The worlds of Sherlock Holmes
£25.00An exploration of all that encompasses the world of Sherlock Holmes - tracing the infamous character’s own interests, personality and mythologised biography alongside that of his creator’s.
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The world according to Joan Didion
£16.99An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigourous interrogation and beautiful style.
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The writer’s garden
£30.00The Writer’s Garden presents an intriguing study of the beautiful gardens and outdoor spaces of 30 history’s greatest writers.
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Agatha Christie at home
£30.00This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill’s classic book offers an insight into the life and work of the world’s bestselling author.
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Orwell’s island
£9.99Revered across the globe as an author of compelling novels, journalism and essays that came to define the 20th century, George Orwell was an unmatched political visionary, shining a light on the insidious nature of propaganda. Yet this chronicler of war, social injustices and urban poverty spent his later years living in a rustic and remote farmhouse, miles from the nearest neighbour. His rural escape was on the Hebridean island of Jura – another paradox, given that he harboured a deep-seated prejudice against Scotland for much of his life. In 1946, Orwell arrived at his isolated home of Barnhill as a grieving widower living in the shadow of war and the nuclear threat. It was there he wrote his masterpiece, ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. Beyond the writing desk, he was transformed: his new life was one of natural beauty and tight-knit community.
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Pure wit
£27.99A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.
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Agatha Christie
£10.99With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley’s biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was – truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
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The maverick
£25.00After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as ‘Lolita’, ‘Double Helix’, ‘The Group’ and ‘The Hedgehog and the Fox’, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Golda Meir and Edna O’Brien to Henry Miller, Harold Wilson, Saul Bellow and Henry Kissinger. In this biography, Thomas Harding provides a full, unvarnished and at times difficult history of this complex and fascinating character.
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Wifedom
£20.00Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own – when she uncovers his forgotten wife, it’s a revelation. Eileen O’Shaughnessy’s literary brilliance shaped Orwell’s work and her practical nous saved his life. But why – and how – was she written out of the story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwells’ marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and WWII in London. As she rolls up the screen concealing Orwell’s private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer – and what it is to be a wife.
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Art monsters
£25.00Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it? Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge, ‘Art Monsters’ is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body, calling attention to a radical heritage of feminist work that not only reacts against patriarchy but redefines its own aesthetic aims. Lauren Elkin demonstrates her power as a cultural critic, weaving daring links between disparate artists and writers – from Julia Margaret Cameron’s photography to Kara Walker’s silhouettes, Vanessa Bell’s portraits to Eva Hesse’s rope sculptures, Carolee Schneemann’s body art to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s trilingual masterpiece DICTEE – and shows that their work offers a potent celebration of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political.
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The secret heart
£9.99A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022
A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022
A Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022
A Waterstones Best Book of 2022: Biography
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The World of Virginia Woolf
£16.991000-PIECE PUZZLE that makes a perfect gift for fans of Virginia Woolf and her work.INCLUDES A PULL-OUT POSTER so you can spot all the characters and read their stories.’THE WORLD OF…’ JIGSAWS are a fun way of celebrating the lives and works of creative greats. Also available in the series: The World of Frida Kahlo, The World of Jane Austen, The World of the Brontës, The World of James Joyce and more.SCREEN-FREE FUN from one of the world’s leading publishers of books and gifts on the creative artsA GOOD-SIZED PUZZLE that measures 48.5 x 68 cm (19 x 27 in.) when completed. Piece together the world of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, finding a host of famous characters both real and fictional along the way. From the beaches of Cornwall to the streets of Bloomsbury and from Hogarth House to the colleges of Cambridge, spot Leonard Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell and Vita Sackville-West, along with Clarissa Dalloway, Orlando and the