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Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield 9781590179314
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $47.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179314Author Leon GarfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint New York Review of... -
Smith by Leon Garfield
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime.Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new... -
Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $26.82Twelve Shakespeare plays presented afresh by Leon Garfield in narrative form. These are not simple retellings, but more like a refashioning of the dramas as stories, which remain true to the... -
Six Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield
Booksplease Price: $40.13Shakespeare's plays tell some of the best stories in the English language. In Six Shakespeare Stories Leon Garfield has turned them into short readable tales bringing the plays to life in an ideal... -
God Beneath The Sea by Leon Garfield
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen retells some of the most famous Greek myths in this classic of children's literature. This is the epic history of the Greek Gods told from their violent beginnings to... -
Shakespeare for Grown-ups: Everything you Need to Know about the Bard by Elizabeth Foley
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68'Rather jolly and very helpful' The TimesNeed to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado and general reader alike. ... -
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.63Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age.Shakespeare was a man of his time,... -
In Search Of Shakespeare by Michael Wood
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective... -
Incomplete Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet by John Crace
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $13.42Cease I say, cantankerous old fools /Thy deeds hath made our streets a no go zone /No more shall Montagues and Capulets /Enact their West Side Story Sharks and Jets /Or else shall pay the forfeit of... -
Five Plays by Thomas Middleton
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.47Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection... -
Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion by David Crystal
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $46.41A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels... -
Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by William Shakespeare
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.37The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. Whether it is the ruthless ambition of Macbeth or the folly of Lear, the irresolution... -
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $112.90This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at... -
Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth William Shakespeare 9780241726976
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $42.06The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is a hero's fall from grace due to a fatal character flaw. Whether it is the ruthless ambition of Macbeth or the folly of Lear, the irresolution of... -
Rebel Heart Ally Sherrick 9781915026996
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.16A rip-roaring historical adventure from bestselling author Ally Sherrick. England, 1645. Merriweather Pryce is the daughter of a nobleman fighting for King Charles I... -
The Shadow Guests by Joan Aiken 9780241337363
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.74Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this thrilling edition of The Shadow Guests.Following the double disappearance of his mother and... -
Annie by Thomas Meehan
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.81The story of Annie - everyone's favourite orphan - with an introduction by writer, actor and comedian Miranda Hart.It's 1933 and for as long as she can remember, 11 year old Annie has believed that... -
Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson 9780141354958
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38One of the best-loved animal stories of our time."Twilight over meadow and water, the eve-star shining above the hill, and Old Nog the heron crying kra-a-ark! as his slow dark wings carried him down... -
The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods: a Tale of the Persian Wars Tom Holland 9781406394740
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $33.35Myth meets history in a blockbuster retelling of the Persian Wars from multi-award-winning author of Rubicon and Persian Fire Tom Holland, lavishly illustrated by Jason Cockcroft."The Persians are... -
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White 9780141354842
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN is an uplifting story by E. B. White, author of CHARLOTTE'S WEB in which wildlife and nature blend with fantasy to make a tender, humorous and unforgettable animal tale.Unlike... -
The Electrical Venus by Julie Mayhew
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38Can this shocking new feeling be love, or is it electrickery?In a lowly side-show fair in eighteenth-century England, teenager Mim is struggling to find her worth as an act. Not white, but not black... -
Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54It is Edinburgh, 1822, and young Robbie is eight years old when he witnesses his mother's pain and subsequent death from an operation - without anaesthetic - to remove a tumour from her breast at...