From Arthur Conan Doyle to Charles Dickens, Colin Dexter to Kenneth Grahame, writers and artists have often taken inspiration from the River Thames. Gathering poetry, artwork, and short excerpts from
Draws on the latest historical research and the only surviving manuscript copy of Malory's masterpiece to provide a fascinating portrait of the enigmatic, fifteenth-century knight who chronicled the l
Parents have long been bombarded with conflicting advice on how to bring up their babies: from Locke, Rousseau, and Truby King to Spock, Penelope Leach and Gina Ford. Behaviourist warnings in the 1920
Presents an account of a voyage in search of Arthur Ransome. Following up clues found amongst the contents of Ransome's old trunk which was bequeathed to Leeds University, this work sets out to settle
Christina Hardyment places the much-loved English author Arthur Ransome in the settings which so richly define his work, from the Lake District to the Norfolk Broads.
This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and abo
From Leonardo da Vinci on the shifting colors of the sky to Charlotte Bronte on the wild moors of Yorkshire, and from DH Lawrence inhabiting the mind of the indomitable tortoise to the intrepid Isabel
