An introduction to William Morris’s personal collection of artworks from the Islamic world and how they came to influence his pattern-making
The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential—and controversial—rabbis in modern Judaism
A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond
A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—composer of some of the world’s most popular orchestral and theatrical music
A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of others
What happened when Jane Austen’s heroines and heroes were finally wed?
A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history
A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil in the two world wars
Born just fourteen months apart, one in London and the other in rural Suffolk, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable went on to change the face of British art.