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Ross by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.54Terence Rattigan's epic and probing drama about the man immortalised as Lawrence of Arabia. Arrogant, flippant, withdrawn and with a talent for self-concealment, the mysterious Aircraftman Ross... -
After the Dance by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.54Terence Rattigan's After the Dance is a brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the 'bright young things' of the 1920s and 30s. David is a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer... -
Cause Celebre by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.63Based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who, in 1935, went on trial with her eighteen-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. In the play, Terence Rattigan pits Alma against a formidable... -
The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert... -
Flare Path by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.29A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Terence Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War. 1942. The Falcon Hotel, on the Lincolnshire coast. RAF... -
Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth. In the first of the plays, Table by the Window, a lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a... -
French Without Tears by Terence Rattigan
Booksplease Price: $13.63A masterpiece of light comedy from Terence Rattigan, about a group of bright young things attempting to learn French on the Riviera amid myriad distractions. French Without Tears is the play that... -
The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan 9781854594679
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.72Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since. ... -
Man and Boy Terence Rattigan 9781839045240
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'In finance, man makes his own miracles.' Jazz, Broadway and the Great Depression. In 1930s New York City, international financier Gregor Antonescu's luck has finally run out. As news of a... -
In Praise of Love by Terence Rattigan 9781854594648
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63An almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love is based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison's wife, Kay Kendall, and her early death... -
The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan 9781854594235
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it. The play opens with the failed... -
Harlequinade & All On Her Own by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85A double bill by Terence Rattigan, featuring two plays of striking contrast that display his astonishing range as a writer. The comic gem Harlequinade follows a classical theatre company whose... -
Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.29Love in Idleness is the third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays (after Flare Path and While the Sun Shines). It is published here alongside an earlier version of the play, Less... -
The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan 9780582060197 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $3.22This celebrated play not only dramatises a fascinating court case, but also gives a searing insight into prevailing social attitudes of the time.Book InformationISBN 9780582060197Author Terrance... -
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210497
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of... -
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington 9780571210343 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.24State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of... -
The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years Aleks Sierz 9781350301764
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.07British theatre is booming. But where do these beautiful buildings and exciting plays come from? And when did the story start? To find out we time travel back to the age of the first Queen Elizabeth... -
First Episode by Terrence Rattigan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.78Terence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this edition to mark the centenary of his birth. Written with his fellow student, Philip Heimann, while they were both at Oxford,... -
The Bus Stop Killer: Milly Dowler, Her Murder and the Full Story of the Sadistic Serial Killer Levi Bellfield by Geoffrey Wansell 9780241952818 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.60You've seen Manhunt, now read Geoffrey Wansell's chilling portrait of notorious serial killer Levi Bellfield- the only man in modern British legal history to be given two whole-life sentences.On 23... -
An Evil Love: The Life and Crimes of Fred West by Geoffrey Wansell
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76The reverberations from Fred West's crimes continue to this day. The story never dies.West was perhaps one of Britain's most evil, feared serial killers. His horrifying compulsion to kidnap, rape... -
Handsome Brute: The True Story of a Ladykiller by Sean O'Connor 9781471187001
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Handsome Brute explores the facts of a once-renowned, now little-remembered British murder case, the killings of the charming, but deadly ex-RAF playboy Neville Heath. Since the 1940s, Heath has... -
The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury by Sean O'Connor
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'A case study in human frailty, jealousy and desire ... fascinating.' The Times, Best Books of 2019 'Meticulously researched...superbly evocative and gripping...a narrative that builds with the... -
"Entertaining Mr Sloane" by Joe Orton
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.97Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not... -
"Entertaining Mr Sloane" by Joe Orton 9780413413406 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $2.65Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not... -
The Haunters and the Haunted by Sean O'Connor
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50Marianne Foyster, Harry Price and the most haunted house in England - the perfect read for Halloween. 'Borley Rectory is perhaps the definition of an old haunt, still exerting an extraordinary grip...