A concise, cogent biography of avant-garde writer, critic and publisher Ford Madox Ford.
The long, distinguished and surprising history of breakfast cereal.
Opens up new ways of thinking about architecture and the more-than-human.
An overview of master medieval Russian icon painter Andrey Rublev.
A recreation of medieval people’s multifarious experience of time.
An incisive look at the accelerating convergence of art and fashion.
A vivid portrait of 16th-century Bolognese naturalist, writer, polymath and collector Ulisse Aldrovandi.
A vivid, unique portrayal of the Romany people, from the inside.
The first work in English to tell the full story of Claude Cahun’s art and life.
Explores how ‘England’ and ‘Englishness’ have been imagined since the 1960s.
A biography of perhaps the most important poet of his generation, John Ashbery.
An in-depth social and natural history of the much-loved, highly symbolic rowan tree.