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The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age by Vic Gatrell
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $23.21The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic GatrellSHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN... -
The Tangle by Justin Robertson 9781474622837
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'A writer of fierce and vivid imagination. The Tangle, like Holdstock's classic Mythago Wood and Catlin's The Voorh, taps the deep resonances of the wild wood in the English soul, revering even the... -
Children, Technology and Healthy Development: How to help kids be safe and thrive online by Catherine Knibbs
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.08How can adults keep children safe and healthy online now and in the future? How can we thrive alongside technology? This highly accessible book unpacks the latest psychological research, attachment... -
Victorian Psycho Virginia Feito 9780008739638
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.34'Jane Eyre meets American Psycho. Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged' SUNDAY TIMES 'Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD 'Weird and... -
Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings by Steven Parissien 9781801108751
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.99An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. Building Britannia is a... -
How to Launch a Magazine in this Digital Age by John Jenkins 9781441177995
Booksplease Price: $44.84Lively and engaging, How to Launch a Magazine in this Digital Age adopts a practical guide for students and inexperienced editors, detailing the process of setting up and launching a new publication... -
Moments Of Being Virginia Woolf 9780712646185
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's comprehensive biography and numerous recent studies of her, the... -
Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self by Misty G. Anderson 9781421404806
Booksplease Price: $80.15In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire. Many popular eighteenth-century works ridiculed Methodists, yet often the very same plays, novels, and prints... -
Dr Johnson's London Liza Picard 9781842127292
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' ObserverWhen Dr Johnson published his... -
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain by Madeleine Pelling 9781800811997
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.19'Fascinating ... not only a history of graffiti, but also a history of the 18th century through lost voices of the people who lived through it.' The Times What if walls could talk? For historian... -
The Fatal Tree Jake Arnott 9781473637764
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'A work of dazzling imagination and linguistic inventiveness' ObserverNewgate Gaol, 1726. An anonymous writer sets down the words of Edgworth Bess as she confides the adventures and misfortunes that... -
The Yips by Nicola Barker 9780007476664
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.11The hilarious Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of 'Darkmans' and 'The Burley Cross Postbox Theft'. 2006 is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Tiger Woods'... -
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain Madeleine Pelling 9781800812000
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'Fascinating ... not only a history of graffiti, but also a history of the 18th century through lost voices of the people who lived through it.' The Times What if walls could talk? For historian... -
Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career by Patricia Fara
RRP: $41.91Booksplease Price: $31.46The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is... -
The Oxford Companion to Black British History by David Dabydeen
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $41.93The Oxford Companion to Black British History is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the long and fascinating history of black people in the British Isles, from African auxiliaries... -
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco 9781910702581
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $22.39In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings his comics mastery to a story of indigenous North America, resource extraction,... -
Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820 by Thomas Keymer 9780198744498
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $40.43On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, Thomas Macaulay wrote in his History of England, 'English literature was emancipated, and emancipated for ever, from the control of the government'. It's... -
A Little History of Art Charlotte Mullins 9780300278354
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art's central role in culture today "This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy... -
Of The Flesh Susan Barker 9780008697358
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.62Fear never dies... These stories from eighteen masters of the craft will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror. An... -
Of the Flesh: 18 Stories of Modern Horror Susan Barker 9780008697396
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.34'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies... ... -
Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward: Historical and Global Perspectives by Reva Wolf
Booksplease Price: $43.09Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 With the dramatic rise of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, art played a fundamental role in its practice, rhetoric, and global dissemination, while... -
Managing Change in Organizations: Develop Your Employees for Business Transformation Tony Nicholls 9781398607521
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $37.95You don't have to be a change manager to be managing change. Written for managers, HR and OD professionals, this practical guide tells you everything you need to know to support effective business... -
Plays 1682-1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682-1696 by Aphra Behn
Booksplease Price: $145.43Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two decades, encompassing remarkable generic... -
Managing Change in Organizations: Develop Your Employees for Business Transformation Tony Nicholls 9781398607545
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $102.54You don't have to be a change manager to be managing change. Written for managers, HR and OD professionals, this practical guide tells you everything you need to know to support effective business... -
![The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque by David Bindman](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/824305/824016/9780674052611__88488.1687683151.jpg?c=1 "The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque by David Bindman")
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque by David Bindman
RRP: $108.30Booksplease Price: $90.24In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in... -
British Art and the First World War, 1914-1924 by James Fox
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $29.57The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this... -
The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years by Herbert Marder 9780801487613
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $30.33This elegantly written and richly detailed biography tells the story of Virginia Woolf's last ten years, from the creation of her great visionary novel, The Waves, to her suicide in 1941. Herbert... -
![The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 2: Europe and the World Beyond by David Bindman](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/98015/97733/9780674052628__63911.1686691725.jpg?c=1 "The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 2: Europe and the World Beyond by David Bindman")
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 2: Europe and the World Beyond by David Bindman
RRP: $108.30Booksplease Price: $90.24In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in... -
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire: New Edition by David Bindman
RRP: $108.30Booksplease Price: $90.24In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in... -
![The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery", Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World: New Edition by David Bindman](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/732144/731857/9780674052581__26230.1687553152.jpg?c=1 "The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery", Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World: New Edition by David Bindman")
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery", Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World: New Edition by David Bindman
RRP: $108.30Booksplease Price: $90.24In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in... -
The Low Road Katharine Quarmby 9781785634628
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97SHORTLISTED: NEW ANGLE PRIZE Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman - Mary Tyrell - is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest ... -
Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure by Paul J. H. Schoemaker 9781613630129
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.98Named #1 Best Business Book of 2011, by Patriot-News-PennLive.com If you have ever flown in an airplane, used electricity from a nuclear power plant, or taken an antibiotic, you have benefited from... -
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan 9781324110941
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $20.16Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and feted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public-yet he never imagined that a single year in... -
![The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery", Part 1: From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood: New Edition by David Bindman 9780674052567](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9538811/10572649/9780674052567__71649.1773643829.jpg?c=1 "The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery", Part 1: From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood: New Edition by David Bindman 9780674052567")
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery", Part 1: From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood: New Edition by David Bindman 9780674052567
RRP: $108.30Booksplease Price: $90.24In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in... -
Caledonian Road: A Novel by Andrew O'Hagan 9781324074878
Booksplease Price: $33.59Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and feted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public-yet he never imagined that a single year in... -
Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain by Catherine Molineux 9780674050082
RRP: $72.18Booksplease Price: $59.38Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. For two hundred years, as Britain shipped over three million... -
Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones 9780500023136
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.51A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: written by one of the UK's foremost art critics, this new narrative history of the Renaissance takes in the whole of Europe and its global context. What was the... -
Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 by Richard Somerset MacKie 9780774806138
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson's Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered... -
Double Blind Edward St Aubyn 9781787300255
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.97From the author of the internationally acclaimed Patrick Melrose books: a major new novel exploring some of the biggest ideas and most pressing questions of our times.'Both moving and so funny I had... -
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal 9781783783069
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26From world-renowned biologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work which challenges everything we think we know about animal intelligence. 'A remarkable book by a remarkable scientist' Edward O...