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Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98A 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... -
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66What 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... -
The Sandpit by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.18'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... -
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $20.52Bruce 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.49Ex-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... -
Frame 37 by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781037803147
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781037803147Author Nicholas ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Im -
The High Flyer by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099466185
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Thomas 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.58A 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: $58.05Booksplease Price: $38.13Apologies 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09In 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... -
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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781787302419 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $13.92Sorry 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: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76The 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... -
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780062297044
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062297044Author Nicholas ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Im -
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister Nicholas Shakespeare 9781784701000
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72A 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.39***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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.79'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian ... -
Churchill: The Power of Words by Winston Churchill
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Winston 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20The 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... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84The 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... -
Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.20Among 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... -
Incomplete Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet by John Crace
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.68Cease 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... -
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Boom: The Life of Viscount Trenchard, Father of the Royal Air Force by Russell Miller 9780297871057 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $3.29Hugh '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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.44Shakespearean 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... -
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41Stephen 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,... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Jonathan 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... -
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72"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... -
Cakes And Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66WITH 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.07In 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.16"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... -
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Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780141015866 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $5.25Jonathan 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... -
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66A 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... -
Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by William Shakespeare
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.94The 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... -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26These 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In 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: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.11Few 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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Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur 9780753515730 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $3.24On 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... -
Granta 62: What Young Men Do by Ian Jack 9780903141185
Booksplease Price: $21.18In this edition of the Granta magazine, Richard Lloyd Parry reports on the savage civil war taking place in Indonesia and Nicholas Shakespeare writes on Martha Gelhorn and why she hated her husband,... -
The Lost Sock by Gillian Johnson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $4.37When 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.95But 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.54But 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...