Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven ...

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tell...

First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dinin...

Veronica is your average hippopotamus with a big dream: she wants to become famous. But with so m...

Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart...

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established a botanic garden in Regensburg and set ...

A celebration of pioneering Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, and the artistic conne...

A new kind of biography on Jane Austen examining the objects she encountered during her life alon...

An exploration of a significant art: type designing.

A stunning gift edition of Washington Irving's quintessential Halloween story.

How Britain sought to inspire and empower democratic ideals among their servicemen in the afterma...

A succinct account of one of the great libraries of Europe, with fascinating details of the lives...

An extravagantly illustrated history of the development of bookbindings, from antiquity to modern...

A botanical history of the medicinal uses of herbs, flowers, fruits, and vegetables throughout time.

The incredible history of paper recycling in eighteenth-century England.

A charming collection of bite-sized readings for the bookworm on the go.

The story of how an Oxford student group's message of pacifism shocked the world at the onset of ...

A collection of thirteen bone-chilling tales from some of history's masters of horror.

A stunning reproduction of the Bayeux Tapestry, transcribed and translated for today's readers.

The fascinating commercial history of the Bible's first English printings.

The incredible stories of the British and German climbers and their death-defying attempts to sum...

An illuminating cultural history of the Cinderella tale.

A gorgeously illustrated, centuries-spanning journey through the pages of some of history's most ...

A beautiful poetry collection that celebrates life's moments of silence.

A stunningly illustrated compendium of wondrous tales from Celtic mythology.

Linguist David Crystal's absorbing journey through the origins of seasonal English words and phra...

The University of Oxford is the third-oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest...

This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkien's enduring popul...

Reynard - a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of me...

Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied...

Most of us are aware that the words for some of our most important concepts stem from ancient Gre...

Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early 1950s, the only way to travel ...

The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle cla...

This lavishly illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodle...

The author of 'Young Romantics' explores the time, place, objects and manuscripts that influenced...

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to ...

When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighti...

Drawing on the extensive record of wireless transmissions in the Marconi Archives, Titanic Callin...

Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding c...

Ever wondered how to make a garden attractive in December? Or what to do with that corner by the ...

Oxford Botanic Garden has occupied its central Oxford site next to the river Cherwell continuousl...

How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we figure out how to print in color?

Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing ...

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartogr...

Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of Amer...

Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Ja...

For centuries, volcanic eruptions have captured our imaginations. Whether as signposts to an unde...

A delightful compendium of complaints against the French, written in a direct colloquial style an...