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The MONKEY and other stories by 9781905131907
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $20.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905131907Author Miklos BanffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Blue DanubePublisher Blue... -
Wrong Passport: Adventures in Wartime Hungary: 2022 by Ralph Brewster
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $25.41'This country is like a little island, where the people live so happily, as if nothing was wrong with the world...' When Ralph Brewster wrote those lines, in the summer of 1943, Hungary's involvement... -
Four for a Quarter: Fictions by Michael Martone
Booksplease Price: $43.33Four is the magic number in Michael Martone's Four for a Quarter. In subject--four fifth Beatles, four tie knots, four retellings of the first Xerox, even the sex lives of the Fantastic Four--and in... -
Venetian Angel by Ferenc Molnar 9781916568044
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $22.99It is the summer of 1933. Set against a backdrop of the sparkling Venetian lagoon, young and naïve Irma Lietzen, the pretty and indulged daughter of a Budapest businessman, is being taken to see the... -
Life and Food in the Dordogne by James Bentley 9781566635141
Booksplease Price: $34.20Through the centuries, the Dordogne has cherished a tradition of fine cuisine that is framed throughout France, and the region has produced a disproportionate number of France's finest chefs:... -
The Remarkable Mrs ANDERSON by 9781905131891
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $21.65When a priceless Leonardo is stolen from the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian government tries to hush things up and the police show themselves to be completely clueless. Thank goodness... -
Portugal: A Companion History by Jose Hermano Saraiva
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.23Professor Saraiva's multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebrated scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume Historia Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and... -
Pavilions in the Air: And Other Chinese Proverbs with English Equivalents by Christopher Arnander 9781905299676
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $17.98Gathered here are gems galore, which, while revealing much as to the Chinese national psyche, highlight particular traits and characteristics that span the globe. We all know Chairman Mau's infamous... -
The Inca Empire: An Illustrated History by David Jones
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $34.40The history of the Incas fascinates the modern world. This groundbreaking book separates fact from fiction, exploring the native peoples of Peru and the Andes, their mythologies and ancient belief... -
Great Books of China by Frances Wood 9781837930210
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.09Discover - or rediscover - the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions - each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in... -
The History of the Atzec & Inca: Two Illustrated Reference Books: Discover the History, Myths and Cultures of the Ancient Peoples of Central and South America, with 1000 Photographs by Charles Phillips 9780754828228
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.13This boxed set of two encyclopedias charts the rise and fall of the ancient American empires - including the Chavin, Paracas, Moche, Olmec and Zapotec. It is an absorbing guide to the lost world of... -
Beached in Calabria Ian Ross 9781911350620
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43'Belissimo' - Daily Mail 'an amusing and charming read...Ross is the champion of the impulsive adventurer...If you are interested in Italy, in travel writing and the tales of a decent raconteur... -
Jilted City by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.80The poems in "Jilted City" inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. From 'Stations where the train doesn't... -
Did Marco Polo Go To China? Frances Wood 9780813389998
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52We all ?know? that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at... -
Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman
RRP: $86.76Booksplease Price: $85.53Egypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world, having sold more than 80,000 copies in its first two editions. It is written for the general reader and... -
A Traveller's History of Portugal by Ian Robertson 9781907973093
Booksplease Price: $5.23This is a definitive concise history of Portugal, from its earliest beginnings right up to the politics and life of the present day. It was not until the twelfth century that Portugal became a... -
Indiana by Michael Martone
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53Michael Martone, whose trademark is the blurring of the lines between fact and fiction, has created an Indiana that almost is, a landscape marked by Lover's Lane-franchises and pharmaceutical drug... -
Woman's Guide to Sexual Health by Mary Jane Minkin 9780300105940
Booksplease Price: $123.24A prominent gynecologist explains how to make the best choices for female reproductive health in this authoritative, easy-to-read guide This book is for every woman who has wished for an unhurried,... -
World of the Ancient Incas David Jones 9781844768677
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.66This is the extraordinary history of the hidden civilizations of the first people of the South American Andes, with over 200 photographs and illustrations. This is a fascinating in-depth guide to the... -
The Moon over Wapakoneta: Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond by Michael Martone
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.53Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America's Midwest.The Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvelous... -
German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City Thomas Sparr 9781914979040
