NOTEBOOK: A HISTORY OF THINKING ON PAPER (HB)

Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, Chaucer and Henry James: all created work forged in a notebook. It is our most durable tool for thinking. This is the story of its development, through table-books and diaries, common-placing and journaling, and of people who have relied upon it, such as Darwin hatching the idea of evolution, Clara Nguyen creating a restaurant business from family recipe books, Agatha Christie plotting a hundred murders and Bob Dylan drafting Blood on the Tracks.