A vivid portrait of a complex man approached through twelve books, including his mother’s diary and Lolita. Beguiling and intriguing, he did not shun controversy.
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
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Edition:Hardback978147462109031/08/2023From a Bookshelf nearby
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A neat bit of historical detective work enabled the author of 'Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts' to identify Becket's Anglo-Saxon Psalter, which he may have been holding when he was murd... read more
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food
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Gorgeous colour images, as well as translations and commentary on these celebrated Persian poems. Both manuscripts date from the C15th and are exquisitely illustrated. This will be ravishing... read more
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A monograph on the modernist graphic designer, as famous for his posters as his book jackets for the Hogarth Press, Faber & Faber, Gollanz, etc.