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Planned at the beginning of the 1920s as a garden city on the fringes of Jerusalem, the suburbs of Talbiyeh and Rehavia became a centre of emigration for German Jews from 1933 onwards, acquiring the... -
The History of the Incas: An illustrated account of the legends, myths and culture of the ancient peoples of the Andes, with over 500 photographs, maps, artworks and fine art images David M. Jones 9780754836209
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $22.99The history of ancient South America focuses on stories of bloodthirsty gods, human sacrifice and the lust for gold. This book goes much deeper to reveal the truth about one of the world's largest... -
Migrants: The Story of Us All by Sam Miller 9780349144443
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.85Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable,... -
Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity by Sam Miller 9780099526742
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32In an extraordinary portrayal of one of the world's fastest growing cities, Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi. Following a spiral course through the city, he visits its less celebrated... -
The History of the Aztecs & Maya: The history, legend, myth and culture of the ancient native peoples of Mexico and Central America; Olmec, Maya, Chichimec, Huastec, Zapotec, Toltec, Mixtec, Totonac, Aztec Charles Phillips 9780754836216
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $22.99Stories of Aztec sungods and blood sacrifice, of pyramids and temples, and of the vast treasuries of gold raided by the Spaniards have fascinated many generations. This book offers enthralling... -
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $22.31An electrifying narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, from the bestselling author of The Popes and Sicily: A Short HistoryThe Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most... -
Marketing and Public Relations for Museums, Galleries, Cultural and Heritage Attractions Ylva French (Freelance Consultant, UK) 9780415610469
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.80Visitors to museums, galleries, heritage sites and other not for profit attractions receive their information in changing ways. Communications channels are shifting and developing all the time,... -
Migrants: The Story of Us All Sam Miller 9781408713549
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $19.85Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move.'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable,... -
Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews by Steve Cushing 9780252077180
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.12This collection assembles the best interviews from Steve Cushing's long-running radio program Blues Before Sunrise, the nationally syndicated, award-winning program focusing on vintage blues and R&B... -
Aztec and Maya: An Illustrated History: The definitive chronicle of the ancient peoples of Central America and Mexico - including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec and Zapotec by Charles Phillips 9780754834731
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.01The definitive chronicle of the ancient peoples of Central America & Mexico - including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec and Zapotec In a sumptuous new large-format edition, this wide-ranging... -
The Marvellous (But Authentic) Adventures of Captain Corcoran by Alfred Assollant 9781784872304
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.63Introducing the Marvellous Captain Corcoran - he is charming to ladies, courteous to true gentlemen, death to pirates and merciless to the English. He speaks several languages, can bend an iron bar... -
Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets Ange Mlinko 9780197776551
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $43.91This is a book about the works that six twentieth-century American poets created in and about the state of Florida--or, in one case, refused to create. Those poets who nourished their muse on... -
The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome by Ida Ostenberg 9781350005860
Booksplease Price: $78.20The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 by Charles Freeman 9781789545630
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $23.58A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery... -
50 Women in the Blues by Jennifer Noble 9780993220784
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.63Women have been at the dawn of the blues since Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey were singing about hard knocks and tough love in smoky bars. This book gives an overview of the early days of the blues and... -
Best of Blue by Lionel Blue
Booksplease Price: $33.13A child of poor Jewish parentage, educated in the roughest part of the East End of London, worked his way to Balliol College, Oxford and the Rabbinate to become a star of radio and stage. His... -
Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover by Max Apple 9780253210227
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.48Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is there something not quite right about the way they see things? For such a normal place, the heartland has produced some writers who... -
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 Charles Freeman 9781803281964
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89A compelling account of the continuing legacy of Greek writers and thinkers in the age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when... -
Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago by David Whiteis
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.11Chicago blues musicians parlayed a genius for innovation and emotional honesty into a music revered around the world. As the blues evolves, it continues to provide a soundtrack to, and a dynamic... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 Charles Freeman 9781789545623
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.35A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and...