A collection of essays about this most extraordinary C17th woman, artist, traveller and naturalist; looks at her methods and materials, her journey to Suriname, her entomological studies, he... read more
The thoughtful work of the well-known American photographer who is fascinated with cabinets of curiosity and the idea of the Wunderkammer: a retrospective presentation of her idiosyncratic a... read more
When Matisse was commissioned by the collector Albert C. Barnes (of what became the Barnes Foundation) to create a monumental mural - The Dance - he began to arrange his composition using ... read more
In his longest novel so far, McEwan looks at the span of a man's life from Suez to Covid, considering the effects of global events and personal trauma.
Lavish book on this magnificent house, by its owner, now the thirteenth generation of Sackvilles. Knole appears in Woolf's Orlando as her protagonist's vast Elizabethan domain, more like a t... read more
Thorogood's version of 'up hill and down dale' takes him over cliffs and up volcanoes - all in the pursuit of pitcher plants, irises, orchids... Illustrated by the author.
Creation stories, dragons, gods, demigods, the Queen Mother of the West, rivers, mountains; legends from Dunhuang, Buddhism, Daoism, etc. Illustrated. (By the late 1980s, most of these were... read more
We haven't quite understood yet how to use this magnificent book as an atlas, but the pictures are breath-taking: ancient wonders hiding in plain sight. Abram's takes full advantage of aeria... read more
The work of Lucien Boucher, 37 of whose marvellous lithographs of Parisian shop fronts are reproduced here, along with an extended, illustrated essay by James Russell and Shaun Whiteside's t... read more
An investigation of the people behind the art: how did the Greeks and Romans view their own bodies? What were their ideas of perfection and ugliness and how were these used in art? Some illu... read more
The late lamented drummer of the Rolling Stones, who died just over a year ago. He was also a jazz fiend, playing and recording with several other musicians. His deadpan demeanour set off hi... read more
A deft and powerful retelling of the myth of Medusa - the only mortal born to a family of gods, whose life was upended by Athene's revenge on Poseidon. Haynes' work is always exciting.
An Alpine hotel with a room missing, a private bank in Switzerland, skullduggery over an inheritance, a ravishing young woman - just some of the layers in this fiendish onion of a novel.
Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the great impresario's birth. The names of those he worked with, those great and fabulous beings like Goncharova, Stravinsky, Picasso, Fokine,... read more
Cooper (1916-1992) studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art and was beginning to make a name for herself when her career was interrupted by WW2. Other careers followed... Her work is ch... read more
The friendship of Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker, biologist and botanist sans pareil, and how they influenced each other in developing their understanding of the world around them - and ou... read more
Unusual and interesting plants photographed and described in their natural habitats, often in very remote places - anyone remember the heady uplands of tulip and meadows of fritillary in Gar... read more
After her adventures with Bonnie Prince Charlie in the aftermath of Culloden, Flora MacDonald emigrated to North Carolina, married, and got caught up in the War of Independence. This is an a... read more
A first collection of essays and journalism from the novelist best known for We Need to Talk About Kevin. Free speech, identity politics and intellectual imprisonment are all grist to Shrive... read more