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100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Alex Danchev
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film,Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists' Manifestos, each reproduced with an introduction on the author and the... -
POPism by Andy Warhol
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'POPism reads like a novel... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes' The New YorkerA cultural storm swept through the... -
Keeping Your Head in the Game: Untold Stories of the Highs and Lows of a Life in Sport Gary Bloom 9780241451311
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $32.11Drawing on his work with elite athletes, the world's first sports psychotherapist on what to do when life throws you a curveball'Cracking tales, a great read' Nigel Owens MBE, rugby union... -
Bacon in Moscow by James Birch 9781788169769
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' Grayson Perry This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount... -
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Wall and Piece by "Banksy" 9781844137879 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $4.91Artistic 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" 9781844137879
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.88Artistic 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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Essex Boys: A Terrifying Expose Of The British Drugs Scene by Bernard O'Mahoney 9781840182859 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $4.96ESSEX BOYS is the brand new edition of the shocking bestseller known as SO THIS IS ECSTASY?. It is the true story of the rise of one of the most violent and successful criminal gangs of the 90's... -
Ai Weiwei Speaks: with Hans Ulrich Obrist by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Booksplease Price: $33.14A 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 -... -
Hang-Ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly) by Simon Schama
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.93Pre-eminent author and art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim. In Hang-Ups, a personal selection of his articles from, amongst others, The New Yorker,... -
Bacon in Moscow by James Birch
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $28.33'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' Grayson Perry This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount... -
A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking: From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics James M. Russell 9781472143686
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a... -
Drop the Ball: Expect Less from Yourself and Flourish in Work & Life by Tiffany Dufu
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70An inspirational and insightful guide for those who want to get it all by doing less For women, a glass ceiling at work is not the only barrier to success - it's also the increasing number of... -
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man Thomas Page McBee 9781786890979
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling... -
Amateur: A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity Thomas Page McBee 9781786891006
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.86Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at... -
Essex Boys: A Terrifying Expose Of The British Drugs Scene Bernard O'Mahoney 9781840182859
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12ESSEX BOYS is the brand new edition of the shocking bestseller known as SO THIS IS ECSTASY?. It is the true story of the rise of one of the most violent and successful criminal gangs of the 90's... -
The Seven Ages of Man: How to Live a Meaningful Life by James Innes-Smith
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $8.42What does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century? How can today's men lead a more fulfilling existence? Masculinity has reached a moment of crisis. From the erosion of unifying institutions... -
People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain by Hashi Mohamed
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73A New Statesman Book of the Year AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country.' David... -
Princess Arabella At the Museum by Mylo Freeman 9781913175054
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $10.35Princess Arabella and her friends go to the museum. There are works of different artists exhibited: some are big and others are small. In some works you can lose yourself and others make you smile... -
Under Discussion - The Encyclopedic Museum by Donatien Grau
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.66Over the last two decades, the encyclopedic museum has been criticized and praised, constantly discussed, and often in the news. Encyclopedic museums are a phenomenon of Europe and the United States,... -
The Twenty First Century Art Book by David Trigg
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $38.66An accessible A-Z guide to best contemporary art made since 2000About the AuthorConceived and edited by Phaidon EditorsReviews"A very significant A-Z of 21st century artists from big names like... -
Miss Aluminium: ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' 100 BEST SUMMER READS OF 2020 Susanna Moore 9781474619080
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' 100 BEST SUMMER READS OF 2020'It's hard to beat Susanna Moore's Miss Aluminium' Vogue'A sharp-edged summery treat' Hadley Freeman'Unlike any Hollywood memoir you'll have... -
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood by Perry Grayson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.78'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can... -
Gilbert & George and the Communists James Birch 9781917283175
