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The Wrestling by Simon Garfield
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51When 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... -
Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface Simon Garfield 9781324086222
Booksplease Price: €18.00Albertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world. It is at once modern and... -
Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface Simon Garfield 9781324086208
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.00When Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers' eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250 years later, it remains... -
Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface Simon Garfield 9781324086246
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €17.89Since its accidental creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital age. The subject of April Fools' pranks and endless... -
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS by Simon Garfield
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.38** 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Every 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,... -
Dog's Best Friend: The Story of an Unbreakable Bond by Simon Garfield
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €18.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063052253Author Simon GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint William Morrow &... -
The Stones of Britain: A Geological History Jon Cannon 9781472116833
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €20.80The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places. The connection between geology and landscape, between the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. About the... -
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Just 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... -
On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.21Maps 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... -
Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) Simon Garfield 9781399609272
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.95The 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... -
Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) Simon Garfield 9781399609241
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.95One 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... -
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World by Simon Garfield 9781786890795
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46In 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... -
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield 9780063292307
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063292307Author Simon GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing by MR Simon Garfield
Booksplease Price: €22.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592408825Author Simon GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Avery Publishing... -
Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield 9781399609302
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Comic 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... -
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Simon Garfield 9781782113218
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Time 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... -
Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by MR Simon Garfield
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407460Author Simon GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham... -
MINI: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car by Simon Garfield
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In 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... -
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield
Booksplease Price: €23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407804Author Simon GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Avery Publishing... -
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield 9781501199585
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501199585Author Simon GarfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria... -
Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond Simon Garfield 9781474610759
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.40'This love letter to our four-legged friends is a delight . . . there is a good joke, an intriguing tale or a fascinating statistic on every page' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday'A fact-packed history of... -
We Are At War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Simon Garfield
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.14Of 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €1.90SUNDAY 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.86Maps 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €3.02Maps 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.461856. 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.86Just 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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Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield 9780091897338 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €2.87In 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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €2.87Of 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.07'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... -
The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €27.35**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of... -
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54A 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98THE 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02'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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95'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... -
The Pursuit Of The Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.55The 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Where 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... -
Courses for Horses: A Journey Round Racing in Britain and Ireland Nicholas Clee 9781474618427
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.08In 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...