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Barcelona Robert Hughes 9781860468247
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07"Robert Hughes is probably the best - and certainly the most accessible - art critic in the world . . . in Barcelona his art-historical and his sociological talents converge in what is often a... -
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal... -
Rome Robert Hughes 9780753823057
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59A dazzling biography of the Eternal City - 'A tour of the great city with a great guide: who could do this better?' EVENING STANDARD.For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and... -
Barcelona by Robert Hughes 9781860468247 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.22"Robert Hughes is probably the best - and certainly the most accessible - art critic in the world . . . in Barcelona his art-historical and his sociological talents converge in what is often a... -
Lord of the World by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson 9781587314711
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.18Can a timeless book become timely 100 years after its first appearance? In this profound and prescient novel, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson gives us an imaginative foretelling of the end of the... -
Lord of the World: A Novel by Robert Hugh Benson 9780870612985
Booksplease Price: $21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870612985Author Robert Hugh BensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprin -
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $34.91This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his... -
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
Booksplease Price: $49.34* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into... -
In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099466086
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a... -
The Art of Angling: Poems About Fishing Dr Henry Hughes 9781841597881
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Fishing has inspired a wealth of poetry-Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern... -
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Richard Miles's Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilization charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World: the devastating struggle to the death between Carthage... -
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 9780006861362
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $35.71This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. ... -
Ghosts in the House: Tales of Terror by A. C. Benson and R. H. Benson (Collins Chillers) by A. C. Benson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A collection of rare ghosts and horror stories by the brothers of one of the finest writers of the genre, E. F. Benson. The Benson brothers - Arthur Christopher, Edward Frederic and Robert... -
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger 9781859844120 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $2.72John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern... -
A Secret Country by John Pilger
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute... -
Sons of Thunder: Writing from the Fast Lane: A Motorcycling Anthology by Neil Bradford
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'A fool couldn't ride the Vincent Black Shadow more than once, but a fool can ride a Ducati 900 many times, and it will always be a bloodcurdling kind of fun. That is the Curse of Speed which has... -
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
Booksplease Price: $29.56John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern... -
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye by Will Gompertz
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.61What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From... -
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum by James Gardner
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that... -
Antwerp: The Glory Years by Michael Pye
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp... -
Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas by Stephen Harrigan 9780292759510
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $34.292020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize 2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers' League of Texas 2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society"Harrigan, surveying...