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Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh by Amy Raphael 9780571204694
Booksplease Price: €24.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ecstasy by Mike Leigh
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.10Jean 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46THE 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74In 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: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764106Author Garry WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint < -
The Films of Mike Leigh by Ray Carney 9780521485180
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €26.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh by Bryan Cardinale-Powell 9781501307256
Booksplease Price: €50.24Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Turner - A Life by James Hamilton 9780340628119
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.14A 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39The 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.96A 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.91On 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54A 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: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.48__________________________'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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €5.81Taking 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26The 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91***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... -
Worth by Jon Canter 9780099546825
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66For Richard and Sarah, leaving the rat-race of London for the sleepy village of Worth feels like a dream come true. But their new life isn't quite as idyllic as it first seems. The cottage is tiny... -
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My Fair Lady by Alan Lerner 9780140013641 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €3.30Sparkling 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €1.49Liz 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.34Mischief 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... -
Eccentric Propositions: Essays on Literature and the Curriculum by Jane Miller
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €40.14Originally published in 1984. This book charts important changes brought about by teachers in the way literature is read and written about in schools. Rooted in experiences of inner-city schools, it... -
Drama Games for Devising by Jessica Swale
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.45As 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... -
The Reluctant Escapologist: Adventures in Alternative Theatre by Mike Bradwell 9781854595386
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €21.87An unrivalled unofficial history of the rise - and partial fall - of fringe theatre, Mike Bradwell's deadpan account of his adventures is one of the funniest and angriest books to come out of theatre... -
This is How You Make a Movie by Tim Grierson
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.16With 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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.61A 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: €16.67He 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: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.91In 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07Eve 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: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43Long 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.31'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... -
Malcolm Lowry's Poetics of Space by Richard J. Lane 9780776623405
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €20.69This collection focuses on Lowry's spatial dynamics, from the psychogeography of the Letterist and the Situationist International, through musical forms (especially jazz), cinema, photography, and... -
A Seat at the Table: Interviews with Women on the Frontline of Music by Amy Raphael 9780349009841
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02'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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02Other 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20James 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €4.20Though 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... -
Instructions for a Heatwave: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 9781035430109
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The 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... -
The Last Flannelled Fool: My small part in English cricket's demise and its large part in mine by Michael Simkins 9780091927554
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.39Michael 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... -
Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition by Malcolm Lowry 9780776608020
RRP: €25.59Booksplease Price: €16.07Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the... -
Staying On by C. M. Taylor
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.22A late in life coming-of-age story... Retired expat, Tony Metcalfe, is going through a three-quarter-life crisis. Viva Espana, his bar in a mountain village beyond Spain's Costa Blanca, is failing...