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
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