The Bookseller of FlorenceThis is an exhilarating and untold account of a Florentine bookseller working at the frontiers of human knowledge, and the epochal shift from script to print that defined the Renaissance. The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses of another kind: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars and booksellers,

one of the world's great story-tellers meditates on story-telling

money and sex

Since Daphne died

of larger-than-life characters - George Everest

armed only with the necklace

Eager to discover all she can about its ancestry

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides

folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts

travelling from the Emperor's Italian court to the translation schools of Toledo and from there to the Moorish library of Córdoba

Wales on the Map is a lavishly illustrated picture atlas that showcases the best Wales has to offer

He unearths where their money came from and why they spent it on a garden

Alison drinks too much