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The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

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Author: Edward Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Superbly entertaining.' - Financial Times 'Jaw-dropping.' - Sunday Times 'Fascinating.' - Guardian 'Gripping.' - The Times 'Terrific . . . A...
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

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Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...
Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

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Author: Brett Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of Ik8 of the British Secret Service

Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of Ik8 of the British Secret Service

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Author: George Alexander Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The latest in Biteback's best-selling Dialogue Espionage Classics series of rediscovered spy masterpieces, Go Spy the Land is George Alexander...
Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

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Author: Mavis Batey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known simply as 'Dilly', was one of the leading figures in the British codebreaking successes...
The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

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Author: Robert S. Boynton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos...
Nicholas II, The Last Tsar

Nicholas II, The Last Tsar

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Author: Michael Paterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant...
Heritage Aesthetics

Heritage Aesthetics

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Author: Anthony Anaxagorou Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 Witty and wide-ranging, Heritage Aesthetics draws from Anthony's family'smigratory histories - between Cyprus and the UK - to interrogate patriarchy,xenophobia and...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... 'Spy-masterful storytelling'...
The Scramble For Africa

The Scramble For Africa

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Author: Thomas Pakenham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained...
The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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Author: Iain Sinclair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and...
The Good Spy

The Good Spy

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The Day After the Revolution

The Day After the Revolution

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In Defense of Lost Causes

In Defense of Lost Causes

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MI5 and Me: 'Imagine a Jilly Cooper heroine in an early John le Carre world'

MI5 and Me: 'Imagine a Jilly Cooper heroine in an early John le Carre world'

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Bridge of Spies

Bridge of Spies

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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West

Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West

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Writers, Readers and Rebels: Upfront and backstage at Australia's top literary festival

Writers, Readers and Rebels: Upfront and backstage at Australia's top literary festival

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Sphere History of English Literature Volume 9: American Literature Since 1900

Sphere History of English Literature Volume 9: American Literature Since 1900

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Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature

Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature

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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany

The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany

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On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist: Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin

On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist: Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin

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Author: Michael Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden,...
The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel

The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth Century Novel

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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

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The Lexus and the Olive Tree

The Lexus and the Olive Tree

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Europe's Backyard War: War in the Balkans

Europe's Backyard War: War in the Balkans

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Global Nation?: Australia and the Politics of Globalisation

Global Nation?: Australia and the Politics of Globalisation

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Jack Lindsay Reader

Jack Lindsay Reader

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The Sons of Clovis

The Sons of Clovis

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How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

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Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right...
Kuhn vs.Popper: Prophets of the End of Science

Kuhn vs.Popper: Prophets of the End of Science

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Production or Reproduction?

Production or Reproduction?

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The Fourth Shore

The Fourth Shore

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Author: Virginia Baily Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Liliana's beloved husband has been dead six months when she finds a roll of banknotes in a drawer with...
Australian Women at War

Australian Women at War

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Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art

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Riffs and Relations

Riffs and Relations

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Author: Adrienne L. Childs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Riffs and Relations: African-American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African-American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first...
The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

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Author: Robert S. Boynton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos...