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Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Paul Sullivan 9780755654222
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.43"Berlin is a city forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so it lives more powerfully in the imagination." Rory Maclean, 'Berlin - Imagine a City'. Located at the epicentre of some of... -
The Nomad's Path: Travels in the Sahel by Alistair Carr
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.59An account of a journey across an inhospitable region with former Tubu rebels at a time of Tuareg insurgency, when explosions from landmines rocked towns, mountains were overrun with militia and... -
Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea by Gertrude Bell
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.50Gertrude Bell's fascinating account of a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment of Persia. 'Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association, acquaintances are changed? I... -
Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar by Robert Lebling
Booksplease Price: $27.28A magnificent and indispensable portrayal of the rich folklore of the Islamic world. According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of... -
Cuba by Mike Gonzalez 9781788314992
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.21A literary guide to one of the most fascinating countries in the world. With its flamboyant style and rich culture, Cuba has provided the inspiration and setting for literature for decades. It has... -
Strolling Through Rome by Mario Erasmo
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.58A rich cultural history of Rome that brings its epic past alive, illuminating the extraordinary sights and fascinating secrets of one of Europe's most beguiling cities. Rome, the Eternal City -... -
Land of the Turquoise Mountains by Cyrus Massoudi
Booksplease Price: $29.59A compelling personal journey of discovery, illuminating the Iran that lies beyond the headlines. For Cyrus Massoudi, a young British-born Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee... -
Finding Eden: A Journey into the Heart of Borneo Robin Hanbury-Tenison 9780755650637
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.50'Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Edens left, but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track... So it was with... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.38The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel... -
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elisabeth de Feydeau
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.01The untold story of Marie Antoinette's perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon. Montpellier, 1748: Jean-Louis Fargeon was born into a family of perfumers and soon became apprentice to his father's modest... -
The White Nile Diaries by John Hopkins 9780755647453
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.61A riveting coming-of-age journey and a tantalising glimpse into a time when Africa was an oyster for the young, the brave and the free. It all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, in... -
A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen by Freya Stark
Booksplease Price: $44.00From within this beautifully crafted and deeply knowledgeable narrative emerges a rare and exquisitely rendered portrait of the customs and cultures of the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. Freya... -
Health and Hedonism: A Cultural History of the Spa by Ian Bradley 9780755626465
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.84Delve into the history behind the glamorous baths and spas of Europe to reveal the hidden past of alternative treatments. Popular with people from Romans to royalty and hypochondriacs to... -
The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains by Choo Waihong
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $32.66In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women'. A small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little... -
The Eagle in Splendour: Inside the Court of Napoleon by Philip Mansel 9780755645831
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.35The definitive portrait of Napoleon's court from the unpublished papers of the Emperor's leading courtiers and his second Empress Marie Louise. Napoleon's military conquests changed the world and... -
Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.18The definitive and authorised biography of the artist Vanessa Bell. Even through the lens of the twenty-first century, the story of Vanessa Bell's life is unorthodox. A powerful magnetic figure,... -
In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure by Henry Hardy
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94The compelling story of a decades-long collaboration between social and political theorist Isaiah Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin's huge body of work into... -
Scattered Ghosts: One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution by Nick Barlay 9780755626991
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $38.18Scattered Ghosts is the poignant, powerful story of an all but disappeared world, told through the extraordinary experiences of a single family ruptured by great forces and occasionally brought... -
Twentieth Century Paris: 1900-1950: A Literary Guide for Travellers Marie-Jose Gransard 9780755601752
Booksplease Price: $42.97Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950. Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural... -
The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway by Richard Bradford 9780755600977
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.50A ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer.Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a... -
Army of the Night: The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance by Patrick Marnham
Booksplease Price: $32.66Discover the truth behind one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II. Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this... -
Sicily: Island of Beauty and Conflict Jeremy Dummett 9780755660452
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.21A guide to the fascinating and diverse history and culture of Sicily.The book includes key events, places and artists highlighted in wide-ranging articles presented in four parts: History, Cities,... -
Tangier: From the Romans to the Rolling Stones by Richard Hamilton 9780755654512
Booksplease Price: $26.50In this first guide to Tangier's extraordinary cultural history , former BBC North Africa correspondent Richard Hamilton explores the city to find out what has inspired so many international writers,... -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.50A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French... -
Syracuse, City of Legends: A Glory of Sicily by Jeremy Dummett
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.59This vivid and engaging book weaves together the history, architecture and archaeology of Syracuse and is an essential companion for anyone visiting the city. Dubbed 'the greatest Greek city and... -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.59John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse... -
The Seventeenth Century: 1603-1688 by Jenny Wormald 9780198731627
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $150.68The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 dramatically changed the nature and level of interaction between the constituent parts of the British Isles, and over the course of the century... -
Gardens of the Gods: Myth, Magic and Meaning by Christopher McIntosh 9781860647406
Booksplease Price: $67.28"Gardens of the Gods" reveals the symbolic language of garden design, exploring the gardens of China, with their moon gates and immortal rocks, the Zen gardens of Japan, the paradise gardens of... -
Genius, Power and Magic: A Cultural History of Germany from Goethe to Wagner by Roderick Cavaliero 9781350239760
Booksplease Price: $32.42Before unification, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread. It was known across Europe for the plentiful supply... -
The Seventeenth Century by Jenny Wormald 9780198731610
Booksplease Price: $91.25The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 dramatically changed the nature and level of interaction between the constituent parts of the British Isles, and over the course of the century...