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Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide by Jonathan Miller
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $5.51Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining belief in God's creation was remarkable timid. He... -
France, a Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Jonathan Miller 9781783342280
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48The French live in a feverish state of fantasy. People are paid to pretend to work, pretend to strike, and generally think work causes depression and suicide. Dental hygienists are illegal, yet the... -
Making Music Norman Platt 9780954128708
RRP: $10.05Booksplease Price: $9.72The story of singer Norman Platt's life in music and the rise and fall of the renowned Kent Opera Company. Norman Platt was seized by music at the age of five as a boy in industrial Lancashire,... -
![Take a Girl Like Me: Life With George by Diana Melly 9780099490555 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9814910/10831471/9780099490555__22886.1782717139.jpg?c=1 "Take a Girl Like Me: Life With George by Diana Melly 9780099490555 [USED COPY]")
Take a Girl Like Me: Life With George by Diana Melly 9780099490555 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.83Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she'd acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn't going to plan... Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant,... -
![Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook by Peter Cook 9780099443254 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9653984/10670704/9780099443254__41985.1781277272.jpg?c=1 "Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook by Peter Cook 9780099443254 [USED COPY]")
Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook by Peter Cook 9780099443254 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.22For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever encountered. And nearly eight years since his death, his status as one of Britain's greatest comedians shows no... -
Take A Girl Like Me: Life With George by Diana Melly 9781784704605
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she'd acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn't going to plan... Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant,... -
Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups William Miller 9781788160377
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.78Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady... -
My Town: An Artist's Life in London by David Gentleman
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.00David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of it on the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spent observing, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing... -
![In Contact with the Gods?: Directors Talk Theatre by Maria M. Delgado 9780719047633 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4867881/4867111/9780719047633__27732.1722070184.jpg?c=1 "In Contact with the Gods?: Directors Talk Theatre by Maria M. Delgado 9780719047633 [USED COPY]")
In Contact with the Gods?: Directors Talk Theatre by Maria M. Delgado 9780719047633 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $3.23In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a collection of interviews and discussions with directors... -
Notes From the Languedoc by Rupert Wright 9780091905637
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.05It is easy to get to the Languedoc. Follow the Rhone south through France, then once you hit the Mediterranean coast, turn right. The mystery is that for generations, people have been getting to the... -
Rough Copy by Frederic Raphael 9781857546576
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $19.68The second volume of extracts from Frederic Raphael's notebooks (never a diary) covers the first five years of the 1970s. It describes and analyses a variety of experiences which are always... -
A Lion Was Learning to Ski, and Other Limericks by Ranjit Bolt 9781783340828
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.80When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. On a whim he decided to staple some together and... -
Pop Goes the Cello by Aaron Minsky 9780193399389
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $18.52This fun and innovative collection introduces cellists to a range of pop and rock styles. Building on the trail-blazing approach to cello playing that he developed in Ten American Cello Etudes and... -
Ten American Cello Etudes by Aaron Minsky 9780193858176
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $18.52Each of these etudes is a miniature evocation of an American place and mood, written to help cellists learn in contemporary styles of jazz, blues, folk, and more. Technique certainly won't be dull... -
Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary... -
Summers of Discontent by Raymond Tallis 9781908524409
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered on the nature and purpose of the arts, but artists have gone on making them and audiences enjoying them regardless of these musings... -
![The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665485/10682205/9780340823118__72774.1781288345.jpg?c=1 "The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]")
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.65'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 9780006861362
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $35.71This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. ... -
The Lively ART: Twenty Years of the American Repertory Theatre by Jan Geidt
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.49The resident repertory company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, affiliated with Harvard and known as the American Repertory Theatre, has long been considered one of the country's most innovative cultural... -
Ten International Cello Encores by Aaron Minsky 9780193804661
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $22.67Minsky has composed this set of ten cello pieces based on musical styles from places around the world, such as Mexico, Ireland, Asia, Israel, Africa, the Caribbean, and America. Ten International... -
Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller 9780745340791
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.23Keenie Meenie Services - the most powerful mercenary company you've never heard of - was involved in war crimes around the world from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua for which its shadowy directors have never... -
E=mc2 by David Bodanis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92By the end of the astonishing E=mc2, a dedicated reader will have achieved, if only by osmosis, an understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity and feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize... -
![Stage Blood: Five tempestuous years in the early life of the National Theatre by Michael Blakemore 9780571241385 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6166242/6243195/9780571241385__98475.1736481273.jpg?c=1 "Stage Blood: Five tempestuous years in the early life of the National Theatre by Michael Blakemore 9780571241385 [USED COPY]")
Stage Blood: Five tempestuous years in the early life of the National Theatre by Michael Blakemore 9780571241385 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.89In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its... -
Stage Blood: Five tempestuous years in the early life of the National Theatre by Michael Blakemore 9780571241385
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its... -
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan Lents
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved. But if we are evolution's greatest creation, why are we so badly designed? We have retinas that face backward, we must find vitamins and nutrients in... -
![This Mitchell and Webb Book by David Mitchell 9780007280193 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9698815/10715527/9780007280193__61574.1781352082.jpg?c=1 "This Mitchell and Webb Book by David Mitchell 9780007280193 [USED COPY]")
This Mitchell and Webb Book by David Mitchell 9780007280193 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.11Dive into the bizarre yet strangely familiar world of Mitchell and Webb - the wittiest men on television, or anywhere else. From the two finest comedians of their generation comes the... -
The Sexual Evolution: What 500 Million Years of Animal Sexuality Teaches Us About Being Human Today Nathan H. Lents 9781837260706
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27We find ourselves in a time of great social upheaval. People are testing the boundaries of just about everything related to sex and gender. Biological sex, long thought to be a simple binary, is now... -
Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook by Peter Cook
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.40For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever encountered. And nearly eight years since his death, his status as one of Britain's greatest comedians shows no... -
Eadweard Muybridge by Marta Braun 9781861897602
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $19.44Renowned for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering photographer. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was... -
Forever Today: A Memoir Of Love And Amnesia by Deborah Wearing
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Clive Wearing has one of the most extreme cases of amnesia ever known. In 1985, a virus completely destroyed a part of his brain essential for memory, leaving him trapped in a limbo of the constant... -
Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2: Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles by Julian Curry
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'This book gives some of the very best of Shakespeare's twenty-first-century colleagues an opportunity to share insights that can only come from playing him' Nicholas Hytner, from his Foreword ... -
Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US by Julian Go 9780197621660
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $24.76The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper... -
A Brief History of Nakedness Philip Carr-Gomm 9781836390039
RRP: $36.18Booksplease Price: $13.47Now in B-format paperback, A Brief History of Nakedness traces our preoccupation with nudity in religion, politics and popular culture. Rather than study the history of the fine-art nude,...