Lettres, agendas

The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent are not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary schola …

‘Truly heroic’ Daniel Craig’A completely brilliant thing, to benefit so many’ Nicole Kidman’Powerful and deeply moving’ Andy Burnham’An epic journey . . . will touch the hearts of people everywhere’ …

This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, Swarnakumari Devi and Abala Bose interrogated social stereotypes. It presents th …

A superbly illustrated history of five centuries of Jewish manuscripts The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myri …

How our image of the Renaissance’s most famous artist is a modern myth Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his h …

History is written by the winners. It’s the faithful servants, the insiders, the ones who stick around, who can adapt to almost any condition that get to write the official histories. They publish th …

Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time.’This is an amazing story’ Simon Mayo, BBC Radi …

Selected from thousands of pages of the daily journals of George Fetherling – the inexhaustible novelist, poet, and cultural commentator – The Writing Life reveals an astute and candid observer of hi …

This book is about a king named G-Hopper, who is a grasshopper willing to be king over ants to save them from slavery. This is a book that sends a universal message to everyone about Jesuss love to m …