOGUE 'Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories' NEW YORK TIMES ... -
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $6.26Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side... -
Speaking of Harpo by Susan Fleming Marx
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.13Susan Fleming appeared in three Broadway shows and twenty-eight films before she turned her back on a show business career she never really enjoyed or wanted. The role of her lifetime came when she... -
The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema's Most Influential Filmmakers by Sloan De Forest
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $23.01For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intoxicated and entranced our senses. One artist's vision... -
Boxing: A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy
Booksplease Price: $21.72Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to... -
The Condor and the Cows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador,... -
On Not Climbing Mountains by Claire Thomas 9780733644566
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59SHORTLISTED FOR THE FICTION BOOK AWARD, QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS 2026From the internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue comes a remarkable work of... -
Eggs I Have Laid Meredith Willson 9781517920623
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Back in print: the playful and personal memoir of Meredith Willson's creative tribulations and triumphs before The Music Man Composer, musical director, writer, lecturer, and piccoloist Meredith... -
A Double Thread by John Gross 9780099422266
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04John Gross was the son of a Jewish doctor who practised in Mile End at the time of WW2. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet... -
What Is Cinema? Volume I by Andre Bazin 9780520242272
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.68Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although... -
The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'It covers three centuries of high living, high politics and high drama [...] it is so fascinating' MEL SYKES_____________________________A Sunday Times bestsellerFive women. One house. One... -
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL ON 1Q84As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up... -
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon 9780241388655
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the... -
![Constellation of Genius by Kevin Jackson 9780091930974 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5838915/5915983/9780091930974__67720.1727415978.jpg?c=1 "Constellation of Genius by Kevin Jackson 9780091930974 [USED COPY]")
Constellation of Genius by Kevin Jackson 9780091930974 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.51Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a skinny, shabby Irishman and a natty, quietly sinister American entered the cultural landscape, hell-bent on exploding... -
![Letter from America: 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke 9780141020150 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9702101/10718805/9780141020150__29024.1781356996.jpg?c=1 "Letter from America: 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke 9780141020150 [USED COPY]")
Letter from America: 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke 9780141020150 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.46Alastair Cooke's Letter from America: 1946-2004 is a defining collection from his legendary BBC Radio broadcasts that guides us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States. ... -
Remarkable Cinemas Jane Crowther 9780008647537
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.51A celebration of the world's most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups. There is an enduring love for old cinemas. It may have something to do with Maya Angelou's famous... -
![The Penguin History of Europe by J. Roberts 9780140265613 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9917180/10933711/9780140265613__63163.1786482858.jpg?c=1 "The Penguin History of Europe by J. Roberts 9780140265613 [USED COPY]")
The Penguin History of Europe by J. Roberts 9780140265613 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.39Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the... -
Letter from America: 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States'No one else succeeded in explaining to the... -
Churchill's American Network: Winston Churchill and the Forging of the Special Relationship Cita Stelzer 9781639364855
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $17.62A revelatory portrait showing how the famed British statesman created a network of American colleagues and friends who helped push our foreign policy in Britain's favor during World War IIWinston... -
Spike Milligan: Man of Letters by Spike Milligan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been... -
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Jaroslav Hasek's black satire The Good Soldier Svejk is translated with an introduction by Cecil Parrott in Penguin Classics.Good-natured... -
The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for and about Groucho Marx by Stefan Kanfer
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35No, Groucho is not my real name, I'm just breaking it in for a friend.' Presenting the greatest and most hilarious examples of Groucho, one of the most influential and well-loved figures in the long... -
![Man Walks Into A Bar: The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-Liners by Mike Haskins 9780091897659 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9646580/10663300/9780091897659__64896.1781270023.jpg?c=1 "Man Walks Into A Bar: The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-Liners by Mike Haskins 9780091897659 [USED COPY]")
Man Walks Into A Bar: The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-Liners by Mike Haskins 9780091897659 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.22Man Walks Into A Bar is a one-stop shop for anyone who likes to hear and tell jokes. The jokes are ordered thematically - wives, husbands, doctors, lawyers, the French, the Germans, jokes about nuns,...