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High Fashion: The 20th Century Decade by Decade by Emmanuelle Dirix 9780500518076
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £13.25From the Golden Age of Haute Couture in the 1900s to the lifestyle brands of the 1990s, this book looks, decade-by-decade, at the high fashion of the 20th century. Each chapter examines the... -
1001 Birds by Joanna Rzezak
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A colourful, fact-filled introduction to the world of birds. Where are all those swallows going? Let's join them on their long journey south and learn about the world of birds along the way. Swoop... -
Richard Kalvar by Herve Le Goff
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.00A member of the celebrated Magnum agency, Richard Kalvar has spent more than four decades building up a diverse body of work that is characterized by a finely honed sense of observation. Born in... -
Why Fashion Matters by Frances Corner
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Fashion is the most immediate and intimate form of self-expression. Faster than anything else, what we wear tells the story of who we are - or who we want to be. Yet even as fashion touches the lives... -
The Ottomans Diana Darke 9780500298183
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated, this delightful book brings five centuries of Ottoman culture to life. Diana Darke constantly amazes the reader with fascinating facts and points of... -
T.J. Clark on Bruegel T. J. Clark 9780500028667
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Thames & Hudson's new, affordable, covetable 'Pocket Perspectives': beautifully illustrated essays by canonical writers' Financial Times A Financial Times Book of the Year: T.J. Clark offers... -
The Big Book of Beasts by Yuval Zommer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80WINNER of the 2018 4-11 Picture Book Awards (Non-Fiction 4-7 category)Nominated for the 2018 CILIP Kate Greenaway MedalThis book opens with introductory spreads explaining that beasts are wild... -
How to be an Art Rebel by Ben Street
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This irreverent introduction to art gives children the confidence to respond to art on their own terms, and - most importantly - to have fun with it. Under the playful guidance of Leo, the museum... -
If I had a dinosaur by Gabby Dawnay 9780500651506
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78As read by Eddie Redmayne for CBeebies Christmas Day Bedtime StoryWINNER of the 'Best Preschool Book' - Made For Mums Awards 2018A little girl dreams of having her very own pet. But what kind of... -
Harold Snipperpot's Best Disaster Ever by Beatrice Alemagna
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Harold Philip Snipperpot is turning seven years old. He's never had a real birthday party. His parents are too grumpy. But this year is going to be different. Thanks to an amazing man named Mr... -
The Brainiac's Book of the Climate and Weather by Rosie Cooper
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Quirky stories, interactive activities and off-the-wall infographics serve to answer young brainiacs' urgent questions about the climate and weather. What's the difference between the climate and... -
David Adjaye: Living Spaces by Peter Allison
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £37.84For many young architects, houses or domestic buildings are among the first projects they design. For David Adjaye, such early commissions were connected to a rising generation of creatives, with... -
Lives of the Great Gardeners by Stephen Anderton
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The lives of 40 men and women behind some of the world's most exciting gardens. Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners,... -
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes by Susan Whitfield
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.30As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network of ancient trade routes - which spanned the vastness of... -
If I had a polar bear by Gabby Dawnay 9780500653067
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64The latest addition to the wildly popular series of bedtime stories imagines what it would be like to have a polar bear for a pet. What would it be like to have a polar bear as a pet? It might be an... -
Home Alone by Barbara Nascimbeni
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.86When Frido the dog is left at home by himself, he feigns loneliness just long enough to get his owner out the door - and then the fun begins. After scootering down the hallway and somersaulting on... -
Asian Lives: A Closer Look Ishu Patel 9780500519240
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.83In 2011, adhering to his mentor Henri Cartier-Bresson's mantra to 'photograph the truth', animation filmmaker Ishu Patel embarks on a photographic journey in southeast Asia. Abandoning moving... -
Dronescapes: The New Aerial Photography from Dronestagram by Dronestagram
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £19.45Created in collaboration with Dronestegram, the world-leading drone photography website, and Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, a highly renowned photography editor, Dronescapes is the first book to bring... -
Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Guide to Nahuatl Writing by Gordon Whittaker
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40For more than three millennia the cultures of Mesoamerica flourished, building the first cities of the Western Hemisphere and developing writing systems that could rival those of the Eastern... -
Cold War Steve - Journal of The Plague Year by Cold War Steve
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86Following the bestselling Festival of Brexit and A Prat's Progress, star satirist Cold War Steve returns with a viral vengeance with his Journal of the Plague Year. Dubbed 'the modern-day William... -
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... -
Ocean: From the Shore to the Abyss Asha de Vos 9780500027554
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.35A colourful visual journey from the shoreline to the ocean's depths to celebrate the sheer diversity of life beneath the waves. Three quarters of the ocean has never been seen by humans. Drawing on... -
Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work Margaret Calvert 9780500030448
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £39.80The first book dedicated to Margaret Calvert, pioneer of design for public service, a groundbreaking typographer and recipient of 2024's New York Type Directors Club Medal. Margaret Calvert's design... -
Derek Jarman's Garden by Derek Jarman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93'Paradise haunts gardens', writes Derek Jarman, 'and it haunts mine.' Jarman's public image is that of a film-maker of genius, whose work, dwelling on themes of sexuality and violence, became a... -
Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, comes this concise survey of Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the... -
Great Cities Through Travellers' Eyes by Peter Furtado
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those at home. The thirty-eight cities covered in this... -
Women in Design by Anne Massey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A history of women designers and consumers from 1900 to the present day. The work of women designers has not traditionally been the focus of mainstream histories of design. By revealing the untold... -
Lives of the Great Gardeners by Stephen Anderton 9780500518564 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £6.55Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professional designers with an international practice. Some have come to... -
Led by Donkeys Led by Donkeys 9780500298121
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.57Five 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... -
Shop Cats of Hong Kong by Marcel Heijnen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26When long-term cat owner and Dutch photographer Marcel Heijnen moved to Hong Kong, he was delighted to find that many of his neighbours were of the feline variety. It was only natural for him to... -
Turner by Graham Reynolds
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.48Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolour, drawing and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. He had a precocious gift that was developed over a lifetime... -
Architects' Houses by Michael Webb
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £27.48Thirty of the world's leading architects, including Norman Foster, Thom Mayne, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, talk about the houses they designed for themselves over the past decade. What inspired... -
Exploring the World of the Vikings by Richard Hall 9780500290514
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.04This authoritative survey of Viking history and culture, now available in paperback, tells the complete story of the Vikings from their origins in Scandinavia during the first millennium ad, through... -
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... -
The Pattern Base: Over 550 Contemporary Textile and Surface Designs by Kristi O'Meara
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.85This book showcases textile and surface design by some of the most exciting up-and-coming designers worldwide and points to the future of this vibrant field. It includes illustrative, abstract,... -
Trees: From Root to Leaf by Paul Smith
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.00A landmark publication that captures the beautiful richness of every aspect of trees and their importance for science, culture and the future of humankind. Trees feed us, shelter us, inspire us... -
William Klein: Yes by William Klein 9780500545584
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £49.40The last book completed by William Klein within his lifetime: A landmark retrospective encompassing Klein's legacy of creativity across photography, filmmaking, painting, book design, graphic design... -
History of Film by David Parkinson 9780500204108
Booksplease Price: £21.23In this lively and up-to-date analysis of the history of film, David Parkinson traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows to the digital film-making of the 21st century. ...