Staff Pick: Royalty
To mark the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s official birthday this month, Yale University Press London choose their favourite books on the theme of ‘royalty’….
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Illustrating The Story of Work: A Q&A with studio MUTI
We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom…
Staff Pick: Global Reads
Yale University Press London staff have recommended their favourite titles set in different parts of the world. Which book will you pick? February’s Staff…
A Year in Yale Books
We know it’s only November, but here at Yale University Press, London, we’re very keen to provide some bookish inspiration for your Christmas gift…
Bookshop of the Month – The Word, London
For October’s Bookshop of the Month, we popped down to New Cross in South London to chat to David, the manager of The Word…
Bookshop of the Month – Janette Ray, York
For September’s Bookshop of the Month, we chose Janette Ray in the lovely historic city of York. Janette Ray is the buyer and seller…
How Did We Read in the Past? by Abigail Williams
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed the birth and evolution of a commercial literary culture and the expansion of popular literacy, while also promoting the idea…
Bookshop of the Month – Kesley’s Bookshop, Haddington
This month we make our way up to Scotland, and chat to Simon from Kesley’s Bookshop in Haddington about what it’s like to run…
Bookshop of the Month – Penrallt Gallery Bookshop, Machynlleth
For April’s bookshop of the month, we head over to mid Wales where Diana and Geoff run the beautiful Penrallt Gallery Bookshop in Machynlleth. Stocking…
Medieval and Renaissance Art Books Round-Up
Yale has a visual feast of medieval and renaissance art books that would make perfect Christmas gifts! They include: a comprehensive account of one…
Bookshop of the Month: The National Theatre Bookshop
At the very heart of London’s South Bank – famous for its striking Brutalist concrete architecture – you will find our Bookshop of the…
Curiosity: The Question of ‘Why?’
Alberto Manguel is a tour de force when it comes to reading, and in fact all things book related. Best described as ‘a reader’,…
Bookshop of the Month: Oswald Street Bookshop
With choruses of Robert Burns’ ‘Ayld Lang Syne’, and Burns night just around the corner, this is a rather seasonal offering for our Bookshop of…
Bookshop of the month: Lutyens and Rubinstein
Notting Hill: home of the Notting Hill Carnival, Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts’ bookshop-haunting alter egos, Portobello Road Market, and Lutyens & Rubinstein bookshop – Yale’s…
The Great Dickens Scandal: A story which almost destablised Dickens
Yale author Michael Slater introduces his latest book on Dickens, and begins to untangle the web of intrigue that surrounds one of Victorian Britain’s…
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