4th March 2021

Simon Heffer, editor of the complete diaries (the first volume of which is now published in unexpurgated form for the very first time) is joined by Tim Bouverie, distinguished historian and author of Appeasing Hitler.

19th February 2021

Every year in the run-up to Christmas we publish a little treat through our imprint The Cuckoo Press. It's as much a treat for ourselves (previous authors include Javier Marias, William Boyd, Salley Vickers, and our own colleagues) as it is for our customers who ...

4th February 2021

... The Frozen Winter of 1962 and How Britain Emerged a Different Country... with moving parallels to our current situation.

18th November 2020

The first biography of this much loved author, bonne vivante, European, and John Sandoe customer, mentored by Aldous Huxley. Hastings’ earlier biographical subjects include Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford and Rosamond Lehmann.

29th February 2020

Johnny interviews Sir Tom, while Dame Hermione - a leading literary biographer - gives a short introduction to her new book, Tom Stoppard: A Life.

5th February 2020

Brighton, 1968: a film producer, a novelist and an actress find their private lives encroaching into their public worlds. Pressures build on the trio…

13th September 2020

Do you write in the margins? Have you lied about reading War and Peace? Which books are your 'comfort reads'? Martin Latham muses with Johnny on a life spent around books.

6th September 2020

Johnny chats to the illustrious academic about her dazzling new book - a superb account of the rise of Ravenna from its selection by Julius Caesar as a good port. Best known historically because of its early Byzantine mosaics, it finally lapsed into relative ...

13th August 2020

Loyd has recorded a preview for his new book. After the hammer blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, the new Pope, Alexander VII, determined to restore the church's prestige by making Rome into Europe's primary cultural destination ...