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