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Koptos, Qurneh by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie 9781108066143
Booksplease Price: $53.82Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. This single-volume reissue brings... -
The Pier Falls Mark Haddon 9781784701963
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61The 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... -
A Letter to a Young Poet Virginia Woolf 9781804471203
RRP: $9.75Booksplease Price: $9.01'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... -
A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $43.37Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges.Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird when they arrived on our shores?Drawn... -
Towards a Modern Art World: Studies in British Art I by Brian Allen 9780300063806
Booksplease Price: $69.07When 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... -
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 9780099511571
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.03Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London... -
George Cruikshank's Life, Times and Art: Volume I: 1792-1835 Robert L. Patten 9780718828721
Booksplease Price: $159.80The etchings and wood-engravings of George Cruikshank (1792-1878) recorded, commented on and satirised his times to such an extent that they have frequently been used to represent the age... -
The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England by Richard Wendorf 9780198119791
Booksplease Price: $71.68In this ambitious study, Richard Wendorf establishes the grounds of comparison between two arts that have often been linked in a casual way but whose historical interrelations remain almost... -
Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History of Graphic Narratives by Robert Petersen 9780313363306
Booksplease Price: $96.39This text examines comics, graphic novels, and manga with a broad, international scope that reveals their conceptual origins in antiquity. Graphic narrative art is a fascinating phenomenon that... -
Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture Adam Eaker 9781913107345
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $61.50A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)... -
Learning: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Haselgrove
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.22What is learning? How does it take place? What happens when it goes wrong? The topic of learning has been central to the development of the science of psychology since its inception. Without... -
Virginia Woolf and the Lives, Works, and Afterlives of the Bront�s by Hilary Newman 9781666940220
Booksplease Price: $168.54In her feminist polemic, 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf famously wrote of the (comparatively recent) literary tradition of female writers: 'we think back through our mothers if we are women.'... -
The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf by Anne E. Fernald 9780198885511
Booksplease Price: $100.23With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter... -
Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Analysis of Beauty by Robert W. Jones 9780521593267
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $167.97Beauty is one of the most important and intriguing ideas in eighteenth-century culture. In Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain Robert Jones provides a fresh understanding... -
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf 9780099982906
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY FRANCES SPALDING AND ERICA WAGNERA party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly ignorant of the... -
The Universe: Visions and Perspectives by Naresh Dadhich 9789401057844
Booksplease Price: $176.59It is with great joy that we present a collection of essays written in honour of Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, who completed 60 years of age on July 19, 1998, by his friends and colleagues, including... -
Dogs and Monsters Mark Haddon 9781529929188
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61'A marvel of a collection' Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time'There is nothing more terrifying than the monster that squats behind the door you dare not open...'From the bestselling... -
On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $9.75Booksplease Price: $9.01'Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza, epic poems to typhoid, odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no - with a few exceptions - literature does its best to... -
Five Centuries of British Painting: From Holbein to Hodgkin by Andrew Wilton
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $10.76Britain has played a key part in the history of the last five centuries, and its art reflects this in absorbing and complex ways. The distinguished art historian Andrew Wilton traces the story of... -
A Little Order: Selected Journalism by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come inside' the Catholic Church or expressing his... -
Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Analysis of Beauty by Robert W. Jones 9780521121293
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $79.91Beauty is one of the most important and intriguing ideas in eighteenth-century culture. In Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain Robert Jones provides a fresh understanding... -
Between The Acts by Virginia Woolf 9780099982609
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.03WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINEA village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and directed by the energetic... -
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 9780199532896
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.37'Read, read, read, read, my unlearned reader! read...' Sterne's great comic novel is the fictional autobiography of Tristram Shandy, a hero who fails even to get born in the first two volumes. It... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: $9.75Booksplease Price: $9.01First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a measured... -
Are You an Art Sleuth?: Look, Discover, Learn! by Brooke DiGiovanni Evans 9781631598234
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.34Now in paperback! From Monet to Renoir and from Boston to Paris, kids search famous paintings to complete a checklist of things to find in each.Are You an Art Sleuth? You probably are.Each of the... -
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Booksplease Price: $9.42WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMANThe serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of... -
Travels in the Levant: The Observations of Pierre Belon of Le Mans on Many Singularities and Memorable Things Found in Greece, Turkey, Judaea, Egypt, Arabia and Other Foreign Countries (1553) by Pierre Belon 9781843821960
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $46.47In 1546, Pierre Belon - already a naturalist of some renown - travelled to Constantinople in the entourage of the French Ambassador to Suleiman the Magnificent. En route, he visited Venice, Ragusa,... -
The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England by David Porter 9780521192996
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $175.48Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an increasingly globalised world, were infatuated with exotic Chinese and Chinese-styled goods, art and decorative objects. However, they were also... -
Autism and Childhood Psychosis Frances Tustin 9781855751101
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08This is Frances Tustin's first book and the original statement of her views on autistic states of mind and the genesis of varieties of childhood psychosis. In it, she tackles problems of diagnosis as... -
Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World Kathleen Miller 9780271099828
RRP: $167.68Booksplease Price: $149.35In the sixteenth century, unprecedented migration caused diseases to take hold in new locales, turning illness and the human body into battlegrounds for competing religious beliefs as well as the... -
Errors and Reconciliations: Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding by Anaclara Castro-Santana 9780367666927
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to... -
The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England by David Porter 9781107662377
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $79.91Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an increasingly globalised world, were infatuated with exotic Chinese and Chinese-styled goods, art and decorative objects. However, they were also... -
Johnson and His Age by James Engell 9780674480766
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $29.39Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson's death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation's most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. A section on... -
Many Voices: Class by Nathalie Olah 9781849767750
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.43Look Again: Reimagining the National Collection of British Art for today. An incisive exploration of the relationship between social class and art by an extraordinarily gifted young writer. ... -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9781913724726
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.29First published in 1925, set 'one Wednesday in mid-June', Mrs Dalloway charts the lives of several characters across a day in London. While Clarissa Dalloway goes about preparing for a high-society... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon 9780099450252
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61OVER 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... -
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time by Jenny Uglow 9780571354160
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'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... -
The Human Tradition in the American Revolution by Nancy L. Rhoden 9780842027489
Booksplease Price: $79.33This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies... -
Arboreal Modernism and the Woodcut Book Olivia Badoi 9783032108159
RRP: $214.48Booksplease Price: $213.99This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials as both subject and medium to reimagine human relationships with the natural world. In... -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9780241956793
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01In Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day, impression by impression, minute by minute, as Clarissa Dalloway's and Septimus Smith's worlds look set to collide - this classic novel...