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Toast & Marmalade: Stories From the Kitchen Dresser, A Memoir Emma Bridgewater 9781473604315
RRP: €13.08€9.06This 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 Toast & Marmalade it is available in hardback. 'Emma... -
A House in Bali Colin McPhee 9780804853712
RRP: €16.65€11.23"It remains one of the most penetrating and illuminating books on the island's elusive, alluring culture." - National GeographicA House in Bali tells the fascinating story of renowned writer and composer Colin McPhee's obsession with Balinese gamelan... -
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
RRP: €11.89€8.14An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the... -
Don McCullin: The New Definitive Edition by Don McCullin 9781910702017
RRP: €59.50€45.70The updated retrospective published for McCullin's 80th birthday. Contains 40 new unpublished photographs and a new introduction - the definitive edition.McCullin's reputation has long been established as one of the greatest photographers of conflict in... -
Strangeland: The memoirs of one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation by Tracey Emin
RRP: €15.46€10.51The 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 like this.'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost... -
Sir Christopher Wren by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: €11.89€9.39Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture - but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to architecture quite late in life. Most famous as the mastermind behind the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral... -
Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando
RRP: €21.42€18.80Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo,... -
Slum Boy: A Portrait by Juano Diaz 9781914240829
RRP: €23.80€16.12One of the most moving accounts of non fiction ever written according to the Guardian 'This is a heart-breaking story, beautifully told. I hope it finds a million readers' - Andrew O'Hagan'What a brave and powerful story. If you like Shuggie Bain and... -
Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King 9781408831182
RRP: €17.84€13.22For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a... -
Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
RRP: €13.08€9.04The scandalous love triangle at the heart of the Victorian art world. Effie Gray, a Scottish beauty, was the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in a loveless and unconsummated union... -
POPism by Andy Warhol
RRP: €13.08€6.72'POPism reads like a novel... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes' The New YorkerA cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground... -
Correspondence – Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris by Georges Bataille 9781803091914
RRP: €23.79€20.19Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents. In the... -
The Infernal World Of Branwell Bronte Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080755
RRP: €13.08€9.06FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ' . . . she is unravelling a long distorted mystery' KIRKUS... -
Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles: The Lives and Loves of Viginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group by Amy Licence
RRP: €15.46€10.36Sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf have long been celebrated for their central roles in the development of modernism in art and literature. Vanessa's experimental work places her at the vanguard of early twentieth-century art, as does her role in... -
Widow Basquiat: A Memoir Jennifer Clement 9781782114246
RRP: €13.08€8.97MADONNA. 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 company of many of New York's established and... -
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul 9781529111552
RRP: €15.46€11.11'Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what' Olivia LaingI'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.In Self-Portrait, Celia Paul reveals a life truly lived through art. She... -
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude
RRP: €13.08€9.06'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review'Mark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just... -
The 5 Lives of Hilma af Klint by Hilma af Klint
RRP: €29.75€19.49A moving biography, told in vivid illustrations, this graphic novel features key moments in the life of Swedish artist and pioneer of abstract painting Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). Long-underrecognized, af Klint's sensational rediscovery continues to take... -
Brunel: The Man Who Built the World Dan Cruickshank 9780753821251
RRP: €11.89€8.33A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities.In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the... -
Mrs Delany: A Life by Clarissa Campbell Orr
RRP: €41.65€35.66The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany - the artist and court insider whose flower collages, in particular, continue to inspire widespread admiration Mrs Delany is best remembered for her captivating paper collages of flowers, but... -
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The art of Edvard Munch Karl Ove Knausgaard 9781787300545
RRP: €20.22€14.61In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch's painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist,... -
Man of Iron by Julian Glover 9781408837481 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€3.15The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today 'A biography of great verve ... brings back to vivid life a man who should... -
Man of Iron by Julian Glover
RRP: €13.08€9.51The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today 'A biography of great verve ... brings back to vivid life a man who should... -
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780199537198
RRP: €13.08€8.58Packed 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 Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who... -
Pans Daughter: The Magical World of Rosaleen Norton by Nevill Drury 9781906958411
RRP: €27.36€17.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958411Author Nevill DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 630g -
Shirley: The Life of a Botanical Adventurer by Shirley Sherwood 9781911397892
RRP: €29.75€21.38Shirley, The Life of a Botanical Adventurer is the remarkable story of Dr Shirley Sherwood, scientist, author, travel writer, gardener as well as mother and grandmother. Following the tragic death of her brilliant scientist husband, Michael Cross, in a... -
Horace Jones: Architect of Tower Bridge by David Lascelles 9781800819504
RRP: €22.60€16.45Sir Horace Jones (1819-1887) was the architect of Tower Bridge, designed in collaboration with John Wolfe Barry. But while some of his surviving buildings are world famous, Jones himself is relatively unknown. For over twenty years he was architect and... -
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time by Jenny Uglow 9780571354160
RRP: €15.46€10.47'A joy to read.' Sunday Times'Outstanding.' Daily Telegraph'Excellent.' The Spectator'Superb.' Literary Review'Scintillating . . . A gripping, mysterious love story which also sheds light on British culture between the wars.' Financial TimesIn 1922,... -
The Art and Flair of Mary Blair: An Appreciation by John Canemaker
RRP: €36.90€35.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423127444Author John CanemakerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney EditionsWeight(grams) 782gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 263mm... -
Keith Haring Journals by Keith Haring
RRP: €20.22€14.84Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his... -
A-Z Great Modern Artists Andy Tuohy 9781844037803
RRP: €22.60€15.87A most striking, design-led reference book, A to Z Great Modern Artists features artist and graphic designer Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 key modern artists, rendered in each artist's own characteristic style - including Aleksandr Rodchenko in his... -
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
RRP: €35.70€27.24* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe,... -
Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry by Akiane Kramarik 9780718075866
RRP: €23.80€17.74Experience the wonder of child prodigy Akaine Kramarik's divinely inspired artwork firsthand.Akiane's nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams of angels, heaven, and Jesus. Her spiritual insight... -
Look Again: The Autobiography by David Bailey
RRP: €23.80€18.20Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon.'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' - Daily Mail'Brilliant' - TelegraphDavid Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960... -
Design Monograph: Eames by Naomi Stungo 9781838611156
RRP: €17.84€10.44A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an... -
A Middle-earth Traveller: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor by John Howe
RRP: €23.80€18.61Let acclaimed Tolkien artist John Howe take you on an unforgettable journey across Middle-earth, from Bag End to Mordor, in this richly illustrated sketchbook fully of previously unseen artwork, anecdotes and meditations on Middle-earth. ... -
Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the artist's rise to fame by Martin Bailey
RRP: €29.75€20.98A captivating and definitive account of the final days of Van Gogh's life and the incredible story of what followed. Divided into three parts, the book first examines the eventful days from the artists' departure from the asylum in Saint-Remy and arrival... -
Carrington: A Life by Professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina 9780393313284
RRP: €26.78€23.66Here is an absorbing biography of the English artist Dora Carrington, who called herself simply "Carrington". She was a woman who made a vivid impression on those she met-she was portrayed (or caricatured), for example, in novels by Wyndham Lewis, D. H... -
Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods by Hilma af Klint
RRP: €47.60€41.47At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian... -
Terry Abraham: Life on the Mountains by Terry Abraham
RRP: €23.68€20.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999894061Author Terry AbrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Jake Island LtdPublisher Jake Island Ltd