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Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Her situation touches... -
The Sandpit by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.63'A remarkable contemporary thriller... A triumph' WILLIAM BOYDA journalist becomes embroiled in a world of secrets and paranoia when a nuclear scientist goes missing.When John Dyer returns to Oxford... -
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83What would you do if you suddenly and unexpectedly inherited GBP17million? This is what happens to Andy Larkham, recently jilted lover, and resentfully underpaid publishing minion. Arriving late to... -
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $37.87Bruce Chatwin's death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia.Chatwin himself was different things to... -
Frame 37 by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781787305229
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $35.96Ex-journalist John Dyer must take on a dangerous political conspiracy to bring a killer to justice.IN A WORLD OF LIES, PROOF IS POWER.John Dyer is living a quiet life when he receives a call that... -
The Dancer Upstairs Nicholas Shakespeare 9781529114850
Booksplease Price: $32.68From the acclaimed author of The Sandpit, an exhilarating literary thriller about the hunt for a missing terrorist in South America.Out of a job but in search of one last scoop from South America,... -
The High Flyer by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099466185
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $29.68Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of... -
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The Sandpit by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781787301764 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $6.02Who do you trust with a secret that could save the world - or destroy it?'A remarkable contemporary thriller - with shades of Graham Greene and Le Carre about it...Brilliantly observed, captivatingly... -
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780063012240
RRP: $107.10Booksplease Price: $69.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Critical/Biographical) 2025.Book InformationISBN 9780063012240Author Nicho -
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man Nicholas Shakespeare 9781529920604
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.06A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. *WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR... -
In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099466086
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $29.68In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a... -
Under The Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099466147 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $12.47Bruce Chatwin is one of the most significant British novelists and travel writers of our time. His books have become modern-day classics which defy categorisation, inspired by and reflecting his... -
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister Nicholas Shakespeare 9781784701000
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds.'A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' Observer... -
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Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781846559723 [USED COPY]
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $6.26***Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist***London, early May 1940: Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government... -
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.06'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian ... -
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd 9780099497189
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $31.13Henry Irving - a merchant's clerk who became the saviour of British theatre - and Ellen Terry, who made her first theatre appearance as soon as she could walk, were the king and queen of the... -
Churchill: The Power of Words by Winston Churchill
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words throughout his six decades in the public eye. His wartime writings and speeches revealed both his vision for the future and his own... -
Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre Nicholas Hytner 9781784704148
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51The 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... -
Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.51Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.16The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can... -
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $35.82Stephen 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,... -
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Boom: The Life of Viscount Trenchard, Father of the Royal Air Force by Russell Miller 9780297871057 [USED COPY]
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $6.07Hugh 'Boom' Trenchard was embarrassed by being described as 'The Father of the Royal Air Force' - he thought others were more deserving. But the reality was that no man did more to establish the... -
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like it, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04Shakespearean comedy has as much to do with the structure and movement of the drama as with the wit of its dialogue or the humour of its characters. In these four comedies there is a near-tragic... -
Incomplete Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet by John Crace
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $14.16Cease 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... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age brings us closer than ever to understanding what being Shakespeare was actually like.How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did... -
Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by William Shakespeare
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.73The 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... -
Cakes And Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARECakes and Ale is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces the fortunes of... -
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The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl 9780141023748 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $5.66In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry -... -
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Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton 9781784160791 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $5.83"An engaging, balanced and thoroughly researched history. It is often a moving and amusing tale containing plenty of mavericks and colourful episodes." (Lawrence James, The Times)Auntie's War is a... -
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest novels.In a provincial Argentinian community, Charley Fortnum - a British... -
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16"An engaging, balanced and thoroughly researched history. It is often a moving and amusing tale containing plenty of mavericks and colourful episodes." (Lawrence James, The Times)Auntie's War is a... -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate... -
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry -... -
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Being An Actor by Simon Callow 9780099471950 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $5.74Few actors are more eloquent, honest or entertaining about their life and their profession than Simon Callow. Being an Actor traces his stage journey from the letter he wrote to Laurence Olivier that... -
Hunting Midnight by Richard Zimler 9781841197715 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $6.12In Zimler's dazzling tale, John Zarco Stewart is an impish child of bold inquisitiveness, the unwitting inheritor of a faith shrouded in 300 years of secrecy. Dark and bitter events put an end to his... -
The Lost Sock by Gillian Johnson
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $8.07When a man loses one of his favourite pair of socks at the laundromat, he sets out on a quest to find out what happens to lost socks, and why every sock drawer contains a plethora of single socks. On... -
The Teenager Who Came to Tea Emlyn Rees 9781472121769
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $14.66But the teenager didn't take just one Pringle. He took a selfie of himself pouring a whole tube of them into his mouth, before sending it to his best mate, along with the letters LOL!The bestselling... -
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The Teenager Who Came to Tea by Emlyn Rees 9781472121769 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $4.69But the teenager didn't take just one Pringle. He took a selfie of himself pouring a whole tube of them into his mouth, before sending it to his best mate, along with the letters LOL!The bestselling... -
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate by Jason Wilson 9781472122056
Booksplease Price: $49.27W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extreme poverty. Like his friend Joseph Conrad, Hudson was... -
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Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate by Jason Wilson 9781472122056 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $6.28W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extreme poverty. Like his friend Joseph Conrad, Hudson was...