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Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64A 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.21'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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73What 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: $44.08Booksplease Price: $33.41Bruce 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 9781037803147
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $30.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781037803147Author Nicholas ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Im -
Frame 37 by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781787305229
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $31.73Ex-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 High Flyer by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099466185
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Thomas 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... -
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man Nicholas Shakespeare 9781529920604
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.11A 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... -
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780063012240
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $61.99Apologies 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 -
In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099466086
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19In 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... -
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780062297044
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062297044Author Nicholas ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Im -
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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781787302419 [USED COPY]
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $22.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099555667
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees... -
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister Nicholas Shakespeare 9781784701000
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96A 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: $42.00Booksplease Price: $6.28***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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.94'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: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.47Henry 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96Winston 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87The 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.87Among 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... -
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61Stephen 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,... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull 9780008414115
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.40The 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... -
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Boom: The Life of Viscount Trenchard, Father of the Royal Air Force by Russell Miller 9780297871057 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $5.36Hugh '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... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.02The 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... -
Incomplete Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet by John Crace
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $12.50Cease 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... -
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like it, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.14Shakespearean 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... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Jonathan 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... -
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... -
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $114.85This 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 by William Shakespeare
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.70The 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... -
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Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780141015866 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $8.55Jonathan 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... -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70These 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... -
Cakes And Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73WITH 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... -
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38In 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 -... -
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96"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... -
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The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl 9780141023748 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.00In 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $5.06Few 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... -
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Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton 9781784160791 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.15"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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73A 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... -
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Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur 9780753515730 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $5.27On the night of 16-17 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron headed for Germany. Their mission, for which they had been trained under a cloak of absolute secrecy, was to destroy the...