Simon Garfield

All the Knowledge in the World is a history and celebration of those who created the most groundbreaking and remarkable publishing phenomenon of any age....

'This love letter to our four-legged friends is a delight . . . there is a good joke, an intriguing tale or a fascinating statistic on every page' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'A fact-packed history of a 15,000-year relationship' Sunday Times How did we arrive at the moment when a dog goes to the...

A delightfully inquisitive tour that explores the rich history and the subtle powers of fonts. Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product that we buy. But where do fonts come from and why do we need so many? Who is...

In Miniature takes a big look at small things. It is a celebration of the obsessive, eccentric and meticulous and welcomes us into the world of collectors, modellers and fans....

Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories....

In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project....

As a boy, Simon Garfield started collecting "errors" - rare stamps flawed by printing faults and absent colours. As an adult his childhood obsession became a full-blown mid-life crisis....

The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years after its creation, Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types and modern styles, notable for its combination of fat and thin letters....

One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world (and the author's favourite), Albertus is also one of the most enduring....

Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age....