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  • Three Plays for Puritans

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. In these three plays of ideas, Shaw employed traditional dramatic forms - Victorian melodrama, the history play and the adventure story - to turn ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Hay Fever

    by Noël Coward ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    "This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself." - Evening StandardWhen four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family, arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they're expecting a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Affair of the Heart

    British Theatre from 1992 to 2020

    by Mr Michael Billington ...
    "The best theatrical read of the year." – British Theatre GuideA book of selected theatre reviews from 1992 to 2020 from one of the foremost authorities on British theatre.Each chapter starts with a brief commentary on the developments of that era and the social, political and cultural context within which British theatre was being produced. Key obituaries and letters in response to reviews ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The 101 Greatest Plays

    From Antiquity to the Present

    by Michael Billington ...
    Having surveyed post-war British drama in State of the Nation, Michael Billington now looks at the global picture. In this provocative and challenging new book, he offers his highly personal selection of the 100 greatest plays ranging from the Greeks to the present-day.But his book is no mere list. Billington justifies his choices in extended essays- and even occasional dialogues- that put the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tales of the Tricycle Theatre

    by Terry Stoller, Mr Michael Billington ...
    Tales of the Tricycle Theatre provides an inside look at the history of the north London theatre which has achieved renown with its staging of black, Irish, verbatim and political drama. Co-published with the Society for Theatre Research, the book draws extensively on archival research and interviews with actors, playwrights, directors, designers and board members to document and celebrate the ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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  • How to be Well Read

    A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities

    by John Sutherland ...
    'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer**'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very pers... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Scorn

    The Wickedest Insults in Human History

    by Matthew Parris ...
    'He's 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever you do'Camilla Long on Nigel Farage'It's not enough to succeed. Friends must fail'Gore VidalNothing cuts deeper, or provides greater pleasure, than the perfect put-down.When it's directed at someone else.Matthew Parris's sublime collection of the rudest, funniest shin-kicks and barbs in human history, spa... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • My Life in Pieces

    An Alternative Autobiography

    by Simon Callow ...
    An 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 the multifarious performers, writers, productions and events which have left their indelible mark on him.The story begins with Peter Pan – his first ever visit to the theatre – before transporting us to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Factotum in the Book Trade

    by Marius Kociejowski ...
    The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Meaning of Recognition

    Essays 2001-2005

    by Clive James ...
    With essays taking the reader from London to Bali, theatre to library and from election campaigns to television, The Meaning of Recognition collects the best of Clive James on art, culture and politics from 2001–2005.Whether analysing Bing Crosby, Bruno Schulz or Shakespeare, celebrating The Sopranos and The West Wing, or lamenting the decline of Formula One, Clive James writes with style and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Pleasure of Reading

    43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them

    by Lady Antonia Fraser ...
    In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • NB by J. C.: A Walk through the Times Literary Supplement

    by James Campbell ...
    NB by J. C., a collection of James Campbell’s best columns from the TLS, is a guide to the literary pleasures and absurdities of the past two decades.For over twenty years, James Campbell wrote the popular NB column on the back page of The Times Literary Supplement, signing it “J. C.” The initials were not intended as a disguise, but to provide freedom to the persona. “J. C.” was irreverent, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD