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The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer
RRP: €23.80€17.27A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily TelegraphMuch attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in?In this... -
Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist: Revised Edition Phil Baker 9781913689650
RRP: €27.37€18.33Apologies 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 -
Wilderness Dreaming: Memoir of an African Wildlife Photographer by Greg Du Toit
RRP: €22.61€15.87Apologies 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 -
Here I Am: The story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer by Alan Huffman
RRP: €17.84€13.22Tim 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... -
Chanel: Her life, her world, and the woman behind the legend she herself created Edmonde Charles-Roux 9781906694241
RRP: €20.22€13.93***Now the subject of a major sell-out exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum***She revolutionized how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was an icon. But how... -
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €23.80€10.56'Whatever Uglow writes about she makes absolutely fascinating.' DIANA ATHILLThe story of Sybil Andews and Cyril Power, two artists who changed each other in an age of experiment and turmoil.'In all her books, she makes us feel the life behind the facts.'... -
Desperate Romantics by Franny Moyle 9781848540507 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian... -
Desperate Romantics by Franny Moyle
RRP: €15.46€10.51Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian... -
The Artist's Journey: The travels that inspired the artistic greats: Volume 2 by Travis Elborough 9780711268692
RRP: €23.80€15.24Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous painters in this fascinating work from the Journeys of Note series. Some truly remarkable works of art have been inspired by artists spending time away from their typical surroundings. From epic... -
Steady Lens: The True Story of Pioneer Photographer Mary Spencer by Sherril Foster 9781927575222
RRP: €17.84€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575222Author Sherril FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 370g -
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl 9780140296815 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60€2.73Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the real story behind his elusive masterpieces and... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl
RRP: €22.60€16.45Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the real story behind his elusive masterpieces and... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated by Gertrude Stein 9781594204609
RRP: €23.49€21.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594204609Author Gertrude SteinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 970gDimensions(mm) 243mm *... -
David Hockney by James Cahill
RRP: €15.46€9.94The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artistsDavid Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
RRP: €17.84€11.38LONGLISTED 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 ... -
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour by Shelley Klein
RRP: €11.89€8.71'A charming account of a daughter, a house and a fastidious dad' Sunday TimesShelley Klein grew up in the Scottish Borders, in a house designed on a modernist open-plan grid. With colourful glass panels set against a forest of trees, it was like living... -
Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews by Marcel Duchamp 9781936440399
RRP: €17.26€11.96Apologies 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 -
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem by Mark Cooper 9780008424404
RRP: €13.08€8.88'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later...' Nick Cave 'Later... is a voyage of discovery for us as well as the viewers' Dave Grohl Dave Grohl and Alicia Keys loved it, Bjoerk... -
The Last Days of John Lennon: 'I totally recommend it' LEE CHILD James Patterson 9781787465442
RRP: €9.51€7.12'Incredibly tense and thriller-like . . . I totally recommend it' LEE CHILDThe greatest true-crime story in music history.A GLOBAL SUPERSTARIn the summer of 1980, ten years after the break-up of the Beatles, John Lennon signed with a new label, ready to... -
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney Michael Bird 9780711288867
RRP: €22.60€15.40A treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Artists' Letters is a collection of intriguing, entertaining, moving, significant, surprising, witty... -
Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World by Richard Dorment 9781529081497
RRP: €23.80€17.27Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was... -
Aleister Crowley in India: The Secret Influence of Eastern Mysticism on Magic and the Occult by Tobias Churton 9781620557969
RRP: €30.94€20.34Follow Aleister Crowley through his mystical travels in India, which profoundly influenced his magical system as well as the larger occult world * Shares excerpts from Crowley's unpublished diaries and details his travels in India, Burma, and Sri Lanka... -
Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: €15.46€10.36Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman! "J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time." -- Max Brooks (World War Z) For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most... -
Gainsborough: A Portrait James Hamilton 9781474601061
RRP: €15.46€10.51** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz
RRP: €23.80€17.01The internationally bestselling author on how art can help us appreciate life in all its strange and exhilarating beautyArtists have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on autopilot, rushing from place to place, our... -
Hockney: A Graphic Life by Simon Elliott 9780711288423
RRP: €20.22€14.71Follow the journey of David Hockney's exceptional life in a unique graphic novel format.From his childhood in Bradford and early years making it as an artist, to his sun-drenched Los Angeles period, his triumphal return to the UK and his recent iPad... -
Turner - A Life by James Hamilton 9780340628119
RRP: €17.84€11.96The definitive biography of J.M.W. Turner.'A pleasure to read'.' A.S. BYATT'With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character.' MIKE LEIGHIn 1799, aged just 24, Turner became... -
Brilliant Destiny: The Age of Augustus John by David Boyd Haycock 9781848226579
RRP: €35.69€26.62Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best British draughtsman since the Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the British 'Post-Impressionists'. Such was his importance that Virginia Woolf declared in 1921 that by 1908 'The age of Augustus... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
RRP: €29.75€19.67A 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... -
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones 9781781310403 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€3.15For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for... -
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones 9781781310403
RRP: €11.89€8.52For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for... -
On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully by Kelly Grovier
RRP: €29.75€19.97A unique insight into the life and art of Sean Scully, an internationally celebrated artist and creative practitioner at the height of his powers. Sean Scully's paintings of brushy stripes and blocks of sumptuous colour are critically acclaimed and... -
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
RRP: €17.79€13.2016th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder redefined how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye to mankind's labours and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life. Portraying landscapes, peasant life and biblical... -
Janet Leach: Potter by Joanna Wason 9781916846005
RRP: €29.75€20.91Janet Darnell's childhood in Texas during the Roaring Twenties and the Depression imbued her with resilience and practical skills, largely acquired on her grandparents' farm. Aged 19 she took a bus to New York City where she found work as a sculptor's... -
Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art Ann Temkin 9781633450790
RRP: €47.60€31.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450790Author Ann TemkinFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern Art -
Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero by F. Valentine Hooven
RRP: €41.65€29.32Tom of Finland (born Tuoko Laaksonen, 1920-1991), was an iconic and ground-breaking artist who rose to cult status in the international queer community and beyond for his work celebrating the male figure and masculinity during a time when being... -
Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor by Simon Fenwick
RRP: €29.75€21.44Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now Simon Fenwick, the first archivist to see the Leigh Fermor papers, reveals a woman hitherto only fleetingly glimpsed. A... -
The Secret Life: Volume One (1904-1924) by Salvador Dali 9781840686852
RRP: €16.60€11.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686852Author Salvador DaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books -
Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building by Terry Wolverton 9780872864030
RRP: €15.46€14.78In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian... -
Travels with my Sketchbook by Chris Riddell
RRP: €20.22€15.32Full of sketches, doodles and journal entries, Travels with My Sketchbook gives a fascinating glimpse of the incredible journey of Chris Riddell's time as Children's Laureate.After two years travelling the length and breadth of the country, visiting...