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Cézanne
Alex Danchev
A remarkable new biography of a cultural icon
Today we view Cézanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing on a vast range of primary sources, Alex Danchev tells the story of an artist who was never accepted into the official Salon: he was considered a revolutionary at best and a ...
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Destiny in the Desert
Jonathan Dimbleby
A unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein -'the end of the beginning'- and the bloody...
It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms:'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet the true ...
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Dolly
Susan Hill
Susan Hill, author ofWoman in Black, is the greatest living writer of ghost stories, and here is a ...
The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot Lock, a large decaying house, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward are parked for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt and her cruel ...
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Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?
Mick O'Hare
The latest title in the bestselling'Last Word'series
Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet?Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?, the eagerly-awaited new'Last Word'collection, has the answers to these questions and many more.Seven years on fromDoes Anything Eat Wasps?,theNew ...
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On The Map
Simon Garfield
From Mappa Mundi to Google Maps - the bestsellingJust My Typeauthor turns his gaze to maps
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories.From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. His ...
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A Short History of England
Simon Jenkins
The definitive concise account of our remarkable past
Which battle was fought'For England, Harry and St George'? Who demanded to be painted'warts and all'? What - and when - was the Battle of the Bulge?InA Short History of England, bestselling author Simon Jenkins answers all these questions - and many more - as he tells the tumultuous story of a fascinating nation. From the invaders of the dark ...
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Events, Dear Boy, Events
Ruth Winstone
Brings twentieth-century British politics vividly to life and reveals perspectives on the tumultuous...
Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the ...
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The Diaries of Nella Last
Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson
A collected edition of bestselling author Nella Last's diaries, including substantial never-before ...
'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.'So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid ...
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The Man in the Picture
Susan Hill
The chilling tale of a painting so terrifying, its secrets will haunt those who see it ... A ghost ...
A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter's night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene, ...
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Spell It Out
David Crystal
An enlightening tour of English spelling that untangles'stationery'from'stationary'- and explains ...
Why is there an'h'in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their ...
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The Beauty And The Sorrow
Peter Englund
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, ...
There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, he explores the everyday ...
