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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux 9780571365937
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.68A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial... -
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family by Arthur Edwards
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.95For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters, their laughter and tears, when they've found love and when their... -
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this... -
The Lives of Lee Miller: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet Antony Penrose 9780500297520
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Described by the Sunday Times as 'a fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit', this biography is the inspiration behind the 2024 film Lee, starring Kate Winslet as Lee Miller. ... -
Dieter Rams, The Complete Works by Klaus Klemp 9781838661533
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £31.26"Chances are if you've shaved with an electric razor, blow-dried your hair, or sparked up a cigarette in the past 60 years, you owe a debt of gratitude to Dieter Rams." - New York TimesMade in close... -
Strangeland: The memoirs of one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation by Tracey Emin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be... -
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew... -
Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden by Quentin Bell
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.31The newly revised and updated Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden is the definitive publication on the Bloomsbury Group's rural outpost in the heart of the Sussex Downs. "It's absolutely perfect.... -
Pocket Bowie Wisdom: Witty quotes and wise words from David Bowie by 9781784880729
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16'I'm just a cosmic yob, I suppose.''I change every day. I'm not outrageous. I'm David Bowie.''I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.'Genre-hopping, gender-bending: Bowie has never been afraid... -
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family... -
Lust For Life Irving Stone 9781787461390
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. "Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on... -
Kate: Inside the Rainbow John Carder Bush 9780751559903
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.95A MUST-HAVE COLLECTION OF RARE AND UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF KATE BUSH.WITH ESSAYS BY HER BROTHER, JOHN CARDER BUSH, ABOUT KATE'S LIFE AND CAREER.Stunning and unique images from throughout Kate Bush's... -
Widow Basquiat: A Memoir Jennifer Clement 9781782114246
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95MADONNA. ANDY WARHOL. KEITH HARING. FAB 5 FREDDIE. DEBBIE HARRY. JULIAN SCHNABEL. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into... -
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van... -
Toast & Marmalade: Stories From the Kitchen Dresser, A Memoir Emma Bridgewater 9781473604315
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This is the black and white paperback edition of Toast & Marmalade and Other Stories, published in hardback in 2014 by Saltyard Books. If you would like the original colour illustrated version of... -
Boy in a China Shop: Life, Clay and Everything by Keith Brymer Jones 9781529385250
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'During downtime on the pottery throwdown Keith made my hair curl with some of his tales - he's a great raconteur and recounts his story in this book as he does in real life - with joy, charm &... -
Walter Moorcroft: Memories of Life and Living by Walter Moorcroft 9780903685719
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £10.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903685719Author Walter MoorcroftFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic 9780241974520
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and... -
Antoni Gaudí by Michael Eaude 9781789148374
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The celebrated art nouveau architect Antoni Gaudi was a contradictory figure: a deeply religious, politically right-wing man who nevertheless created revolutionary, lyrical buildings. This book... -
From A to Biba by Barbara Hulanicki
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Barbara Hulanicki tells the story of the rise and fall of the tiny, energetic boutique that grew into a vast emporium and epitomised Swinging London. The Biba store was to become an icon of hip '60s... -
Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush Graeme Thomson 9781915841353
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.87The critically acclaimed definitive biography of Kate Bush, revised and updated for 2024, with a new foreword by Sinead Gleeson.Detailing everything from Bush's upbringing to her early exposition of... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968 William Feaver 9781408850954
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £5.07SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND... -
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780199537198
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of... -
My Art, My Life: An Autobiography by Diego Rivera 9780486269382
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486269382Author Diego RiveraFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint < -
The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241239018
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.05Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow... -
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The autobiography of an American icon'I never think that people die. They just go to department stores'Andy Warhol - American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art... -
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream by Sue Prideaux
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Who was the man behind The Scream, the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong... -
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022 Guardian Art Book of the Year 2021 A dazzling, boldly original... -
The Greek House: The Story of a Painter's Love Affair with the Island of Sifnos by Christian Brechneff 9780374535261
Booksplease Price: £15.41When Christian Brechneff first set foot on the Greek island of Sifnos, it was the spring of 1972 and he was a twenty-one-year-old painter searching for artistic inspiration and a quiet place to work... -
Room to Dream by David Lynch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDavid Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films such as Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - opens up... -
Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge 9781419749773
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge-now in paperbackIn this groundbreaking book spanning decades of... -
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEChosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, HeraldWhen Olivia Laing moved to New York... -
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up by Claire Wilcox
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98In 1954, following her death, Frida Kahlo's possessions were locked away in the Casa Azul in Mexico City, her lifelong home. Half a century later, her collection of clothing, jewellery, cosmetics and... -
Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera by Carolyn Burke 9780747581192
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16_______________________ THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH BIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER LEE MILLER _______________________ 'Lee Miller was an astounding woman, brought memorably to life in this... -
Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale Hurston on writing'One has to choose between the... -
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today:... -
You are Always With Me: Letters to Mama by Frida Kahlo 9780349011950
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.78Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of Mexico's greatest painters: her extraordinary personal style, her tragic story, her relationship with Diego Rivera (the more famous painter in their day) alongside... -
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends by Sarah Knights
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.01The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as... -
A Place for All People: Life, Architecture and the Fair Society by Richard Rogers
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.18Richard Rogers, founder of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is a pre-eminent architect of his generation, whose approach to buildings is infused with his enthusiasm for modernism, love of life and... -
The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington 9781526169648
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.94Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations...