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The Plagiarist in the Kitchen by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.08'I adore Meades's book . . . I want more of his rule-breaking irreverence in my kitchen' New York Times'The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is hilariously grumpy, muttering at us "Don't you bastards know... -
Museum Without Walls by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty films, two novels and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of... -
Empty Wigs Jonathan Meades 9781806770045
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.23'Go to Empty Wigs for prose that never ceases to dazzle, for an extended holiday from contemporary pieties and to disgrace yourself with laughter' Paul Genders, Literary Review Empty Wigs is a... -
The Plagiarist in the Kitchen: A Lifetime's Culinary Thefts by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'I adore Meades's book . . . I want more of his rule-breaking irreverence in my kitchen' New York Times'The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is hilariously grumpy, muttering at us "Don't you bastards know... -
Indian National Security: Misguided Men and Guided Missiles by Jonathan Mead 9789380502397
Booksplease Price: £44.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789380502397Author Jonathan MeadFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 by Jonathan Meades 9781783529506
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.73'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . ... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 Jonathan Meades 9781800181427
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.75'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . ... -
I Dream I Am by Jonathan Meader 9780996683388
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £18.25Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Last Landlady: An English Memoir by Laura Thompson 9781783528455
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Shortlisted for Harper's Bazaar Book of the Year 2019A Guardian, Spectator and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2018'A lyrical portrait of a fast-vanishing way of life . . . Thompson is a terrific... -
Isle of Rust: A Portrait of Lewis and Harris by Alex Boyd 9781804250822
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32“The unsurpassable strangeness of the island resides in the chasmic gulf between the naturally evolved and the negligently created, between Scarp and scrap, between the sublime and the substandard.”... -
The Book of Guilt: A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 2025 by Catherine Chidgey 9781399823647
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02MORNING, AFTERNOON, NIGHT. THE MOTHERS ARE ALWAYS WATCHING . . .'Original, dark, clever and compelling' Mary Ann Sieghart, author of The Authority Gap'This is a compelling and terrifying novel whose... -
The Book of Guilt Catherine Chidgey 9781399823616
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.26England, 1979. Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a secluded New Forest home, part of the government's Sycamore Scheme. Every day, the triplets do their chores, play... -
The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey 9781399823623
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government's Sycamore... -
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.88'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it... -
Space, Place, Life: Learning from Place by Brian Evans
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64Space Place Life is the first in a series of books drawing on the expertise of the Academy of Urbanism. This book examines the concepts that are core to the academy; the way that urban space is... -
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an... -
The Language of Cities by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first... -
Invitation To The Dance by Hilary Spurling
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary,... -
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in... -
Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean by David Verey 9780300097337
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.35Most famous for Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, this county also boasts intriguing monastic remains at Gloucester, fine houses in stucco and stone in the great Regency spa town of... -
Unbuilt: Radical visions of an architectural future that never arrived by Christopher Beanland
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.09Unbuilt tells the stories of the plans, drawings and proposals that emerged during the 20th century in an unparalleled era of optimism in architecture. Many of these grand projects stayed on the... -
Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West Richard Pollard 9780300109108
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.35This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer. The great port city of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty... -
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn... -
The Slow Train: A Railway Miscellany by Peter Ashley 9781788840927
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £4.63As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble... -
The Bicycle: A Miscellany on Two Wheels by Peter Ashley
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £6.11As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble... -
Bleak: The Mundane Comedy R.M. Murray 9781912235605
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73R.M. Murray has a story. Quite a few of them. Of seasickness, hangovers, the wrong kind of weather. Of the joy of woe, and disappointments fairy-lit with hope. From fishing in the endless rain on the... -
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A magnificent account of a less than... -
Birmingham and the Black Country by Andy Foster
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.85The latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black Country This fully revised account of the buildings of the City of... -
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Bleak: The Mundane Comedy by R.M. Murray 9781912235605 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.32SALTIRE SOCIETY SCOTTISH FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR R.M. Murray has a story. Quite a few of them. Of seasickness, hangovers, the wrong kind of weather. Of the joy of woe, and disappointments fairy-lit... -
Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.60The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously unseen sketchbooks and photographs from private... -
The Edifice Complex: The architecture of power by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power is a fascinating exploration of the language of architecture as an insight into the psychology of power, from tyrants to billionaires. ... -
My Other Spruce and Maple Self by Susan Finlay 9781913430023
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.26"There was something so unreal about the neat Georgian houses opposite and the laurel ball trees in front of them that once again I saw England as a piece of antique porcelain. As something no longer... -
Flower Ed Atkins 9781804271742
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.' Flower is a book of realistic confessions, likes, dislikes,... -
Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings by Owen Hatherley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the... -
Wiltshire by Julian Orbach
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.65The indispensable guide to the architectural heritage of Wiltshire With hundreds of buildings added to the new gazetteer, this volume offers a fully revised and updated guide to Wiltshire. From... -
Le Corbusier: Le Grand Phaidon Editors 9781837291014
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £29.49Back in print, the spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier - one of the twentieth century's most influential architects 'Le Corbusier arguably had more of an influence on... -
Smoke: A Global History of Smoking by Sander L. Gilman 9781861892003
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.34Human beings have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether as a cure or for pleasure, whether as part of a ritual or as an aspect... -
The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English County by Tim Burrows 9781788166775
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.10SHORTLISTED FOR THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARD 2023 'Exceptionally well-written and intelligent ... if you are interested in this remarkable microcosm of England, the book will grip you; if you... -
Old Food by Ed Atkins
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From one of the most lauded artists of his generation comes a purging soliloquy: a profound nowt delivered in some spent afterwards. Scorched by senility and nostalgia, and wracked by all kinds of... -
Innominate by Naomi Pearce 9781913430146
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88"Everything becomes familiar eventually. But there was something else, I'd tried to explain, a rhythmic presence like breath, barely a sound, more like pressure. I feel it on my stomach in bed, a...