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Metal Patination Techniques for Jewelers and Metalsmiths by Matthew Runfola
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.98Written by a leading authority on the subject of patination, this book is an inspirational resource, a how-to guide, and a book that jewelers have long been waiting for. It is neatly organized by... -
JEAN-PAUL GOUDE by Jean-Paul Goude
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.51Jean-Paul Goude is a modern legend in the world of commercial art. From his New York days with Esquire magazine to his latest work for Galeries Lafayette, he has consistently provoked and delighted... -
7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio John Edwards 9780500510346
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.757 Reece Mews, South Kensington, was Francis Bacon's home and studio for over thirty years. After he died in 1992, access was granted to award-winning photographer Perry Ogden to work undisturbed for... -
The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence by Michael Jacobs 9780500289969
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.78Provence is a land apart, a territory of outstanding beauty and distinction that has fascinated outsiders since earliest times. It is in its smaller communities that the true Provencal spirit can be... -
Father Thames by Walter Higgins 9789361155734
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361155734Author Walter HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint -
Flying Scotsman and the Best Birthday Ever by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022An inspiring tale from Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman celebrating the world's most iconic train, Flying Scotsman, and its greatest fan, a young girl named... -
World Textiles by Mary Schoeser
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An updated edition of this indispensable reference, surveying the history of textiles from 25,000 years ago to the present. The history of textiles, more than that of any other artefact, is a... -
Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24The dazzling colours and patterns of the art of the Pacific Islands have long entranced Western audiences, not least artists such as Gauguin and Picasso. The tendency has been to regard Oceanic art... -
Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks (Deluxe Edition) by Stephen Farthing
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £99.30Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks - Deluxe Edition. Edited by Stephen Farthing and Ed Webb-Ingall. With a preface by Tilda Swinton. Featuring contributions from Keith Collins, Christopher Hobbs, Andrew... -
Martha & Me by It's Raining Elephants 9780500651421
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.84Drawing is what Martha loves most of all. Her pictures of animals cover the wall. All sorts of creatures, from a whale to a flea Then one day she paints a huge picture of me! Marta is a passionate... -
Led by Donkeys Led by Donkeys 9780500298121
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.43Five years of lies and hypocrisy. Four activists holding power to account. One book showing how they did it - and why they're not done yet. 'Not funny' Liz Truss 'Led by Donkeys are diametrically... -
Anja Niemi: In Character by Anja Niemi
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.38Anja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective/monograph by one of the most exciting talents working in contemporary photography, whose work has emerged as a distinctive force within the... -
Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come by T. J. Clark 9780500295540
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.10The idea of heaven on earth haunts the human imagination. The day will come, say believers, when the pain and confusion of mortal life will give way to a transfigured community. Such a vision of the... -
William Alister Macdonald: Watercolours from Thurso, the Thames, and Tahiti Iain Macdonald 9781916846241
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.22The life of Scottish watercolourist William Alister Macdonald (1861-1956) contained more mystery and intrigue than a novel by the authors he knew as friends. Mid-life in the early 1900s he painted... -
Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion by Lesley Ellis Miller
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £50.93Silk has long captured the imagination of peoples round the globe, inspiring creativity in the making of luxurious textiles. This major new survey draws on the exceptional collections of London's... -
Cat Tales: A History Jerry Moore 9780500029534
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.22The first book to explore from an archaeological perspective the incredible and improbable history of our relationship with cats, from fearsome foe to purring pet. Feared, revered and respected,... -
If I had a sleepy sloth by Gabby Dawnay
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64As read on Cbeebies bedtime storiesIn this charming trip of the imagination, a little girl delights in experiencing life at a slower pace as she shares her day with a sleepy sloth who moves so... -
Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis by Peter Conrad
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Peter Conrad's exhilarating book exposes the absurdity and occasional insanity of our godforsaken, demon-haunted contemporary culture. Conrad casts his brilliant beam upon subjects from the Queen to... -
Danny Dodo's Detective Diary: Learn all about extinct and endangered animals by Rob Hodgson
Booksplease Price: £15.09Danny Dodo is a detective on a mission. Over the years, hundreds of amazing animals have disappeared. Where did they go? Why did they vanish? It's Danny's job to find out - and he wants readers to... -
The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic by Robert McCarter
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £42.60MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, the influential and award-winning firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have an international reputation. Producing a wide range of projects both in Canada and... -
