Peter Ackroyd's compelling portrait of W. H. Auden, poet of a restless century.

'This is a book about ten women who, over the past three hundred years have found walking essenti...

A Philosophy of Loneliness explores the different kinds of loneliness, the philosophy of emotions...

Illuminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insi...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her wor...

In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlögel presents a picture of a country which lies ...

A critical biography of the life, work and artistic legacy of the popular artist.

One of the Best Popular Science Books of 2025 at New Scientist

When people think of Russian food they generally think either of opulent luxury, signified above ...

Mushrooms are loved, despised, feared and misunderstood. They have been a familiar part of nature...

One of the Books of the Year 2025 at The Irish Times

Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historic...

'Many of us, proponents and critics alike, commonly make assumptions about religion. We may presu...

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 8 - 1543), one of the most versatile and admired painters of the N...

The story of how the movies assumed a gritty facade in the name of authenticity, with working act...

'Exhaustively researched. . . . Students of Japanese history and culture owe Cryns a debt of grat...

A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, a...

Virginia Woolfs novel famously beginsMrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Of cour...

A life of the nineteenth-century German writer and composer most famous for inspiring The Nutcrac...

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-94) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. His radically unorthodo...

This book is a comprehensive investigation of lying in everyday life. What exactly is a lie, and ...

Laced with illustrations of undergarments both prosaic and exotic, a global exposé of the hidden ...

This second edition of Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating book charts the history of communicatio...

However much his work has been reviled or contested, Sigmund Freud remains one of the most signif...

What do we really know about the food we eat? A firestorm of recent food-fraud cases, from the US...

South Africa's visual history from colonialism to democracy, through iconic photography.

An illuminating history of the forgotten concept of climatic botany that underscores how vital fo...

From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christiani...

Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the...

Now in paperback, this first global history of sports offers all spectators and participants a re...

Surveys the realism of planets in sci-fi films like Star Wars and Dune.

Born in Budapest in 1905, Arthur Koestler was a pivotal European writer and intellectual who insp...

In Coffee: A Global History, Jonathan Morris explains how the world acquired a taste for coffee, ...

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or con...

Mapping the acoustic onto the human soul, moving meditations on the power and meaning of sound.

It began with The Beatles Helter Skelter. It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. ...

There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum, writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner ...

'Kimono: A Modern History' traces the transformation of the kimono from everyday garment to natio...

In this monumental, authoritative new history of Afghanistan, Jonathan L. Lee places the current ...

Shells have captivated humans from the dawn of time: the earliest known artwork was made on a she...

Reveals the passion, humor, and humanity of Brahms behind the myth.

The first English biography of the influential sixteenth-century Italian painter.

In this richly illustrated history, Hannele Klemettilä corrects common misconceptions about the f...

A reappraisal of Veronese's art as politically charged visual independence.

An accessible biography of the nineteenth-century performer and composer.

A history of humanity's relationship with oceans across cultures and centuries. Much of human exp...

An investigation into the mythical and historical father of medicine.