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Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Paul Sullivan 9780755654222
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.67"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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.27An 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Gertrude 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... -
Cuba by Mike Gonzalez 9781788314992
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.48A 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... -
Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar by Robert Lebling
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.99A 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... -
Strolling Through Rome by Mario Erasmo
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.88A 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 -... -
Finding Eden: A Journey into the Heart of Borneo Robin Hanbury-Tenison 9780755650637
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.81'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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.99The 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... -
Health and Hedonism: A Cultural History of the Spa by Ian Bradley 9780755626465
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.78Delve 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... -
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elisabeth de Feydeau
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.33A 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... -
The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains by Choo Waihong
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.74In 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... -
Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.99The 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,... -
A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen by Freya Stark
Booksplease Price: £20.95From 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... -
The Eagle in Splendour: Inside the Court of Napoleon by Philip Mansel 9780755645831
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.34The 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... -
Scattered Ghosts: One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution by Nick Barlay 9780755626991
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.39Scattered 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... -
In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure by Henry Hardy
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64The 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... -
The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway by Richard Bradford 9780755600977
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.81A 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: £15.74Discover 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... -
Tangier: From the Romans to the Rolling Stones by Richard Hamilton 9780755654512
Booksplease Price: £12.81In 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,... -
Syracuse, City of Legends: A Glory of Sicily by Jeremy Dummett
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.19This 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.27John 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 French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.81A 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... -
Gardens of the Gods: Myth, Magic and Meaning by Christopher McIntosh 9781860647406
Booksplease Price: £29.55"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... -
The Seventeenth Century: 1603-1688 by Jenny Wormald 9780198731627
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £71.75The 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... -
Genius, Power and Magic: A Cultural History of Germany from Goethe to Wagner by Roderick Cavaliero 9781350239760
Booksplease Price: £15.44Before 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: £43.50The 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... -
Encounters with Islam: On Religion, Politics and Modernity by Malise Ruthven 9781780760247
Booksplease Price: £28.57For many years Malise Ruthven has been at the forefront of discerning commentary on the Islamic world and its relations with the predominantly secularised and Christian societies of the West. Well...