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Ecstasy by Mike Leigh
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63Jean works in a garage and consoles herself with drink and perfunctory sex. Jean's insistent neighbour, Dawn, and Dawn's Irish labourer husband, Mick, and Mick's spineless mucker, Len, all join her... -
Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF 40TH MIKE LEIGH'S CLASSIC PLAY - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE PLAYWRITE.Forty years on from its first performance at the Hampstead Theatre and original screening... -
Mike Leigh by Sean O'Sullivan 9780252078194
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative... -
The Cinema of Mike Leigh by Garry Watson 9781904764106
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764106Author Garry WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint < -
Turner - A Life by James Hamilton 9780340628119
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The definitive biography of J.M.W. Turner.'A pleasure to read'.' A.S. BYATT'With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating... -
The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window by Rob Young
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.79A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARA riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden... -
Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre by Jacqueline Riding
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45The story of the Peterloo massacre, a defining moment in the history of British democracy, told with passion and authority. 'Excellent' Zadie Smith 'Fast-paced and full of fascinating detail'... -
Dead Lucky by Connor Hutchinson 9781472159069
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK!'Moving and shocking, and profoundly poetic' Mike Leigh, film director'Almost unbearably compulsive . . . never less than rhapsodically funny' Sunday Times'A wild ride'... -
Peterloo: Voices, Sabres and Silence by Graham Phythian 9780750967495
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.79On 16 August 1819 on St Peter's Field, Manchester, a peaceful demonstration of some 60,000 workers and reformers was brutally dispersed by sabrewielding cavalry, resulting in at least fifteen dead... -
The Art of Creative Thinking by Rod Judkins
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A scuba diving company faces bankruptcy because sharks have infested the area. Solution? Open the world's first extreme diving school.The Art of Creative Thinking reveals how we can transform... -
The Peterloo Massacre by Robert Reid
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81__________________________'The universal significance of this historic event becomes ever more relevant in our own turbulent times.' MIKE LEIGH, director of the award-winning film... -
Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave: Celebrating Twenty Years of Jewish Renaissance by David Benmayer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $6.54Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm... -
Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre Nicholas Hytner 9781784704148
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The Sunday Times BestsellerThis is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain's greatest theatre.It is a story of lunatic failures and spectacular successes such as The History Boys, War... -
The Peterloo Massacre by Joyce Marlow
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04***The subject of the new major film by Mike Leigh***Unity of the oppressed can make a difference in politically uncertain times A peaceful protest turned tragedy; this is the true story of the... -
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My Fair Lady by Alan Lerner 9780140013641 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.66Sparkling with wit, wisdom and wonderful songs including, 'I Could Have Danced All Night', 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly' and 'Get Me To The Church On Time', the musical play based on Bernard Shaw's... -
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Our Betty by Liz Smith 9781416511618 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $1.68Liz Smith, once called the nation's favourite fictional grandmother, is a familiar face to all TV and cinema viewers. She is most often recognised for her role of Nana in The Royle Family. OUR BETTY... -
Axholme by Mike Bradwell 9781739421205
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.64Mischief with air guns and catapults, stealing birds' eggs and collecting butterflies, climbing through a window in the gents in the Rio to see the Saturday morning films for free, leg-crunching... -
Danny Boyle: Authorised Edition by Amy Raphael 9780571301867
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.41In this revelatory career-length biography, produced through many hours of interviews with Danny Boyle, he talks frankly about the secrets behind the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games as... -
Drama Games for Devising by Jessica Swale
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28As part of the ever-growing, increasingly popular Drama Games series, Jessica Swale returns with another dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, packed with dozens of drama games that can be... -
This is How You Make a Movie by Tim Grierson
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45With a twist on the practical movie-making genre, This Is How You Make a Movie brings the subject to life by explaining the terms and processes through the films you know and love. Using key scenes... -
Dark Matter: Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century by Michael Winterbottom
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.08A Sight & Sound Book of the Year "Eye-opening and addictively readable." Total Film Who and what decides if a film gets funded? How do those who control the purse strings also determine a film's... -
