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Secret Warwick by Graham Sutherland
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65The county town of Warwick is famous for its castle, St Mary's Collegiate Church, with its links to Joan of Arc, and the Lord Leycester Hospital, but much more of its history has been too often... -
Secret Royal Leamington Spa by Graham Sutherland
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Although Royal Leamington Spa has its origins several hundred years ago, then known as Leamington Priors, the town only came to prominence in the past 200 years. With the Revolutionary and Napoleonic... -
Warwickshire Murders and Misdemeanours Graham Sutherland 9781398124578
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Although areas of Warwickshire became industrialised in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, much of the county remains rural. The history of crime in the county encompasses small... -
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins 9780300255294
Booksplease Price: $41.85Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton... -
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922-2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a "kind of Arcadian". His early art... -
British Landscapes: A Sense of Place by Simon Martin 9781869827632
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.79British Landscapes: A Sense of Place explores how artists responded to the landscape of England, Scotland, Wales during the 20th century. Drawn from the remarkable Modern British art collection of... -
Mid-Century Modern Tiles: A History and Collector's Guide by Rob Higgins
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96This book showcases British decorative tiles from 1945 to 1975. 'Mid-century Modern' had its roots in the 1930s, with influences especially from California and Europe. Pioneers include the architect... -
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal... -
The Life of Henry Moore by Roger Berthoud 9781900357227
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.33Henry Moore's rise from Yorkshire miner's son to international acclaim as the twentieth century's greatest sculptor is one of the most remarkable stories in British art. In this revised, updated,... -
Thomas Hennell: The Land and the Mind Jessica Kilburn 9781910258620
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $56.08Thomas Hennell (1903-45) said his aim was to 'surprise his subject' - to capture the transient quality of the moment. In watercolour he found his perfect medium, producing work which was, as his... -
Letters of Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas 9781857544770
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.16Keith Douglas (1920-44) loved his country. He also had an insatiable hunger for experience. When World War II began he enlisted: to fight, and to read history from within its turbulence. As with the...