One of the Books of the Year 2025 at The Irish Times

Peter Ackroyd's compelling portrait of W. H. Auden, poet of a restless century.

'This is a book about ten women who, over the past three hundred years have found walking essenti...

Illuminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insi...

A Philosophy of Loneliness explores the different kinds of loneliness, the philosophy of emotions...

Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her wor...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

One of the Best Popular Science Books of 2025 at New Scientist

In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlögel presents a picture of a country which lies ...

From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christiani...

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-94) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. His radically unorthodo...

What do we really know about the food we eat? A firestorm of recent food-fraud cases, from the US...