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George Orwell's Commander in Spain: The Enigma of Georges Kopp by Marc Wildemeersch 9780857281982
Booksplease Price: $20.49With a focus on the relationship between Orwell and Kopp during the Spanish Civil War, 'George Orwell's Commander in Spain: The Enigma of Georges Kopp' is the first biography of a fascinating figure:... -
If I had a polar bear Gabby Dawnay 9780500653609
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.01Now available as a board book: a boldly illustrated bedtime story that imagines what it would be like to have a strong and snuggly polar bear for a pet. What would life be like with a polar bear as... -
Great Family Wine Estates of France: Style * Tradition * Home by Solvi dos Santos
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $41.73This beautifully illustrated book offers unrivalled access to the magnificent private homes in France's age-old wine industry. Photographs from thirty-one wine estates range from sumptuous Champagne... -
Elephants by Steve Bloom
Booksplease Price: $21.00Steve Bloom is an internationally bestselling wildlife photographer and the author of Thames & Hudson's bestselling publication, Elephant!. Here, eighty of his stunning photographs and an... -
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today by Peter Furtado
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.39Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates aspirations with which we identify; or because... -
Type Directory by Peter Dawson
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $52.36The most comprehensive, practical, and beautiful directory of type, organized by type category - Serif, Sans Serif, Display, and Script - and covering all styles throughout history. Type Directory... -
A Writer's Britain by Margaret Drabble
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $18.02The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman, covering all varieties of the British rural and... -
Cézanne Remembered: A Memoir with Conversations by Joachim Gasquet 9780500299050
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06A vivid portrait of Paul Cézanne drawn from the author's personal conversations with the artist, Joachim Gasquet's classic offers a rare window into the mind of this modernist master. Joachim... -
Ernst Haas by 9780500411018
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06This addition to the affordable Photofile series brings together the best work of Ernst Haas, one of the world's greatest photographers. One of the early pioneers of colour photography, Haas began... -
Betel Cutters: from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection by Henry Brownrigg
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $47.48The stimulant known as betel, prepared from evergreen leaves and parings of the betel-nut, is enormously popular throughout much of Asia and the Pacific. It plays a major role in entertaining, in... -
Project UrbEx: Adventures in ghost towns, wastelands and other forgotten worlds by Ikumi Nakamura 9780500026946
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $54.80A thrilling photographic adventure around an offbeat selection of the world’s abandoned buildings, captured by one of the videogame industry’s most beloved creatives. Urban exploration is a way of... -
Skyscraper: Designs of the Recent Past and for the Near Future by Eric Howeler 9780500284469
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.84No other building type captures the imagination like the skyscraper. Here, Eric Hoeweler presents convincing evidence that the future of tall buildings is as secure today as it was over one hundred... -
Realism in 20th Century Painting by Brendan Prendeville 9780500203361
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $21.41Realist painting has had a persistent and powerful presence in 20th-century art. This book - the first ever comprehensive and critical survey of the subject - demonstrates realism's vibrant, diverse... -
Mouse by the Sea Alice Melvin 9780500660379
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22Alice Melvin's award-winning Mouse is back for another mindful adventure in nature. Join Mouse on his summer holiday by the seaside. Each day brings new excitement, from sandcastles on the beach to... -
Amazing Animal Babies by Aina Bestard
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $18.02Have you ever wondered how animals have babies? Maybe you've seen your cat or dog give birth - but what about a turtle or a seahorse? There are lots of different kinds of animals living on planet... -
How to Read a Modern Painting: Understanding and Enjoying the Modern Masters by Jon Thompson
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $29.70Modern art, filled with complex themes and subtle characteristics, is a wonder to view, but can be intimidating and baffling to the casual observer. In this accessible, practical guide, Jon Thompson... -
Monet: The Ultimate Impressionist by Sylvie Patin
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43In 1874 Claude Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise caused uproar among the critics and a revolution in painting. His inventiveness was inexhaustible: with paintings of haystacks, poplars and,... -
The Big Sticker Book of Beasts by Yuval Zommer
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43This book is jam-packed with more stickers than there are warts on a warthog. You'll discover beasts that growl, prowl, claw and roar and have all sorts of fun sticking them throughout the book. ... -
The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750 by Peter Brown 9780500297483
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.95A remarkable study in social and cultural change that explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750 AD, came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. The first century AD... -
Art of the Byzantine Era by David Talbot Rice 9780500200049
