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A Passion for Fashion: 300 Years of Style at Blenheim Palace by Antonia Keaney
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09A Passion for Fashion provides an amusing look at some of the clothes, underclothes, shoes and accessories worn by many of the more colourful characters in Blenheim Palace's 300-year history, as... -
London the Metamorphosis by Anna Keen
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.30As London evolves into a Babylonian-style city of lofty towers, the artist Anna Keen has been inspired to paint this London Metamorphosis. While each new edifice heads to the heavens, the exposed... -
Jacques de Guelis SOE's Genial Giant: His Life, His War & His Untimely End by Delphine Isaaman
Booksplease Price: £14.74This account of the life of Jacques Vaillant de Guelis follows him from his birth in Cardiff, through school and University and French Military Service. Newly married he was recalled to France in... -
Hsiao Chin and Punto: Mapping Post-War Avant-Garde by Joshua Gong 9781912690831
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.42Hsiao Chin spent his formative years in Europe experiencing the Western Modern Art movement. As a leading post-war Asian artist, he has contributed immensely to the development of avant-garde art and... -
Longford Castle: The Treasures and the Collectors by Amelia Smith 9781910787687
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.69Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned today by their... -
Renewal Architects: The Transformation of Farsons Brewery Malta by Ian Ritchie 9781911397366
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.42The name Farsons is as synonymous with Malta as Guinness is with Ireland. Louis Farrugia’s visionary decision to conduct a European architectural competition has resulted in a stunningly beautiful... -
A History of Dangerous Assumptions by John Molesworth 9781913491895
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.18A History of Dangerous Assumptions features over two hundred illuminating and intriguing case-studies of this fascinating subject, including some of the most disastrous assumptions ever foisted upon... -
Romany Mark Bruce: Sculpting Colour Romany Mark Bruce 9781911397939
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.22In 2007 Romany Mark Bruce, Irish-born lawyer and self-taught artist, was confronted by a stranger while walking his dog in Kemptown, Brighton. ‘I want a word with you,’ said the mysterious fellow,... -
A Love Letter to Romania by Darran Rees 9781916846098
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.89When Darran Rees first drove northward toward Transylvania he felt he was being transported back in time. These remarkable landscapes were like visions of the past with such odd beauty and majesty... -
The Entrepreneur Within: How to Forge Innovation-led Growth by Embracing the Inner Entrepreneur Mark Roberts 9781917458092
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.18The Entrepreneur Within is an innovator's playbook to help ideas gain traction, scale quickly and keep an entrepreneurial mindset alive within any organisation. Large companies often lose the... -
After the Dance: Le Roux Smith Le Roux and the Tate Scandal Philippe Le Roux 9781917458436
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.72After The Dance delves into the intriguing life of South African artist Le Roux Smith Le Roux (1914-1963), a brilliant yet obsessive outsider who was appointed Deputy Keeper of the Tate Gallery in... -
Nicholas Hilliard by Karen Hearn 9780906290828
Booksplease Price: £6.96Nicholas Hilliard's portrait miniatures opens a remarkable window on to the highest levels of English society in the later years of the sixteenth and the early years of the seventeenth centuries... -
Being Victorian: How it felt then, Why it matters now by Camplin J 9781917458283
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.81Writers and poets, academics and art critics, mathematicians and experimental scientists, churchmen and politicians, women of strong opinions gather for a summer weekend in the 1870s. Is it real, or... -
The Frontline Walk: Following in the footsteps of those who fought by Terry Whenham
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.83This book tells the story of the Frontline Walk, a sponsored walk across the former battlefields of the Western Front supporting the work of ABF The Soldier's Charity. The service charity was... -
Living with the Algorithm: Servant or Master?: AI Governance and Policy for the Future by Tim Clement-Jones 9781911397922
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86An authoritative guide to what is needed for AI governance and regulation from expert authors internationally involved in the practical world of AI. This book tackles the question of why AI is a... -
Fan Zhen: Faith in Vision Dr Joshua Gong 9781917458061
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.89Fan Zhen is an abstract painter whose art centres on the therapeutic colour field and energy expansion. Her visual creations strongly echo Daoism and Buddhism, which are mysterious yet existentialist... -
German Jazz Guitars: The Archtop Guitar in Post-War Central Europe Cameron Brown 9781916846692
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.05Most guitarists today think of the USA as the land of the guitar. Classical guitars come from Spain but rock, jazz and folk guitars must surely be American? They know the 'great' names - Gibson,... -
Amorous or Loving: The Highly Peculiar Tale of English and the English Sir Rupert Gavin 9781917458085
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.81How did a marginal dialect spoken in the late ninth century by 200,000 people become the world's language spoken by 1.6 million people today? In Amorous or Loving? - The Highly Peculiar Tale of... -
Chasing Churchill: The Travels of Winston Churchill by Celia Sandys 9781916846753
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.51Illustrated with photographs from the private family album, this book follows in the footsteps of some of Sir Winston Churchill's famous trips to the four corners of the world, by his... -
Batons and Bows: 50 Years of the Acadamy of St. Martin in the Fields by Christian Tyler 9781906509040
Booksplease Price: £4.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906509040Author Christian TylerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Unicorn Publishing... -
Van Gogh: A Life in Places by Juliet Heslewood 9781911604648
