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Simon Garfield is the author of a dozen acclaimed books of non-fiction, including the bestsellers Just My Type: a Book about Fonts and Our Hidden Lives. His book The End of Innocence won the Somerset Maugham Prize. Garfield writes for the Observer about science, health and the arts, and was formerly the editor of Time Out. He lives in London and St Ives.

Books by Simon Garfield

The End of Innocence

Published: March 2022

A new edition of the award-winning, ground-breaking account of the early AIDS crisis in Britain.

In Miniature

Published: August 2019

A delightful and peculiar exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map.

In Miniature

Published: October 2018

A delightful and illuminating exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map.

Mauve

Published: June 2018

The strange and wonderful story of how one colour changed the world, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map.

Timekeepers

Published: July 2017

A witty and entertaining journey through time from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map

A Notable Woman

Published: June 2016

Virginia Woolf meets Caitlin Moran - the extraordinary journals chronicling one ordinary woman's life, edited and introduced by Simon Garfield.

My Dear Bessie

Published: February 2015

The wartime correspondence which first warmed people's hearts in Simon Garfield's To the Letter, now available in a single volume for readers to follow their wonderful and life-changing journey.

To the Letter

Published: September 2014

From Simon Garfield, the bestselling author of On the Map and Just my Type, comes a wonderful journey through the history of letter-writing and our relationship with the mail.