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White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED FOR STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARFrom a trip to The Lightning Field in New Mexico, to chasing Gauguin's ghost in French Polynesia, White Sands is a creative exploration of why... -
Vengeance in Venice by Philip Gwynne Jones
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An unputdownable thriller' Gregory Dowling'It is no surprise to find that Philip Gwynne Jones lives in Venice... art and architecture interweave into a story that builds to an almost surreal climax'... -
The Venetian Masquerade Philip Gwynne Jones 9781472129734
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'An irresistible concoction of crime and culture' Daily MailA game of blackmail and betrayal is played among the backstreets and canals of Venice . . .Carnevale is in full swing, the streets and... -
Queer Welsh Icons Emily Garside 9781837600342
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Who are the Queer figures, past and present, who have made, and continue to make, Welsh history? Discover the diverse array of LGBTQ+ figures influencing Wales - and the world - in an... -
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The Venetian Game: a haunting thriller set in the heart of Italy's most secretive city by Philip Gwynne Jones 9781472123978 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97'An unputdownable thriller' Gregory Dowling'It is no surprise to find that Philip Gwynne Jones lives in Venice... art and architecture interweave into a story that builds to an almost surreal climax'... -
The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I: 1848-1880 by William Morris
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.62The life of William Morris (1834-1896) is revealed in significant new detail by his complete surviving correspondence, brought together here for the first time and including many previously... -
The Venetian Game: a haunting thriller set in the heart of Italy's most secretive city by Philip Gwynne Jones 9781472123978
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An unputdownable thriller' Gregory Dowling'It is no surprise to find that Philip Gwynne Jones lives in Venice... art and architecture interweave into a story that builds to an almost surreal climax'... -
![Beastly Things by Donna Leon 9780434021604 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9707730/10724418/9780434021604__79700.1781365942.jpg?c=1 "Beastly Things by Donna Leon 9780434021604 [USED COPY]")
Beastly Things by Donna Leon 9780434021604 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.40When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere... -
![The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Lawrence James 9780349106731 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9706885/10723581/9780349106731__76818.1781364392.jpg?c=1 "The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Lawrence James 9780349106731 [USED COPY]")
The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Lawrence James 9780349106731 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.34'The best study of Lawrence of Arabia' Sunday TimesControversial and provocative, revised and updated, this edition of Lawrence James' acclaimed biography penetrates and overturns the mythology which... -
Venice for Pleasure J. G. Links 9781843681083
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38"None of Venice's innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima's character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate...Over the years thousands of... -
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening [...] all the way to journey's end' Herald One of our greatest voices in... -
![Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson 9780141007540 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9702039/10718743/9780141007540__39882.1781356901.jpg?c=1 "Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson 9780141007540 [USED COPY]")
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson 9780141007540 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.81Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia... -
Oxford in Pictures by John Curtis 9781841658445
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16"Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made into one." Oscar Wilde Oxford has for centuries inspired and... -
Japan Elizabeth Ingrams 9781906011086
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.38From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-century traveller and poet Basho: the most recent addition of Eland's through writers' eyes series... -
Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10 by Stephen Taylor 9780571224678
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Indian Ocean, 1809. At stake: Britain's commercial lifeline to India and naval supremacy. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and... -
Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing by Patrick Holland 9780472087068
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The first extensive survey of contemporary travel writing, Tourists with Typewriters offers a series of challenging and provocative critical insights into a wide range of travel narratives written in... -
South Wind Norman Douglas 9781786690678
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11The bishop was feeling rather sea-sick. Confoundedly sea-sick, in fact. An Anglican bishop, on recuperative leave from his African diocese, alights at the island of Nepenthe for a short stay on... -
They Were Counted: The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume I Miklós Bánffy 9781529434668
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS "Bánffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR "Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY "So evocative" SIMON JENKINSAn extraordinary portrait of the vanished... -
Old Glory: An American Voyage Jonathan Raban 9781780601366
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple 'The best book of travel ever written by an Englishman about the United States' Jan Morris,... -
Istanbul: Memories and the City (The Illustrated Edition) by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.18Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Orhan Pamuk's bestselling Istanbul: Memories of a City is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving... -
They Were Divided: The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume III Miklós Bánffy 9781529434682
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS"Banffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR"Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY"So evocative" SIMON JENKINSThe final volume of Miklos Bánffy's panoramic... -
![The Story of Wales by Jon Gower 9781849903738 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9694529/10711245/9781849903738__69978.1781315420.jpg?c=1 "The Story of Wales by Jon Gower 9781849903738 [USED COPY]")
The Story of Wales by Jon Gower 9781849903738 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.53The Story of Wales is a vibrant portrait of 30,000 years of power, identity and politics. Revisiting major turning points in Welsh history, from its earliest settlements to the present day, Jon Gower... -
After Everest: A Sherpa's Dream to Conquer the Top of the World by Tenzing Norgay 9781783342518
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99On 29 May 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary conquered Everest, three days before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Before their success, Everest had claimed the lives of dozens of climbers,... -
Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802 by James Woodforde 9781853113116
Booksplease Price: £16.99'fresh and eager...rich in character...so infectiously alive to the simple pleasures that even now the senses quicken to read it.' Jan Morris in The Times ...a brilliant picture of traditional... -
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu... -
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew RobertsDavid Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer... -
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World by James O'Reilly 9781609520878
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.46This is our annual collection of the best travel writing of the year, much of it never published before, from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. The Best Travel Writing, Volume... -
Pictures of You: Ten Journeys in Time Rory MacLean 9780995185517
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The 20th century in 10 extraordinary moments: a photographic journey by bestselling historian Rory Maclean In the 20th century, amateur photography took history-and collective memory-out of the... -
Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner by John Maxtone-Graham
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.15In Titanic Tragedy maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham documents the vessel's design, construction, and departure from Southampton, her passengers' lifeboat ordeal, their Carpathia rescue, the... -
Swallowed by a Whale: Writing Advice from Authors of Note 9780712355544
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In this specially commissioned anthology, 60 accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the pleasure... -
They Were Found Wanting: The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume II Miklós Bánffy 9781529434675
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50"Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS"Banffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR"Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY"So evocative" SIMON JENKINSThe second volume of Miklos Banffy's panoramic... -
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Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719561061 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during... -
Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War II by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician ..... -
Words of Mercury Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719561061
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during... -
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron 9780063099692
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063099692Author Colin ThubronFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence Nick Hunt 9781473665750
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Daily Telegraph Book of the Year'Travel writing in excelsis' -Jan... -
Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques 9781784781675
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.39In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery-a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to... -
Portrait With Keys: The City Of Johannesburg Unlocked Ivan Vladislavic 9781846270604
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In the wake of apartheid, the flotsam of the divided past flows over Johannesburg and settles, once the tides recede, around Ivan Vladislavic, who, patrolling his patch, surveys the changed cityscape... -
An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul: City of Remembering and Forgetting by Richard Tillinghast 9781907973215
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.82Istanbul, City of Forgetting and Remembering, by Richard Tillinghast, is a travel book in the classic tradition of Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Jan Morris. The author is an... -
Down The Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney 9780316019019
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00When Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she discovered modern Egypt for herself. As a rower, she faced crocodiles and testy river currents; as a...