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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the... -
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz 9780241315484
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.08How might we see ourselves more clearly? Consult Rembrandt.Who can encourage us to see more intimately? Tracey Emin is the expert.What about helping us see through pain? Look no further than Frida... -
How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.28The New York Times Bestseller "I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design I've followed most of them at some point but it took me a... -
The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art by Malcolm Bull
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.10Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. In the midst of Christian Europe, artists began to decorate luxury goods... -
On Identity Amin Maalouf 9781860467295
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us... -
Difficulties With Girls by Kingsley Amis
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70In Kingsley Amis's Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches... -
On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.70Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in... -
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Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next Generation by Andria Zafirakou 9781526614063 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: €4.84'An amazing book . . . Read it gang, honestly' Zoe Ball'I haven't read a book for a long time that so often had me close to tears' Observer'Inspirational . . . You can call this good teaching; what... -
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox 9781399753074
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02THE BESTSELLING MODERN CLASSIC. OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD.'Brilliant and hilarious' GRAYSON PERRY'A delightful read' SUNDAY TIMES'Laugh out loud' MARTIN PARR'Absolutely brilliant' JENNIFER... -
Work Hard & Be Nice to People by Anthony Burrill
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Ask More Questions, Get More AnswersDon't Be Normal, Don't Be OrdinarySay Yes More Than No!Work Hard & Be Nice to PeopleIt's usually the simple truths that provide the most profound answers. Discover... -
Muse: Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces by Ruth Millington
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLOE ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of art history' JENNY PERY | 'An essential read' EDWARD... -
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their... -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same,... -
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali by Sue Roe
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Supercharged. Highly colourful . . . they're all here, the big names of the time - behaving badly, and, at times, quite madly too' ObserverDuring the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of... -
Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next Generation by Andria Zafirakou
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.98'An amazing book . . . Read it gang, honestly' Zoe Ball 'I haven't read a book for a long time that so often had me close to tears' Observer 'Inspirational . . . You can call this good... -
A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice by Ivan Jablonka 9780141993706
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in France. . . it has... -
Collected Stories by D. H. Lawrence 9781857151800
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.46Lawrence is known mainly as a novelist and poet but he was also the author of many superb short stories and novellas. By bringing together all his shorter fiction, this volume makes it possible to... -
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for... -
The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age by Vic Gatrell
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66The 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... -
Things My Son Needs to Know About The World by Fredrik Backman
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02Things My Son Needs To Know About The World is a tender and funny series of letters from a new father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthood From the 18 million copy... -
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Dr. Moalem 9780241396889
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.39From an award-winning medic and scientist, the game-changing case that genetic females have greater resilience, immunity, endurance and more, compared with males'A powerful antidote to the myth of a... -
The Futurist Cookbook by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied... -
Writings from the Zen Masters by Various
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs, the writings of the Masters challenge... -
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A... -
B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51This an essential tool kit for understanding the world around us. It's about our obsession with collecting, the quest for authenticity and the creation of national identities. It's about Hitchcock's... -
Carried Away Alice Munro 9781841593029
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.13Set in her native southwest Ontario, they include 'Royal Beatings', in which a young girl, her father and her stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and... -
In America by Susan Sontag 9780141190105
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists by Linda Murray 9780140513004
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79This magnificant, bestselling reference book finally leaves its old look to join the modern Penguin subject dictionary series. Why exactly did Van Gogh cut off his ear? Was Warhol an original or just... -
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh... -
Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Subtle and self-reflexive. . . an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science' - GuardianHow does anthropology help us understand who we... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag 9780141035789
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues... -
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Dr. Moalem
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina... -
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl 9780140296815 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €2.78Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the... -
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Wall and Piece by "Banksy" 9781844137879 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €2.78Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's... -
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Wall and Piece by "Banksy"
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €20.08Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's... -
Keith Haring Journals by Keith Haring
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is... -
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van... -
The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In The Language of Things Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the things around us: their hidden meanings, our relationship with them, how they shape our lives and why we desire them... -
Ai Weiwei Speaks: with Hans Ulrich Obrist by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €18.79A new edition of conversations between the artist Ai Wei Wei and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, coming up to the present dayAi Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist -...