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Cambridgeshire by Simon Bradley
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.19This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years and featuring superb new photography. Half of the book is devoted to the famous... -
Churches: An Architectural Guide by Simon Bradley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.99This compact and accessible book is for anyone who would like to understand more about the architectural history of English churches. Clear and easy to use, the text explains the key components of... -
London 6: Westminster by Simon Bradley 9780300095951
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.01This essential guide opens up the treasures of London's most alluring quarter. At its core are Westminster Abbey, Parliament, and the palatial Government buildings of Whitehall, together with the... -
St Pancras Station Simon Bradley 9781846684609
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Simon Bradley traces the history of the station, introducing us to the men behind the architecture and looks at its new international status. This fine new edition includes a fascinating chapter on... -
The Railways: Nation, Network and People Simon Bradley 9781846682131
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.40Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015 Currently filming for BBC programme Full Steam Ahead Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming... -
Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East by Simon Bradley 9780300209297
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.85The newly revised Pevsner guide to the buildings of Oxford and South-East Oxfordshire This updated guide addresses half a century of change and development since the previous edition, including a... -
The Railways: Nation, Network and People by Simon Bradley 9781846682131 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015 Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on... -
Bradley's Railway Guide: A journey through two centuries of British railway history, 1825-2025 Simon Bradley 9781781259825
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.74'A lifetime of railway love distilled into a most beautiful volume' Lucy Worsley A deliciously serendipitous, lavishly illustrated ride through two centuries of locomotion - The Sunday Times, Book... -
To the Sea by Train: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Andrew Martin 9781805221579
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Vividly conjures a lost age' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Hugely entertaining' EVENING STANDARD 'A feast of anecdotage' SUNDAY TIMES Throughout the twentieth century,... -
To the Sea by Train Andrew Martin 9781805221555
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07'Andrew Martin is a railway wizard' Telegraph 'Leaves you with renewed confidence that trains can still be the most civilised way to travel' Financial Times Throughout the twentieth century,... -
Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper Andrew Martin 9781781255605
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.55Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham... -
The Signalman: A Ghost Story by Charles Dickens
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.73On the 9th of June 1865, Charles Dickens was travelling aboard the Folkestone to London Boat Train with his mistress and her mother, when it derailed while crossing a viaduct near Staplehurst in Kent... -
Slow Trains Around Britain: Notes from a 4,088-Mile Adventure on 143 Rides by Tom Chesshyre 9781837997848
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Easy-going, discursive and digressive, even those to whom trains are a closed timetable will find this a charming travelogue." - Stuart MaconieJoin travel writer and self-confessed "train nut" Tom... -
Brian May's Red Special: The Story of the Home-made Guitar that Rocked Queen and the World by Brian May
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.62In Brian May's Red Special you will discover everything about Brian May's unique, home-made guitar. Brian reveals all, from the guitar's origins to playing on the roof of Buckingham Palace, from Live... -
Cathedrals of Steam: How London's Great Stations Were Built - And How They Transformed the City by Christian Wolmar
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Fascinating' 'Books of the Year', Financial Times'London's twelve great rail termini are the epic survivors of the Victorian age... Wolmar brings them to life with the knowledge of an expert and the... -
The Railway Goods Shed and Warehouse in England John Minnis 9781848023284
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.61Although goods traffic accounted in many cases for a higher proportion of railway companies' revenue than passengers, the buildings associated with it have received very little attention in... -
Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India Christian Wolmar 9781782397670
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, an Empire that needed a rail network to facilitate its exploitation and reflect its ambition. But, by building India's railways, Britain... -
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an... -
Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys by Tom Chesshyre 9781849538268 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.80Experience the world by train alongside best-selling travel writer Tom Chesshyre, as he takes a whistle-stop tour around the globe in 49 unique journeys Why do people love trains so much? Tom... -
Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys by Tom Chesshyre 9781849538268
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.41Experience the world by train alongside best-selling travel writer Tom Chesshyre, as he takes a whistle-stop tour around the globe in 49 unique journeys Why do people love trains so much? Tom... -
Slow Trains to Venice: A 4,000-Mile Adventure Across Europe Tom Chesshyre 9781787832992
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Chesshyre... -
Chalk Farm Railway Lands: a guided tour 1830 to 2030 by Peter Darley 9781803819013
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.84With the opening of the London and Birmingham Railway in 1837, the first inter-city railroad to London, the capital was connected to the industrial heartlands of England, with the railway supporting... -
Unlocking the Church: The lost secrets of Victorian sacred space by William Whyte 9780198796169
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.87The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in the English-speaking world, you will be close to a Victorian built or...