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Product Description A beautiful gift book devoted to the work of Aubrey Beardsley,one of the defining – and most controversial – artists of theAr...

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee...

One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put...

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is a beautifully written tribute to the truly unique city of Trieste from Jan Morris, the bestselling author of ...

'Peerless.' Daily Telegraph 'Sprinkled with magic.' Observer 'Full of mischief, romance, fun and kindness.' The Times Soldier, journalist, histo...

'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to w...

In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced ...

Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places, elegist of the British Empire, noveli...

Review 'Reveals that Morris' writing is just as elegant and erudite, and her mind just as supple, playful, curious, rigorous, humorous and sur...

Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chronicle...

While working on his book The Circle in 2005, focusing on the capricious Maremma area in Southern Tuscany, Jan Jedli?ka came across a short coastal...

Veniceby Jan Morris is an international bestseller, a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and a love letter to Italy's most iconic city.

‘A marvel of clarity, fluency, and (Morris’s favourite word in her final days) kindness.’ The Sunday Times The first full account of the remarkable...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLERHenry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devast...

What does it mean to be French? Is it pausing to enjoy a glass of good wine or a spread of cheese? A fl�neur down laneways steeped in history? Know...

Review Fabulous ... A bible for helping you escape perfectionism and the need for approval from others, while learning to cultivate the self-love ...

The work by one of the key players in European art after 1960. Dutch artist Jan Henderikse is a pivotal figure in twentieth-century art: since the...

Grid Resource Management: State of the Art and Future Trends presents an overview of the state of the field and describes both the real experiences...

With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically ...