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The academic pages are featuring art books in Postscript’s September catalogue – a great excuse to bring back a real fav...
27/08/2026

The academic pages are featuring art books in Postscript’s September catalogue – a great excuse to bring back a real favourite: 'The Encounter', a study of portrait drawings, represented here by Annabale Carraci’s sketch of Guilio Pedrizzano, also known as the Lutenist Mascheroni. Other pages are devoted to music (including Richard Pennell’s book on the 'Rioplatense Guitar'), ancient history and medieval literary culture. The new catalogue is out now, in the post and online.

The American cityscape shrouded in mist is from the cover of Ian Sansom’s ‘September 1, 1939: WH Auden and the Afterlife...
22/06/2026

The American cityscape shrouded in mist is from the cover of Ian Sansom’s ‘September 1, 1939: WH Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem’ – one of the books featured in Postscript Academic’s selection for July. Our topics for the month are Poets, Religion, Philosophy and Books and Publishing, with titles as varied as a one-volume edition of REO White’s ‘Christian Ethics’, a biography of Michel Foucault, and a tour of England’s second-hand bookshops. The July issue of Postscript is out now, in the post and online at https://www.psbooks.co.uk/catalogue

This illustration from a late eighteenth-century Sanskrit manuscript on the characteristics and care of horses is featur...
28/05/2026

This illustration from a late eighteenth-century Sanskrit manuscript on the characteristics and care of horses is featured in one of our new arrivals for June: ‘The History of Veterinary Medicine and the Animal-Human Relationship’ – from ancient Chinese ‘horse priests’ to ‘snail gardens’ supplying modern French cuisine. Other subjects this month are, religion; history, including a study of the ‘Cold Rush’ to the Arctic; and literature, with a volume of essays on Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetic legacy. The June catalogue is available now, by post or online at https://www.psbooks.co.uk/catalogue

When the fourth-century basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls (of Rome) burned down in 1823, the survival of its Gothi...
24/04/2026

When the fourth-century basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls (of Rome) burned down in 1823, the survival of its Gothic ciborium was hailed as a miracle. Two years later Pope Leo XII ordered the church rebuilt as a replica of the old basilica, in which the ciborium now stands. The story of this remarkable – and very expensive – project is told in ‘Rebuilding St Paul’s Outside the Walls’, one of the selection of art and architecture books featured in Postscript’s May catalogue. Other subjects this month are travellers, medieval history and Cardinal Newman. The catalogue is out now, in the post or online: https://www.psbooks.co.uk/catalogue

The centrepiece of this Soqotran house is the trunk of a zizyphus, an incredibly versatile tree that provides – among ot...
24/03/2026

The centrepiece of this Soqotran house is the trunk of a zizyphus, an incredibly versatile tree that provides – among other things – the islands’ best timber and fuel, food for camels, climbing for goats and medicine for removing head lice. I didn’t know where Soqotra was or that such a tree existed before ‘Ethnoflora of the Soqotra Archipelago’ arrived last week: the book is among the new arrivals in Postscript Academic for April. Postscript’s latest catalogue is out now, in the post or online at: https://www.psbooks.co.uk/catalogue

A richly detailed and illustrated account of the red-shroud portrait mummy of Herakleides – a young man from Roman Egypt...
25/02/2026

A richly detailed and illustrated account of the red-shroud portrait mummy of Herakleides – a young man from Roman Egypt – heads a whole page of archaeological titles in Postscript’s new Academic section for March. Other topics this month include trade and industrial history, music, architecture and, among several religious studies, an account of the ‘Forgotten Englishman’ Thomas Stephens, the only English Jesuit to serve in the seventeenth-century Mission to the East. The March Postscript catalogue is out now, in the post and online.

These third-century tax collectors going about their business in Rome’s Germanic provinces are pictured on the cover of ...
05/02/2026

These third-century tax collectors going about their business in Rome’s Germanic provinces are pictured on the cover of 'A Cultural History of Money in Antiquity', one of many new arrivals in Postscript’s February catalogue. Now the catalogue has eighty pages, we have a bigger selection of academic titles: this month there are sections of Medieval, Cultural and Chinese history, Film, West meets Middle East, and a page devoted to historical records societies, with local studies from Somerset, Oxford and Devon and Cornwall.

Appearing in several statues, always wearing a crown and holding a serpent, the Genius of Palermo has been the official ...
23/12/2025

Appearing in several statues, always wearing a crown and holding a serpent, the Genius of Palermo has been the official symbol of the city since 1489. In ‘Palermo: City of Kings’, Jeremy Dummett discusses this enigmatic figure as he traces the history of the city and describes its many monuments. The book is among the new arrivals in Postscript’s January catalogue, where you’ll find topics ranging from Owain Glyn Dŵr in medieval Wales to mass housing in 21st century China. The catalogue is out now, in the post or online at https://www.psbooks.co.uk/catalogue

Eltroplectris roseo-alba is one of over 620 orchid species found in an endangered remnant of ancient Atlantic rain fores...
26/11/2025

Eltroplectris roseo-alba is one of over 620 orchid species found in an endangered remnant of ancient Atlantic rain forest in Brazil. An important study in ecology and conservation, ‘The Organ Mountain Range’ uses the orchid as a touchstone for the state of the forest. The book is a new arrival in the December issue of Postscript and the orchids join our usual miscellany of subjects – this month including Victorian astronomers, Somerset churches and the London water industry. The new catalogue is out now, in the post or online at: https://www.psbooks.co.uk/catalogue

A far cry from the usual chorus of disapproval, this study of the slabs and towers of mass housing offers an enthusiasti...
19/11/2025

A far cry from the usual chorus of disapproval, this study of the slabs and towers of mass housing offers an enthusiastic ‘historical narrative of epic proportions’ focusing on the architectural and state responses to housing requirement and encompassing subjects from urban planning and engineering to postcolonialism. It’s a new arrival in Postscript Academic, available online at https://www.psbooks.co.uk/mass-housing

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