Katharine S. White 
Onward and Upward in the Garden 

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a ‘Heavenly voice’ told her ‘There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

This is surely the most extraordinary book on food and eating ever published in the English language. Miss Pennell, who was a correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette at the height of its amusement an …

As writers strongly committed to the Reformation, Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell translated works which they believed were doctrinally useful for their Protestant readers. Lock translated …

_______________ ”[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing” – The Time …

The Punjab region of India sent more than 600, 000 combatants to assist the British war effort during World War I. Their families back home, thousands of miles from the major scenes of battle, were …

”Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor”s study could destroy a c …

”Bracingly original” Kathryn Hughes, Guardian ”A mixture of travelogue, local history and reportage, Swamp Songs brims with evocative word sketches” Times Literary Supplement From Romney …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ”Deeply poetic.” CAROLINE LUCAS MP ”A masterpiece of storytelling.” NICK MAYHEW-SMITH ”Mary Colwell is a candle of …

A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine”s past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by a …

Stimulated by new editions of Shelley”s writings and the evidence of notebooks, the editors have assembled an outstanding group of international Shelley scholars to work through the implications of …