-
This epic tale of the Sassoons and the Kadoories in 1930s Shanghai is like 'Dynasty' transferred from Texas to the global stage of China-Baghdad-London in the 1930s. NB Publ... read more
Kings of Shanghai
Hardback £20.00 -
A biography of the man so vividly presented in Robert Edric's 2008 novel 'In Zodiac Light': the poet and composer who, following his experiences as a soldier in WW1, was confined to an asylu... read more
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney
Hardback £30.00 -
A riveting portrait of the man who sold many of the books that drove the Renaissance, who knew where manuscripts were, arranged for copies to be made and trod carefully among rival ruling fa... read more
-
-
The author began his bookselling life in the King's Road (not at Sandoe's but Slaney & Mackay, where JdeF worked for him briefly). For the last 30 years he has managed the Waterstones in Can... read more
The Bookseller’s Tale
Hardback £16.99 -
-
Marr has a gift of presenting complex issues with clarity; here he uses a diverse cast to show where we are and how we got here.
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged
Hardback £20.00 -
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
Hardback £25.00 -
The Camondos, Rothschilds, Ephrussis and others amassed superb collections which in many cases they left to the state that betrayed them.
-
-
The story of the magazine that began in a someone's spare room 125 years ago. What - and who - made it so successful?
Glossy: The inside story of Vogue
Hardback £20.00 -
C20th experimental and idealistic collectives, including Santiniketan in Delhi, England's Dartington, Germany's Bruderhof. Their leaders were charismatics too - Tagore, Gurdjieff, et al - ... read more
-
A vibrant blend of social history and memoir: argues that this three-month period of nation-wide, wintry shutdown gave rise to unprecedented cultural renewal. Fingers crossed for 2021 and 2... read more
-
The buildings that are falling into disuse and ruin all around the UK were once essential in their communities. This study - from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-C16th shows how they worked.
Going to Church in Medieval England
Hardback £20.00 -
A panoramic view of the British landscape through the eyes of writers and artists, from Bede to Barbara Hepworth and beyond: mystery, reflection, discovery, imagination, vision, etc. The sco... read more
-
Published by Yale, this is a fascinating and original exploration of the influence of the newly popular guitar on the Romantics and on culture in the early C19th.
-
-
A provocative account of her well-lived life that exposes the profound misogyny of the music industry.
Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
Hardback £9.99 -
In praise of curiosity: the author's investigations began when she found herself living next door to its two-acre remnant. Part biography, part memoir, part history of science, this is as in... read more
-
Clever study of three very different psychoactive, natural drugs. Give up coffee - are you out of your mind?
-
A magnificent account of how the Vikings saw themselves, including also the Viking diaspora, from Finland to Uzbekistan, and also the role of slavery in Viking life and trade that was glosse... read more
-
From the author of the excellent 'The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are', an account of the dazzling city that was the hub of the known world in the C16th.
Antwerp: The Glory Years
Hardback £25.00 -
Alex Renton is a journalist and writer: he uncovers his own family's slave-owning past and uses this as a means of approaching the growing debate about such legacies and contemporary consequ... read more
-
In this magnificently madcap adventure, SR pursues rumours of old pianos into all corners of Siberia: Arctic, Altai, Kamchatka, Princess Volkonsky in Irkutsk... She writes well, has a lovely... read more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia
Hardback £18.99 -
A panoramic account by the distinguished Harvard historian of five generations of a French provincial family originally from Angouleme, crammed with stories and archival research. ER has a d... read more
-
Rutter - a literature graduate who notes the etymological link between 'text' and 'textile' - travelled the British Isles researching the social history of wool and knitting. This charming a... read more
-
The follow-up to Ruth Scurr's dazzling, inspired book about John Aubrey is a glorious portrait of Napoleon through his love of nature and gardens.
Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows
Hardback £30.00 -
The veteran commentator considers the 1960 coup that deposed Menderes, and traces the parallels that divide Erdogan's Turkey.
-
In this new book Sinclair has abandoned London for Peru, in an attempt to understand his great-grandfather's colonial career. The narrative Sinclair grew up with ends up as self-serving flot... read more
-
An exuberant account of the importance to Modernism of what Truman Capote called "the all-time ultimate gallery of famous dykes" in Paris between the wars.
No Modernism Without Lesbians
Hardback £25.00 -
A remarkable work of research and skill, which brings to life Tsunemo, a country priest's daughter who defied conventions when her world was radically changing.
-
The author of 'The Queen of Whale Key' and 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' has found a new subject with which to amaze us: the case of the 'Croydon Poltergeist' and its investigation by the N... read more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding
Hardback £18.99 -
How to keep chickens, make soap, create a kitchen garden, dip candles, tie knots, and a lot more. This might well take the place of the old 'Weekend Books' in an era of lockdowns.
Lost Skills and Crafts Handbook
Hardback £16.99 -
An instructive look at 12 statues: why they were put up, the stories they were supposed to tell, why those stories were challenged; and why the statues were pulled down.
-
In the early 20th century an easily overlooked square in Bloomsbury was the home, at one time or another, of the modernist poet H.D., Dorothy L Sayers, the classicist Jane Harrison, the hist... read more
-
Mecklenberg Square in Bloomsbury with Virginia Woolf, H.D., Dorothy L Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison and economic historian Eileen Power.