Death of England by Roy Williams
Booksplease Price: $18.77He wanted you to be a better man. He wanted to be a better man himself. He was lied to. Just like you are being lied to. A family in mourning. A man in crisis After the death of his dad,... -
Stupid Stories for Tough Times Andrew Crowther 9781804471111
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.91In Stupid Stories for Tough Times a woodland spirit causes havoc in suburbia; a wayward uncle causes suspicion in the family; a ferocious troll seeks a friend; and Churchill's statue goes walkabout... -
The Playground by Julia Kelly 9781784291358
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Eve is starting again. Newly single, unemployed and with a baby daughter, she joins the local mums trying to make their nearby playground the heart of the community. But not all games are innocent -... -
The Japan of Pure Invention: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado by Josephine Lee
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13Long before Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, long before Barthes explicated his empire of signs, even before Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado presented its own... -
Menus that Made History: Over 2000 years of menus from Ancient Egyptian food for the afterlife to Elvis Presley's wedding breakfast by Alex Johnson 9780857835284
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50'An absolutely riveting book - reading it makes you intelligent, full of brilliant anecdotes - and very hungry indeed.' - Richard Curtis 'This brilliantly conceived and well-researched book is a... -
A Seat at the Table: Interviews with Women on the Frontline of Music by Amy Raphael 9780349009841
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES'Wide-ranging, deep-dive, soul-baring interviews, full of candid, intimate, spiky meditations on inspiration, artistry,... -
Year of the King by Anthony Sher
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Other early 'stand-out' roles came in the premieres of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979) and Mike Leigh's Goose Pimples (1981). He was Malcolm Bradbury's History Man on TV (1981) before joining the... -
Spring by David Szalay
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is... -
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Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education by Michael Simkins 9780091927523 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.55Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her... -
The Last Flannelled Fool: My small part in English cricket's demise and its large part in mine by Michael Simkins 9780091927554
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.20Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer - passionate, obsessive, technically inept, and hopelessly deluded. When an injury rules him out of an entire season, not only might it spell the end... -
Instructions for a Heatwave: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 9781035430109
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling summer read from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 380,000 copies sold*Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award 'Addictive. Told with real... -
Death of England: Closing Time by Roy Williams 9781350448827
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55Look at it Carly, look at our dream. No one's happy Denise. There are two sides to every story. Grieving the loss of the family shop and their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law... -
Death of England: The Plays by Clint Dyer 9781350525573
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.82Unless it's a football match... maybe then or 'em... at the supermarket... food and football, eh, the Englishman common ground Neutral territory for the masses. Yeah a place where no ideas are... -
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family Olivia Williams 9781472269805
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A real triumph, beautifully written, with many wonderful stories of the Savoy.' Lady Anne Glenconner, author of Lady in Waiting'An elegantly crafted, yet spritely and sparkling book, perfectly... -
More Golden Rules of Acting by Andy Nyman
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Andy Nyman's first book, The Golden Rules of Acting, has become a bestseller in the acting world. Now he returns to bring you more priceless nuggets gleaned from more than thirty years in the acting... -
Ghost Girl, Banana: worldwide buzz and rave reviews for this moving and unforgettable story of family secrets by Wiz Wharton 9781399700375
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.25*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 2024 ****** LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD ***A GRAZIA BOOK CLUB PICK, Ghost Girl, Banana is a powerful debut novel about the... -
Ghost Girl, Banana: The unforgettable debut novel of 2023 - a story of family, belonging and home by Wiz Wharton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07A GRAZIA BOOK CLUB PICK, Ghost Girl, Banana is a powerful debut novel about the family secrets unearthed by a surprise inheritance. Set between Hong Kong in the 1960s and London in the 1990s, and... -
Death of England: Delroy by Roy Williams
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48Me jumping out of the van, was the beginning of a very bad day for me. I just didn't know it, but I was going to know it, in about four minutes, I was going to know, fer trut. 2020. Delroy is... -
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Maggie Smith: A Biography by Michael Coveney 9781474600231 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $5.17WINNER OF BEST MEMOIR AT THE WOMAN & HOME READERS' CHOICE AWARDS 2016 AND A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame...