Cartas, diarios

The Diary of a Nose is the story behind the creation of a perfume, from the head perfumer at Herm s.Perfume creation is an exclusive and secretive endeavour. What is day to day life like for a perfum …

First published more than twenty years ago as My Dear Maggie, this new edition of William Wallace’s letters home to England provides rare documentation of the earliest days of settlement in the West. …

“Paul does an impressive job of compressing the activity of a huge field, in which there are no obvious heroes and no single aesthetic line.” —Publishers Weekly Digital technology has revolutionized …

As a young officer in the prestigious 21st Lancers (motto ‘Death or Glory’) Douglas Haig played a leading role in Kitchener’s bold expedition which ended in the defeat of the Khalifa of Sudan at Omdu …

A "poignant" collection of real letters sent to Santa Claus-a town in Indiana-from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, from both children and adults (The New York Times).For countless Ch …

'A marvellous book, lovingly edited, beautifully produced. . . and brimming with literary insights, much laughter, a sprinkle of gossip and the poet's insuppressible joie de vivre, even in …

A collection of spiritual letters to young religious on the spiritual life, always laced with sound common sense and good humour.Apart from her celebrity status as ‘the art nun’, generated by her tel …

Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith’s early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December …

Tony Benn’s final instalment of diaries centres on a decade which saw the disintegration of Eastern Europe, an unprecedented assault on the labour movement at home, the fall of Margaret Thatcher and …