The Polymath: A Cultural History

Hooked on a Feline

Changes of Mind – The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention

A Brush with the Goncourts – On the brothers behind the prize

The Woolworths Poltergeist

He Painted It Black: Goya

Tom Stoppard: A Life

You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English

Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack

Deceptively Bright, in an Up and Coming Area

The Sense of Shame

Alastair Morgan talks to Anthony Burgess (1983)

Rooms with a View

Daffodils and Telephone Directories

Michelangelo's Dome

An Uncommon Correspondent

The History of Medicinal Lithium

Shoulders I Have Rubbed

Artists and Lovers

Victoria's Angel

Confessions of a Bookseller

It Began in a Manger

Where does it all go?

The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective

The Pen and the Spade

In the Shadow of Big Brother

A Cheat Dog-Collared

Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

Thinkers and Drinkers

Newton the Alchemist

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