12th April 2024

Casement was one of the first to expose the horrors of the Belgian Congo. Five years later he was knighted; five years after that, in 1916, he would be executed for conspiring with the Germans to provide arms for the Easter Rising. His fraught life — as a humanitarian, a ...

16th February 2024

A conversation with Anna Reid. Many will know her from Borderland, a brilliant history of Ukraine. Her new book, A Nasty Little War, is a fascinating, grisly and surprisingly witty book on on the Allied intervention in Revolutionary Russia. After the Armistice in 1918 ...

20th September 2023

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing is a brilliant biography of a complicated man. It's not a cradle-to-grave doorstopper, but the story of the publisher's life through twelve books, including his mother's diary and Lolita.

20th September 2023

Johnny interviews Ann Wroe, obituaries editor of the Economist since 2003, about her new book, Lifescapes: A Biographer's Search for the Soul. It is a characteristically distinctive and subtle account of the process that the veteran obituarist and biographer describes as ...

21st June 2023

Marina spoke with Laura Freeman about her new book, Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists. Remarkably, this is the first biography of Jim Ede ever to appear. It’s a marvellous book — already a shop favourite this summer — studded with anecdotes ...

18th May 2023

Miguel Flores-Vianna is a modern Midas of interior design photography; everything his lens touches turns to gold. Haute Bohemians, his first book, was an eye-watering ...

10th May 2023

Javier was a client at John Sandoe’s from the mid-1990s, soon after his work first started appearing in English with the Harvill Press. Although he rarely came to the UK, we continued to send him books in Madrid regularly until his death last year. His work ...

7th December 2022

The title could pass off as a short story by M.R. James or as one of the exploits of Robert Louis Stevenson’s little-known, rather Ruritanian sleuth called Prince Florizel. It is in ...

4th December 2022

George Balanchine’s life cut the twentieth century in two. He was a choreographer who trained in Tsarist St Petersburg and reached the peak of his career in New York during the Cold War. Mr B.: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century is more than a biography, and ...

21st September 2022

A History of Water... It's a riddling title, complicated more wickedly by its subtitle: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History. Edward Wilson-Lee is an author and academic of English literature at Cambridge. His superb new book follows ...