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Messiah by Jonathan Keates
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at... -
Messiah by Jonathan Keates 9781784974008
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $6.04In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at... -
Purcell: A Biography by Jonathan Keates 9780571249091
Booksplease Price: $27.98In the chaos of the English Civil War and Puritan Commonwealth, churches were defaced and organs broken, but the tradition of fine music survived. When Charles II returned from exile in 1660, one of... -
The Siege Of Venice by Jonathan Keates 9780712673693
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98The siege of Venice in 1848 is one of history's most thrilling and tragic episodes. After half a century of Habsburg imperial rule, the Venetians drove out the occupying army and established their... -
the Poetry of Robert Browning by Jonathan Keates
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776113Author Jonathon KeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Handel: The Man & His Music by Jonathan Keates 9781845951153
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the... -
The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino Jane Stevenson 9781800241985
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro. 'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross... -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780393427882
Booksplease Price: $17.70"The Decameron has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for... -
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.34The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age. Inspired by... -
Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography by Ian Hamilton 9780571281671
Booksplease Price: $19.66Literary biography is an endlessly fascinating form, not least because of the fierce controversies that attend the question of how much of a writer's real life ought to be related to readers. Ian... -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780393350265
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.92Ten young Florentines flee the Black Death of 1348 by escaping to a country villa overlooking the city. There they spend ten days telling each other one hundred stories. Their stories run the gamut... -
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate by Jason Wilson 9781472122056
Booksplease Price: $26.70W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extreme poverty. Like his friend Joseph Conrad, Hudson was... -
Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood 9780393326383
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.59This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and... -
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner by Henry James 9781805330912
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as... -
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.94For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the... -
The Lover of No Fixed Abode by Carlo Fruttero 9781913394905
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55The month, November. Glittering worldliness and dubious shabbiness overlap, passion and suspicion intertwine in a three-day Venetian adventure, bookended by the arrival of a plane and the departure... -
Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Extraordinary Adventures of the Man Behind Mozart by Rodney Bolt 9780747585367
Booksplease Price: $18.41By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's... -
The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945 by Madeleine Bunting
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43'A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane' Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday TelegraphWhat would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people... -
Microcosms by Claudio Magris
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Amid wars, failed revolutions and the shifting of frontiers, the bit-part players often have the best tales to tell - an astonishing, genre-blurring travelogue from Italian master Claudio Magris.In... -
The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.01The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world - permanently. The face of the earth,... -
Blaming Elizabeth Taylor 9781844083084
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!' Elizabeth Jane Howard* A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth century's... -
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction by John Sutherland
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'I rejoice', said Doctor Johnson, 'to concur with the Common Reader.' For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller... -
Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast by Cynthia Saltzman 9780500296721
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'A fascinating and deeply rewarding book' Adam Zamoyski, Daily Telegraph Napoleon's Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history and, in doing so, sheds... -
Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre 9781408838150
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.47'Startling, dark and absorbing' Independent 'Excellent travel writing: vivid, sympathetic, humorous' Guardian 'Fascinating, provocative and highly eccentric' New York Times _______________________... -
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMESThe extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian... -
The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea by Nicolette Jones
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero'A story of ambition, treachery, libel, political intrigue and... -
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The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea by Nicolette Jones 9780349117201 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.30The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero'A story of ambition, treachery, libel, political intrigue and... -
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.03Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and... -
Politics of Washing by Polly Coles 9780719808784
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.18This is the story of ordinary life in an extraordinary place. The beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but what is it like to live there?... -
Mr Five Per Cent: The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man Dr Jonathan Conlin 9781788160438
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Winner of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2020 When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his... -
Victor Hugo by Graham Robb 9780330371452
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.30Victor 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... -
A Question of Belief: (Brunetti 19) by Donna Leon
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.51'Leon's books are a joy, and the 19th Venice-based Commissario Brunetti novel is well up to her consistently high standard.' GuardianA Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association BestsellerOne of... -
The Estancia by Martin Cullen 9781999589103
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41The Estancia is the story of a young boy growing up in the upper classes of the Argentine in the 1950s, set against the turbulent backdrop of Peronist rule. Revealing a now vanished society of the... -
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Venice by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422563 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.11In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty. He leads us... -
The Last King Of Poland by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $15.53A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history.'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds like an appetising detective novel' ScotsmanThe... -
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91'4 stars. Attlee, who knows and loves Italy and the Italians, takes the reader through the country's scented gardens with her sharp descriptions, pertinent stories and quotes and intriguing recipes... -
Handel in London: The Making of a Genius by Jane Glover 9781509882069
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $21.23'How refreshing, to read a book about music written for a music lover and not a musicologist. In clear, lucid, entertaining prose, Jane Glover makes those of us who lack musical literacy better... -
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 by R. F. Foster
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.38OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016'The most... -
No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations by Mark Mazower 9780691157955
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.00No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed... -
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.19THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021'Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping ... damning portrait of the Windsors' Daily Mail 'Book of the...