A sequence of lively anecdotes from a mercurial mind: Gekoski has led several careers, as a publisher and more recently as a fine novelist; he is also the doyen of dealers in rare modern fir... read more
JR wrote a superb novel ('Kozlowski') about the Katyn massacre. This book uses the testimonies of survivors and investigators to understand how the effects of the massacre rippled on for de... read more
Adria is perhaps a surprising person to take us back to Flintstone cookery; an interesting exploration of the McLuhanesque relationship between pot and food.
A cultural history of twelve flowers - but this is not a flimsy loveliness but full of fascination and bite. Radioactivity, the slave trade, global warming, that old charmer Henry VIII, all ... read more
Its second subtitle is "an adventurous history of botany". JG is a scientist and an historian of exploration (his "The Rattlesnake: A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea" was excellent).