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Jim Dearden's latest book, A John Ruskin Collection, brings together a lifetime's worth of articles on the lives of John Ruskin and those around him

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What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasurebelong? This eloquent book by the internationally renownedart historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about the Pearl of the Adriatic andcultural patrimony at large.

A quilt unlike any other you will have seen. It is entirely quilted and stitched by prisoners in some of the Britain's toughest jails. Each of the 63 squares explores what sleep means in prison.

ART / History / Renaissance

Marzena Pogorzaly made two trips to Havana. There, she walked the streets of Havana Vieja and El Centro, the old districts, trying to capture the melancholy beauty and decay of the city, and its inhabitants.

Flush, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth BarrettBrowning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fictionand non fiction. Illustrated here by Katyuli Lloyd.

This magic book ... not only the best guide-book to that city ever written, but the best guide-book to any city ever written Bernard Levin in The Times Venice with passion The Guardian

COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / General

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A genial, witty, and touching journey through the endlessly evocative art of Carpaccio. Saluting the painter whose pictures remain some of the most enchanting ever made of Venice, Jan Morris makes her own last journey to a city she has written about like no other.

A genial, witty, and touching journey through the endlessly evocative art of Carpaccio. Saluting the painter whose pictures remain some of the most enchanting ever made of Venice, Jan Morris makes her own last journey to a city she has written about like no other.

A small classic: written with passion, perfectionism and amusement, a guide that will make you see a Paris - and a France - you would never have suspected. Now fully updated and with extra walks.

A vivid collage-portrait of Rome in three volumes - the most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled.

The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled. Witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, English and American sources, many hitherto neglected, Ronald Ridley has compiled an endlessly vivid and thought-provoking collage-portrait of Rome through the centuries.

Ever since its conception in 1824, the National Gallery has been part of British national life to an extent unmatched by any other great museum. The first history of the Gallery ever published, this unique account traces the development of an institution whose superlative collections often set the pace in art history, but whose dependence on parliamentary funding regularly implicated it in political debates surrounding education, social cohesi...

An introduction to the life, work and art of one of the most influential and exhilarating writers in English. With 165 illustrations printed in full colour, ranging from private notes to presentation drawings to lecture diagrams - mostly from the collection at the Ruskin Library, and many never before published.

The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior traditions of the samurai - the ideals of honour, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had immemorially ennobled the Japanese national consciousness.