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Mercury by William Sheehan
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.61The last of the five naked-eye planets discovered in ancient times, Mercury has long been an elusive, enigmatic world. As seen from the Earth, it never emerges far from the Sun, and astronomers in... -
Gifts of the Gods: A History of Food in Greece by Andrew Dalby
RRP: £29.50Booksplease Price: £22.63What do we think about when we think of Greek food? For many, it is the meze and traditional plates of a typical Greek island taverna from summer holidays or from Greek restaurants at home. This book... -
Food on the Move: Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World by Sharon Hudgins
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £28.30All aboard for a delicious ride on nine legendary railway journeys! Meals associated with train travel have been an important aspect of railway history for more than a century - from dinners in... -
Rowan Oliver Southall 9781789147124
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Whether crag-bound on a lonely moor or busy with birdlife on a city street, the rowan is a tree that captivates the senses and stimulates the imagination. Its delicate, feathery leaves, creamy spring... -
Strokes of Genius: A History of Swimming by Eric Chaline
Booksplease Price: £21.39'Pleasure beckons at the water's edge.' With these words, Eric Chaline celebrates the physicality and sensuality of swimming - attributes that might have contributed to the evolution of the human... -
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion by Andrew Hadfield
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.20John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne's life and work, but... -
Otter by Daniel Allen
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Although rarely seen in the wild, the otter is admired for its playful character and graceful aquatic agility, which were established in the popular imagination through books and films such as Tarka... -
An Inky Business: A History of Newspapers from the English Civil Wars to the American Civil War by Matthew J. Shaw
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.60An Inky Business is a book about the making and printing of news. It is a history of ink, paper, printing press and type, and of those who made and read newspapers in Britain, continental Europe and... -
Pearl: Nature's Perfect Gem by Fiona Lindsay
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.35This is a beautifully illustrated account of pearls through millennia, from fossils to contemporary jewellery. Pearls are the most human of gems, both miraculous and familiar. Uniquely organic in... -
Kunstkammer: Early Modern Art and Curiosity Cabinets in the Holy Roman Empire by Jeffrey Chipps
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.36Kunstkammern, art and curiosity cabinets housed in a dedicated room or suite of chambers, were often filled with thousands of diverse and sometimes shocking objects reflecting the bounty of nature... -
Ford Madox Ford by Max Saunders
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Ford Madox Ford had a fascinating life, spent among several of the most important groups of artists and writers of his time. Friends with Henry James, H. G. Wells and above all Joseph Conrad, Ford... -
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street by Pat Rogers
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.81The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an... -
Breakfast Cereal: A Global History by Kathryn Cornell Dolan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Simple, healthy and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished and surprising history – around 10,000 years ago,... -
Pazazz: The Impact and Resonance of White Clothing by Nina Edwards
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24From bridal gowns and White Parties to shrouds, an illuminating look at the power of our palest apparel. Pazazz examines the complex meanings of white clothing throughout history. Delicate and... -
Taste: A Philosophy of Food by Sarah E Worth
Booksplease Price: £26.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789144802Author Sarah E WorthFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Animal Architecture: Beasts, Buildings and Us by Paul Dobraszczyk
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.00The spider spinning its web in a dark corner; wasps building a nest under a roof: there is hardly any part of the built environment that can't be inhabited by nonhumans, and yet we are extremely... -
Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life: 2023 by Jane Hamlett
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62A history of pets and their companions in Britain from the Victorians to today.Pet Revolution tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries, showing how the kinds of pets we... -
The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place by John Dixon Hunt
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £32.06English art critic John Ruskin was one of the great visionaries of his time, and his influential books and letters on the power of art challenged the foundations of Victorian life. He loved looking... -
Jam, Jelly and Marmalade: A Global History by Sarah B. Hood
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Whether they make it themselves or just enjoy it with breakfast, people can be passionate about their favourite jam, jelly or marmalade. Award-winning jam-maker Sarah B. Hood looks at the history of... -
Ulisse Aldrovandi: Naturalist and Collector Peter Mason 9781789147179
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.20The Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi was a prolific writer, polymath and prodigious collector who amassed the largest collection of naturalia in sixteenth-century Europe, as well as hundreds of... -
