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Orientalist, the (Exp)

Orientalist, the (Exp)

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An extraordinary and hugely topical story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world. he Orientalist is the extraordinary story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world...
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years

The Queen: 70 Glorious Years

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This official souvenir publication celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II through 70 photographs chosen to illustrate memorable events in the reign of Britain's longest-serving monarch ....
Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

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With an Introduction by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury Originally published as a biography of Thomas Hardy by Florence, his widow, this 'Life' is...
Sontag: Her Life

Sontag: Her Life

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The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures- her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face. Susan Sontag was our last...
Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

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It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria-searched by...
Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

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'I wanted to climb inside this book and live there' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE 'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'Superb, sparky and reflective' The Spectator 'Gender...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life: NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life: NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION

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The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of...
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars

Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars

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Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was.     After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dream world -...
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars

Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars

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Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dream world - from which...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening

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Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening

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Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky...
Orwell: The New Life

Orwell: The New Life

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Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen...
Orwell: The New Life

Orwell: The New Life

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Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen...
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

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This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...