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Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: $21.43$14.43'A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories' THE TIMES'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'An intimate view of a creative personality . . . as richly evocative as any of her novels' LOS ANGELES TIMESIn Myself When Young, based... -
Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis by Gabrielle Selz
RRP: $58.50$46.20The first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his personal and artistic life.Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract... -
Man of Iron by Julian Glover 9781408837481 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$4.68The 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: $21.43$16.34The 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... -
Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist: Revised Edition by Phil Baker
RRP: $44.85$29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689650Author Phil BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn 9780099582199
RRP: $58.50$45.38Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he kept moving in... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
RRP: $48.75$32.23A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet... -
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: $48.75$34.30Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A triumph of biographical art.' Independent'Magnificent.'... -
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream by Sue Prideaux
RRP: $35.08$30.79Who 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 effort to paint his 'soul's diary' - and began a perverse... -
Words Without Music by Philip Glass
RRP: $29.23$19.11The long-awaited memoir by 'the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers' (New York Times)Rapturous in its ability to depict the creative process, Words Without Music allows readers to experience that sublime moment of creative fusion... -
The Factory of Facts by Luc Sante 9780679746508
RRP: $37.05$28.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746508Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 132mm... -
Giorgio de Chirico: Life and Paintings by Fabio Benzi
RRP: $82.88$61.13Giorgio de Chirico was one of the most controversial and consequential artists of the twentieth century a key member of the Paris avant-garde, he was a major influence on other artists, especially the nascent surrealists. His repertoire of motifs empty... -
Keith Haring by Simon Doonan
RRP: $25.33$16.77Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational story... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
RRP: $29.23$18.17LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 ... -
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
RRP: $29.23$24.59*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh, the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half' and #1 New York Times bestselling author, returns with her new collection. Solutions and Other Problems... -
Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry by Akiane Kramarik 9780718075866 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00$15.48Experience 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... -
Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry by Akiane Kramarik 9780718075866
$55.42Experience 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... -
Andy Warhol by Robert Shore
RRP: $25.33$16.77King of Pop Art Andy Warhol is one of the greatest artists of all time. Rarely venturing into public without his camera and tape recorder, Warhol was a great observer and documentarist of the American social scene.Somewhere within the iconic images,... -
Britten's Children by John Bridcut
RRP: $25.33$16.69Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a... -
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
RRP: $19.48$13.07A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their... -
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time by Jenny Uglow 9780571354160
RRP: $25.33$16.69'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,... -
Chalk by Joshua Rivkin
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198545Author Joshua RivkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Collected Letters of Jane Morris by Jan Marsh 9781837651382
RRP: $72.13$60.76Presents 570 newly discovered letters from Jane Morris to diverse correspondents, which radically revise the popular view of a silent, discontented invalid and instead portray her as an independent thinker following her own causes. The vast majority of... -
Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak by Maurice Sendak
RRP: $87.75$60.76The most comprehensive survey of the work of Maurice Sendak, the most celebrated picture book artist of all time-with previously unpublished archival materials Published in conjunction with the eponymous Sendak retrospective touring museums in the... -
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer 9781838855772
RRP: $21.43$14.27A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKIn this endlessly stimulating investigation into 'things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of... -
Here I Am: The story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer by Alan Huffman
RRP: $29.23$21.35Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) was one of the world's most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Civil War. Someone far less interested in professional... -
Kate: Inside the Rainbow by John Carder Bush
RRP: $97.50$67.76A 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 career including:Outtakes from classic album shoots and... -
Album Picabia by Beverley Calte
RRP: $58.50$50.41Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951,... -
Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding
RRP: $29.23$23.69The definitive and authorised biography of the artist Vanessa Bell. Even through the lens of the twenty-first century, the story of Vanessa Bell's life is unorthodox. A powerful magnetic figure, Bell lived at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group and was... -
The Sagrada Familia: Gaudi's Heaven on Earth by Gijs van Hensbergen
RRP: $25.33$17.73'Exquisite ... A wonderment of an essay about a wonderment of a building' Paul Preston Its scaffolding-cloaked spires reach up to the heavens, dominating the Barcelona skyline and drawing in millions of visitors every year. What seduces our attention... -
Dark Room by Garry Fabian Miller
RRP: $78.00$59.81Garry Fabian Miller's Dark Room is a photography book unlike any other. At its heart is the artist's description of a life lived making pictures between the dark and the light, a deeply personal account woven against the history of photography from the... -
Wilderness Dreaming: Memoir of an African Wildlife Photographer by Greg Du Toit
RRP: $37.05$25.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776323258Author Greg Du ToitFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint HPH PublishingPublisher HPH Publishing -
Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry by Paul Goldberger
RRP: $37.03$27.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307946393Author Paul GoldbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art And Life Of Jozef Czapski by Eric Karpeles
RRP: $31.18$23.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372846Author Eric KarpelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood by Tirzah Garwood 9781910263099
RRP: $31.20$31.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263099Author Tirzah GarwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance by Helen Langdon 9781789145731
RRP: $35.00$25.97Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted landscape painter, he longed to be seen as the pre-eminent philosopher-painter of his age. This new account... -
Roam: A Search for Happiness by Juno Roche 9780349702339
RRP: $21.43$14.43'Delicate and devastating. Up there with the best of them.' HANNAH LOWE, WINNER OF THE COSTA PRIZE 'Roche is a charming, unflinchingly honest guide on a journey that's as funny as it is heart-breaking.' JUNO DAWSON How does an untrained eye recognise the... -
Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews by Marcel Duchamp 9781936440399
RRP: $28.28$19.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936440399Author Marcel DuchampFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Badlands UnlimitedPublisher Badlands Unlimited -
Hans Holbein: The Artist in a Changing World by Jeanne Nuechterlein
RRP: $35.00$25.97Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein molded his approach to art-making during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and culture: the emergence of humanism, the impact of the Reformation on religious life and the effects of new... -
Sleuth: The Amazing Quest for Lost Art Treasures by Philip Mould
RRP: $29.23$18.92CSI meets Who Do You Think You Are? meets Time Team meets The Antiques Roadshow. Two-dimensional works of art become three-dimensional thrillers. Philip Mould is an international art dealer who has lived the high stakes game of art sleuthing...