She arrived in America in 1807 as a refugee from Napoleonic France. Her sketches of the world she encountered there must show what Madame de la Tour du Pin a decade earlier. A lovely book.
His 2019 book 'Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain' was a brilliant, erudite, witty and important sequence of essays about why Brexit happened. This book is all new material.
A very welcome re-issue. Not so much art history as a series of conversations and thoughts about the work of Paul Nash, David Jones, Joan Eardley, Ben Nicholson and others. Some illustration... read more
A black and white Who's Who of the roaring twenties and thirties - this ab fab show at the NPG is given breadth by the inclusion of works by Henry Lamb, Rex Whistler, Christopher Wood and ot... read more
Simms and Medd were part of the mass-release of Allied prisoners when Italy surrendered in 1943. Their escape story - and the bravery and kindness of the Italians who helped them on their ... read more
An American voice on the environmental disaster of post-war industrial agriculture, and the positive signs of recovery from poly-cultural farms and permaculture embraced by a new generation ... read more
Like the new novel by the other twice-Booker-winner on this list, this is the third in a trilogy... following Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, both of which are also reissued in hardback a... read more
The last seven years of Lowell's life, including 'The Dolphin' sonnets controversy, his break up and reconciliation with EH, seen through their letters to each other, Elizabeth Bishop, Caro... read more
A memoir of youth in Henan province and the liberating power of the pen, by a prolific Chinese writer still relatively little known in this country, despite a festoon of international prizes... read more
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land: AL was a philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester and conservationist, and a professor at the University of Wisconsin. He was the ... read more
The author has been travelling in China for 30 years. This is her first book, and it is a compelling portrait of the country's culture and its recent mutations.
The Bulgarian/Scottish writer explores the mountainous fringe of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece along the via Egnatia (which, astonishingly, joined the via Appia to link Rome with Byzan... read more