Bookshelf

Excerpt: The Ruin of All Witches

Life and Death in the New World

Excerpt: Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester

A True Restoration Tragedy

Excerpt: Thebes' West Bank

A Traveller's Guide from Aswan to Alexandra

Excerpt: Fabric by Victoria Finlay

Victoria Finlay spins us around the globe, weaving stories of our own relationship with cloth

Excerpt: A Thousand Golden Cities

‘Description of Kabul’ from Bāburnāma by Bābur

Excerpt: A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions

This excerpt from A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions investigates the story of seeing from the evolution of eyes 500 million years ago to the present day.