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Atlas of Vanishing Places by Travis Elborough
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.32Imagine what the world once looked like as you discover places that have disappeared from modern atlases in this stunningly illustrated and award-winning book. Have you ever wondered about cities... -
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution by Travis Elborough
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public... -
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles by Travis Elborough
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'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... -
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £12.93'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King, Jr.In an era where our liberties are often... -
Wish You Were Here: England on Sea by Travis Elborough
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In this gloriously original social history, Travis Elborough argues that our national character - our snobbishness and willingness to laugh at ourselves, our attitudes to sex and fair play and our... -
Outrage Ian Nairn 9781912559633
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.48In 1955, Britain's most prestigious architectural magazine, The Architectural Review, published a special issue featuring a single essay by Ian Nairn, a famously opinionated (and untrained)... -
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles Travis Elborough 9781408712849
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'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... -
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution by Travis Elborough 9780224099820
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.28Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life. You might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there - and that they always will. In fact, the roots of even the most humble... -
The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With The Routemaster Travis Elborough 9781862078857
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In December 2005, London lost one its most famous symbols: the Routemaster bus - a bus designed and made in London, by Londoners for Londoners, which was to London what the gondola is to Venice. In... -
The Writer's Journey: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats: Volume 1 Travis Elborough 9780711268722
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.30Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas. Some truly remarkable works of literature... -
Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners by Travis Elborough
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.32'Atlas of Improbable Places has that rare, through-the-wardrobe quality. It is a delightful compendium of the strangest places on the planet.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 2020 WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD... -
The Artist's Journey: The travels that inspired the artistic greats: Volume 2 by Travis Elborough 9780711268692
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.81Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous painters in this fascinating work from the Journeys of Note series. Some truly remarkable works of art have been inspired by artists... -
The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again by Travis Elborough 9781593762377
Booksplease Price: £15.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762377Author Travis ElboroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher... -
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journey to Abandoned Destinations from Around the Globe by Travis Elborough
Booksplease Price: £21.14Explore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight. From ancient ruins... -
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journeys to Abandoned and Deserted Destinations Around the Globe by Travis Elborough 9780711290846
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.15Explore the places that time forgot. These abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more... -
Atlas of Unexpected Places: Haphazard Discoveries, Chance Places and Unimaginable Destinations Travis Elborough 9780711290815
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.00Traverse the globe and explore the extraordinary. This is a unique, enigmatic collection of 45 meticulously crafted maps for wandering off the beaten track. Embark on an armchair expedition across... -
Walking on Thin Air: A Life's Journey in 99 Steps by Geoff Nicholson 9781908906571
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Geoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Wherever he is and wherever he goes in the world, he walks and writes about what he sees and feels. Here he reflects on the nature of walking, why we... -
Writers' Journeys That Shaped Our World: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats: Volume 1 Travis Elborough 9780711268739
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.61Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas. Some truly remarkable works of literature... -
Artists' Journeys That Shaped Our World: The travels that inspired the artistic greats: Volume 2 Travis Elborough 9780711268708
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.61From epic road trips and voyages into the most remote lands to culture-soaked, tranquil stays in the world's finest hotels, Artists' Journeys that Shaped Our World promises you an unforgettable... -
Brilliant Maps in the Wild Mike Higgins 9781803510392
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Which nations have launched which animals into space? Which countries have no sea views? Where were our planet's now-extinct species last sighted? Who is behind the great avocado boom? Where... -
Modern Buildings in London by Ian Nairn 9781912559510
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.03'Without any doubt, London is one of the best cities in the world for modern architecture. But it is also one of the biggest cities in the world, and it does not make a display of its best things. A... -
Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place by Alice Maddicott 9781914613654
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A compelling way of looking at the world' The TLS WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ATMOSPHERE? Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, to see a city's sights or a... -
The Oval: Souvenir Guidebook by 9781785511714
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.28The Oval is one of the world's great cricket grounds. It was here in south London in 1882 that the legend of the Ashes was born, and many of the game's most memorable events have taken place here,... -
The Seaside: England's Love Affair by Madeleine Bunting
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68"...a fascinating barometer of the state of the nation right now, in the wake of austerity, Brexit and Covid." - Travis Elborough England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines... -
The Seaside: England's Love Affair by Madeleine Bunting 9781783787197
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95"...a fascinating barometer of the state of the nation right now, in the wake of austerity, Brexit and Covid." - Travis Elborough England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines... -
A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings Prof Richard Dawkins 9780753817506
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Richard Dawkins is one of the finest minds in science, and in this superb collection of essays and letters, he demonstrates the depth of his knowledge and the rich variety of his interests. Whether... -
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World by Simon Garfield 9781786890795
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In 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... -
The Book Lover's Quiz Book: Novel Conundrums by Gary Wigglesworth
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.68'The perfect gift for quizzers' VAL McDERMID'Outside of a dog, The Book Lover's Quiz Book is every bookworm's best friend -- inside of a dog . . . well, if you know the rest, you're going to love... -
The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time Helen Gordon 9781800815353
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'The Meteorites conjures a small epiphany about our own place in the universe' The Sunday Times 'Dazzling' Financial Times From your window you can see the stars and distant planets: light... -
Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £8.72UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. ... -
In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in ’70s Britain by Will Hodgkinson 9781788705639
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A Telegraph Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA Shindig Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the YearAwarded the certificate of merit in the 2023 Association for Recorded Sound... -
Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo 9781529929997
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'A smart gender-flipped version of Moby Dick' Daily Telegraph'A clever and original skewering of a classic' i News'A brilliantly written reordering of Moby-Dick' Philip HoareCall Me Ishmaelle... -
In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in '70s Britain by Will Hodgkinson 9781788705615
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.80A Telegraph Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA Shindig Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the YearAwarded the certificate of merit in the 2023 Association for Recorded Sound... -
Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds by Helen Gordon
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'Astounding ... To call this a "history" does not do justice to Helen Gordon's ambition' Simon Ings, Daily Telegraph 'Awe-inspiring ... She has imbued geological tales with a beauty and... -
Don't Look Back In Anger: The rise and fall of Cool Britannia, told by those who were there by Daniel Rachel 9781409180722
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and... -
Don't Look Back In Anger: The rise and fall of Cool Britannia, told by those who were there by Daniel Rachel
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.59'A grade, A list oral history' The Sunday Times'Eminently, moreishly readable' The New Statesmen'A rollicking read' Mail on Sunday'Entertaining' Observer The nineties was the decade when British... -
Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age, from the Human League to Pulp 9781526183231
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.94A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025The amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain's most beloved bands.The Sheffield space age began in 1961, when local mechanic Ken Patten... -
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution by Max Décharné 9781846689789
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37'Enormously enjoyable' Sunday Times 'Genial and entertaining' Daily Telegraph 'A joyous celebration of the founding fathers of British youth culture' Alwyn Turner, author of All in it Together... -
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 9780349018508
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secretsLondon 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths -... -
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Fingersmith: shortlisted for the Booker Prize by Sarah Waters 9781860498831 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.50A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS)The book that inspired Park Chan-wook's astonishing film The Handmaiden.Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker PrizeLondon 1862...