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45James Birch has been a promoter of modern art for over thirty years and boasts a resume of exhibitions both throughout the UK and internationally. The first gallerist to show works by Grayson Perry... -
Gilbert & George and the Communists James Birch 9781917283052
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.35The much-anticipated sequel to Bacon in Moscow, Gilbert & George and the Communists charts daring art dealer James Birch's next implausible transcultural mission: introducing British art's most... -
Cult Artists: 50 Cutting-Edge Creatives You Need to Know by Ana Finel Honigman 9780711240292
Booksplease Price: $11.49WHAT MAKES A CULT ARTIST? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique, or critically divisive, cult artists come in all shapes and guises. Some gain instant fame, others... -
The Camp 100: Glorious flamboyance, from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X Simon Doonan 9780711289963
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.94'Simon Doonan's CAMP 100 is majestic, life-enhancing, packed with info and bang up to date. And, yes, I am featured. Surprised?' - Alan CarrCelebrate the unapologetically, outrageously CAMP with this... -
Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years Andy Goldsworthy 9781911054719
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $37.13Andy Goldsworthy tells the story of his career in his own words - from school art classrooms to the ambitious retrospective exhibition this book accompanies. In a wide-ranging and personal... -
Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait by Carola Hicks
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96WITH A FOREWORD BY GRAYSON PERRY Carola Hicks sets out to solve the mystery of one of art history's greatest paintings, The Arnolfini Portrait The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck in 1434 hangs in... -
The Sex Lives of English Women: Intimate Questions and Unexpected Answers by Wendy Jones
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80'There's a lot of stigma attached to sex. Particularly with women, you have a big dichotomy between: Do you have sex? Do you not? Do you be a slut? Do you be a virgin? Do you be a prude? Do you be a... -
Stitch: Embroidery Makes for Your Home and Wardrobe by 9781784945879
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.21The magic of embroidery is that it can transform something ordinary into something extraordinary. Armed with just a needle and thread, this book, and a little imagination, there is no limit to the... -
Eclectic: The Robert and Julia Breckmann Collections at the V&A by Gill Saunders 9781851778881
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $45.89The Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund has enabled purchases by such art world stars as Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, Chris Ofili, Grayson Perry and Rachel Whiteread to name but a few. The collection... -
What Men Wear And Why by Fantastic Man 9789082980707
RRP: $10.50Booksplease Price: $9.60What Men Wear is an oral history of male dressing in the 21st century from the makers of Fantastic Man. Three years ago the biannual style magazine set out to investigate the ins and outs of men's... -
Book of Sin, The: How to save the world - a practical guide by Jerry Hyde 9781785356933
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.22On January 1st 2016, author Jerry Hyde - `the most dangerous therapist in the world' - set out on a year-long adventure into the murky underworld of Sin with one objective in mind...to save the world... -
Gender: The Inclusive Church Resource by Rosemary Lain-Priestley
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $12.31Gender: The Inclusive Church Resource is written to help your own church to be equipped to welcome all people regardless of their gender. It contains stories of different people's experiences of... -
Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell by Jerry Brotton 9781851245239
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $21.17From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from... -
The Mammoth Book of New Comic Quotes: Over 3,500 modern gems of wit and wisdom from TV, films and stand-up by Geoff Tibballs
Booksplease Price: $25.01With over 3,500 entries, arranged by topic, fully indexed and up-to-date for the twenty-first century, here is a bumper new collection of witticisms and wisecracks. If you're looking for a quick quip... -
Utterly Lazy and Inattentive: Martin Parr in Words and Pictures by Martin Parr 9780241740828
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.58One of the most popular photographers on the planet recounts his life and artWhen Martin Parr was fourteen, his teacher wrote that he was 'utterly lazy and inattentive' in a school report. He went on... -
Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle Richard Herring 9780751585742
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84At the start of 2021 Richard Herring was diagnosed with testicular cancer. For a man whose output includes a stand-up tour titled Talking Cock and who regularly interrogates our attitudes towards... -
Jane Austen in 41 Objects Kathryn Sutherland 9781851246267
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $43.83More than 200 years after Jane Austen's death at the age of just forty-one, we are still looking for clues about this extraordinary writer's life. What might we learn if we take a glimpse inside the... -
March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print and Performance 2016-2019 by Stewart Lee
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.79'A true genius of comedy' Grayson PerryAs a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the EU referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience - and the...