The ideal present for that rare breed of person mostly to be found head-down in the compost bin, with just a pair of legs with gumboot finials waving ecstatically at passers-by or spouses, l... read more
The third outing for Persis Wadia in the 'Malabar House' series, in post-independence Bombay: an unknown European has been found frozen in Dehra Dun, and there are new murders on his doorste... read more
The Chagos Archipelago was appropriated from Mauritius by Britain in the 1960s and its inhabitants deported (with one suitcase each) to Mauritius and the UK in 1967-1973 to make way for the ... read more
When a young woman in Renaissance Italy is taken by her husband, the Duke of Ferrara, to a remote villa, she realises he intends to kill her... Richly told, by the author of Hamnet.
A reprint of this charming, beautifully illustrated children's book, first published in 1992, which tells the legend behind the ubiquitous and much-loved design found on plates and bowls in ... read more
A boy has a strange and unique gift: he can undo curses, in a world where everyone can cast them. Hardinge has been writing for years but only reached a huge audience when The Lie Tree won t... read more
A free-spirited imp sets out on an adventure to help her friend the zebra, and ends up liberating a whole menagerie of animals. Very cheerful stuff from a most ingenious author. For ages 5-7... read more
A slim volume containing two dozen leaves: twelve are photographic studies by the great NM of dead leaves, "at the held, drawn-out stage of their metamorphosis", the moment when they curl in... read more
The Jena set: Caroline Schlegel's salon in the 1790s, in that small German university town, included Novalis, Schiller, Hegel, Goethe and Humboldt. They radically changed our ideas as the Fr... read more
A neglected Irish girl is fostered out to her mother's sister for the summer in this perfect, understated story. Almost too short even to be called a novella. Keegan is short-listed for this... read more
Often hilarious and certainly astonishing, this is the novelist's memoir of growing up in Sheffield in the 1950s. His father, an insecure bully, adopted a toupée, which functioned as an ins... read more
The man behind Soho's Quo Vadis is Jeremy Lee and here is his long-awaited cookbook... filled with characteristic and contagious ebullience, heavenly writing, darts of wit and delicious reci... read more
Biotechnology is becoming big business, the stuff of both dreams and nightmares. Cobb is an eminently reasonable guide to this strange new world: gene-editing, cloning, GMOs, ethics, etc.
The poet walks ten landscapes that were significant for the Romantics - Shelley, Barrett Browning, Constable, Wordsworth and others - from Kent to Scotland: a mix of memoir, reverie, and ref... read more
Large format retrospective of Leibovitz's work. This was previously published in 2014, as a so-called 'Sumo' edition. Weighing in at 26kg, that vast book required Sumo-strength to lift it, a... read more
This is a fascinating illustrated book on the often elaborate and arresting labels used by British textile manufacturers when exporting to India during the Raj.