Giles Milton

This is where it becomes show and tell, yeah.

So my passion, apart from writing, is repousse metalwork, which is slightly eccentric.

So I've done Nathaniel's Nutmeg.

You know these books you get from the...

From the 1500s and 1600s, they're beautifully adorned with jewels and everything.

So here we have Nathaniel's nutmeg, Nathaniel Quartope in the middle here, all beaten out of metal.

Nutmeg from the Bander Islands here, set into the cover.

Beautiful isle-like crystal.

And on the reverse, you have, inspired by Elizabethan astrolabe, there we have it with a leather-bound spine.

So that was my little way of marking the 25th anniversary of this book.