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Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged by Andrew Marr
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54The Sunday Times bestseller THE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain's Elizabethan Age... -
Watermark: An Essay on Venice by Joseph Brodsky
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor' Wall Street JournalWatermark is Joseph Brodsky's witty,... -
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged by Andrew Marr 9780008298401
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.15The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris. Diana Dors. Bob Geldof. David... -
The Rossettis by Carol Jacobi 9781849768429
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.28A visually stunning book devoted to the radical Rossetti generation. The Rossettis' approach to art, love and lifestyles are considered revolutionary. This is explored by a range of short thematic... -
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper 9781529409482
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.15William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today:... -
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today:... -
Pre-Raphaelites by Jason Rosenfeld 9781849760249
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25In this concise and beautifully illustrated introduction book, expert Jason Rosenfeld walks us through the key moments and central artworks to the Pre-Raphaelite movement.The Pre-Raphaelites, the... -
The Italians by John Hooper
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Hooper has written a fascinating, affectionate and well-researched study that delivers the tantalising flavour of a country as hot, cold, bitter and sweet as an affogato' The Telegraph'This portrait... -
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin... -
Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.97The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for... -
To the Lake: A Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she... -
Barcelona by Robert Hughes 9781860468247 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.22"Robert Hughes is probably the best - and certainly the most accessible - art critic in the world . . . in Barcelona his art-historical and his sociological talents converge in what is often a... -
Barcelona Robert Hughes 9781860468247
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07"Robert Hughes is probably the best - and certainly the most accessible - art critic in the world . . . in Barcelona his art-historical and his sociological talents converge in what is often a... -
Puritanism & Revolution by Christopher Hill 9780712667227
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71This illuminating collection of essays assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and... -
Venice, An Interior by Javier Marias
RRP: $8.04Booksplease Price: $6.38An essential companion for every traveller to Venice, this is the hidden city revealed in a gorgeous non-fiction account by one of Europe's greatest living writers, Javier MariasCentury after... -
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' TelegraphThis is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains... -
Tomaz Humar by Bernadette McDonald
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.08In August, 2005, Tomaz Humar was trapped on a narrow ledge at 5900 metres on the formidable Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat. He had been attempting a new route, directly up the middle of the highest... -
To The Last City by Colin Thubron 9780099437239
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives - find themselves trekking through one of the... -
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux 9780140281118 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.11Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux... -
A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco by Suzanna Clarke
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07When Suzanna Clarke and her husband bought a dilapidated house in the Moroccan town of Fez, their friends thought they were mad. Located in a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, the house - a traditional... -
Travels With My Radio: I Am An Oil Tanker by Fi Glover 9780091882747 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $10.32Fi Glover is a bit of a traveller. She loves hotels, air stewardesses and fluffy towelling robes, but above all, she loves radio. One night, whilst recording BBC 2's Travel Show, she found herself in... -
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir by Mark Doty 9780099731610
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71HEAVEN'S COAST is an anatomy of loss: tender, heartbreaking, consoling and, ultimately, incredibly moving. Beginning with the first onset of AIDS and its lengthening shadow over a blissful... -
The New Spaniards by John Hooper
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has... -
A Sea Of Troubles: (Brunetti 10) by Donna Leon
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'Donna Leon goes from strength to strength ... This is her tenth novel but it's as fresh and entertaining as the first' ObserverWhen two clam fishermen are murdered on the island of Pellestrina,... -
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian'Everybody should get to spend a month... -
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux... -
The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04From the bestselling author of the Brunetti crime series comes The Jewels of Paradise, a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history and greed and Donna Leon's first stand-alone novel.Caterina... -
Trace Elements by Donna Leon
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Leon is a superb novelist . . .You can feel the tension, fear, horror - and wonder' The Times'They killed him. It was bad money.' A dying hospice patient gasps these... -
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and... -
The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon 9781787461093 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.00'Donna Leon has a wonderful feel for the hidden evils that lie below the facade of the magical city' The TimesImportant information is leaking from inside the Venetian Questura, and Commissario Guido... -
The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'Donna Leon has a wonderful feel for the hidden evils that lie below the facade of the magical city' The TimesImportant information is leaking from inside the Venetian Questura, and Commissario Guido... -
Unto Us a Son Is Given: Shortlisted for the Gold Dagger by Donna Leon
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'Atmospheric, clever, witty and amusing. If I were only allowed to read one crime series again it would be that of Donna Leon.' The TimesA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS... -
Fatal Remedies: (Brunetti 8) by Donna Leon
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'Leon is a skilful plotter . . . Brunetti is a nicely shaded creation, a moral man who is also all too human' The ObserverA sudden act of vandalism has been committed in the chill Venetian dawn and... -
Unto Us a Son Is Given: Shortlisted for the Gold Dagger by Donna Leon 9781785152177 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.30SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARDThe latest bestselling Venice crime novel from celebrated author Donna LeonAs a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti... -
Unto Us a Son Is Given: Shortlisted for the Gold Dagger by Donna Leon 9781787463196 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.64'Atmospheric, clever, witty and amusing. If I were only allowed to read one crime series again it would be that of Donna Leon.' The TimesA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS... -
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.66The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable... -
Far Horizons by Frank Gardner
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.68Lost on a remote Sumatran volcano...pursued through a Tokyo backstreet by a Japanese gangster...picnicking with the French Foreign Legion in the Horn of Africa: Frank Gardner's idea of a holiday is... -
Far Horizons by Frank Gardner 9780553819311 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.22Lost on a remote Sumatran volcano...pursued through a Tokyo backstreet by a Japanese gangster...picnicking with the French Foreign Legion in the Horn of Africa: Frank Gardner's idea of a holiday is... -
The Golden Egg: (Brunetti 22) by Donna Leon 9780099584971 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.93The twenty-second instalment in the internationally acclaimed, bestselling Commissario Brunetti series'The familiar characters and Venetian location are described with remarkable freshness and, as... -
The Angels of Venice: a haunting new thriller set in the heart of Italy's most secretive city by Philip Gwynne Jones
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'An unputdownable thriller' Gregory Dowling 'It is no surprise to find that Philip Gwynne Jones lives in Venice... art and architecture interweave into a story that builds to an almost surreal...