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The Aldeburgh Scallop by Maggi Hambling
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £9.31EADT "Reader's Choice" winner, The New Angle Prize for Literature 2011"Scallop is at once a monument to a great musician-composer and a celebration of the origins of his art... A robust and poetic... -
Maggi Hambling Sean Burns 9788891844569
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.44Featuring an exceptional range of reproductions of Maggi Hambling's work, including unique archival materials, this authoritative and visually stunning new volume offers the most comprehensive... -
Maggi Hambling: Nightingale Night James Cahill 9781869827663
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Maggi Hambling has over time responded to the sound of song in her work, consistently capturing it in gold against a black ground-to date her diverse subjects have included the singers Leonard Cohen,... -
Cedric Morris: A Life in Art and Plants by Janet Waymark 9781912892204
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.50Cedric Morris (1889-1982) was an accomplished painter of flowers and landscapes, and a plantsman whose irises are an enduring legacy. This is a timely study of a man whose stock has risen appreciably... -
Aesthetic Dining: The Art Restaurant Around the World Christina Makris 9780995454651
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.04"I went to Noma and interviewed Rene (Redzepi). We were talking about art and food but the restaurant was closed. Everybody asked me how was the food, what did you eat - and he basically gave me some... -
Learning Outside the Primary Classroom by Fred Sedgwick
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38"We believe that every young person should experience the world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and personal development, whatever their age, ability or circumstances. Learning... -
Learning Outside the Primary Classroom by Fred Sedgwick 9780415608664
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35"We believe that every young person should experience the world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and personal development, whatever their age, ability or circumstances. Learning... -
Matters of Life and Death: Key Writings Iona Heath 9781846190964
Booksplease Price: £30.61In this extraordinary book, Iona Heath draws on her experience as a general practitioner to select and comment on a collection of passages concerning death and dying, and to consider the essential... -
The Image of Christ in Modern Art Richard Harries 9781409463825
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94The Image of Christ in Modern Art explores the challenges presented by the radical and rapid changes of artistic style in the 20th century to artists who wished to relate to traditional Christian... -
Reflections: Andrew Logan in Conversation with Andrew Lambirth by Andrew Lambirth
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.60Told in his own words, in response to questions from the writer and art critic Andrew Lambirth, this book chronicles Andrew Logan's life and work through expressive anecdote and factual recollection... -
Hen, Mistress of Mayhem: A Portrait of Henrietta Moraes Darren Coffield 9781837051090
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.76Henrietta Moraes first discovered Soho when she was eighteen - or so she tells us. Her favourite sport was social climbing (heaven knows she enjoyed the exercise) and she was good at it, going to all... -
Great Women Painters by Phaidon Editors
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £35.14A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling of the story... -
Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between by Gemma Rolls-Bentley 9780711282674
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.22We love and strongly recommend this beautifully curated book. Celebrating the massive and lasting global impact of LGBTQI+ artists, a book like this is long overdue! Russell Tovey & Robert Diament,... -
The Life of Bryan: A Celebration of Bryan Robertson by Andrew Lambirth 9781916495739
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.55Bryan Robertson (1925-2002) was the greatest director the Tate Gallery never had. In 1952, at the age of 27, and against formidable competition (which included David Sylvester and Lawrence Gowing),... -
London's Statues of Women Juliet Rix 9781068516207
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.20Never mind all the Great Men - what about the great women immortalised on London's streets? As this superbly wide-ranging book reveals, they are an extraordinary and varied band with exceptional... -
The Resurrection of Oscar Wilde: A Cultural Afterlife by Julia Wood 9780718830717
Booksplease Price: £29.68Between 1995 and 2000 a number of events took place commemorating the centenaries of Oscar Wilde's conviction for gross indecency in London and his death in Paris. This absorbing book examines five... -
Dialogues with Degas: Influence and Antagonism in Contemporary Art by Dr. Kathryn Brown 9781350258693
Booksplease Price: £106.26Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth examination of this major artist’s impact on contemporary... -
Tate: Master Watercolour: Painting techniques inspired by influential artists David Chandler 9781781576755
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Artists & Illustrators magazine's Book of the Month Taking inspiration from iconic paintings in the Tate collection, discover the techniques of the masters and improve your own painting skills with... -
Ice Age art now Jill Cook 9780714123516
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.94A beautifully illustrated book that demonstrates how artistic creativity existed thousands of years before traditional art histories suggest, as an essential part of human life.Ice Age art now... -
