Yes, this is a book on how to read the first Book of the Bible - from one of the world's truly luminous novelists, the Calvinist author of Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack.
From the emergence of tyranny to the malaise of ennui, LS surveys how Hannah Arendt's life and work can help us confront the perils of contemporary post-truth politics.
Orme is back with another piece of medieval social history. Here he traces the development of 62 English cathedrals and describes the life and activities that occurred within their walls.
Robert Byron's account of his travels and lingerings on Mount Athos in 1927, aged twenty-five year. A wonderful re-issue by Eland of his first book, super-abundant with joy, wit and intellig... read more
A paragon of self-publishing: short and attractive, with blue endpapers, good paper, well laid-out. While this description could pass itself off as a literary lonely heart, it is in fact a p... read more
Ursula le Guin's interpretation of the classic Taoist text. Wrought from decades of textual consideration but without the grounding in Classical Chinese, this is a fascinating piece for thos... read more
'Drawing from such diverse sources as Newton's Principia, military manuals, eighteenth-century games, and cookbooks among others, Lorraine Daston seeks to define the role rules have played i... read more
A keen look at contemporary history through the eyes of Hobbes. Gray suggests that the philosopher would not be at all confident that our cheerful liberalism will dissolve the horrors and ha... read more
800 years of cave paintings, from the C2nd BC to the C6th CE: a revised edition with digitally restored images, and a new introduction by Dalrymple who has been researching the history of Bu... read more