The Classical Music Lover’s Playlist by Robert Philip
To celebrate the publication of The Classical Music Lover’s Companion To Orchestral Music, we asked Robert Philip, scholar,…
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The Kremlin Letters: David Reynolds on the correspondence of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
For nearly four years, and against all the odds, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin led the…
Bookshop of the Month – Yorkshire Sculpture Park Shop, Wakefield
For our penultimate 2018 Bookshop of the Month, we travelled up to Wakefield to visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park…
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day by Guy Cuthbertson – An Extract
Armistice Day was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. In…
Matisse and Decoration
Matisse and Decoration is a new book by John Klein, an internationally acclaimed specialist in the art of…
The Vampire – A Q&A with Nick Groom
Vampires have fascinated humanity for centuries. In his new book The Vampire: A New History, author Nick Groom examines…
Bookshop of the Month – Cornerstone Bookshop, Edinburgh
For October’s Bookshop of the Month, we went up to Edinburgh and down into the crypt of St….
‘Voynich & Books’: Claire L’Enfant remembered
Reflections on the life and legacy of inspirational publisher and mentor Claire L’Enfant by Heather McCallum I am…
A New Pevsner Guide: Charles O’Brien reveals Hampshire South
The new Pevsner guide Hampshire: South completes the two volume revision of the county and covers the whole of…
The 170th Anniversary of The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
On 8 September 1848, a group of young artists and writers met to write a manifesto and found The Pre-Raphaelite…
Bookshop of the Month – West End Lane Books, West Hampstead
This month we popped over to the delightful West End Lane Books for our September Bookshop of the…
Take a tour of blue with new book ‘On Color’
We live in a world of vivid colours and colour marks our psychological and social existence. But for…
Mussolini and Hitler – Christian Goeschel
Christian Goeschel- On 20 July 1944, a bomb exploded in the Wolf’s Lair, Adolf Hitler’s East Prussian Headquarters….
Bookshop of the Month – Sarum College Bookshop, Salisbury
Our August Bookshop of the Month is Salisbury’s Sarum College Bookshop, just a stone’s throw away from the…
Reflections on Whistler’s Mother by Author Daniel E. Sutherland
Author Daniel E. Sutherland Reflects on the Extraordinary Woman – Whistler’s Mother Her name was Anna Matilda Whistler…