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The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 Charles Freeman 9781803281964
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A 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... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 Charles Freeman 9781789545623
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.28A 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... -
50 Women in the Blues by Jennifer Noble
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.96Women 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... -
A New History of Early Christianity by Charles Freeman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today... -
Always the Queen: The Denise LaSalle Story by Denise LaSalle
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Denise LaSalle's journey took her from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bold and bawdy demands for satisfaction, LaSalle updated... -
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 by Charles Freeman 9781803281957
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.14The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the... -
The Art Museum in Modern Times by Charles Saumarez Smith
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.60The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or rethinks of their mission under Charles Saumarez Smith's leadership,... -
The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone Michael Martone 9781950774210
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize Finalist for the the Big Other Award for Fiction The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone is a Midwestern... -
Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story by Bruce Iglauer 9780226681986
Booksplease Price: £21.99It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South...