Filby’s focus is on a subject that has received much less attention: intragenerational unfairness and the fact that the Bank ...

Postmark Amherst - The Letters of Emily Dickinson by Cristanne Miller & Domhnall Mitchell (edd) ...

Emilie went on to translate Mandeville’s most celebrated work, The Fable of the Bees, a philosophical treatise centred on a ...

Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey ...

You Mean There’s No Billiard Room? - London’s Lost Interiors by Steven Brindle ...

His father also put Mondrian off God. He became a convert to theosophy, which teaches that there is a spiritual reality ...

Rachel Hewitt’s first book, Map of a Nation, showed how the institution that created our Ordnance Survey Landranger maps also shaped the United Kingdom. Her new book is similarly ambitious, setting ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

Ken starts with a bang: 'When I joined the Labour Party in March 1969 at the age of 23, it was one of the few recorded instances of a rat climbing on board a sinking ship.' This book is about his ...

Man’s best friend: dog or book? The artist Samuel Palmer thought that when it came to walks in the countryside, the company of his ‘not unbeloved bull terrier’ was pleasant. But a book was better, for ...

‘Gloomy old sod, aren’t I,’ Philip Larkin remarked to his friend Judy Egerton at the end of a letter routinely predicting social and political apocalypse. Yes you are, and pretty often, we might ...

Dainty enough to perch at the top of a Christmas stocking, Adrian Tinniswood’s celebration of the Victorian rise and mid-20th-century slow collapse of the country house party is a richly anecdotal ...