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Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones 9780500023136
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: written by one of the UK's foremost art critics, this new narrative history of the Renaissance takes in the whole of Europe and its global context. What was the... -
Shakespeare's Binding Language by John Kerrigan 9780198818359
Booksplease Price: £40.01This remarkable, innovative book explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the other utterances and acts by which characters commit themselves to the... -
Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist by Elizabeth Goldring
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.40This illustrated biography follows Nicholas Hilliard's long and remarkable life (c. 1547-1619) from the West Country to the heart of the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. It showcases new archival... -
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England by Dr Jonathan Healey 9781526621696
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' THE TIMES'A brilliant, bloody account of England's most dramatic... -
This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright Emma Smith 9780241361634
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the... -
The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history"Hutton's book is intelligent, well documented, and stylish... -
Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole by Sarah Dry 9780226816845
Booksplease Price: £20.36The compelling and adventurous stories of seven pioneering scientists who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science. From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds...