Arts, Language & Literature
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea
Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson reflects on the power of language to evolve our understanding of the past
Escaping Babylon
Jesse Bernard
How thirty years of Black music reshaped Britain, from 1989 to the present
Hoax
Madeleine Pelling
The History Hit presenter's spellbinding history unpicks the stories of three incredible eighteenth-century hoaxes
Rogues, Widows and Orphans
Rebecca Lee
An entertaining romp through bookish mishaps, exposing all the weird, wow! and wtf? moments that the literary world has to offer
The Prosperous Heart
Julia Cameron
From the internationally bestselling Queen of Creativity: guidance on building a life of spiritual wealth and abundance
Hard Streets
Jacqueline Riding
Welcome to the hard streets: working-class London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from the author of Hogarth and Peterloo
A Shellshocked Nation
Alwyn Turner
A fresh and inventive social history of interwar Britain, from Armistice and the Spanish flu to the announcement of war
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards
A new paperback edition of the multimillion-bestselling classic drawing guide
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions
Eli Burnstein
A charmingly illustrated and witty stocking filler for language lovers
Embers of the Hands
Eleanor Barraclough
An original and intimate history of the Viking Age, told through the everyday objects that defined the lives of ordinary people
All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
Welcome to the contemporary art world: a ruthless and glamorous arena, where the rewards are limitless – if you can pay the price.
Writing on the Wall
Madeleine Pelling
Hear the voices of the eighteenth century: an eye-opening new history of Britain's most tumultuous period, told through its graffiti
Interwar
Gavin Stamp
An authoritative survey of British buildings between the wars by the late Gavin Stamp – one of Britain's best-known architecture critics
Metamorphoses
Karolina Watroba
An original, inventive new biography of Franz Kafka – and his readers
The Artist's Way Toolkit
Julia Cameron
A powerful complement to the multimillion-copy-bestselling The Artist's Way, drawing on Julia Cameron's decades of distilled wisdom
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Hana Videen
From the author of The Wordhord comes a delightful, fascinating collection of Old English creatures large and small
The Book at War
Andrew Pettegree
Propaganda, pulp fiction, spies and censorship: the fascinating and action-packed story of books in wartime
Art & Fear
David Bayles
The bestselling cult classic that offers a roadmap to overcoming the daily obstacles of a creative life
The Secret Life of John le Carré
Adam Sisman
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive
Living the Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
The essential Artist's Way programme on guiding ourselves back to creativity