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The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and most magical church in England. This vivid, original book tells... -
Walter Crane by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €22.55Booksplease Price: €14.77Jenny Uglow narrates the story of Walter Crane, an intriguing and most prolific figure not only in illustration, but in political culture more broadly. Uglow expertly weaves a fascinating study of... -
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.64Winner of the Portico PrizeShortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the YearHigh-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age,... -
George Eliot Jenny Uglow 9781844084982
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite society with her highly... -
The Quentin Blake Book by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.30A fully illustrated overview of the life and work of the universally loved Quentin Blake, released ahead of the artist's 90th birthday in December 2022. Quentin Blake is an artist who has charmed... -
William Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.06William Hogarth is a house-hold name across the country, his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. He painted the great and good but also the common people. His art is... -
A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.47Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges.Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird when they arrived on our shores?Drawn... -
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.06A Daily Telegraph, Times, Evening Standard, TLS and Spectator Book of the Year.Winner of the Hawthornden Prize.Edward Lear is well-loved for his 'nonsenses', from joyous limericks to great love... -
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was... -
Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the eighteenth century, just as Britain fell in love with nature. This was one of the wildlife books that marked the moment, the first... -
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time by Jenny Uglow 9780571354160
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'A joy to read.' Sunday Times'Outstanding.' Daily Telegraph'Excellent.' The Spectator'Superb.' Literary Review'Scintillating . . . A gripping, mysterious love story which also sheds light on British... -
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time by Jenny Uglow 9780571354153
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €10.00'Whatever Uglow writes about she makes absolutely fascinating.' DIANA ATHILLThe story of Sybil Andews and Cyril Power, two artists who changed each other in an age of experiment and turmoil.'In all... -
Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life by Brenda Maddox
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These... -
Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46As children, learning to read, we look first at the illustrations - but how do these tell their stories differently to the words? Words & Pictures explores this question through three encounters... -
A Year with Gilbert White: The Story of a Nature Writer Jenny Uglow 9780571354184
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.91'Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.' GUARDIAN'Few can match Uglow's skill at conjuring up a scene, or illuminating a character.' SUNDAY TIMES'Charming . . . Like Radio 4's shipping... -
The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.21Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from... -
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A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow 9780571217335 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €3.24Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was... -
A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer Jenny Uglow 9780571354191
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.' GUARDIAN'Few can match Uglow's skill at conjuring up a scene, or illuminating a character.' SUNDAY TIMES'Charming . . . Like Radio 4's shipping... -
A Sultry Month by Alethea Hayter 9780571372294
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could... -
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.15Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeAs the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning social historian Jenny Uglow reveals the colourful and turbulent... -
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A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow 9780571217342 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €2.80'Terrific . . . fabulously rich and insightful.' Dominic Sandbrook'Intense, involved, absorbing.' Frances Wilson Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His... -
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Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition by Jenny Uglow 9780571242504 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.02Words & Pictures explores three fascinating examples of relationships between artists and writers: the illustrations of Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress; Hogarth and Fielding, a writer and artist... -
Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography by Jennifer Uglow 9780333565568
Booksplease Price: €55.43The enthusiastic response to the Dictionary has prompted this second substantially enlarged, revised and updated edition. It now contains essential details of the lives of over 2000 women from all... -
The Lunar Men by Jennifer Uglow 9780374528881
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €33.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528881Author Jennifer UglowFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint -
Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography by Jennifer Uglow 9780333453032
Booksplease Price: €108.72The enthusiastic response to the Dictionary has prompted this second substantially enlarged, revised and updated edition. It now contains essential details of the lives of over 2000 women from all... -
Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography by Jennifer Uglow 9781349098620
Booksplease Price: €107.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349098620Author Jennifer UglowFormat PaperbackPage Count 644Imprint -
The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography by Jennifer Uglow 9781403934482
Booksplease Price: €46.67The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography contains details of the lives of over 2100 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life - from queens to TV chefs, engineers to stand up... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a... -
Jan Morris: A Life Sara Wheeler 9780571379453
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.31'Wonderful.' Paul Theroux'Brilliant.' Simon Jenkins'Superb.' Colin Thubron'Breathtakingly good.' Michael PalinA captivating authorised biography of the legendary writer Jan Morris.She was the... -
Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution by Roger Osborne
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.74In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and... -
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70With a biographer's eye for detail and a novelist's comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of... -
Sylvan Cities: An Urban Tree Guide by Helen Babbs
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51'Clever, pretty, fun and informative - what more can a reader ask for?' Sara Maitland, author of Gossip From the ForestWe're surrounded in cities by trees, quiet colossuses that most of us don't know... -
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History by Esther Rutter
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'A compelling literary journey through the social history of wool in the British Isles' Karen Lloyd, author of The Gathering Tide Travel the length of the British Isles with Esther Rutter, as she... -
Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection by John Mullan 9780198711353
Booksplease Price: €67.79This collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance. In the early part of the century, high... -
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination Richard Mabey 9781861979582
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.09In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from... -
Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life... -
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Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard 9781842127308 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.77How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life... -
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father George Goodwin 9781780227351
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian'Fantastic' Dan SnowFor the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in... -
Where the Hornbeam Grows: A Journey in Search of a Garden Beth Lynch 9781474606905
Booksplease Price: €21.63'Beth Lynch's subtle and moving book is about the heart-work of finding and making a place for oneself in the world; the effort of putting down roots, the pain of tearing them up again, and how one... -
Where the Hornbeam Grows: A Journey in Search of a Garden by Beth Lynch 9781474606882
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.26What do you do when you find yourself living as a stranger? When Beth Lynch moved to Switzerland, she quickly realised that the sheer will to connect with people would not guarantee a happy...