Booksplease Price: £6.91Early in his career, as he grappled with the idea of becoming an artist, Vincent van Gogh attempted portraiture, possibly with a mission in the religious sense. His models were impoverished miners,... -
Montgomery: Friends Within, Foes Without: Relationships In and Around 21st Army Group by Malcolm Pill
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.98In this new study of personal relationships within the British (including Canadian) Command in 21st Army Group during the campaign in North-West Europe in 1944-1945, Malcolm Pill considers the scope... -
Faith in the City of London by Niki Gorick
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03The mention of 'Faith in The City of London' conjures up images of ceremonial events in St. Paul's Cathedral, but there are over 40 other Anglican churches, as well as Jewish, Dutch, Catholic and... -
Wild Neighbours: Portraits of London's Magnificent Creatures by Sarah Cheesbrough
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.17AS FEATURED ON BBC LONDON NEWS. Take four seasons, one photographer, eighty species, hundreds of miles on foot in a city of ten million people and through intimate and captivating portraits meet... -
Other Ranks by William Vincent Tilsley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Other Ranks is a First World War classic, first published in 1931 but quickly lost in the wave of war memoirs and novels. It is the fictionalised account of William Tilsley's war experiences through... -
The Poverty Alleviation Series Volume Three: Red, Red Azalea by Song Wang 9781913491963
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.44The Targeted Poverty Alleviation programme was proposed by President Xi in 2013 and aims to give poor people the resources to lift themselves out of poverty. No fewer than three million cadres have... -
William Alister Macdonald: Watercolours from Thurso, the Thames, and Tahiti Iain Macdonald 9781916846241
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.22The life of Scottish watercolourist William Alister Macdonald (1861-1956) contained more mystery and intrigue than a novel by the authors he knew as friends. Mid-life in the early 1900s he painted... -
An Irishman in Northern Mesopotamia: A Journey of Discovery in South-East Türkiye – A Personal Perspective Nicholas Mackey 9781916846289
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.81Embark on an extraordinary odyssey through south-east Türkiye with Nicholas Mackey as he guides you through a captivating region embraced by the legendary Euphrates and Tigris rivers—the Cradle of... -
Along the River During Qingming Festival: One Day in the Song Dynasty Tian Yubin 9781916846487
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.42Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a renowned Chinese painting that captures the daily life of the Northern Song Dynasty. This artwork is an invaluable national treasure that offers... -
Richard Cosway by Stephen Lloyd 9780906290811
Booksplease Price: £6.91Cosway's flamboyant personality, eccentric mysticism, and brilliant marriage to Maria Hadfield during the 1780s brought him celebrity and notoriety. He was the principal recorder of the Prince of... -
Journeys Hazardous: Gurkha Clandestine Operations Borneo 1965 by Christopher Bullock 9781912690367
Booksplease Price: £13.01Journeys Hazardous tells a young officer's tale of 'Claret' operations in the undeclared war between Britain and Indonesia in the mid 1960s. These clandestine operations launched deep into Indonesia... -
Nine Lives: One Photographer, Nine Persecuted Species by Paul Goldstein 9781917458566
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.31Paul Goldstein has spent many years at the business end of a camera trying for that elusive ‘impossible shot’. For him, though, his images are just a gateway to highlighting the plight of the Nine... -
Only Us: A Photographic Celebration of Humanity by S. Dunn
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.51Only Us is a comprehensive, photographic portrait of humanity; a tapestry of mankind. As a species we are incredibly diverse, yet remarkably similar in so many ways. Our ability to adapt is... -
Birds, Bees and Butterflies: Daws Hall, a Very Special Nature Reserve and Garden by Iain Grahame
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.54Iain Grahame, author of five previous books, gives us an amusing but authoritative account of the establishment of a garden, nature reserve and environmental education centre on the Suffolk Essex... -
Invasion! D-Day & Operation Overlord in One Hundred Moments by Scott Addington
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The invasion of Normandy was the most significant victory of the Allies in the Second World War. By 1944, over 2 million troops from over 12 countries were in Britain in preparation for the invasion... -
Look Where We're Going: Escaping the Prism of Past Politics by David Howell
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £4.41Look Where We're Going is a book of revelation and revolution. Written by someone who has been at the centre of British government and international affairs for half a century, it looks afresh at the... -
Shepherds, Sheep, Hirelings & Wolves: An Anthology of Christian Currents in English Life since 550 AD by Tim Williams
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.07For many today the Church stands picturesquely in the background of modern life, but its time-honoured place has always been firmly in the foreground; it has been intimately woven into the unfolding... -
Bluebottle Goes To War: Peter Sellers & the RAF Gang Shows by PJ Brownsword
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Peter Sellers was one of the biggest stars of the 1960s and 70s. His career began with characters such as Bluebottle on BBC radio's The Goon Show and he achieved global fame as Inspector Clouseau in... -
A Distant Drum: The story of the 5th Bn Coldstream Guards 1944 - 45 by J. Pereira
Booksplease Price: £17.91Jocelyn Pereira's vivid and colourful narrative of the 5th Battalion' Coldstream Guards advance from Normandy to Cuxhaven in 1944-45 is a priceless piece of regimental history and a tribute to those... -
10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator 1828 - 2020 by David Butterfield 9781912690817
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.31There is no journal with a livelier and richer history than The Spectator. As well as being the world's oldest current affairs magazine, none has been closer to spheres of power and influence in...