Before the East India Company took hold, the dazzling Mughal courts received a raggle-taggle caravan of C16th and C17th merchants, priests and adventurers.
A selection of the Venerable Blythe's columns, with contributions by Rowan Williams, Richard Mabey, Julia Blackburn, Ian Collins et al. Inquisitive, gentle and modest, but surprising and fun... read more
The story of Anna Essinger, a German Jewish teacher who smuggled her school to England in 1933 and then fielded children arriving on the Kindertransport.
An engaging and idiosyncratic writer uses the machinations of the 1907 Peking-Paris car race as mirror to the geopolitical and technological changes which - not even a decade later - pitched... read more
A first biography of the late Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield and many other books and essays. His friends included John and Christine Nash (in whose house he came to live), Cedric Morris... read more