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Loot by Joe Orton
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.49A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and... -
What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton 9780573617775
Booksplease Price: $19.01Characters: 4 male, 2 female Full Length, Farce Interior Set Dr. Prentice, a psychiatric doctor in an exclusive, private clinic, is attempting to interview (and seduce) an attractive would-be... -
Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton 9781350607019
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.96Tell him to put his trousers on. Cantering around the house with a bare bum . . . Can't leave you alone for five minutes. When lonely Kath offers the mysterious Mr Sloane a room to rent in the... -
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"Entertaining Mr Sloane" by Joe Orton
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.49Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not... -
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"Entertaining Mr Sloane" by Joe Orton 9780413413406 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $2.55Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not... -
A Study Guide for Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375379540
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375379540Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 52I -
What role does the aspect of sexuality play in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane? by Florian Knetsch 9783640670543
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The Kenneth Williams Diaries by Russell Davies 9780006380900
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.85'I'll put you in my diary!' comedian Kenneth Williams was known to threaten on occasion, although tantalisingly he kept the journal to himself during his lifetime. Here at last, in one spellbinding... -
King Of The Ants by Charlie Higson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $4.37'Charlie Higson's thrillers are major events' Mark Billingham'Funny, very tough and full of action' Patricia Highsmith 'Uncoils with wit and imagination' Time OutIt seemed straightforward enough. ... -
The Patriot Joe Morton by Michael DeVault 9784867521618
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $27.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Loot by Andrew Mayne 9780413567604
Booksplease Price: $17.79A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and... -
The Game by A. S. Byatt
Booksplease Price: $16.98Cassandra is an Oxford don; Julia, her sister, a bestselling novelist. They share a set of disturbing memories of a strange childhood game and of Simon, the handsome young neighbour who loved them... -
Tangier: From the Romans to the Rolling Stones by Richard Hamilton 9780755654512
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20In this first guide to Tangier's extraordinary cultural history , former BBC North Africa correspondent Richard Hamilton explores the city to find out what has inspired so many international writers,... -
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in... -
The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays by J. M. Synge 9780140188783
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.33A murderer becomes the toast of the village as his charm negates his crime. A young countess saves her tenants from starvation, but only by selling her soul to the Devil. The sleepy parish of... -
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner 9780241632536
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.35The radical, joyful follow-up to the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Sterling Karat Gold.This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for... -
The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for and about Groucho Marx by Stefan Kanfer
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.93No, 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... -
Liar's Autobiography by Graham Chapman 9780413777287
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.20'It's the Magna Carta and Valley of the Dolls all rolled into one...' Michael Palin Graham Chapman, who died in October 1989, reveals in his autobiography what it was like to be part of the... -
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The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan by John Lahr 9780747558415 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.69A brilliant and feared critic, Kenneth Tynan was a nabob of the National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier, and he was also the daring impresario who created "Oh Calcutta". He was a notorious... -
The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London by Richard Hornsey 9780816653157
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25As London emerged from the devastation of the Second World War, planners and policymakers sought to rebuild the city in ways that would reshape the behavior of its citizens as much as it would its... -
Clerkenwell & Islington Pubs by Johnny Homer
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Clerkenwell and Islington are two of London's most historic districts; areas where radicalism once thrived and heavy industry flourished, and where poverty and lawlessness were commonplace. This... -
Purple Heart and the Infidel: Two Plays by Bruce Norris 9780810122147
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43Two psychological dramas by a talented young playwright and actor; In Purple Heart, Carla, a Vietnam War widow deep in drink and depression, is living with a troubled son and her controlling mother... -
Odd Men out: Male Homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation: Revised and Updated Edition by John-Pierre Joyce
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.44From government ministers and spies to activists, drag queens and celebrities, Odd men out charts the tumultuous history of gay men in 1950s and 60s Britain. It takes us from the earliest tentative... -
Very Special Guest Star by Tom Wright
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01In a desperate attempt to bring some spark back to their all-too-cosy married life, professional millennials Michael and Phil switch a sherry on the couch for a night on the town. Their goal: to get... -
The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY STEWART LEE'Should The Bloater be republished? Oh God, absolutely, it's fantastic' Stewart LeeMin works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to... -
The Price of Water in Finistere by Bodil Malmsten
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have... -
The Lions of Lisbon: A Play of Two Halves by Willy Maley 9781910745922
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.82On 25 May 1967 Celtic beat Inter Milan 2-1 to become the first British team to win the European Cup. Fifty years on, The Lions of Lisbon relives the jubilation from the fans' point of view.About the... -
HOPEFUL - an autobiography by Omid Djalili
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Omid Djalili's childhood was unconventional, to say the least. He was raised in a beautiful, chaotic, cramped, colourful and legally dubious guesthouse where his parents fed and watered Iranian... -
The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell 9780099558422
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH BOOK PRIZE 2013Today is Christmas Eve. Today is my birthday. Today I am fifteen. Today I buried my parents in the backyard. Neither of them were beloved. Marnie and her... -
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HOPEFUL - an autobiography by Omid Djalili 9781472218667 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.64Omid Djalili's childhood was unconventional, to say the least. He was raised in a beautiful, chaotic, cramped, colourful and legally dubious guesthouse where his parents fed and watered Iranian... -
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Hopeful - An Autobiography by Omid Djalili 9781472218612 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.41Omid Djalili's fascinating story begins with an unconventional childhood spent at his family's London guesthouse for visiting Iranians. At school he is kept busy with the beginnings of a passionate... -
Florilegia by Annabel Dover 9781913430047
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.95"The blue and white print has the night-time glow of a Joseph Cornell ice-cube box or a Stan Brakhage film, the poppy glows candescent but is gone. Anna Atkins' dirty fingernails are pressing the... -
Heading Inland by Nicola Barker
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore. Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and... -
The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants and inventors whose obsessions changed the world David Bramwell 9781473640313
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.93'I LOVE THE BOOK... A BRILLIANT READ' Chris Evans, Radio 2 Breakfast ShowALSO OUT NOW: THE MYSTERIUM, the must-have follow-up to The Odditorium'This book, that I approached with caution, turns out to... -
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The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants and inventors whose obsessions changed the world by David Bramwell 9781473640313 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.11'I LOVE THE BOOK... A BRILLIANT READ' Chris Evans, Radio 2 Breakfast ShowALSO OUT NOW: THE MYSTERIUM, the must-have follow-up to The Odditorium'This book, that I approached with caution, turns out to... -
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 Peter Parker 9780241683705
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.97'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, SpectatorThe second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second... -
Bent Joe Thomas 9781911350736
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Guardian Best Book of 2020 Irish Times Best Crime Fiction of 2020 Times Book of the Month Mail on Sunday Thriller of the Month The Spectator Crime Fiction of the Month Crime Time Book of the Year... -
Exit by Belinda Bauer 9781784164133
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, this is the page-turning, twisty, and often hilarious new crime novel from bestselling author Belinda Bauer.A Sunday Times 'best... -
Tennessee Williams by John Lahr
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.05SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION The definitive biography of America's most impassioned and lyrical twentieth-century playwright from acclaimed theatre critic John Lahr ... -
Bad Actors: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Mick Herron
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.66*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans**Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES...