The Notebook - A History of Thinking on Paper

If you are partial to pen and paper, you will enjoy this fascinating history of the humble notebook - the indispensable tool of writers, artists, scientists, inventors and great minds, whose jottings, scribblings and sketches have shaped the modern world. Roland Allen traces the story of the notebook from medieval Florentine accounts ledgers and Leonardo's sketches and studies, to Darwin's Theory of Evolution in tiny pocketbooks and scrappy exercise books containing Agatha Christie's intricate murder plots.

For list makers, note takers, scribblers, doodlers and anyone who commits flashes of inspiration to paper, this would make an original and thoughtful gift.

• Paperback, 416 pages
• Measures 19.7 x 13 x 2.7cm