Does Roberts ever sleep? Here is a large biography of the founder of modern journalism, who began both the Daily Mail and Daily Express, and who also owned the Sunday Times and the Obs... read more
A valuable account of one of the greatest advocates in modern history, revered not only in South Africa but around the globe as a defendant of the rule of law.
The reclusive Higgs posited the existence of his particle in a paper in 1964. It was 2012 before it was confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. A superb study of a scientist and his ... read more
The 'green fingers' behind JamJar Flowers chronicles the botanical history of flower pressing, from foxgloves to fritillaries, through lampshades, lilies, oshibana, jasmine, and many more de... read more
The two Sams' previous books were outstanding: now comes a recipe collection for when there's not time to make their legendary fennel-seeded roast pork belly...
Mastering the art of minimal intervention. We don't know if Mr McGregor would approve but Dowding is THE no-dig guru, pioneering this approach and growing vast and succulent vegetables since... read more
LCW's 1947 memoir of her life as a gallerist; at the Wertheim Gallery she showed a swathe of English Modernist artists - Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Cedri... read more
Why was Cezanne revered by Rilke and Beckett, Picasso and Matisse? And does that early modernity speak to us now? An illustrated, ravishing study of Cezanne's uneasy art by the great emeritu... read more
A portrait of the utopia created by Eugene O'Neill, de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius and many others.
Many readers will remember Daniel Yergin's brilliant history of oil Prize, but that was 30 years ago and things look pretty different now. Here is the backdrop to Marriott & Macalister's sup... read more
From the publisher who bought us Cathryn Spence's gorgeous Nature's Favourite Child: Thomas Robins and the Art of the Georgian Garden, a new edition of the fascinating book on the architect ... read more
The catalogue to accompany an exhibition at Museo delle Culture di Lugano in the Villa Malpensata, home to the Montgomery Collection. Textiles, paintings, objects of quotidian use, etc.