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The Wrestling by Simon Garfield
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56When 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... -
Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface by Simon Garfield 9781324086208
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The Wrestling by Simon Garfield 9780571236763 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.55'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... -
Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface by Simon Garfield 9781324086222
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The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS by Simon Garfield
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17** 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... -
To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence Simon Garfield 9780857868619
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Every 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,... -
Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface by Simon Garfield 9781324086246
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Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) Simon Garfield 9781399609241
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55One 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55The 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... -
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield 9780063292307
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Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield 9781399609302
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Comic 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.28In 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... -
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.63In 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... -
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Simon Garfield 9781782113218
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Time 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... -
MINI: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car by Simon Garfield
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In 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... -
Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by MR Simon Garfield
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407460Author Simon GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Dog's Best Friend: The Story of an Unbreakable Bond by Simon Garfield 9780063052253
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield 9781592407804
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We Are At War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Simon Garfield
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.66Of 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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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time by Simon Garfield 9781782113195 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $2.06SUNDAY 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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On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield 9781846685101 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.10Maps 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: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.38Maps 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... -
Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world Simon Garfield 9781786892782
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.261856. 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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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield 9781846683022 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.10Just 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... -
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MINI: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car by Simon Garfield 9780571248117 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.10In 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... -
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Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield 9780091897338 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.11In 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... -
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We Are At War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Simon Garfield 9780091903879 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $3.11Of 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... -
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE Simon Garfield 9781474610797
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.92A 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91THE 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86'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: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20'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: $28.38Booksplease Price: $27.03In 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... -
The Pursuit Of The Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03The 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... -
Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities by Keith Houston
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Where 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09While 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 Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91THE 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.39THE 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...