Books.
The Secret Lives
of Colour.
From scarlet women to imperial purple, from the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, from kelly green to acid yellow, the surprising stories of colour run like a bright thread through our history. The Secret Lives of Colour was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Sunday Times top-five bestseller.
The Golden Thread.
From colourful 30,000-year-old threads found in a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, this book weaves a story of human ingenuity in 13, crisply entertaining episodes. A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, Sunday Times Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Somerset Maugham Award.
The Race to
the Future.
10 June 1907, Peking. Five cars set off in a desperate race across two continents. Their destination: Paris. The world of 1907 is poised between the old and the new: communist regimes will replace imperial ones in China and Russia; the telegraph is transforming modern communication, the car will soon displace the horse and many millions will become embroiled in the First World War. The Race to the Future is the incredible true story of the quest against the odds that helped shape the world we live in today.
