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Jan Morris: life from both sides by Paul Clements 9781914484773
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'A marvel of clarity, fluency, and (Morris's favourite word in her final days) kindness.' The Sunday Times The first full account of the remarkable life of Jan Morris: writer, soldier, traveller,... -
Jan Morris: life from both sides by Paul Clements
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.07'A marvel of clarity, fluency, and (Morris's favourite word in her final days) kindness.' The Sunday Times 'A measured and elegant biography that Morris aficionados will find fascinating.' The Times... -
Trieste by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and... -
Hav by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.19Hav gives us Jan Morris at her most delightful and most suggestive. The city is a magical place - yet behind its arcane splendours are darker implications. The traditional Roof Race is peculiarly... -
Sydney by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created ... but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shiniest.'... -
Venice by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background... -
Oxford by Jan Morris 9780192801364
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.42'Few cities,' Jan Morris observes, 'have been much more loved, loathed, and celebrated.' This book has become a classic account of the character, history, mores, buildings, climate, and people of one... -
Pax Britannica by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of... -
Coronation Everest by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57'Exquisite, powerful . . . I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon Winchester? Coronation Everest offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of... -
Farewell the Trumpets by Jan Morris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With... -
Hav by Jan Morris 9781590174494
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174494Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
Conundrum Jan Morris 9780571341139
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from... -
Spain by Jan Morris 9780571241767
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of... -
Thinking Again by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such...Following the publication In My Mind's Eye, her acclaimed first volume of diaries, a Radio 4 Book of the... -
A Writer's World by Jan Morris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth century. Ranging... -
Allegorizings Jan Morris 9780571234141
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.95'Peerless.' Daily Telegraph 'Sprinkled with magic.' Observer'Full of mischief, romance, fun and kindness.' The TimesSoldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an... -
Manhattan '45 by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality,... -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every... -
Europe: An Intimate Journey by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Europe has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan... -
Hong Kong by Jan Morris 9780679776482
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776482Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds... -
Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century,... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris 9780156027748
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027748Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
Sultan in Oman Jan Morris 9781906011178
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906011178Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint Eland Publishing LtdPublisher... -
Ciao, Carpaccio!: An infatuation Jan Morris 9781843682288
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.28"After a good dinner one evening, with excellent company and a bottle of wine, I settled by my fire with a volume of paintings by the 15th century Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio. For much of my... -
The World of Venice by Professor Jan Morris 9780544313262
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544313262Author Professor Jan MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher... -
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Venice by Jan Morris 9780571168972 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.48Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background... -
Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest by Jan Morris 9780306810329
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.50With a fresh eye and inimitable style, the peerless travel and history writer Jan Morris journeys through the life of Abraham Lincoln to sketch an insightful new portrait of America's sixteenth... -
The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by... -
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Allegorizings by Jan Morris 9780571234134 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.54'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.'Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first ascent of... -
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Locations by Jan Morris 9780192831361 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country by Jan Morris
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.10Jan Morris's magnificent book celebrates Wales and all things Welsh. Written as a deeply personal study, it reflects the rich bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and wonderfully... -
Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire by Jan Morris 9780156028011
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156028011Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat by Jan Morris 9780156302869
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156302869Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
The World of Venice: Revised Edition by Jan Morris 9780156983563
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156983563Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.57'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.'So... -
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Pleasures of a Tangled Life by Jan Morris 9780712621809 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780712621809Author Jan MorrisPage Count 207Imprint Barrie & JenkinsPublisher VintageWeight(grams)... -
Among Others: Friendships and Encounters by Michael Frayn
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.44It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief word, looking back on life from his ninetieth year, about a few of the people who have... -
Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony Jan Morris 9781843682691
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.49In grand ironic elegy, Jan Morris tells the story of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato, most powerful warship of World War II and climax of the samurai tradition.Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.49Subtotal: