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Civilisation by Kenneth Clark
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that... -
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.01A landmark study of the nude in art-from the ancient Greeks to Henry Moore-by a towering figure in art historyIn this classic book, Kenneth Clark, one of the most eminent art historians of the... -
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress: As seen on TV by David Olusoga
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Oscar Wilde said, 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Cult of Progress, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations. ... -
Young Rembrandt: A Biography by Onno Blom
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist in the world? With his formative years shrouded in mystery, the only... -
Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir by Ken Clarke
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine 'Big Beasts' of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire he has been at the... -
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Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir by Ken Clarke 9781509837199 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.50Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine 'Big Beasts' of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire he has been at the... -
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America Michael Eric Dyson 9781250297044
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallised the fraught conflict between conscience and politics - between morality and power - in addressing race. In 1963 Attorney General... -
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present Sir Roy Strong 9781474607063
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'A triumph' INDEPENDENT'A thought-provoking and indispensable book' DAILY MAIL'An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight' EVENING STANDARDRoy Strong has... -
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Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade 9780297869207 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £3.82BOOK OF THE WEEK on BBC Radio 4, a GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Book of the Year and a Waterstones.com Best Biography of 2016'A brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining account of the... -
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining' John Banville'Excellent ... read this book' Literary Review'The best single-volume life of the author available' Irish TimesThe much mythologised author... -
Praeterita And Dilecta by John Ruskin 9781857152791
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04To call Praeterita an autobiography is to tell only part of the truth. A book like no other, by oneof the greatest masters of English prose., it is less a narrative than the prismatic sotry of an... -
The Nature Of Prejudice: 25th Anniversary Edition by Gordon W. Allport
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice... -
F**k Business: The Business of Brexit Iain Anderson 9781785905322
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05When a senior Cabinet minister dismissed corporate fears over a hard Brexit with a curt `F**k business,' it seemed emblematic of a growing distance between the country's politicians and its wealth... -
Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King 9781408831182
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its... -
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson 9781399721653
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in... -
Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby: Volume VII by Christopher Bigsby 9781911343523
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Writers in Conversation compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from over a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University... -
Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook by Henry Moore
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In February 1972 Henry Moore's sculpture studios in the English countryside at Much Hadham were filled with the preparations for his retrospective exhibition in Florence. He retreated to a small... -
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The Little Train by Graham Greene 9780857551597 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £3.69Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. He chugs and puffs his way through villages, past castles and over bridges. But soon... -
The Little Train by Graham Greene
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. He chugs and puffs his way through villages, past castles and over bridges. But soon... -
Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography by Meryle Secrest
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'A wonderful insight into a life that history hasn't remembered as well as it should have.' - VogueOne of the most extraordinary fashion designers of the twentieth century, Elsa Schiaparelli was an... -
Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case against Segregation by John P. Jackson 9780814742662 [USED COPY]
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £8.60In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education, social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the Supreme Court Justices of the debilitating... -
Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now: Seven Scenes from the Life of a House by The Duke of Devonshire
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.70A stunningly original portrait of one of England's grandest country housesNo house embodies the spirit of one dynasty better than Chatsworth. Set in an unspoilt Derbyshire valley, surrounded by wild... -
The Naked Nude by Frances Borzello
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25The story of the nude in art in our times, told by a popular art historian with a rare gift for sharing her passions and ideas. The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a... -
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton 9781838933173
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands... -
The Chancellors' Tales: Managing the British Economy Howard Davies (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745638850
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.41This remarkable book tells the story of how the British economy has been managed over the last 30 years. The story is told by those who should know more about it than anyone else - the former... -
Duchess of Cork Street: The Autobiography of an Art Dealer by Lillian Browse 9781900357142
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.27Duchess of Cork Street is the autobiography of a remarkable woman who, educated in the culturally unsophisticated milieu of South Africa, managed by charm, determination and good judgment to... -
The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination by Robert Holland
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the... -
The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism by Debra Van Ausdale 9780847688623
Booksplease Price: £18.18This study looks into how children learn about the 'first R'-race-and challenges the current assumptions with case-study examples from three child-care centers. Parents and teachers will find... -
Solid Ivory by James Ivory
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.04'Over 20 films. Over 40 years. What collaboration in any medium has lasted so long, been so successful, so personal, so happy? Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life...