A fascinating miscellany of scholarship and anecdote that tells the story of Jardine, Matheson & Co., founded in Canton in 1832, which grew to become an international trading house with business interests throughout the world.

J. B. Bullen explores the relationship between reality and the dream, identifying the places and the settings for Hardy’s writing.

First full biography of Thomas Mawson, who rose from humble beginnings in the Lake District to become the most sought-after and influential British garden and landscape designer at the turn of the twentieth century.

Georges Simenon was the most popular and prolific of the twentieth century's great novelists. Three Bedrooms in Manhattan-closely based on the story of his own meeting with his second wife-is his most passionate and revealing work.

On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics, each of whom believed himself to be Jesus Christ.

Cork, Kilkenny, Tipperary. This is the full story of these three amazing counties – the highlights, rivalries, stars and the greatest matches are explored in all their fervour and desperation.

The Three-Year Allotment Notebook is a practical journal with space for year-on-year comparisons over a three-year period.