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Woodbrook by David Thomson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.20Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In... -
Suspects by David Thomson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - these are a few of nearly a hundred names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose short biographies of some of the most... -
The Big Sleep by David Thomson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.56The Big Sleep: Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay, co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve... -
Silver Light by David Thomson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95From 1865 to 1950, the multi-faceted world of the American West, its rich, colorful characters, and its many faces - historical, mythic, and cinematic - are captured in the story of a reclusive,... -
Connecticut by David Thomson 9780857305640
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55The third novel in David Thomson's series inspired by movie genres - an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies. In 1985, with the acclaimed Suspects, and then in 1990 with... -
How to Watch a Movie by David Thomson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience. Since first... -
Europe Since Napoleon by David Thomson
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.94A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.About the AuthorDavid Thomson was born in India in 1914 to Scottish parents, but grew up in Scotland and Derbyshire... -
Disaster Mon Amour by David Thomson
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06A deep-and darkly comic-dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world "In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to... -
Nairn In Darkness And Light by David Thomson 9780099599906
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes. Nairn has... -
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was... -
Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson
Booksplease Price: $19.17Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an... -
The People Of The Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-Folk by David Thomson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26When David Thomson took a journey to the sea coasts of Scotland and Ireland to seek out the legend of the selchies - mythological creatures who transform from seals into humans - a magical world... -
Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire by David Thomson
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101971024Author David ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
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Rosebud: The Story Of Orson Welles by David Thomson 9780349109091 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $3.51Rosebud is a riveting and powerful portrait of the rise and fall of one of Hollywood's greatest innovators - the man who brought us Citizen Kane and then lost himself to obesity, small talk and... -
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us by David Thomson
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.76In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, tells the enthralling story of the movies and how they have shaped... -
Songs For Young Church Choir Book 3 by David Thomson 9781840034295
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840034295Author David ThomsonPage Count 136Imprint -
The Returned: They Left to Wage Jihad, Now They're Back David Thomson 9781509526918
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $12.51Since 2012, hundreds of men and women have left Western countries to join jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Many are still there, many have been killed, but some have chosen to return to their... -
Marking the Occasion by Jaime Shearn Coan
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.92Marking the Occasion represents the final movement in a year-long engagement with the question, "Can a performance be a rough draft of a written work?" In this case, the rough draft took place at... -
Children of Las Vegas: True stories about growing up in the world's playground by Timothy O'Grady
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.33Over forty million people a year travel to Vegas, more than to Mecca. It is a global celebrity, an improbable oasis, a place offering bank-breaking fortunes and instant gratification, 24/7, with no... -
'Have You Seen...?': a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters) by David Thomson 9780141020754
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.27David Thomson's 'Have You Seen?' - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films is a quirky, idiosyncratic and hugely entertaining look at a century of cinema. This is veteran film writer David Thomson's... -
Mastering the 7 Essentials of High-Growth Companies: Effective Lessons to Grow Your Business David G. Thomson 9780470610626
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.16Practical strategies to propel your company to the top American business is entering unchartered territory. Recent trends suggest that we are moving out of a recession-fairly labeled The Great... -
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77A Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mail Book of the YearFrom the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film... -
The Castle on Sunset: Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont Shawn Levy 9781474611848
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35For nearly ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favoured the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. Filled with deep secrets but hidden in plain sight, its evolution parallels the growth... -
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling... -
Bebe by Julian George 9781909585553
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.46'Last but not least, alive but not at all well, seated near the seat of power, front row, just off centre, the President's closest friend and bosom buddy, his court jester and backdoor courtier,... -
My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes 9780241342305
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is... -
Alan Clarke by Richard T. Kelly 9780571196098
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.62An unusually brilliant generation of film-makers emerged from British television drama in the 1960-70s - none more formidable than Alan Clarke. Yet Clarke enjoyed only a vague renown among the... -
Poacher's Pilgrimage: A Journey into Land and Soul by Alastair McIntosh
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The islands of Scotland's Outer Hebrides boast some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They also feature an astonishing range of mysterious structures - stone circles, beehive... -
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $7.10FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCAWith an Introduction by 'Britain's most sophisticated film critic' David Thomson, THE TIMES'A remarkable imagination continually provokes both pity and terror'... -
Sean Connery: The measure of a man by Christopher Bray
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.03Sean Connery's personification of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world... -
Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair by William J. Mann
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $25.17From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story-the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart-capturing its complexity,... -
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Puts Chandler to shame ... Hughes is the master we keep turning to' Sara ParetskyAfter the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young women... -
Detour by Noah Isenberg 9781844572397
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.56Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) has recently earned a new wave of recognition. In the words... -
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an... -
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise Scott Eyman 9781501191398
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.17Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive, "captivating" (Associated Press) biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most... -
John Wayne: The Life and Legend by Scott Eyman 9781439199596
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.82John Wayne died more than thirty years ago, but he remains one of today's five favorite movie stars. The celebrated Hollywood icon comes fully to life in this complex portrait by noted film historian... -
Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook by Clive James
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.93A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were-and that's a... -
Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films by Molly Haskell
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.96A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented "Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg... -
The Richard Burton Diaries by Chris Williams 9780300197280
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.36The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety"Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a...