The Strand
£25.00This deeply researched book offers a unique history of London’s most famous street, from the Roman era to the present day.
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Impossible city
£10.99Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city’s notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on his family’s neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change. This century, Paris has globalised, gentrified, and been shocked into realising its role as the crucible of civilisational conflict. Sometimes it’s a multicultural paradise, and sometimes it isn’t. This decade, Parisians have lived through a sequence of shocks: terrorist attacks, record floods and heatwaves, the burning of Notre Dame, the storming of the city by gilets jaunes, and the pandemic.
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Radicals, rebels and royals
£16.99A beautifully illustrated alternative history book, tracing the history of the British Isles through its landmark pubs with recreations of their pub signs in stunning colour.
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The London year
£14.99The London Year is a refreshingly unique take on this marvellous city, featuring the best cultural events taking place each month.
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Storm’s edge
£25.00From Peter Marshall, winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018, Storm’s Edge is a new history of the Orkney Islands that dives deep into island politics, the evolution of folklore, and community memory on the geographical edge of Britain.
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A brief history of the countryside in 100 objects
£22.00The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts
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The Ordnance Survey puzzle book
£16.99Come on a puzzle adventure and meet iconic figures from British history. This series returns with over 300 new puzzles to test the whole family, including 40 maps from the Ordnance Survey’s illustrious archive. Track down hidden treasures, decipher geographical details and pit your wits against puzzles ranging from easy to brutally difficult.
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Canals of Britain
£30.00This is a comprehensive survey of the entire canal network of the British Isles. Stuart Fisher looks at every aspect of the canals: their construction, rich history, stunning scenery, heritage, incredible engineering, impressive architecture and even their associated folklore, wildlife and art.
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Once Upon a Tome
£14.99Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackville Street (est. 1761) to interview for their bookselling apprenticeship, a decision which has bedevilled him ever since. He’d intended to stay for a year before launching into some less dusty, better remunerated career. Unfortunately for him, the alluring smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap proved irresistible. Soon he was balancing teetering stacks of first editions, fending off nonagenarian widows with a ten-foot pole and trying not to upset the store’s resident ghost. For while Sotheran’s might be a treasure trove of literary delights, it sings a siren song to eccentrics. This book is the rather colourful story of life in one of the world’s oldest bookshops and a love letter to the benign, unruly world of antiquarian bookselling.
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The Official History of Britain
£9.99A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we’ve changed as a nation.