Since the time of the ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered the nature and purpose of the ar...
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth-century public intellectu...
Our world view has changed from a flat earth under the dome of heaven to a planet spinning in the...
Ever since 1066 there has been a substantial French presence in London. It is now said to be the ...
'Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the ...
A new and 50% enlarged, entertaining, but fundamentally serious selection of the most rewarding p...
100 sumptuously produced essays by Britain's leading art critic, US born, Richard Dorment. They c...
This personal and well-informed selection and description of the most interesting towns and indiv...
When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no r...
These letters to (and from) Finlay's friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre o...
Beautifully illustrated book contains an account of his walks and explorations in the Lake Distri...
Biography of one of the great British photographers of the twentieth century.