Walsh is an international correspondent for the New York Times of long standing who was bureau chief in Pakistan for a decade, before his encounter with an intelligence agent and subsequent ... read more
The perambulations of the Irish photographer around the world to beautiful places. With contributions by Marella Caracciolo Chia, James Reginato and Tom Delavan.
The textile artist and printmaker and the painter, designer and teacher, who began their life together in the Bauhaus movement and fled to America in 1933, where they became influential teac... read more
For old rockers and die-hards who simply refuse to gather moss... and, no doubt, for hipsters: an illustrated history of contemporary culture, through the prism of Rolling Stone magazine's c... read more
The author's mother came from a Sikh family that fled the Punjab in Partition; later she moved to Berlin and Washington. A fine memoir of family whose identity and roots have been complicate... read more
Recounts seven decades of activities, with interviews that include most of the surviving former heads of the CIA and discussions of the Agency's role in containing presidential powers. Revel... read more
Berlin is defined by its many edges - the blurred edge between Huns and Slavs, pagan and Christian, the competing spheres of influence of Western Europe and Russia, autocracy and democracy, ... read more
A gorgeous book by Picasso's granddaughter about his work in relation to his eldest daughter Maya Ruiz-Picasso, whose mother was Marie-Therese Walter. Contributions by Pepe Karmel, Elizabeth... read more
A curator of fashion at the V&A for most of her working life, CW uses her experience and sensitivity to clothes to explore how, in her own family's life, the secrets of clothes measure out t... read more
If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.
A new translation of the ancient Welsh manuscript. There are poems here from before the Norman Conquest, copied in the C14th and saved by Robert Vaughan in the C17th. Taliesin was an inspir... read more
An important account of Repton's work, bridging the period between Capability Brown's informality and the stiffer designs of the Victorians. Illustrated.
Gardens include the American Museum and Gardens, Barley Wood Walled Garden, Batcombe House, Lambrook Manor, Hauser & Wirth, Hestercombe, Iford Manor, Kilver Court and Common Farm, the latter... read more
Attractive near-facsimile of a very small sketchbook that Turner used as a young man. It's known as the 'Wilson' as it was marked 'Copies of Wilson' on the cover, after Richard Wilson, the g... read more
Classic fairy tales given a contemporary spin by prominent writers: the children want to save the forest but their aunt thinks they are viperous vegetarians and plans to abandon them in the ... read more
The explorer and travel writer's first photographic book draws on his travels around the world, from war zones to traditional ways of rural life, frontier existences and modern technology. H... read more
Panoramic illustrations bring the layers of geological time alive: oceans and swamps, great beasts, extinctions, the origins of species, to the appearance of Homo sapiens, the Ice Age, hunte... read more
The veteran journalist reviews the current US presidency, in all its baffling volatility, basing himself on several exclusive interviews and a wealth of documentary evidence.
A subtle and wide-ranging exploration of the complex boundaries we have with animals and birds, from pre-history to the present; the author's earlier book, 'Corvus: A Life with Birds' was ou... read more
A hardback reissue of the dystopian novel that inspired Orwell, Huxley and many others. It also includes Ursula Le Guin's essay 'Stalin in the Soul' on the influence of Zamyatin's masterpiec... read more