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London: Vintage Minis Charles Dickens 9781784876081
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.26'Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together'Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens? Dickens knew the... -
Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke/into the Smother/the Sword and the Blossom by Ray Parkin 9780522850673
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $41.99Reissue of a classic wartime trilogy originally published in the 1960s. The author's account of his service on HMAS Perth, his account of life as a POW in Burma and cal mining in Nagasaki before the... -
Culture in Eighteenth Century England: A Subject for Taste by Jeremy Black 9781852855345
Booksplease Price: $43.74In the eighteenth century, England became the richest and most powerful country in the world. This is a rounded portrait of English culture in the eighteenth century. Not only a matter of leading... -
Letters of Charles Dickens: 1833-1870 by Charles Dickens 9781108040044
Booksplease Price: $62.02This selection from the letters of Charles Dickens (1812-70) was edited (as it says on the title page) 'by his sister-in-law and his eldest daughter'. The former was Georgina Hogarth (1827-1917), who... -
The History and Design of the Foundling Hospital: With a Memoir of the Founder by John Brownlow 9781108069434
Booksplease Price: $29.26Captain Coram's Foundling Hospital was opened in London in 1741 for 'the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children'. Hogarth was a governor of the hospital - he donated several... -
The Global Dynamics of Regenerative Medicine: A Social Science Critique by A. Webster 9781137026545
Booksplease Price: $116.82Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself. This... -
The Red House by Mark Haddon
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a novel about families and secretsTwo families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon 9780099470434
Booksplease Price: $10.11OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLDThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and... -
Monday or Tuesday Virginia Woolf 9781847493477
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight... -
Empty treasure chests dumped from departed ships: Re-Mapping (Post)Colonialism in Art and Literature in English by Liliana Sikorska 9783631635551
RRP: $33.80Booksplease Price: $31.70Empty treasure chests dumped from departed ships is a quotation taken from David Dabydeen's poem The Old Map in which the hope of a new world is green but green symbolizes also the gangrene of the... -
English Accents: Interactions with British Art c. 1776-1855 by Christiana Payne
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.30In the century following the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, British art had an international reputation: prints spread knowledge of the work of British artists around the globe, and it was... -
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 9780099529736
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96Read the ultimate Christmas story of hope and redemption behind the recent BBC TV adaptationEbenezer Scrooge despises Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and... -
The International Theory of Leonard Woolf: A Study in Twentieth-Century Idealism by P. Wilson 9781349387830
Booksplease Price: $60.29Colonial civil servant, Fabian socialist, and eminence grise of the Bloombury Circle, Leonard Woolf was one of the most prolific writers on international relations of the early to mid-Twentieth... -
Dickens at Christmas by Charles Dickens
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.54Discover this selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings in one beautiful gift edition.The ultimate Christmas present.It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and... -
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 9780099511465
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.05Rediscover the novel behind the hit new film. ... -
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.15With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. Translated by C.J. Hogarth. Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been... -
From Still Life to the Screen: Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London Joseph Monteyne 9780300196351
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.69From Still Life to the Screen explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In his lively and insightful text, Joseph... -
English Accents: Interactions with British Art c. 1776-1855 by Christiana Payne 9780815388814
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $108.08In the century following the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, British art had an international reputation: prints spread knowledge of the work of British artists around the globe, and it was... -
Using Non-Textual Sources: A Historian's Guide by Catherine Armstrong 9781472505835
Booksplease Price: $145.91Using Non-Textual Sources provides history students with the theoretical background and skills to interpret non-textual sources. It introduces the full range of non-textual sources used by historians... -
The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence of the Law by Jeremy Tambling 9781350354555
Booksplease Price: $117.89In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth... -
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96'The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the possibility of a lucrative career in authorship is always compelling'... -
Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The 'Englishness' of English Art Theory since the Eighteenth Century by Mark A. Cheetham 9781138254534
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $64.36Arguing in favour of renewed critical attention to the 'nation' as a category in art history, this study examines the intertwining of art theory, national identity and art production in Britain from... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time Mark Haddon 9781782953463
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other... -
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 9780099511854
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally... -
Flash Gordon Sundays: Dan Barry: Volume 1: The Death Planet by Dan Barry
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $41.43Following the death of Mac Raboy in 1968, Dan Barry took over production of the Sunday Flash Gordon strip. This collection, the first ever, features the first three years of a run that would last for... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon 9781784707637
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Fifteen year old Christopher is about to embark on an investigation...Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them.It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time by Mark Haddon 9781849921596
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81Fifteen-year-old Christopher has a photographic memory. He understands maths. He understands science. What he can't understand are other human beings.When he finds his neighbour's dog, Wellington,... -
Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 2: International Influence and Politics by Lisa Shahriari 9780230517677
Booksplease Price: $60.29This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars from around the world, focusing on Virginia Woolf's and Bloomsbury's politics. Themes include war, freedom of the press,... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9781847497888
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call... -
Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present by Paul Crosthwaite 9780719096259
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.59What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible? Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and... -
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 2: 1920-1924 by Virginia Woolf 9781783788699
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.58With an introduction by Adam Phillips Monday 17 July 1922. Back from Garsington, & too unsettled to write - I meant to say read; but then this does not count as writing. It is to me like... -
Drinking with Dickens by Cedric Dickens 9780941533348
Booksplease Price: $17.11Drinking with Dickens is a light-hearted sketch by Cedric Dickens, the great-grandson of Charles Dickens. There are vivid and memorable drinking scenes in Dickens' books, and Drinking with Dickens... -
Five Hundred Years of British Art by Kirsteen McSwein 9781849769075
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42Tate Britain is the home of British art from 1500 to the present day. This beautiful guide to the highlights of the collection provides an essential introduction to the extraordinary development of... -
The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia: Being Babylonian and Assyrian Incantations against the Demons, Ghouls, Vampires, Hobgoblins, Ghosts, and Kindred Evil Spirits, Which Attack Mankind by R. Campbell Thompson 9781108084611
Booksplease Price: $31.79Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876-1941), grandson of the mathematician Augustus De Morgan, studied oriental languages at Cambridge, and in 1899 began his career in the British Museum's department of... -
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $12.20Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeAs the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning social historian Jenny Uglow reveals the colourful and turbulent... -
London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital by Gillian Pugh
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.57In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his... -
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London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital by Gillian Pugh 9780752442440 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $4.52In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his... -
The Pier Falls Mark Haddon 9781784701963
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66The first collection of stories from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise.'Terrifically compelling' GuardianA seaside pier collapses. An expedition to Mars... -
Towards a Modern Art World: Studies in British Art I by Brian Allen 9780300063806
Booksplease Price: $45.69When the story of modern art is told, British artists are mentioned infrequently or not at all. In this book, distinguished art historians attempt to explain the marginal position of British modern... -
A Letter to a Young Poet Virginia Woolf 9781804471203
RRP: $6.45Booksplease Price: $5.96'So long as you and you and you, venerable and ancient representatives of Sappho, Shakespeare and Shelley, are aged precisely twenty-three and propose... to spend the next fifty years of your lives...