Quiet utterances like snatches of conversation, from the magnificent JB. These brief reflections and observations are not quite poetry, not quite prose - an absolute joy to read and to pause... read more
The author is an artist, musician and poet. The fables are all his own, improbable and playful - a pair of cross-dressing vultures, a timorous elk, a parliament of quails, an irritable camel... read more
A catalogue to accompany the celebration of Charleston at Philip Mould's gallery, using items from its exquisite collection and from private lenders too. Excellent essays about the growth of... read more
A skilful, moving ‘jeu d’esprit‘ turns about the life of the poet, the nature of his work, and the author’s preoccupation with him over several decades. It contains as much fiction a... read more
A biography of the sculptor Stephen Tomlin, a man of devastating attractions on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group who seems to have gone to bed with most of the people he met and then dran... read more
Grandson of an attainted Jacobite, the last Earl of Seaforth climbed volcanoes with William Hamilton and entertained young Mozart in Naples while on the Grand Tour. His marriage to a fashion... read more
A lovely clothbound thing from Slightly Foxed, whose taste is unerring. Hudson has been compiling these for forty years, and worked with John Murray on the latter's own famously delicious co... read more
Delightful slim volume from the Garden Museum about the garden at Prospect Cottage, in the same format as their recent ones on Cedric Morris and Ivon Hitchens. Includes essays by Howard Sool... 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