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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The definitive musical history of the influential Raw Power era of Iggy and the Stooges.

What building today tells us about tomorrow's Earth--and our place on it.

A revealing new account of the life and work of this early modern German printmaker.

A bewitching and authoritative historical overview of magic in the British Isles, from the ancien...

Incandescent with illustrations, a history of Britain as told through a remarkable collection of ...

A gripping account of the rise and fall of the last great medieval military order.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1899 but largely working and living in Britain and Europe, Eileen Agar wa...

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

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

R. L. Stevenson's life and writing, which reflected a restless mind in a global age.

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

A sharp history of journalism's digital unraveling in the age of algorithms.

An inviting expedition across our galactic neighborhood, from Mercury to the Sun's furthest satel...

Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the sea...

Woodpeckers are among the most remarkable birds in the avian world, having evolved a unique anato...

A sweeping, reflective history of how we've tried to understand the universe.

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 first English biography of the twentieth-century French sociologist and philosopher.

Repositions Ghiberti as a Renaissance innovator through his material and design brilliance.

The extraordinary story of Europe's longest-ruling communist dictator.

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

'At once deeply researched and as readable as a thriller.'--Mark Galeotti - 'An important book ab...

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

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...

A new account of globalization's decline as the natural outworking of market economics.

A thrilling guide to the celestial drama and scientific wonder of eclipses.

A powerful rethinking of how antisemitic fantasies take shape and persist.

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...

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

A celebration and guide to the land of fire and ice's music history.