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The Madman's Gallery by Edward Brooke-Hitching
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.70Enter The Madman's Gallery - the perfect gift book for any art lover. Discover an eccentric exploration through the curious history of art, to find the strangest paintings, sculptures, drawings and... -
The Madman's Orchestra Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781398532403
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.51From the bestselling author and former BBC QI Elf comes a fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of music. In The Madman's Orchestra, join Edward Brooke-Hitching... -
Love; A Curious History by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781398522718
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.46'Edward Brooke-Hitching's delightful book is a collection of curiosities. From a 19th-century lonely hearts ad to a nuptial blessing of the bride's buttocks, an entertaining history of love over the... -
The Most Interesting Book in the World Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781398532373
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Drawn from a lifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are. Written by a former BBC QI... -
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.58* BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *'Anybody who loves the printed word will be bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful book about books. It is in every way a triumph. One of the loveliest books... -
What's the Weirdest Thing About Animals? Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781526685155
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72"Every species has something fascinating and bizarre about it - whether it's worms that glow red-and-green like a traffic light or birds with claws bigger than those of a grizzly bear. Basically, the... -
365 Amazing True Things to Read in Bed Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781836004554
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.61Bedtime is about to get a lot more interesting.365 Amazing True Things to Read in Bed is a joyful collection bursting with wild facts, weird wonders and unbelievable-but-true stories – one for every... -
365 Amazing True Things to Read in Bed by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781836004561
Booksplease Price: £16.44Bedtime is about to get a lot more interesting.365 Amazing True Things to Read in Bed is a joyful collection bursting with wild facts, weird wonders and unbelievable-but-true stories - one for every... -
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781471159459
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.30A STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK REVEALING THE GREATEST MYTHS, LIES AND BLUNDERS ON MAPS 'Highly recommended' - Andrew Marr 'A spectacular, enjoyable and eye-opening read' - Jonathan RossThe Phantom... -
The Sky Atlas: The Greatest Maps, Myths and Discoveries of the Universe by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781471178931
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.64'Beautiful ... endless, brilliant unforgettable stories' Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6'Combining myth and science, this breathtaking book [is] packed with stunning images' Daily MailAfter the enormous... -
The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781398503557
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.52'Very beautiful and illuminating' Mariella Frostrup Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the international bestseller The Phantom Atlas delivers an atlas unlike any other. The Devil's Atlas is an... -
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781452168401
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.73The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilisations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other... -
The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781797214474
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797214474Author Edward Brooke-HitchingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Chronicle... -
The Madman's Orchestra: The Greatest Curiosities from the History of Music by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781797240121
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797240121Author Edward Brooke-HitchingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Chronicle... -
Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781471148996
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.40'An entertaining new book... which looks back at the most bizarre sporting activities ever devised by mankind' Daily Mail 'Perfect book for the Christmas stockings of adults and curious children'... -
The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781471166822
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.64'Stunning...divine' Stephen Fry 'A fabulous book, good enough to eat with a spoon! Marvellous' John Lloyd, creator of QI 'Perfect for the armchair adventurer historian, this is a rich visual... -
The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797207308Author Edward Brooke-HitchingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Chronicle... -
The Crackpot Compendium: A mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781398532427
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.29A truly mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history’s most eccentric thinkers. -
Madman's Gallery: The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities from the History of Art by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781797221762
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.32Enter The Madman's Gallery and discover an extraordinary, illustrated exhibition of the greatest curiosities from the global history of art, featuring one hundred magnificently eccentric antique... -
No Pie, No Priest: A Journey through the Folk Sports of Britain by Harry Pearson 9781471198304
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.92Writer Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the glitzy era of the Premier League and Sky Sports to find out... -
No Pie, No Priest: A Journey through the Folk Sports of Britain by Harry Pearson 9781471198328
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Writer Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the glitzy era of the Premier League and Sky Sports to find out... -
The World's 100 Weirdest Sporting Events: From Gravy Wrestling in Lancashire to Wife Carrying in Finland by Geoff Tibballs
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77When we think of the world's great sporting events, we tend to focus on spectacles such as the World Cup, the Olympics, the Derby, the Monaco Grand Prix or the University Boat Race. Yet there is also... -
The Library of Lost Maps James Cheshire 9781526676610
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48'A magnificent book that sings of the romance and mystery that only old maps possess' EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHING'Astonishingly fresh and insightful ... A triumph' ALICE ROBERTSThe remarkable story of an... -
Drink Maps in Victorian Britain by Kris Butler 9781851245789
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92What is a 'drink map'? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it actually refers to a type of late nineteenth-century British map designed specifically to shock and shame people into drinking less. ... -
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers Paulina Rowinska 9781035007066
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'If you have ever wondered why an airliner bound from London to Los Angeles flies over Greenland, how we know what lies inside the Earth, or how computers correct errors, then this is for you' - John... -
Muse: Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces by Ruth Millington
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23'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... -
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers by Paulina Rowinska 9781035007042
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.63A gripping exploration of how cartography shapes our world and the impact of maps on our everyday lives.'If you have ever wondered why an airliner bound from London to Los Angeles flies over... -
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers by Paulina Rowinska 9781035007059
Booksplease Price: £13.61How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie... -
Henry Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists by Henry Eliot
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has... -
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English, which illuminates the lives, beliefs and habits of our linguistic ancestors. 'A marvelous... -
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book by Rebecca Lee 9781788166386
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.60'Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat' Stephen Poole, Guardian 'An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about... -
The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary... -
The Fairy-Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber 9781529327694
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary... -
Mapmatics: A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World by Paulina Rowińska 9780674294233
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £20.82"I love maps. I love math. And gosh, do I love this book, which so beautifully and clearly sounds the depths of both." -Ben Orlin, author of Math with Bad DrawingsExplore the surprising connections...