Stories
- Article
Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
- Article
Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
- Book extract
Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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Books abroad
Date: 1927-1976- Books
Books and book-collecting / G. L. Brook.
Brook, G. L. (George Leslie), 1910-1987.Date: 1980- Books
Books and men / [William Osler].
Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919Date: 1946- Books
Books in print and forthcoming publications.
British Museum.Date: 1968- Books
Books and men / Sir William Osler.
Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919Date: 1951
