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This beautifully illustrated book covers the grammar and vocabulary of British buildings, explaining the evolution of styles from...

Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels.

From medieval romances and tales of chivalry...

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home.

In Why We Build Rowan Moore...

Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures,...

A hatchet job isn't just a bad review, it's a total trashing. Mark Kermode is famous for them - Pirates of the Caribbean, Sex and...

Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one of the most beautiful glass buildings in...

Olusoga... , B...

In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already...

The definitive account of the modern art made in St Ives between the 1930s and the 1960s, telling the story of this extraordinary...

A light-hearted look at art through canine eyes.

Join dachshunds Ned and Henry for an energetic romp through the world of art,...

Packed with memorabilia and anecdotes from the Twisted Wheel in Manchester to the mighty Wigan Casino, The Story of Northern Soul...

The definitive companion to the Miss Marple novels, short stories, films and TV appearances, now revised and updated.
‘I have...

The definitive companion to the Poirot novels, short stories, films and TV appearances, now revised and updated.
‘My name is...

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable...

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha...

Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn’s essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as ‘our most irresistible...

Available again after being long out of print, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth and legend...

Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s – why they are brilliant, what they meant to...

Crawshaw... , Finmark...

This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and...

The Collins Gem series is being relaunched in Spring 2004 and this new title features a new internal design and a strong new...

This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic...

'One of the great books about Spain' - Tristan Garel-Jones, Observer

A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of...

Riffling through the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the rich stories underlying the clothes...

Andrew... , Green...

A hugely enjoyable and original history of the interplay between spying and showbiz from Shakespeare to James Bond

A vastly...

A legendary collection of essays by one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century

Illuminations contains the most...

As the girl came running up the steps, I decided she was wearing far too many clothes...So, in 1989, readers were introduced to...

Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is...

For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician,...

Nik Cohn began to write this book in the late 1960s with a simple purpose: to catch the feel, the pulse of Rock. Nobody had...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time.

In...

In thirteen chapters, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects -...