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Balzac by Graham Robb 9780330320153
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time... -
Rimbaud by Graham Robb 9780330488037
Booksplease Price: £21.68Graham Robb's brilliant biography moves Rimbaud on from his perpetual adolescence where our imaginations have held him to show the extent of his transformations. From phenomenally precocious... -
Victor Hugo by Graham Robb 9780330371452
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.51Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement, Revolutionary playwright, poet, epic novelist, author of the last universally... -
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearWinner of the American Library in Paris Book Award'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator'A fresh way to write history' - Alan... -
Rimbaud: A Biography by Graham Robb 9780393322675
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £26.94Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he... -
Balzac: A Life by Graham Robb 9780393313871
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.68In the first major English biography of Honore de Balzac for over fifty years, Graham Robb has produced a compelling portrait of the great French novelist whose powers of creation were matched only... -
The Discovery of France Graham Robb 9781035039197
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'An extraordinary journey of discovery' - Daily Telegraph'Pedals along with never a dull paragraph . . . dazzling' - The Sunday TimesIlluminating, engrossing and full of surprises, The Discovery of... -
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's... -
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb 9781529007626
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of the Year'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' Spectator'A fresh way to write history' Alan Johnson'A quirky, amused, erudite homage to France . . ... -
The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History by Graham Robb 9781324074946
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The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History by Graham Robb 9781035026135
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Robb has found a new format for writing history just as Craig Brown found a fresh way to write biography' - Alan Johnson'Rarely does history feel so beguiling' - The Observer'A treasure house of a... -
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52In Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century, award-winning author Graham Robb explores the story - and history - of male and female homosexuality in the UK and US, uncovering elements... -
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography by Graham Robb 9780393333640
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.33A narrative of exploration-full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants-that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large... -
The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History by Graham Robb 9781035026111
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80A Spectator Book of the Year.'Robb has found a new format for writing history' - Alan Johnson'Rarely does history feel so beguiling' - The Observer'A treasure house of a book' - The SpectatorTaking... -
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The Discovery of France by Graham Robb 9780330427616 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.51Illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, The Discovery of France is a literary exploration of a country few will recognize; from maps and migration to magic, language and landscape, it's a... -
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb 9780393326499
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.37The nineteenth century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. Long before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there was such a thing as gay... -
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe by Graham Robb
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization.Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most... -
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest... -
Walking With Plato: A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles by Gary Hayden
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62"If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright." So said Danish writer Soren Kierkegaard, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging trek: to walk... -
Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation OBE Andrew Hussey 9781783786602
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61The French have always loved to protest, to strike, to take to the streets in rebellion against the state or the status quo. But in the last few years, the level of anger and violence has taken many... -
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski 9780861547326
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01An epic history of the 'other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. 'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched... -
En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers Peter Fiennes 9780861548903
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37From the coast of Normandy to the Cote d'Azur, along the banks of the Seine to the Alps - the ultimate literary tour of France. 'Peter Fiennes's brisk literary travelogue is witty and packed with... -
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson 9781471128981
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review ____________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity and sophistication, and... -
The French Mind: A Cultural History of an Exceptional People by Peter Watson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.35'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review_________________________________________________________________________________________We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way... -
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain by Matthew Green
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns... -
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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain by Matthew Green 9780571338030 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.23THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns... -
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Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City by Stephen Clarke 9780593067116 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.54PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world.BUT do you know ... Which is the most romantic spot to say 'je't'aime'? And the sexiest?Where to see fantastic art, away from all the crowds?Why... -
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Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City by Stephen Clarke 9780552776967 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world.BUT do you know ... Which is the most romantic spot to say 'je't'aime'? And the sexiest?Where to see fantastic art, away from all the crowds?Why... -
Victor Hugo) Biography by G. Robb 9780393318999
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.50Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement; revolutionary playwright; poet; epic novelist; author of the last universally... -
Paris in Ruins: The Siege, the Commune and the Birth of Impressionism Sebastian Smee 9781836430797
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84Pulitzer-winner Sebastian Smee relives the remarkable birth of Impressionism from the ashes of war 'Enjoyable... a fine portrait not only of impressionism but the society that made it possible'... -
Yorkshire: A lyrical history of England's greatest county Richard Morris 9781780229096
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Restless, poetic, strange ... and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer'Glittering and energetic' Country LifeYorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain,... -
Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey 9780141011134
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Paris is the city of light and the city of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and reinvention that for two thousand years has drawn those with the highest ideals and the lowest morals to its... -
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Yorkshire: A lyrical history of England's greatest county by Richard Morris 9781780229096 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.61'Restless, poetic, strange ... and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer'Glittering and energetic' Country LifeYorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain,... -
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Yorkshire: A lyrical history of England's greatest county by Richard Morris 9780297609438 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.63'A restless, poetic, strange book, and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer'Meticulously researched ... fascinating' Country LifeYorkshire, it has been said, is 'a continent... -
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando FigesIn the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led... -
Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson 9781529924336
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.17'Sand seems as alive as if she had just walked out of the room... quietly witty... fascinating' The Times'Thought-provoking... written with energy, passion and commitment to its fascinating subject'... -
Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City by Stephen Clarke
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world.BUT do you know ... Which is the most romantic spot to say 'je't'aime'? And the sexiest?Where to see fantastic art, away from all the crowds?Why... -
In Paris: 20 Women on Life in the City of Light Lauren Bastide 9780241351680
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73The perfect book for anyone who has ever dreamed of living in Paris Profiles of twenty real-life women of Paris - artists, activists, booksellers, and filmmakers, aged fourteen to seventy, living in... -
Paris: Biography of a City by Colin Jones
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs' - MarivauxIn this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of... -
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Berlin: Imagine a City by Rory MacLean 9781780224589 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs,...