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Eric Gill by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38A gorgeous new edition of Fiona MacCarthy's ground-breaking biography of the artist-craftsman, typographer, and lettercutter, master wood-engraver, and sculptor: Eric Gill.'Fascinating on the work... -
Byron: Life and Legend Fiona MacCarthy 9781444799866
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.25Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive.She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland,... -
Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine... -
William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.85Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and described by A.S.Byatt as 'one of the finest biographies ever published', this is Fiona MacCarthy's magisterial biography of William Morris, legendary... -
How I Became A Socialist by William Morris 9781788736916
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.59William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is less well known. This collection, the first of his political writings published for nearly... -
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.34* A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year ** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings *'A masterpiece.' Edmund de Waal'Commanding, intelligent,... -
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William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy 9780571255597 [USED COPY]
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £17.03Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and described by A.S.Byatt as 'one of the finest biographies ever published', this is Fiona MacCarthy's magisterial biography of William Morris, legendary... -
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.41Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A... -
Value: What Money Can't Buy: A Handbook for Practical Hedonism Stephen Bayley 9781472134905
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Since the industrial revolution, when everything ran by clockwork, people have understood how important it is to live in the moment. But over time our world has grown increasingly busy, and we've... -
Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler by Cate Haste
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16__________________________ 'Fascinating ... Haste paints a portrait of a woman who was born to triumph, not surrender' - Harper's Bazaar 'Written in elegant, lucid prose ... a treasure trove of... -
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid by Peter Hennessy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much... -
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Corona by Peter Hennessy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much... -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH... -
Gainsborough: A Portrait James Hamilton 9781474601061
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest... -
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RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £7.63** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest... -
Michael Tippett: The Biography Oliver Soden 9781474606035
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A delight to read' Philip Pullman'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom ServiceA BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including the... -
Vera Brittain: A Life by Mark Bostridge 9780349015019
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge.'Riveting and authoritative' Kate Figes, Independent on Sunday'Honest,... -
Chivalry Maurice Keen 9780300107678
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Chivalry-with its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armor-was a social ideal that had a profound influence on the history of early modern Europe. In this eloquent and richly detailed book, a... -
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Provocative and enlightening, Richard Sennett's The Craftsman is an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living. Most of us have to work... -
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales by Mark Bostridge 9780826475732
Booksplease Price: £28.41Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. Lives for Sale is an anthology of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life... -
Theatres of Memory: v. 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel 9781859840771
Booksplease Price: £35.76In this widely acclaimed book, Raphael Samuel takes issue with the claim that our obsession with heritage is a symptom of national decay. He argues rather that we live in an expanding historical... -
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales by Mark Bostridge 9780826487841
Booksplease Price: £18.18Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. This new anthology is a collection of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life... -
Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel
Booksplease Price: £35.16When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of "heritage" that lies at the heart of every Western... -
Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland by Lavinia Greenlaw 9781910749562
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place... -
William Morris in Iceland: Questions of Travel by Lavinia Greenlaw
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place... -
Deceived With Kindness Angelica Garnett 9780712662666
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury. Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed herself,... -
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Deceived With Kindness by Angelica Garnett 9780712662666 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.35Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury. Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed herself,... -
Clarice Cliff: The inspiration behind The Colour Room by Lynn Knight 9781526654748
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The captivating biography of one of the most important designers of the twentieth century - adapted for Sky Cinema starring Phoebe Dynevor, Matthew Goode and David Morrissey Clarice Cliff was one... -
The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State by Nicholas Timmins 9780007102648
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised to cover Blair's first term. Lively writing in the... -
Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work A S Byatt 9781784740801
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74This ravishing book opens a window onto the lives, designs, and passions of two charismatic artists. Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat... -
London Fog: The Biography by Christine L. Corton
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.29A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Telegraph Editor's ChoiceAn Evening Standard "Best Books about London" SelectionIn popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs,...