A memoir of inner and outer pilgrimage that begins with PS quitting her travel-writing job, leaving her partner and cutting short her Camino de Santiago to return home to North Wales, and th... read more
Landscape preservation through the lives of Octavia Hill (London), Beatrix Potter (Lake District), Pauline Dower (Northumberland), and Sylvia Sayer (Dartmoor).
The dewy, rolling hills, as witnessed by Hardy, Shepherd, Macfarlane, Macdonald, and a gaggle of brilliant, lesser-known writers. (This volume is testament to the genre's true diversity, whi... read more
Harris' wondrously eclectic mind has previously produced Weatherland and Romantic Moderns. Here she weaves stories of the Sussex landscape of her youth, with threads of Blake, Milton, Consta... read more
By examining their individual backgrounds, Clark shows that Ramsay MacDonald's new cabinet represented a radical departure in its representation of Britain's social classes.
From Arts and Crafts and Art Deco through Modernism, Postmodernism and emerging bright sparks: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edwin Lutyens, Berthold Lubetkin, Richard Rogers, Seth Stein, et ali... read more
Orme is back with another piece of medieval social history. Here he traces the development of 62 English cathedrals and describes the life and activities that occurred within their walls.
A native of West Cornwall, TH has zig-zagged his way across the duchy - over moor, through woodland, along the coast, by tin mines - to create an lively and congenial mix of nature writing a... read more
This rich historical analysis argues that the Enlightenment was a failure on its own terms. Terror, revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and Empire prevailed instead of Reason.
Born in 1833, Watt was a servant from the age of nine; later, she sold her husband's catch from door to door. After the death of most of her male relatives at sea, she was cared for in the C... read more
Prominent in both Thatcher and Major's cabinets, the author is a shrewd observer of the corridors of power, with their surprising chicanes and U-turns.
Glorious survey of pieces in the Victoria & Albert Museum, from Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew and Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal, Grayson Perry and many others. Many illustrations.
The poet walks ten landscapes that were significant for the Romantics - Shelley, Barrett Browning, Constable, Wordsworth and others - from Kent to Scotland: a mix of memoir, reverie, and ref... read more
This excellent author has set his new novel in Roman Britain: a tribal princess given away as part of a peace treaty flees through Wales with her Roman lover.
The highways and byways of the Good Friday Agreement - by a distinguished journalist who spent several decades covering the troubled state of Northern Ireland.
A selection of the Venerable Blythe's columns, with contributions by Rowan Williams, Richard Mabey, Julia Blackburn, Ian Collins et al. Inquisitive, gentle and modest, but surprising and fun... read more