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Neo Rauch by Michael Glover 9781848222939
RRP: $94.98Booksplease Price: $75.43This comprehensive monograph offers a detailed examination of the paintings of the acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch (b.1960). Rauch's paintings deftly blend the iconography of Socialist Realism... -
Invasion Scare 1940 Michael Glover 9781399020589
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38In the Summer of 1940, after evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk and the Franco/German armistice which followed the fall of France, Britain stood alone against the armed might... -
Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think Michael Glover Smith 9780857162991
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00Bob Dylan as Filmmaker, the first book of its kind, opens up exciting new ways to think about the artistry of Bob Dylan. It offers a captivating exploration into movies that, according to... -
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 9780199535644
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $15.64Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the `fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The... -
Rose Wylie: painting a noun... Rose Wylie 9781644230299
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $33.44Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie-whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous-often draws her influence from a wide range of popular culture. Here her newest body of work references... -
Alice, Curiouser and Curiouser by Kate Bailey
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $48.98Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a cultural phenomenon. First published in 1865, it has never been out of print and has been translated into 170 languages. But why does it have such enduring... -
A Short Book About Painting Andrew Marr 9781849499934
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $20.84In A Short Book About Painting, writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr tackles the subjects of inspiration, creativity, politics, beauty and form. How does the artist make good work? What constitutes... -
Green Noise by Jean Sprackland
RRP: $24.70Booksplease Price: $18.58Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly. Her new collection is tuned to new and deeper frequencies... -
Partial Shade: Poems New and Selected by John Birtwhistle 9781800173231
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.04'Partial Shade' is the common gardening term for plants that in fact need a measure of sunshine. In John Birtwhistle's poems, there is a continual play of light and shadow - and even glimpses of... -
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown by George Mackay Brown
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $27.65George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature over the last fifty years. Admired by many... -
Paterson by William Carlos Williams 9781800173613
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.48William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), like his friend Ezra Pound, never finished his magnum opus, a poem as impossibly ambitious as the Cantos, but richly invested in the present world. It was... -
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology by Alice Oswald
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68'It is in very truth a sunny, misty, cloudy, dazzling, howling, omniform Day...' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Sotheby, 27 September 1802This anthology of poems and prose ranges from literary... -
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery 9781857549065
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.42"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous... -
Mary Magdalene: A Visual History by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
RRP: $36.10Booksplease Price: $30.48From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalene's many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years. Illustrated in full colour, this visual history... -
Philip Guston Now by Philip Guston
RRP: $100.70Booksplease Price: $88.16A sweeping retrospective of Philip Guston's influential work, from Depression-era muralist to abstract expressionist to tragicomic contemporary master A Wall Street Journal 2020 holiday gift guide... -
English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries Todd Longstaffe-Gowan 9781913107260
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $52.21A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens In English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a... -
Green: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691159362
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $60.99In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to...