books

Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists

A sparkling miscellany of literary lists.

2022

“An absolute delight - Borges meets Buzzfeed” Tom Holland

“The perfect bedside book” Jilly Cooper

“An eccentric idea, beautifully executed” Louis de Bernières

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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