Oral history and photographs together add new dimensions to our understanding of the history, the...

Dapper, dynamic, overarchingly ambitious, Guido Schmidt was Austria's youngest and most controver...

Short stories and poems by Rudolf Dobias ('the Slovak Solzhenitsyn') based on his experience of p...

George Archibald heads the International Crane Foundation. In this charmingly illustrated book he...

From the heyday of the Grand Tour to the arrival of railways and air travel writers have been dra...

This is about posh class in unexpected places: St Neots, and the bed-hopping life of a Russian pr...

A collection of letters discovered by chance in an old trunk, accompanied by cartoons and news cl...

A beautifully presented anthology of poetry, chosen with children in mind and designed to form a ...

To Catch the Sun

This Book is Not About Dogs

Three Children's stories, linked by their Irish background and all withe the real Irish fairy-tal...

Katharine Asquith worked as a nurse following the death of her husband Raymond, killed on the Som...

What good is persuasion if no oneis paying attention? Why Just Stop Oil's resolute young campaign...

Peter Upton's evocative account of growing up in Wiltshire, told in words and drawings and beauti...

Palestine, 1850: a backwater of the Ottoman Empire, but soon to become the focus of intense jealo...

A classic cook book first published in 1908 by Claire de Pratz, feminist and novelist.