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Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Tough, resolute,... -
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most... -
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Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox 9780141020761 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $4.72From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Tough, resolute,... -
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, historian Robin Lane Fox takes an uncompromising look at the historical proof - or refutation - of biblical events. The Bible is... -
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath... -
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. ... -
Thoughtful Gardening: Great Plants, Great Gardens, Great Gardeners by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Thoughtful Gardening is based on Robin Lane Fox's own selection from his widely admired FT column, which he has rewritten and amplified with new chapters to take readers on a highly enjoyable journey... -
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The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox 9780141021416 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.30Robin Lane Fox's The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome is a comprehensive and enthralling introduction to Ancient civilization. The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome... -
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Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox 9780140244991 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $8.24Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. ... -
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary... -
Ancient Worlds: The Search for the Origins of Western Civilization by Richard Miles
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Accompanying the major BBC TV series, Richard Miles's Ancient Worlds tells the epic story of civilization, and the cities that made us who we are. The path of human progress is one of enlightenment... -
The Garden Visitor's Handbook 2021 The National Garden Scheme (NGS) 9781408715260
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.47'Essential guide . . . an invitation to a year of happy visiting' Robin Lane Fox, Financial TimesThe Garden Visitor's Handbook is the famous yellow 'bible' for anyone interested in gardens and the... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140444445
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'The best modern prose translation of The Iliad' Robin Lane Fox, The TimesThe first of the world's great tragedies, The Iliad centres on the pivotal four days towards the end of the ten-year war... -
The Wild Garden William Robinson 9781915068484
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04Originally published in 1870, The Wild Garden was a sensation, up-ending the conventions of Victorian garden-making, sweeping away formal ideas and artifice, and replacing it with a naturalistic... -
The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden by Roy Strong
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $14.04Shakespeare's potent use of garden imagery has captivated successive generations of readers and inspired the making of gardens across the globe. Laced with quotations and abounding with illustrations... -
The Garden Visitor's Handbook 2022 The National Garden Scheme (NGS) 9781408716892
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $8.98'Essential guide . . . an invitation to a year of happy visiting' Robin Lane Fox, Financial TimesThe Garden Visitor's Handbook is the famous yellow 'bible' for anyone interested in gardens and the... -
The Garden Visitor's Handbook 2023 The National Garden Scheme (NGS) 9781408719329
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $9.93'Essential guide . . . an invitation to a year of happy visiting' Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times The Garden Visitor's Handbook is the famous yellow 'bible' for anyone interested in gardens and the... -
The Great Commanders of the Ancient World 1479BC - 453AD Andrew Roberts 9780857381958
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24Which was the most brilliant of Hannibal's three crushing defeats of Roman armies? What tactics did Julius Caesar employ to defeat Pompey at Pharsalus? How was Alexander the Great able to command... -
Power & the People: Five Lessons from the Birthplace of Democracy Alev Scott 9781529402858
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Democracy was born in Athens. From its founding myths to its golden age and its chaotic downfall, it's rich with lessons for our own times. Why did vital civil engagement and fair debate descend into... -
Vegetables by Martyn Rix
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $12.30Beautiful and comprehensive, Vegetables is a must-have for all gardeners, by acclaimed authors Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix. 'Remarkable . . . I have learnt so much' - Financial TimesWhether you are... -
Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians In Medieval Christendom by Norman Cohn
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29In this ground-breaking book, Professor Norman Cohn traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins. He examines the fantasies that inspired the great European witch-hunt of the 16th and 17th... -
Earth, Wind and Fire: How Trees Mastered the Elements and Conquered the World by Harriet Rix 9781847927835
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.50'Sublime ... It is a true masterpiece' DAILY TELEGRAPH, *****'Mind-blowing' GUARDIAN'Wondrous. Gives us trees as we've never seen them before' ISABELLA TREE, author of Wilding**A TELEGRAPH, COUNTRY... -
The Gardens at Hatfield by 9780711225169
Booksplease Price: $5.75The Marchioness of Salisbury's re-creation of the great gardens at Hatfield House has been one of the most exciting garden enterprises of the last 30 years. This is Lady Salisbury's own account of... -
Windblown: Landscape, Legacy and Loss - The Great Storm of 1987 Tamsin Treverton Jones 9781473657014
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Trees are part of the British psyche. We care if just one tree is cut down unnecessarily. So what happens when 15 million are blown down in one night? Part travelogue, part memoir, part celebration... -
RHS Roses: Discover Their Potential - Choose the Best - Grow with Confidence by Michael V Marriott
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $23.69A rose is one of the most beautiful, versatile, and rewarding plants that a gardener can grow, but with over 30,000 different types of roses available to gardeners across the world, how do you find... -
'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms by Naoko Abe
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman'This is not just a tale of trees, but of . . . endeavour, war and... -
Gardening with Colour at Coton Manor by Susie Pasley-Tyler 9781914902086
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $26.48Voted 'The Nation's Favourite Garden' in 2019 by garden visitors in conjunction with English Garden magazine and the National Gardens Scheme, featured in the 2022 Channel 5 series on 'Great British... -
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566967
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.83The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as... -
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Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566967 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.80The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as... -
Head Gardeners Ambra Edwards 9781910258323
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.43Winner of the Inspirational Book of the Year, Garden Media Guild Awards Ambra Edwards and Charlie Hopkinson explore, in words and pictures, the lives, visions and achievements of fourteen very... -
Visions of Loveliness: Great Flower Breeders of the Past by Judith M. Taylor
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $28.03Gardeners of today take for granted the many varieties of geraniums, narcissi, marigolds, roses, and other beloved flowers for their gardens. Few give any thought at all to how this incredible... -
Potted History: How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes Catherine Horwood 9781910258941
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.25There is no shortage of books on how to look after houseplants but no one has shown us how and when and why these plants came to be in our homes. Catherine Horwood's combination of social history,... -
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'4 stars. Attlee, who knows and loves Italy and the Italians, takes the reader through the country's scented gardens with her sharp descriptions, pertinent stories and quotes and intriguing recipes... -
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.'During... -
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Simon Hornblower 9780198609582 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $3.34How did the ancient Greeks and Romans differ in their attitude towards alcoholism? What role did dance play in religious rituals? What did the ancient Greeks eat? Why was emperor Nero popular with... -
Highgrove: A Garden Celebrated by HRH The Prince of Wales
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $34.91HIGHGROVE: A GARDEN CELEBRATED is a commemoration of the beautiful, mature gardens planned and planted by The Prince of Wales over thirty years ago. The gardens at Highgrove evoke intense emotion. In... -
English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries Todd Longstaffe-Gowan 9781913107260
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $36.82A 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... -
Paradise and Plenty: A Rothschild Family Garden Mary Keen 9781910258750
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.10The productive garden at Lord Rothschild's private house, Eythrope in Buckinghamshire, is legendary in the garden world for the excellence of the gardening and as a haven for traditional techniques... -
The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest Thomas Pakenham 9781474606790
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of MeadowlandThomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Company of Trees he recounts his... -
Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott
Booksplease Price: $70.69Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and country alike, and figured prominently in literature...