How we might mitigate the effects of an unrestrained market with strong civil government to create inclusive economic growth. Henderson is a professor at Harvard and a member of both the Bri... read more
The author began his bookselling life in the King's Road (not at Sandoe's but Slaney & Mackay, where JdeF worked for him briefly). For the last 30 years he has managed the Waterstones in Can... read more
The 'special relationship' was dreamt up by Churchill to keep Britain afloat geopolitically when faced with the loss of empire. Buruma takes a shrewd look at Churchill and FDR, JFK and Macm... read more
Phases of the moon, sunrise and sunsets, tide tables, the changing sky at night, gardening tips, sowing times, recipes, holidays, festivals... and delightfully illustrated too. LL is an al... read more
Two Scots lads have a lovely weekend in Manchester in 1986. 30 years later, a phone rings: as they remember the euphoria of their youth, the costs of life are revealed.
In 'How To Be A Woman' Moran thought she had life, work and feminism licked. This new book tells how the picture has changed for her, and how tricky it is to be a super-duper middle-aged wo... 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
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
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
AF has created an immense green Arcadia in Devon, informed by philosophy, art history, symbolism, alchemy and the classical world. This is a beautiful book with many illustrations and AF's d... read more
... is an enormous train that whisks away two children on a series of adventures, with a porcupine, a polar bear and many other animals aboard - and in danger. Ages 7-10.
Demick has previously won the Samuel Johnson prize and was short-listed for a Pulitzer. Her account of the modern Tibetan experience is unequalled. The town she writes about is Ngaba, in eas... read more
Set in Sweden's far north in 1852, where a milkmaid is the first to go missing in the forest. It's presumed that a bear is the nocturnal bumper, but the preacher Laestadius deduces different... read more
Gorgeous and generous survey arranged by region. Includes very rare pieces. Published to the same high standard as Prestel's 'Textiles of Japan' a couple of years ago.
Vol 1 was shortlisted last year for the Baillie Gifford Prize. WF knew Freud extremely well; he chronicles the colourful private life and pictures with detachment.
A children's illustrated version of this remarkable book, about a cabin by a German lake and the five families who live there during the course of the C20th, and what happens to them. Ages 6... read more
Another wonderful illustrated volume of tangential history from Yale (see the book on guitars, below, in 'Music'). This is an exploration of how the rose has inspired fashion over hundreds o... read more
Zulfikar was executed in 1979; three of his children were murdered. One can understand why the brilliant author Fatima keeps her distance from politics.
A study of the beginnings of the idea of the 'modern artist'. Not set in Paris or New York, as you might expect, but London among the students at the Royal Academy between 1769 to 1830.
The clandestine manoeuvres of one branch of military intelligence, responsible for saving thousands of lives. Airey Neave, Jimmy Langley, Sam Derry and Mary Lindell emerge as central figures... read more
An illustrated book about Mrs Mellon's designs and her gardening tips, drawn from her papers by people who knew her, in an attempt to make the garden book that she never did.