Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven ...

Most of us are aware that the words for some of our most important concepts stem from ancient Gre...

First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dinin...

From Puss in Boots to T. S. Eliot's Jellicles, cats have long inspired an incredible range of fic...

Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has become one of the most influential works of children's liter...

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established a botanic garden in Regensburg and set ...

A collection of 366 witty and fascinating facts, events and stories about language, for every day...

An extraordinary mix of psychology, science, and cultural history exploring the relationship betw...

A succinct account of one of the great libraries of Europe, with fascinating details of the lives...

This exquisitely illustrated collection of essays by leading scholars and experts offers a glimps...

An exploration of a significant art: type designing.

Original insights on John le Carré by the people who worked with him, illuminating the storied wr...

A fun, charming romp through the history of seventeen great writers and the cats who captured the...

A stunning gift edition of Washington Irving's quintessential Halloween story.

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A celebration of innovation in the Renaissance age told through 18 of its earliest printed books.

A spine-tingling collection of ghost stories guaranteed to terrify.

A cartographic snapshot of late Tudor England, gorgeously reproduced with the first county maps o...

An eye-opening history of the exploration and mapping of our globe's northernmost regions.

This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkien's enduring popul...

Reynard - a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of me...

The University of Oxford is the third-oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest...

Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied...

Since its foundation in 1860, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History has become a key ce...

Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early 1950s, the only way to travel ...

This lavishly illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodle...

The author of 'Young Romantics' explores the time, place, objects and manuscripts that influenced...

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to ...

'A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou ...'When Edward...

W. Heath Robinson is best known for his hilarious drawings of zany contraptions, though his work ...

When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighti...

Drawing on the extensive record of wireless transmissions in the Marconi Archives, Titanic Callin...

Everyone knows a joke about mothers-in-law, but what are the golden rules you need to become a po...

Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding c...

Ever wondered how to make a garden attractive in December? Or what to do with that corner by the ...

Lavishly illustrated with photographs taken throughout the seasons, this book not only provides a...

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? Here is an acces...

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tell...

Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing ...

Dating from the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popul...

Pizza, pasta, pesto and olive oil: today, it's hard to imagine any supermarket without these item...

Drawing on the Bodleian Library's outstanding map collection and covering almost a thousand years...

Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of Amer...

Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Ja...

For centuries, volcanic eruptions have captured our imaginations. Whether as signposts to an unde...

A delightful compendium of complaints against the French, written in a direct colloquial style an...

Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. Drawing on the archives...