CARPET DIEM: Tales from the World of Oriental Rugs. By George Bradley. Harper. 304 pages. $32.50. “It’s sophisticated in conception, harmonious in palette, and meticulously woven, a consummate example ...

The Odes of Horace, translated by Len Krisak (Fyfield Books, £12.95) I trust you are all among the readers who sent Harry Mount's book about Latin, Amo, Amas, Amat, and All That, to the top of the ...

"Good friends sharing good books" is the founding principle of the Carpe Diem Book Club, which meets at the Spring Hill coffee shop one Thursday evening each month.

It’s the name of a heaving nightclub in Croatia, and a tiny guesthouse in Southern China. Judi Dench even had it tattooed on her wrist for her 81 st birthday. More than two thousand years’ old, a ...