Sebastiao Salgado by 9780500410868
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Salgado's images of the Sahel famine and his colossal project 'Workers' would be enough to make his reputation and justify all the awards he has received. But there is more.A native of Brazil,... -
The Emperors of Byzantium by Kevin Lygo
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.85A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of its 92 emperors. The Byzantine empire... -
Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent by Ekow Eshun
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85A mesmerizing, continent-spanning survey of the most dynamic scenes in contemporary African photography, and an introduction to the creative figures who are making it happen. Africa State of Mind... -
Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present by Dan Mazur
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.23The first global history of comics from 1968 through to the present day, arranged chronologically and richly illustrated with prime examples of the artists, styles and movements being discussed. The... -
Pop-Up Moon by Anne Jankeliowitch 9780500651865
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55Open this book and discover the dazzling magic of the moon! Find out where it came from, why it seems to change shape, how its power affects the earth, and what causes an eclipse. Shoot into space... -
Does Monogamy Work? by Luke Brunning
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Even with the current rise in awareness of sexual and intimate diversity, monogamous relationships remain the cultural norm. Most people aspire to it and the state encourages it, providing legal and... -
Furniture in Architecture: The Work of Luke Hughes - Arts & Crafts in the Digital Age by Aidan Walker
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £34.24Luke Hughes & Company's enduring and meticulously engineered furniture, an eloquent response both to the architecture it inhabits and to the true Arts and Crafts spirit, has been placed at the... -
Matisse Lawrence Gowing 9780500205099
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63A richly illustrated survey of Matisse's impact on modern art that also examines his career, techniques, aesthetics and stages of artistic development. The work of Henri Matisse has been both a... -
Josef Koudelka: Exiles by 9780500544419
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.50This powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile now contains 10 new images by master of photography Josef Koudelka. The sense of mystery that fills these photographs - mostly... -
Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion by Richard Wagner
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90This is the first literal, word-for-word translation of Wagner's epic masterwork with the full German text. Stewart Spencer's version is at once reliable and readable, adhering closely to the... -
The Boy Who Bit Picasso by Antony Penrose 9780500238738
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.26This delighful children's book is a wonderful introduction to Picasso. It tells the true story of Antony Penrose - son of the photographer Lee Miller and the painter and writer Roland Penrose - and... -
Ballenesque: Roger Ballen: A Retrospective by Roger Ballen
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.15A substantial retrospective on one of the world's most remarkable and critically acclaimed art photographers. Separated into four parts, Ballenesque takes readers on a visual, chronological... -
England's Forgotten Past: The Unsung Heroes and Heroines, Valiant Kings, Great Battles and Other Generally Overlooked Episodes in Our Nation's Glorious History by Richard Tames
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Richard Tames, the well-known popularizer of English history, offers an entertaining exploration of the bits of English history that have been sidelined, lost or somehow overlooked. Written in an... -
The World Atlas of Tattoo by Anna Felicity Friedman
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.20Lively and informative, The World Atlas of Tattoo is a superbly illustrated and compelling reference book that, through examining the meeting point between tattoo artists and their personal... -
A Chronology of Photography: A Cultural Timeline from Camera Obscura to Instagram by Paul Lowe
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.78A Chronology of Photography presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between technological innovations, social... -
Body Art by Thomas Nicholas 9780500204207
Booksplease Price: £15.34Body art, practised across all world cultures and throughout history, is the most intimate art form, linking the self, the senses, and the social and political. In recent years, it has proliferated... -
We Are Explorers: Extraordinary women who discovered the world by Kari Herbert
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80We Are Explorers tells the stories of fourteen women whose adventurous spirit and curiosity saw them discover the world. Their exhilarating life stories are told by the equally adventurous author and... -
Morris and the Magic of Stories by Lorenzo Sangió 9780500653258
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.46A beautifully illustrated ode to reading, and in particular to reading aloud. Morris is a cat with a clever plan. Instead of chasing mice, he's going to make them come to him. And how will he do... -
Time Will Tell by Donald Greig 9780857286246
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.88Andrew Eiger, an ambitious American musicologist, is stuck in a small college in the Midwest when fate delivers him an original fifteenth-century manuscript. It's his calling card to the finest... -
Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb by Zahi Hawass
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.90The tomb of Tutankhamun, with its breathtaking treasures, remains the most sensational archaeological find of all time. This brilliantly illustrated volume takes the reader through Tutankhamun's tomb...