John Ashbery by Jess Cotton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.85Mysterious, esoteric, baffling - John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous and charming, and responsive to his shifting social and... -
Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture by Richard Vinograd
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.43Facing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography and video. The book focuses on truth and memory in... -
A Philosophy of Tragedy by Christopher Hamilton
Booksplease Price: £25.91A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, as have countless characters in literature, and the modern age places us squarely before it: the sheer... -
Marcel Proust by Adam A Watt
Booksplease Price: £20.63Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) spent fourteen years creating A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), his seven-volume magnum opus. He died when only half was in print, unable to see it... -
Australia: Modern Architectures in History by Harry Margalit
Booksplease Price: £43.27This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the... -
The Art Public: A Short History by Oskar Bätschmann
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.00Although the idea of a collective audience for art – an ‘art public’ – is highly significant in the art world, this is the first book to enquire into the actual history of the art public. The book... -
Palm Fred Gray 9781780239170
Booksplease Price: £28.14The extraordinary palm: diverse, prolific, essential, symbolic and often sacred, exotic - and at times erotic - exploited and controversial. The signature plant of the tropics and subtropics, these... -
Erik Satie by Mary E. Davis
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.69A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian gymnopediste of fin-de-siecle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser known as The Velvet Gentleman for his sartorial choices, Erik Satie... -
Revolt in the Netherlands: The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648 by Anton van der Lem
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98In 1568, the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands rebelled against the absolutist rule of the king of Spain. A confederation of duchies, counties, and lordships, the Provinces demanded the right of... -
Pierre Loti by Richard M. Berrong
Booksplease Price: £16.59Few authors have led lives as interesting as the French novelist and travel writer Pierre Loti (1850-1923) - nor have they worked harder to make it appear even more romantic than it already was. As a... -
Keepers of the Golden Shore: A History of the United Arab Emirates by Michael Quentin Morton
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.68For those who visit the UAE today, staying in air-conditioned hotels and shopping in ultra-modern malls, the country itself remains an enigma - a glass and concrete creation that seems to have sprung... -
Lenin Lars T. Lih 9781861897930
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Lenin (1870-1924) was the leader of the communist Bolshevik party and founder of the Soviet Union. He was a key revolutionary thinker and a man who, at one time, lived in exile for his political... -
Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music by Daniel Warner 9781789141412
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.54We live in an electronic world. Electronic sounds and electronic music have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly sounds of the film score for the 1956 film Forbidden... -
Camel by Robert Irwin 9781861896490
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.14A distinct symbol of the desert and the Middle East, the camel was once unkindly described as half snake, half folding bedstead. But in the eyes of many the camel is a creature of great beauty. This... -
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton 9781789141580
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95Trick or Treat is the first book to both examine the origins and history of Halloween and explore in depth its current global popularity. Festivals like the Celtic Samhain and Catholic All Souls' Day... -
How the Country House Became English by Stephanie Barczewski 9781789147605
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.15Country houses have come to be regarded as quintessentially English, not only in terms of their architectural style but because they appear to embody national values of continuity and insularity. The... -
Simulating the Cosmos: Why the Universe Looks the Way It Does by Romeel Davé 9781789147148
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £13.82Simulating the Cosmos is a behind-the-scenes look into one of the hottest and fastest-moving areas of astrophysics today: simulations of cosmology and galaxy formation, which illustrate how... -
The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time by Virginia Chieffo Raguin 9781789147933
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.85The Illuminated Window is a unique journey through stained-glass installations that spans both time and place. Diverse in technique and style, these windows speak for the communities that created... -
Sex in the World of Myth David Leeming 9781780239774
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In Sex in the World of Myth, David Leeming argues that sex is as important in myths as it is in our lives. Myths are our cultural dreams, and sex is pervasive in all mythologies because it has... -
Antonin Artaud David Shafer 9781780235707
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Poet. Actor. Matinee idol. Playwright. Theatre theoretician. Artist. Orientalist. Surrealist. Asylum inmate. Drug addict. Electroshock patient. Antonin Artaud. This biography, exploring the life of...