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An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village by Geert Mak
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In this book Geert Mak returns to the small Frisian village of his childhood, Jorwert (pop. 330 and falling). It's a typical European village where the shops are closing down, the few children left... -
In America: Travels with John Steinbeck by Geert Mak
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels... -
Amsterdam: A brief life of the city by Geert Mak
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil... -
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident by Geert Mak
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by... -
The Dream of Europe: Travels in a Troubled Continent by Geert Mak
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesFrom the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of... -
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century Geert Mak 9780099516736
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and... -
The Orwell Tour: Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell by Oliver Lewis 9781785789649
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Orwell roamed widely, living in London, Southwold, Henley, Wallington, Hayes and Jura. It's this rootless, restless man that writer Oliver Lewis pursues in his innovative and thorough book, The... -
The Orwell Tour: Travels through the life and work of George Orwell by Oliver Lewis
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived, worked and wrote Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out... -
Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories by Geertje Mak 9780719086908
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.50An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to 'create more space' in the woman for intercourse... -
Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories by Geertje Mak 9780719089978
Booksplease Price: £23.54An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to 'create more space' in the woman for intercourse... -
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies Rosemarie Buikema 9781138288263
Booksplease Price: £49.53Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, 2nd edition is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an... -
A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day by Friso Wielenga 9781350379596
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.83Friso Wielenga's detailed history of the Netherlands traces its political development from independence to today, incorporating significant explorations of culture, economics, international... -
The Boundless River: Stories from the Realm of the Rhine by Mathijs Deen 9781529424171
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement"[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times"It's easy to be swept away by Deen's delightful prose" New Statesman"A beautiful book,... -
Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe's heart of darkness by Pieter van Os
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95An extraordinary story about a Jewish woman who pretended to be Catholic to survive the Holocaust. Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in. She fell in love with a...