An exuberant account of the importance to Modernism of what Truman Capote called "the all-time ultimate gallery of famous dykes" in Paris between the wars.
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
Pope’s poem is illustrated with charm and wit by Roland Pym, whose work ranged from book illustration to theatrical design and murals (including the State Saloon at Woburn Abbey). The illu... read more
This slim volume came out in the autumn and has been picked up so swiftly each time it arrives in the shop that we've hardly been able to keep it in stock...
PP has written numerous books on Fascist Spain. No one is better qualified to write this big history - why corruption has been so tenacious, and the continuing conflict between centrism and ... read more
Plant-hunting did not die with Frank Kingdon-Ward in 1958: very important work continues, highly skilled, technical and complex, but brings little or no fame to this intrepid band. We hope t... 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.
Translated from the German, this is a substantial book on the man who led Europe out of the Napoleonic chaos; the father of realpolitik, according to Kissinger.
CA, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Euan Uglow. With an introductory reminiscence of the Slade and them by a fellow student, Susan Campbell. Includes three essays by the three... 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 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