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Ultra by Tobias Jones
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Winner of the Daily Telegraph Football Book of the Year Ultras are often compared to punks, Hell's Angels, hooligans or the South American Barras Bravas. But in truth, they are a thoroughly Italian... -
Blood on the Altar by Tobias Jones
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange... -
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones 9780571302932
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An essential guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy.When Tobias Jones first travelled to Italy, he expected to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of... -
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones 9780865477247
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477247Author Tobias JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint < -
The Po: An Elegy for Italy's Longest River by Tobias Jones
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture. 'Delightful... A wonderful cornucopia of history' TLS 'Uncovers the Po's fascinating history'... -
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The Salati Case by Tobias Jones 9780571245864 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.85Castagnetti (informally known as 'Casta') is a private detective who doesn't do things by the book. When a pompous notary commissions him to verify that a missing person is "presumed dead" in order... -
A Place of Refuge: An Experiment in Communal Living - The Story of Windsor Hill Wood Tobias Jones 9781848662513
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.13Why is it that the more advanced our society becomes, the unhappier we are? Seeking an answer from the only honest perspective, Tobias Jones and his wife opened up their family home and ten acre... -
A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture Ian Buruma 9781843549628
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, art and legend, he shows the Japanese both 'as they... -
An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography... -
Lone Wolf: A Journey Into the Wild Heart of the Alps by Adam Weymouth 9781529158335
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONBBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the Year'AN EXCEPTIONAL BOOK.' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland'A BOLD, BEAUTIFUL,... -
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few... -
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando FigesIn the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led... -
Italy and its Discontents 1980-2001 by Paul Ginsborg 9780140247947
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two... -
Ciao Don Camillo VOLUME TWO Giovanni Guareschi 9781900064699
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Guareschi was a joker about serious things. The most dangerous politicians are those who cloak their megalomaniac psychology in a political ideology that masquerades as a universal panacea for the... -
1312: Among the Ultras: A journey with the world's most extreme fans James Montague 9781785039188
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15You can see them, but you don't know them.Ultras are football fans like no others. A hugely visible and controversial part of the global game, their credo and aesthetic replicated in almost every... -
Tempo: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry by Luca Paci 9781913640569
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Contemporary Italian poetry offers an extraordinary array of styles, voices, approaches, ways of looking at the world and ways of representing it. This anthology tries to capture the multiplicity of... -
Gaudi: God's Architect by Peter Stanford 9781399811811
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05'This biography restores Gaudi to life as one of the most original architects of all time...Stanford shows how the Catalan genius put his soul into everything he did.' Blake Morrison'This riveting... -
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The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows 9781840182750 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.20Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it... -
The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison W Fellows 9781840182750
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.80Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it... -
Accompaniment, Community and Nature: Overcoming Isolation, Marginalisation and Alienation Through Meaningful Connection by Jonathan Herbert
Booksplease Price: £18.62Has the art of accompaniment been lost in Western culture? Could non-judgemental accompaniment be the answer to rising levels of isolation and loneliness? Could spending time with others from... -
The Archipelago: Italy Since 1945 by John Foot
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54'An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday Times Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded... -
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMESThe extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian... -
The Roads To Rome: A History by Catherine Fletcher 9781847928030
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built'A delightful, novel and authoritative... -
Blood on the Page by Thomas Harding
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81***WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION***'Meticulous and gripping - a thriller that disturbs for revelations about a singular act of murder, and the national... -
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language by Albert Costa
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and... -
Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure by Helena Attlee 9780141991078
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah MoggachFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin... -
Don Camillo and Don Chichi: No. 8 in the Don Camillo Series by Giovanni Guareschi 9781900064569
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A gang of Hells Angels rips through the village bringing mayhem and a generational shift to traditional enmities between Don Camillo and Peppone. The year is 1966, a time ripe for rebellion, for... -
The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees by Robert Penn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74An exuberant tale of craftsmanship for nature lovers and rugged outdoor types everywhereRobert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we... -
Death in Perugia: The Definitive Account of the Meredith Kercher case from her murder to the acquittal of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox by John Follain
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Shortly after 12.30pm on 2 November 2007, Italian police were called to the Perugia home of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. They found her body on the floor under a beige quilt. Her... -
The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving 9780552996808
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78From a novelist known for the complexity of his novels - they are also long - comes an autobiography of compelling simplicity; it is also short. Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and... -
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The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving 9780552996808 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.09From a novelist known for the complexity of his novels - they are also long - comes an autobiography of compelling simplicity; it is also short. Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and... -
The Roads To Rome: A History by Catherine Fletcher 9781529932690
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Brimming with life and drama, this is a magnificent journey into two thousand years of history, from the acclaimed historian of Europe'Epic and witty' Observer 'Erudite, entertaining' Helena... -
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner 9780192866646
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £22.91Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European...