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Early Modern Merchants as Collectors Christina M. Anderson 9780367334109
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Early Modern Merchants as Collectors encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often aristocratic pursuit, but rather as a vital activity that has engaged many different groups within... -
Jerusalem: The Real Life of William Blake: A Biography Tobias Churton 9781786784193
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.68A brilliant new biography of the mystic poet and artist William Blake - and the first to explore both his struggle to make a name for himself in a society unable to appreciate his genius and his... -
Money and the Middle Ages Jacques Le Goff (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) 9780745652993
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types of money, in the economy, life and mentalities of the Middle Ages. He seeks also to explain how,... -
The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: 'A Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai' by Paul Bevan 9783030890346
Booksplease Price: £47.25The comic novel, The Adventures of Ma Suzhen, was written during a highpoint in the popularity of xia "knight-errant" fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her... -
Money and the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff 9780745652986
Booksplease Price: £46.29Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types of money, in the economy, life and mentalities of the Middle Ages. He seeks also to explain how,... -
Painting Abstract Nature on Canvas: A Guide to Creating Vibrant Art with Watercolour and Mixed Media by Jane Betteridge 9781782219705
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.36This exciting new title from best-selling author and artist Jane Betteridge explores how to create stunning abstract watercolour and mixed media art on canvas. The book contains short practical... -
Nineteenth Century British Painting by Luke Herrmann 9781900357173
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.95Nineteenth Century British Painting provides a succinct and informative chronological survey of a century of British painting which produced a great variety of work. It progresses from the beginnings... -
Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by Terry Graff
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £34.36Shortlisted, Best Atlantic Published Book Award and Canadian Regional Design AwardA major publication comprising 240 pages with 75 colour plates and 60 black-and-white photographs provides extensive... -
Van Gogh: A Life in Places by Juliet Heslewood 9781911604648
Booksplease Price: £6.91Early in his career, as he grappled with the idea of becoming an artist, Vincent van Gogh attempted portraiture, possibly with a mission in the religious sense. His models were impoverished miners,... -
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Bone China by Roma Tearne 9780007257508 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.65An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London. Grace de Silva, wife of the shiftless but charming... -
Rewriting History: Changing Perceptions of the Past by Dennis Harding
RRP: £112.50Booksplease Price: £108.95In Rewriting History, Dennis Harding addresses contemporary concerns about information and its interpretation. His focus is on the archaeology of prehistoric and early historic Britain, and the... -
Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550-1950 by Adriana Turpin 9781501392276
Booksplease Price: £30.98Art Markets, Agents and Collectors brings together a wide variety of case studies, based on letters and detailed archival research, which nuance the history of the art market and the role of the... -
Alexander the Great: From His Death to the Present Day by John Boardman 9780691181752
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30An illustrious scholar presents an elegant, concise, and generously illustrated exploration of Alexander the Great's representations in art and literature through the agesJohn Boardman is one of the... -
Looting or Missioning: Insular and Continental Sacred Objects in Viking Age Contexts in Norway by Egil Mikkelsen 9781789253184
Booksplease Price: £60.69Until now insular and continental material, mostly metal-work, found in pagan Viking Age graves in Norway, has been interpreted as looted material from churches and monasteries on the British Isles... -
Rethinking Roundhouses: Later Prehistoric Settlement in Britain and Beyond by D. W. Harding 9780192893802
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £97.88Excavated plans of roundhouses may compound multiple episodes of activity, design, construction, occupation, repair, and closure, reflecting successive stages of a building's biography. What does not... -
Mosquito by Roma Tearne 9780007233663
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22A lyrical and profoundly moving story of love, loss and civil war, set in Sri Lanka, London and Venice. When author Theo Samarajeeva returns to his native Sri Lanka after his wife's death,... -
Museums and the Ancient Middle East: Curatorial Practice and Audiences by Geoff Emberling 9780367585556
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Museums and the Ancient Middle East is the first book to focus on contemporary exhibit practice in museums that present the ancient Middle East. Bringing together the latest thinking from a diverse... -
Raku by Tim G. Andrews
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.82The essential guide to raku techniques, covering clay types, glazes, kilns, firing methods and reduction processes. Over the last thirty years interest in the raku pottery technique has grown... -
Shoes, Slippers, and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity by Sadie Pickup
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This edited volume groups research on the significance of ancient feet and footwear, much of which was presented, discussed and reviewed at the conference: Shoes, Slippers and Sandals: Feet and... -
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Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne 9780007301560 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £2.34Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. ... -
Nests by Susan Ogilvy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.31An exquisitely illustrated, one-of-a-kind celebration of the hidden beauty of nature and the ingenuity of birdsSusan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost by accident. One day, while tidying up... -
'A Marvel to Behold': Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII Timothy Schroder (Royalty Account) 9781783275076
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.49Bringing the existence and significance of the lost riches of Henry VIII back to life, this book sheds new light on Henrician and Tudor court culture. Henry VIII amassed the most spectacular... -
British Vogue: The Biography of an Icon by Julie Summers 9781474626224
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The official history of British Vogue, telling the magazine's story and how it has reflected the changing face of Britain from the first issue in 1916 right up to the present day.British Vogue has... -
Watercolour Nature Unleashed by Jane Betteridge
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.36Bursting with exciting and innovative techniques, best-selling author Jane Betteridge pushes watercolour to new heights, bringing nature to life with vibrancy, texture and dynamism. In this... -
The Politics of Writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77 by Eileen Fauset
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women... -
Ur: The City of the Moon God by Harriet Crawford
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.98The ancient Mesoptamian city of Ur was a Sumerian city state which flourished as a centre of trade and civilisation between 2800-2000 BCE. However, in the recent past it suffered from the disastrous... -
The Politics of Writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77 by Eileen Fauset 9780719055577
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.50Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women... -
Public Archaeology and Climate Change by Tom Dawson 9781785707049
Booksplease Price: £46.63Public Archaeology and Climate Change promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ 'citizen science'... -
Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia by Manuel Fernandez-Gotz 9780197267356
Booksplease Price: £87.30Migrations constitute one of the most defining features of human history from the very beginning to the present. In recent years, the increasing application of ancient DNA and isotope studies has... -
Francis Bacon: Human Presence Rosie Broadley 9781855145641
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.83This book explores Francis Bacon's deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale... -
The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions by Roger Wagner 9780198839286
Booksplease Price: £31.28When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all... -
Francis Bacon: Human Presence Rosie Broadley 9781855145498
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.40Featuring works from the 1950s onwards, this book explores Francis Bacon's deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture... -
Animal Encounters: Human and Animal Interaction in Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War I by Arthur MacGregor 9781861898494
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.40Until the advent of steam and later the internal combustion engine, the fortunes of man and beast were intimately and essentially bound together. Animals played a variety of fundamental roles in a... -
Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Naomi Wolf 9780349004082
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.31The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds, a Victorian-era poet, biographer, and critic who... -
Muse: Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces by Ruth Millington
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLOE ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of art history' JENNY PERY | 'An essential read' EDWARD... -
Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing: A Complete Guide to the Medium by Susan Schwalb
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Silverpoint, and metalpoint more generally, is the practice of marking with soft metal on a specifically prepared drawing surface. Practiced for centuries, the artform is experiencing a resurgence in... -
The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions by Roger Wagner 9780198747956
Booksplease Price: £41.95When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all... -
Titian's Allegory of Marriage: New Approaches Daniel Unger 9781041189602
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38This book offers nine new approaches toward a single work of art, Titian's Allegory of Marriage or Allegory of Alfonso d'Avalos, dated to 1530/5. In earlier references, the painting was named simply...