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In Teatimes: A World Tour food historian Helen Saberi takes us on a journey into the fascinating history of teatimes, from elegant afternoon teas, hearty high teas and delicious cream teas, to cricket and tennis teas and much more.

Featuring works by Botticelli, Michelangelo, William Blake, Salvador Dalí, Ai Wei Wei and many others, this superbly illustrated book explores the myth and magic of arboreal art.

This book uniquely treats the many manifestations of corals in biology and geology; how diverse corals came to figure in art, expeditionary accounts, medicine, folklore, geopolitics, and international trade; and corals as builders of islands and protectors of coastlines, and as building materials themselves.

In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlögel presents a detailed and compelling picture of a country which lies on Europe’s borderland and in Russia’s shadow.

Peter Gabriel offers a nuanced and trenchant insight into this enigmatic musician and his works, an artist whose constant travelling – through identities, influences and media – defines him as one of modern culture’s truly global citizens.

The Anatomy of Riches tells the story of one family’s long rise from rags to riches, and their rapid reversal of fortune. It focuses on the life of Sir Robert Paston, who experienced the family’s fall from grace at a time of momentous change, the beginning of the modern world.