Drink Talking traces the fascinating history of alcohol advertising during the twentieth century and analyses the changing patterns of consumption of the British drinker. The most famous and evocativ
Rossetti's Wombat tells the story of 'Top', a wombat who lived with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Chelsea for a few months in 1869. The book also describes the strange history o
This book traces the history of fantasy from the earliest years through to the origins of modern fantasy in the twentieth century. From the 1950s (when Tolkien published The Lord of the Rings and Lewi