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $44.97For the people of Byzantium, their architectural works, frescoes, mosaics, ivories, chalices, bejewelled gospel covers and qlany other opulent works of art were the material proof of their greatness... -
The True History of Tea Victor H. Mair 9780500299067
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07The most authoritative and entertaining history of tea ever published, written with verve to engage a wide readership. For the first time in a popular history of tea, the ancient Chinese, Japanese,... -
What's Hidden In The Body? by Aina Bestard
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $18.02At first glance, all you can see on the page are simple outlines of body parts or seemingly abstract shapes. But look closely through the three coloured glasses and the amazing intricacy of the human... -
Eatopedia Aina Bestard 9780500653869
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.74How do animals digest the food they eat? What is their favourite food? Discover how the different digestive systems of 70 different animals work… including humans! Did you know that horses can’t... -
Daido Moriyama by Daido Moriyama
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.48Daido Moriyama is one of two new books this season in Thames & Hudson's acclaimed 'Photofile' series. Each book brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive... -
The Art Directors' Handbook of Professional Magazine Design: Classic Techniques and Inspirational Approaches by Horst Moser
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $52.36What makes a magazine into a design classic? How can timeless ideas be incorporated into an ever-changing contemporary context? While many books on editorial design simply illustrate great work, this... -
Pattern Design by Elizabeth Wilhide 9780500021484
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $70.02Throughout history, patterns have come in countless permutations of motif, colour-way and scale. Yet what all have in common is the regularity of repetition, that insistent rhythm that animates a... -
Le Corbusier by Kenneth Frampton 9780500203415
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $39.94Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had a gigantic impact on... -
The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments by Kelly Grovier
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $40.56A unique approach to the history of art told through the story of colour and pigments. Did you know that the ultramarine that shimmers at the centre of Vermeer's Milkmaid connects that masterpiece... -
Sienese Painting by Timothy Hyman
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14An essential visual overview for students and readers with an interest in Sienese art, history and Renaissance culture. For two centuries, the city-republic of Siena was home to a brilliant... -
The Book of Dirt: A smelly history of dirt, disease and human hygiene by Piotr Socha
Booksplease Price: $49.02A deep dive into the history and science of dirt. Millions of people on Earth start their day the same way: we get out of bed, go to the loo and wash ourselves. But this hasn't always been the... -
Vincent's Gardens: Paintings and Drawings by Van Gogh by Ralph Skea
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48This glorious gift book presents Van Gogh's lifelong love affair with the garden. Illustrated with an extraordinary range of works, from iconic oils such as Irises to exquisite etchings and intimate... -
Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $20.03This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our... -
The Drawings of Rembrandt by Seymour Silve
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $42.41This sweeping overview of Rembrandt's extraordinary achievement as a draughtsman fills a gap in the otherwise enormous literature on the artist. Beautifully illustrated, mostly in colour, the more... -
Robert Capa: In the Making by Michel Lefebvre 9780500028971
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $54.41Iconic and rarely seen images retrace the story of Robert Capa's extraordinary life and work. Photographer and war reporter Robert Capa (1913-54) is a legend of photojournalism, and his work, widely... -
A Field Guide to Autumn: Play and learn in nature Gabby Dawnay 9780500653524
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64The latest instalment in this charming series inspired by the Forest School movement, teaching young children how to engage with nature from season to season. Inspired by the Forest School movement,... -
Garden Jungle by Helene Druvert
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $24.08When Tom's feeling bored, he runs off to play. A magical butterfly shows him the way To a world of adventures not far from his door. The garden's a jungle - so much to explore!A beautiful picture... -
Modern Sculpture: A Concise History by Herbert Read 9780500200148 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $5.19Drawing on the knowledge of a lifetime of study, and the understanding of one who himself participated in the creative adventure of modern art, the late Sir Herbert Read traces the development of... -
The Body In The Thames: 6 by Susanna Gregory 9780751541830 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $4.52London swelters in a heatwave in the summer of 1664, and in the corridors of power the temperature is equally high as an outbreak of war with the Dutch threatens to become a reality... -
Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs by Michael D Coe
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.53This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with stunning new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years. Recent findings have been added to expand our... -
Photography: A Concise History by Ian Jeffrey 9780500201879 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $4.93Surveys of photography usually provide little more than a history of the technical developments of the medium. Here is a concise critical history which explains by what criteria we can judge one...