Nordic Noir: Works on Paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson by Jennifer Ramkalawon 9780295754604
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £34.72Showcases a remarkable collection of graphic art from the postwar period to the presentWith many works published for the first time, this lavishly illustrated publication celebrates several Nordic... -
A A Time and a Place: George Crabbe, Aldeburgh and Suffolk by 9780718896119
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45There anchoring, Peter chose from Man to hide, There hang his Head, and view the lazy Tide In its hot slimy Channel slowly glide . George Crabbe, eighteenth-century poet, clergyman and... -
Helen Clapcott: In the Light of Buildings by Andrew Lambirth 9781848226968
Booksplease Price: £51.98In a painting career spanning half a century, Helen Clapcott (b.1952) has remained consistent in both her choice of subject and her disregard of the art establishment's playbook. In this, the first... -
Look Again: The Sea by Philip Hoare 9781849768276
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today... -
Nordic noir: works on paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson Jennifer Ramkalawon 9780714136509
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.45Showcases the British Museum's remarkable collection of graphic art from the post-war period to the present day from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. With many works published for the... -
Public Sculpture of Sussex by Jill Seddon 9781781381250
RRP: £87.50Booksplease Price: £14.79This is the seventeenth volume in the series the Public Sculpture of Britain, part of the PMSA National Recording Project, which will eventually cover the whole of the country. The introduction... -
The Uglow Papers Andrew Lambirth 9781738487820
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.68Euan Uglow (1932-2000) was one of the finest painters of his generation. For a long time appreciated only by fellow artists and a relatively small band of devoted collectors, his work is now reaching... -
Craxton's Cats Andrew Lambirth 9780500028049
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An appealing picture book of cats depicted by John Craxton, one of the major figures of modern British painting, with an introduction and commentary by Andrew Lambirth, who knew Craxton well. By... -
50 Women Sculptors Dr Joanna Sperryn-Jones 9780993220777
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.05How many women sculptors can you name? This book will help you to understand the work and lives of dozens of women sculptors - significant artists from the past as well as those working in the... -
Portraits of Wollstonecraft: The Making of a Feminist Icon, 1785 to 2020 by Eileen M. Hunt 9781350378711
Booksplease Price: £113.04One of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021 Portraits of Wollstonecraft collects and introduces 102 texts and artifacts that document Mary Wollstonecraft's public reception in art, literature,... -
Suffolk (Slow Travel): Local, characterful guides to Britain's Special Places Laurence Mitchell 9781804690499
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27This new, expanded and thoroughly updated third edition of Suffolk (Slow Travel), part of Bradt's award-winning series of Slow travel guides to UK regions, remains the only full-blown standalone... -
A Lesson in Art and Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines by Hugh St Clair
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.77Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (known as Lett) (1894-1978) were an extraordinary couple who were at the centre of the Modern British art scene and were hugely influential across the... -
How Artists See Work: Farm Factory Home Office by Colleen Carroll 9780789206725
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.70In How Artists See Work children can see how Patrick Desjarlait showed in one painting the many tasks that go into making maple syrup; how the Limbourg Brothers created the feeling of a hot July day... -
Diana Armfield: A Lyrical Eye by Andrew Lambirth 9781913645076
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £33.58Diana Armfield RA Hon RWS NEAC has a highly personal attachment to subject and a subtly distinctive affinity with the rhythms of form and tone. These qualities make her an important, influential... -
Wollstonecraft Live!: And the Story of the Statue by 9781912430611
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.11This book combines Kaethe Fine's play "Wollstonecraft Live!" and the story of the 10-year campaign to raise funds and erect a statue on Newington Green in London, in honour of Mary Wollstonecraft,... -
New Aldeburgh Anthology Ariane Bankes 9781843835882
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.40A book for those drawn back to Aldeburgh year after year for the music, writing and arts - and to all who care for the landscape, the sea and the ongoing life of the Suffolk Coast. The New... -
Dialogues with Degas: Influence and Antagonism in Contemporary Art Dr. Kathryn Brown 9781350258747
Booksplease Price: £29.16Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth examination of this major artist's impact on... -
Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside by Ronald Blythe 9781399804691
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'All the charm, wonder, eccentricity and vigour of country life is here in these pages, and told with such engaging directness, detail and colour . . . Bliss' STEPHEN FRY'A capacious work that... -
Tiepolo Blue: 'The best novel I have read for ages' Stephen Fry by James Cahill
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.71SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD'Divine . . . the smart, sexy read you need' Evening Standard'Startlingly impressive' Daily Mail'An electric new novel' GuardianExiled from his...