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Coda by Simon Gray
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Coda is Simon Gray's powerful account of the year in which he struggled to come to terms with terminal lung cancer. Darkly comic depictions of the medical team are set against joyful accounts of... -
Simon Gray: Plays 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept by Simon Gray
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.'Daily Telegraph on The Common... -
The Smoking Diaries Volume 1 Simon Gray 9781847080547
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly,... -
Simon Gray: Plays 3: Quartermaine's Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe by Simon Gray
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.04'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.'New York Times on Quartermaine's... -
The Smoking Diaries Volume 2: The Year Of The Jouncer by Simon Gray
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his pram while still nestling inside it. 'It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done... -
Simon Gray: Plays 2: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car by Simon Gray
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour.' Punch on Otherwise Engaged'Life in the theatre hasn't brought me anything... -
The Smoking Diaries Volume 3: The Last Cigarette by Simon Gray 9781847080721
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07The final volume of the trilogy that began with The Smoking Diaries finds Simon Gray determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be... -
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.73The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to... -
Classical Comedy by Aristophanes
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays:... -
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada 9780141189383
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan Furst Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a... -
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Library of the Dead by Glenn Cooper 9780099534457 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.32The most shocking secret in the history of mankind is about to be revealed ...A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in... -
My Life in Pieces: An Alternative Biography by Simon Callow
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography. In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through... -
Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.04Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and ... -
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Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill 9781847080691 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.47'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story ... a delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and... -
Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill 9781803510927
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story ... a delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and... -
Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women by Harriet Walter
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.41'A part we have played is like a person we once met, grew to know, became intimately enmeshed with and finally moved away from. Some of these characters remain friends, others are like ex-lovers with...