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Suspects by David Thomson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Noah 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... -
Woodbrook by David Thomson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.26Woodbrook 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... -
The Big Sleep by David Thomson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.35The 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02From 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81The 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... -
Europe Since Napoleon by David Thomson
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.47A 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... -
How to Watch a Movie by David Thomson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02From 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... -
Why Acting Matters by David Thomson
Booksplease Price: €30.06A provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily life Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on... -
Disaster Mon Amour by David Thomson
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.50A 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: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Set 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... -
Moments that Made the Movies by David Thomson 9780500516416
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €42.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81In 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... -
The People Of The Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-Folk by David Thomson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46When 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... -
Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson
Booksplease Price: €17.68Behind 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... -
Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire by David Thomson
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.65Apologies 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: €26.18Booksplease Price: €3.24Rosebud 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... -
A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of the Movies by David Thomson 9780241843345
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.96From cinema's most distinguished and 'The best writer on film in our time' (Michael Ondaatje) comes a masterful assessment of the whole sweep of movie history'The movies traded on the liberation of... -
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us by David Thomson
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.46In 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... -
The Returned: They Left to Wage Jihad, Now They're Back David Thomson 9781509526918
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €11.54Since 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.30Marking 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... -
The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder by David Thomson 9780465020706
Booksplease Price: €20.17It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months. It killed off its star in forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in... -
Children of Las Vegas: True stories about growing up in the world's playground by Timothy O'Grady
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.53Over 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.69David 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: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.91Practical 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: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16A 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54For 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50SUNDAY 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... -
My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes 9780241342305
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.70A 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.33An 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51The 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... -
Sean Connery: The measure of a man by Christopher Bray
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.86Sean 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... -
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54FROM 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'... -
Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair by William J. Mann
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €23.22From 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.35Long 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... -
The Book Was Better: The Triumphs and Travesties of Book to Film Adaptation Louise Willder 9780861547722
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.66Is the book always better than the film?'Outrageous fun' Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time Yes, book lovers cry! Hollywood never gets it right - they gloss over crucial moments, the... -
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46TELEGRAPH 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.15Film 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.67John 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.01A 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...