This autumn John Silver and his son David celebrate a quarter century of the Vintage Watch Company in the Burlington Arcade with this handsome publication. 1800 watches, from early pocket wa... read more
CE is a lively companion, adventurous and hungry, as she takes us from the Caspian Sea to the Fergana Valley in eastern Uzbekistan. This is not a traditional cookbook and the recipes play se... read more
A wickedly funny portrait of a group of liberal New Yorkers. Appalled by the political catastrophe of 2016, they think they are safe in their nice homes...
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
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
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
The story of the protagonist is told from several points of view by different generations. Against the backdrop of Germany's imperial ambitions in Africa and Arctic explorations, through the... read more
Cars, guns, computers etc have stopped working. Safe in rural Maine, the protagonists are visited by an old acquaintance in a retro-fitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. It can'... read more
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,... read more
A fascinating account of the group of queer young MPs who visited Berlin in the 1930s and spoke out against Hitler. Dubbed 'the glamour boys' by Chamberlain, their warnings were ignored and ... read more
Three dark-skinned bodies wash up on the beach of a Mediterranean island. The attempts of the islanders to hush up the implications are upset by the arrival of a detective, who unpicks their... read more
SB-C argues that the secrets of humanity's cognitive development - from the invention of agriculture to musical instruments - can be found in the genes for autism.
I had my first French meal and never got over it: a collection of Child's amiable witticisms and observations. "In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by... read more
This is a new edition of V S Vernon Jones's translation, first published by Gregynog Press in the 1930s. The woodcuts are marvellous. Almost more for parents than children.
Natural selection and the table, served as a meal of several courses... beginning with oysters. Who knew of the role of mussels in the exodus of our ancestors from Africa? A fascinating and ... read more
On a Greek island in 1977, Calista finds herself working for Billy Wilder on a film. His career is on the wane, and she's a young woman with a lot to learn...
The former Editor of the Financial Times (2005-2020) was scribbling away during the tech boom, the global financial crisis, the rise of China, Brexit, etc...
Humane and witty ruminations on science, history, philosophy and politics by the bestselling physicist: Dante's universe, Nabokov's butterflies, Einstein's errors, etc.
A lively history of sculpture from the pre-Ice Age lion-man, made of bone, to Eliasson and Saraceno's use of light and air. Who better to celebrate the elements of (and in) sculptural form t... read more
CC is the distinguished Australian publisher who founded Virago. Her forebear was transported for seven years for stealing a piece of hemp, but managed to prosper in Australia. He returned t... read more
Takes the reader from the earliest written accounts to the present in vivid portraits. The empress Masako is there, and presumably princess Murasaki Shikibu, whose diary is not only fascina... read more