One of the Books of the Year 2025 at The Irish Timesp A pulsing, personal, and fabulous ride ...

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or con...

Mapping the acoustic onto the human soul, moving meditations on the power and meaning of sound....

A history of humanity's relationship with oceans across cultures and centuries. Much of human exp...

Since time immemorial, the nocturnal skies have mesmerized us, and heavenly bodies have inspired ...

Echoing with the sounds of the sea, an exquisite survey of the science and customs of conchs, cla...

A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, a...

Drawing on the latest research, an engaging and nuanced biography of Freud that argues for his co...

A life of the nineteenth-century German writer and composer most famous for inspiring The Nutcrac...

A new, global history of the Jacobite movement spanning more than a century.p A seventeenth-c...

A bewitching and authoritative historical overview of magic in the British Isles, from the ancien...

From their creation in the maw of mollusks to lustrous objects of infatuation and conflict, a rev...