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Atlas of Vanishing Places by Travis Elborough
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24Imagine 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... -
The Long-Player Goodbye by Travis Elborough 9780340934111
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $18.77For nearly 60 years, since the arrival of the long-playing record in 1948, the album has provided the soundtrack to our lives. Our record collections, even if they're on CD, or these days, an iPod,... -
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The Long-Player Goodbye by Travis Elborough 9780340934111 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $5.11For nearly 60 years, since the arrival of the long-playing record in 1948, the album has provided the soundtrack to our lives. Our record collections, even if they're on CD, or these days, an iPod,... -
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles by Travis Elborough
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00'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... -
Wish You Were Here: England on Sea by Travis Elborough
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $17.59In 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... -
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21'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... -
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution by Travis Elborough
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49'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... -
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution by Travis Elborough 9780224099820
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $23.33Parks 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... -
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles Travis Elborough 9781408712849
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.86'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... -
The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With The Routemaster Travis Elborough 9781862078857
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54In 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... -
Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners by Travis Elborough
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.10'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 Writer's Journey: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats: Volume 1 Travis Elborough 9780711268722
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $14.97Follow 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... -
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Wish You Were Here: England on Sea by Travis Elborough 9780340935118 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $4.07In 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... -
Walking on Thin Air: A Life's Journey in 99 Steps by Geoff Nicholson 9781908906571
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Geoff 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... -
The Oval: Souvenir Guidebook by 9781785511714
RRP: $19.00Booksplease Price: $13.83The 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: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.12"...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: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Richard 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: $20.88Booksplease Price: $13.66In 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: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.52'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... -
Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $13.51UNFINISHED 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: $24.68Booksplease Price: $14.99A 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... -
Don't Look Back In Anger: The rise and fall of Cool Britannia, told by those who were there by Daniel Rachel 9781409180722
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95The 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... -
Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds by Helen Gordon
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.42'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
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $31.52'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: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.89A 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... -
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 9780349018508
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24From 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: $20.88Booksplease Price: $4.75A 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... -
Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV by Joe Moran
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question: since its beginnings during WW2, television has... -
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McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland by Pete McCarthy 9780340766057 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $4.41ONE MAN'S HILARIOUS, UNMISSABLE JOURNEY AROUND IRELAND - OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE.'The best book I've ever read. The journey was hilarious, emotional and personal . . . and the struggle... -
McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland by Pete McCarthy
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59Pete McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world. Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer...