Although very different in temperament, these two great Whig figures joined to fight the slave trade, impeach the governor-general of the East India Company and support the rebellious Americ... read more
Considers the sturdy craftsman bungalows of Cora Cadwallader Tuttle and William Hazel's eerie Victorian... A reminder that Frank Lloyd Wright was not the only American practitioner of the Ar... read more
40th anniversary edition of this seminal collection: 103 black-and-white portrait photographs, taken over the course of five years when Avedon travelled the American West. Ordinary and also ... read more
After serving as a Captain in Gunnery on aircraft defences during WW2, Montagu spent three years touring the US by Greyhound bus. A cousin of Clementine Churchill's, she later married Milton... read more
By bus across the US, following the same route (Detroit to Los Angeles) that she made in her youth. A counterpoint to the 'Great American Road Trip', JP's narrative spins history, literature... read more
From the 1780s to (almost) the present; with particular reference to the roles of the Amendment and the Supreme Court. Lepore is a professor at Harvard.
Pioneering life in Nebraska in the late C19th, told through the eyes of a young orphan sent to live with his grandparents. This novel, first published in 1918, is utterly transporting and en... read more
The author of Square Haunting tackles another giant of modernism - the sibyl of Montparnasse, l'ogresse de la rue du Fleurus - with intelligence, wit and access to new material.
A new history of North and South America charting their relationship across the centuries, and exploring how they have defined themselves through engagement with and in opposition to each ot... read more
Devised by FDR in the 1930s, 'national security' was designed to keep Americans safe everywhere. This brilliant study of the militarised, global policy that ensued is very pertinent now.
Lewis (of Liar's Poker fame and many others) asked several writers for pieces on different aspects of government, cogs great and small. Contributors include John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks... read more
Summer in New York: our two protagonists catch one another's fancy while they wait to be selected as jurors. Another novella by the author of Call Me By Your Name and many others.
A re-issue of this excellent biography in which Solnit explores how the British photographer's images of high-speed movement captured in late C19th California were created on the cusp of the... read more
When this adventurous seeker after the authentic and delicious loaded her saddle bags and toottled off to France to research One More Croissant for the Road, the nation was confident she wou... read more
Anyone who read Christopher de Hamel's last book, or Alexandra Lapierre's novel Belle Greene, will know that the letters from Pierpont Morgan's mixed-race librarian/buyer to Berenson will be... read more
A re-issue of McCarthy's brilliant memoir - so painful and unjust that Anita Brookner held that Jane Eyre had got away lightly in comparison. First published in 1957.
A Canadian architect falls from grace after accepting a dubious commission. Glamorous and propulsive, this won multiple French prizes and was longlisted for the Goncourt.
A handsome illustrated volume that looks at the relations Frick and his daughter had with European dealers and also with their decorators (such as Elsie de Wolfe).