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The Wrestling by Simon Garfield
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54'A brilliant oral history of the golden age of British wrestling and magnificent wider social history.' Richard OsmanThe classic account of the men and women who used to fight each other for pride... -
The Error World by Simon Garfield
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61When he was very young, Simon Garfield lusted after rare stamps but could not afford them. When he was older, the passion reignited with almost ruinous results. The Error World is an examination of... -
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The Wrestling by Simon Garfield 9780571236763 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €7.96'A brilliant oral history of the golden age of British wrestling and magnificent wider social history.' Richard OsmanThe classic account of the men and women who used to fight each other for pride... -
To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence Simon Garfield 9780857868619
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Every letter contains a miniature story, and here are some of the greatest. From Oscar Wilde's unconventional method of using the mail to cycling enthusiast Reginald Bray's quest to post himself,... -
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS by Simon Garfield
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.46** With a new introduction by Russell T Davies **A new edition of the award-winning, ground-breaking account of the early AIDS crisis in Britain.'Masterful.' Jonathan Dean, Sunday Times 'A remarkable... -
Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) Simon Garfield 9781399609241
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of thousands of book jackets, and the chosen look for David Bowie, Coldplay, Star... -
Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) Simon Garfield 9781399609272
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types and modern... -
Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield 9781399609302
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a movement to ban it and yet still be so widely promoted by educators? What does... -
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World by Simon Garfield 9781786890795
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.63In Miniature is a delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us about the world at large.Here you will... -
MINI: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car by Simon Garfield
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08In 1959, the first Mini was produced on an assembly line at Cowley, near Oxford. It would take a team of supremely talented designers, engineers and production-line workers to build a car that was... -
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €14.54In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge, and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would... -
Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by MR Simon Garfield
RRP: €21.60Booksplease Price: €20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407460Author Simon GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Simon Garfield 9781782113218
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven... -
We Are At War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Simon Garfield
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €18.29Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it. We Are At War is the story of five everyday folk, who, living... -
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On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield 9781846685101 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.88Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google... -
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On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield 9781846685095 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €3.14Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to... -
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time by Simon Garfield 9781782113195 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €1.92SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and... -
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield 9781846683022 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.88Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s... -
Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world Simon Garfield 9781786892782
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.541856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye... -
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MINI: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car by Simon Garfield 9780571248117 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.88In 1959, the first Mini was produced on an assembly line at Cowley, near Oxford. It would take a team of supremely talented designers, engineers and production-line workers to build a car that was... -
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE Simon Garfield 9781474610797
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62'Witty and geekily eclectic' The TimesAn erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday'Remarkable . . . engrossing' Sunday Times'A pleasure' Spectator'An... -
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom... -
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Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs 9781474603485 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.71A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom... -
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent 9780571354221
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARNEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYA revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make... -
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles by Travis Elborough
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.10'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman'Lively, engaging and admirably wide-ranging' The Times'Fascinating' ObserverThe... -
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles Travis Elborough 9781408712849
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.07'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon GarfieldThe humble pair of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions to see a world that might otherwise appear a blur... -
Courses for Horses: A Journey Round Racing in Britain and Ireland Nicholas Clee 9781474618427
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €25.14In parks, on downlands and heaths, by motorways, overlooking firths: the racecourses of Britain and Ireland are as various as the people you meet there. Some - Newmarket, Epsom, the Curragh - are... -
Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities by Keith Houston
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Where does the ampersand get its name from? What does the hashtag have to do with commerce in ancient Rome? Keith Houston gives the answers in this delightfully entertaining book.From the pilcrow to... -
Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford by Richard Mabey 9780141044811
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author... -
The Pursuit Of The Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.70The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free... -
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First Class: A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps by Christopher West 9780224095471 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €3.10This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive, quirky, beautiful and sometimes baffling stamps to tell us the story of Britain, through Dickens and the potato famine to Thatcher... -
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first... -
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The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester 9780140280395 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.22THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first... -
Courses for Horses: A Journey Round Racing in Britain and Ireland by Nicholas Clee 9781474618434
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11SHORTLISTED FOR BEST SPORTS WRITING AT THE 2024 SPORTS BOOK AWARDSIn parks, on downlands and heaths, by motorways, overlooking firths: the racecourses of Britain and Ireland are as various as the... -
The Book of Seconds: The Incredible Stories of the Ones that Didn't (Quite) Win by Mark Mason
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14The Book of Seconds reveals the exciting, intriguing and heroic runners-up who until now have been kept in the shadow of the firsts.Did you know that the winner of the second Tour de France rode 25... -
An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.77Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography... -
The Paris Mapguide by Michael Middleditch 9780141469041 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €2.51The award-winning, bestselling The Paris Mapguide by Michael Middleditch - the best streetmap on the marketThe perfect travelling companion, this clever guide combines illustrated, easy-to-read maps... -
The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot
RRP: €36.00Booksplease Price: €27.58The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by... -
Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing Gretchen McCulloch 9781529112825
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Have you ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message? Wondered where memes came from? Fret no more: Because Internet is the perfect book for... -
The Paris Mapguide by Michael Middleditch
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77The award-winning, bestselling The Paris Mapguide by Michael Middleditch - the best streetmap on the marketThe perfect travelling companion, this clever guide combines illustrated, easy-to-read maps...