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Summers of Discontent by Raymond Tallis 9781908524409
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered on the nature and purpose of the arts, but artists have gone on making them and audiences enjoying them regardless of these musings... -
Friendships by Mark Girouard 9781908524966
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86Mark Girouard has, he claims, scarcely ever thrown away a letter that he has received, and here he selects and reproduces 29 of them, ranging from his early childhood during the war to recent years,... -
123 Places in Turkey: A Private Grand Tour by Russell Francis 9781908524874
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56This personal and well informed selection and description of the most interesting towns and individual buildings and archaeological sites in Turkey is the definitive guidebook for the discerning... -
Places in Italy: A Private Grand Tour by Francis Russell 9781912242214
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56This personal, and wonderfully well informed, selection of the most rewarding towns, cities, villages and individual monuments in Italy is the definitive guidebook for the discerning traveller. The... -
Exhibitionist by Richard Dorment 9781908524676
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.83For thirty years, until 2015, Richard Dorment was the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Writing almost every week it was his job to introduce, to explain and to criticise for a popular newspaper the... -
James Ravilious: A Life by Robin Ravilious 9781912242160
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26James Ravilious (1939-1999) trained as an artist, like his father Eric, but a Cartier-Bresson exhibition converted him to photography, which he taught himself. In 1972, a move to his wife Robin's... -
The Lost Pre-Raphaelite: The Secret Life & Loves of Robert Bateman by Nigel Daly 9781908524386
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored. An increasingly... -
O Joy for me!: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Origins of Fell-Walking in the Lake District 1790-1802 by Keir Davidson 9781912242054
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45Coleridge was the first person to walk the mountains alone, and not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman or shepherd, but because he wanted to for pleasure and for adventure. His... -
Portrait of a Muse: Frances Graham, Edward Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelite Dream by Andrew Gailey
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90'You haunt me everywhere.' So wrote Edward Burne-Jones to Frances Graham, his muse for the last 25 triumphant years of his life: 'I haven't a corner of my life or my thoughts where you are not'. He... -
The French in London by Isabelle Janvrin 9781908524652
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Ever since 1066 there has been a substantial French presence in London. It is now said to be the sixth most populous French city and this book illustrates, explains, and exposes how this came about... -
Stonypath Days by Finlay 9781908524720
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90These letters to (and from) Finlay's friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world... -
Midway: Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann 1964-69 by Stephen Bann
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of... -
Chernobyl Strawberries: A Memoir by Vesna Goldsworthy
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family and her early life in... -
Have You Come Far?: A Life in Interviews by Vaughan Grylls 9781912242146
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19From applying to be a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral, through failing his driving test, to interviews for appointment as Professor of fine Art at one of New England's most famous universities, or a... -
Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art by Julian Spalding 9781908524454
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Our world view has changed from a flat earth under the dome of heaven to a planet spinning in the universe. We perceived the world as a body, like ours, then as a tree, a pyramid, an altar, and...