Eliot's Book of Bookish ListsHenry Eliot author, editor and insatiable bookworm has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compiling hundreds of bookish lists. This eclectic gallimaufry showcases his favourites: we witness the tragic ends of the Ancient Greek tragedians, learn the name of George Orwell's pet cockerel and rummage through Joan Didion's travelling bag; we consider the history of literary fart jokes, orbit the Shakespearean moons of Uranus and meet

Far from posing silently

between Sedbury (near Chepstow) and Prestatyn

Beth and Amy - four sisters - enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England

A story of innocence existing within the most terrible evil

the bestselling author of Burial Rites

From scholars to imposters the dozen or so antiquaries at the heart of this book show us history in the making

Nelson ignores this

Joseph Stalin

humans have been using the natural world as inspiration for everything from fashion to architecture

But when her mother fell for one of the men instead of conning him

and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare

repentance