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Wordy by Simon Schama
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.34'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for... -
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679735120Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €28.01* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into... -
Patriots and Liberators by Simon Schama 9780006861560
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.54A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war... -
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama 9780006863489
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €30.94The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount - read 'Landscape and Memory' to have these explained... 'Landscape and Memory' is a history book unlike any other. In a series of... -
The American Future: A History by Simon Schama 9780061669071
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €28.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061669071Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Art: Vintage Minis by Simon Schama, CBE
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.77'Great art has dreadful manners......The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless... -
The American Future: A History by Simon Schama 9780060539245
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060539245Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama 9780679726104
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €34.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679726104Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations by Simon Schama 9780679736134
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €22.24Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hang-Ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly) by Simon Schama
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.53Pre-eminent author and art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim. In Hang-Ups, a personal selection of his articles from, amongst others, The New Yorker,... -
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.52A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.Belonging is a magnificent cultural... -
Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution by Simon Schama 9780141017273
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.47One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French... -
The Face of Britain: The Stories Behind the Nation's Portraits by Simon Schama
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.74Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibitionChurchill and his painter locked... -
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €18.93Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence... -
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama 9781471169892
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €24.70'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer ... -
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama 9780063308510
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063308510Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492) by Simon Schama
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and... -
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama 9780060539177
Booksplease Price: €27.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060539177Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco... -
Foreign Bodies: The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science by Simon Schama 9781471169922
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.52'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer ... -
The Goldfinch & Friends: The Human Fascination with Birds in the Arts Simon Schama 9789493416512
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.05Simon Schama explores our enduring fascination with birds in this visually stunning art book This book is centered on Carel Fabritius's haunting The Goldfinch. Far more than a catalogue, this richly... -
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.47The final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain spans centuries, crosses the breadth of the empire and covers a vast expanse of topics - from the birth of feminism to the fate of freedom... -
The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900 by Simon Schama 9780062998729
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062998729Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco... -
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 9780006861362
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €30.94This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. ... -
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 9780679781240
RRP: €34.51Booksplease Price: €26.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781240Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD by Simon Schama 9780060539207
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060539207Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco... -
A History of Britain - Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603 by Simon Schama
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.47Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes... -
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16Passionate, provocative, entertaining and informative, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ranges far and wide: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, from preaching and Shakespeare to Victorian sages,... -
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 Simon Schama, CBE 9781847920133
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.47Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries.From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on... -
Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: The Postmodern Stage by Lubomir Dolezel 9780801894633
Booksplease Price: €68.57With Possible Worlds of Fiction and History, Lubomir Dole el reexamines the claim-made first by Roland Barthes and then popularized by Hayden White-that "there is no fundamental distinction between... -
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal Simon Parkin 9781529347234
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE'Vivid and moving' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Excellent . . . a powerful tribute' GuardianIn the summer of 1940, faced with national paranoia, Prime Minister Winston... -
Happiness: A History by Ben Weider Professor Darrin M McMahon 9780802142894
Booksplease Price: €19.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802142894Author Ben Weider Professor Darrin M McMahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Grove... -
The Lost: A search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn 9780007550128
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.18A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as... -
Bethlehem: Biography of a Town by Nicholas Blincoe 9781472128669
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.26The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. Today, the city is hemmed... -
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.47In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British Empire to... -
Bethlehem: Biography of a Town by Nicholas Blincoe
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €4.36The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. Today, the city is hemmed... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester 9780007532407
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been... -
Religion and Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures by Wes Williams 9780719082542
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €90.31Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man. But today human rights and religion are sometimes in conflict. The universal claims made for rights can put them at odds with the... -
The Peterloo Massacre by Robert Reid
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.48__________________________'The universal significance of this historic event becomes ever more relevant in our own turbulent times.' MIKE LEIGH, director of the award-winning film... -
The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day by Roy Hattersley
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed...