From the editor of Gunn's Letters comes the first biography of the poet whose complex sexual and cultural life led him to the California hippies and the AIDS crisis.
Argues that the British/Chinese relationship has shaped the modern world. While Britain dominated in the age of the Opium Wars, the balance has now decisively shifted.
More ships were lost to shipwreck than in battle during the Napoleonic Wars. This is a valuable study of the Hydrographic Office and its intrepid sailors, who gathered the intelligence that ... read more
In October 1960, James Baldwin diagnosed the trouble with American society as 'a failure of the masculine sensibility.' This is a study of the relationship of Tennessee Williams, Carson McCu... read more
An exceptional examination of the ways to fight global warming, by a professor of earth science at Stanford University, sharp enough to dispel the paralysis of climate apathy.
A new edition of Henry's first book, published in 2002, six years before Ottolenghi's. It's still fantastically good, revelling in flavours from Sicily, the Carmargue, North Africa and the M... read more