London has always been famous for its many and beautiful parks”, announced a 1966 guidebook to the capital; “just what those ...

I first went to look at medieval manuscripts in Longleat House in the early 1970s. In those days readers were placed in an ...

A revolutionary who critiqued Marx; a Christian who refused baptism; a Jew who held Jewishness in contempt: Simone Weil was a ...

Despite its title, Regan Penaluna’s How to Think Like A Woman is very much not a how-to guide. Instead it is a combination of memoir, philosophical exegesis and the biographies of several philosophers ...

It is 2022, and Phyl, after completing her university degree, has returned home to live with her parents in the quaintly named village of Rookthorne, from where she commutes to a zero-hours job at ...

Drawing together twenty-five writers, largely novelists, but also essayists, scholars and a couple of clinical practitioners, Andrew Blauner has evidently encouraged his contributors to interpret ...

A book about peregrinations over the sea almost has to begin with Odysseus, and Sara Caputo obliges, opening with an image of the young T. E. Lawrence going about with a copy of the Odyssey tucked in ...