books
Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists
A sparkling miscellany of literary lists.
2022
“I loved this so much” Neil Gaiman
“The perfect bedside book” Jilly Cooper
“An eccentric idea, beautifully executed” Louis de Bernières
The Penguin Modern Classics Book
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world.
2021
“A heavyweight – but never burdensome – history of the publishing house” The Telegraph
“As close to pornography as you can get as a bibliophile” The Scotsman
The Penguin Classics Book
A reader’s companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.
2018
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2018.
Follow This Thread
A maze book to get lost in.
2018
“An exhilarating experience” Greg Bright, the ‘Maze King’
“Uniquely magical, each page offers new delights” Alan Connor
Curiocity
An Alternative A-Z of London.
2016
Co-written with Matt Lloyd-Rose
“The most ingenious, informative, inimitable, inspiring, intoxicating guide to the great city that I have ever seen” Philip Pullman
“The greatest book about London published in modern times” Londonist