H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
August 15th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to
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The Zhivago Affair by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée
June 24th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: 1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the
The Moor: Lives, Landscape, Literature by William Atkins
May 14th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In this deeply personal journey across our nation’s
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Mining Family by Richard Benson
April 29th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley
Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd
April 11th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: He was the very first icon of the
The Gardens of the British Working Class by Margaret Willes
April 2nd, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: This magnificently illustrated people’s history celebrates the extraordinary
The Unexpected Professor by John Carey
March 19th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Best known for his provocative take on cultural
The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession by John Cornwell
February 18th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Would you tell your deepest secrets to a
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht
January 30th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Many thousands of people kill themselves every year,
John Carey on John Donne, National Portrait Gallery
November 21st, 2013 | by The Omnivore
John Carey, British literary critic and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford explores the poetry
To the Letter: A Journey Through a Vanishing World by Simon Garfield
November 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: To the Letter tells the story of our remarkable
The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age by Vic Gatrell
November 4th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe by Graham Robb
October 18th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The idea that became this book arrived one
Olivier by Philip Ziegler
September 23rd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded
Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction by Tracy Borman
August 27th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England’s great noble families falls
Birds and People by Mark Cocker, illus. David Tipling
August 6th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: There are 10,500 species of bird worldwide and wherever they occur people marvel at
The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing
July 20th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell
July 4th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world’s best-loved books,
A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler: A Life by Tom Williams
February 3rd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
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