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The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption:

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption:

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WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British history. Lee's journey and fight...
The Milk of Paradise: Diaries 1993

The Milk of Paradise: Diaries 1993

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The twelfth and final volume of James Lees-Milne's magnificent diary covers the last five years of his life, until a few weeks before his death at the age of eighty-nine....
Holy Dread: Diaries 1982-1984

Holy Dread: Diaries 1982-1984

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In the ninth volume of James Lees-Milne's diaries, the ardour towards their eventual editor M, has cooled to a more durable tenderness. There is no change however, in the sharpness...
Art & Today

Art & Today

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Targeting the same audience as Phaidon's highly successful and long-selling Art Today by Edward Lucie-Smith, Art & Today surveys contemporary art from 1980 to today, discussing over 450 of the...
Raffles

Raffles

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The Art of the "New Yorker": 1925-95

The Art of the "New Yorker": 1925-95

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Shows and describes cartoons, covers, spot illustrations, and caricatures from the New Yorker magazine, and shares anecdotes about the artists and editors.
Runaway

Runaway

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Runaway is not only a powerful account of a singularly spirited girl's growing up, it involves issues which concern us all - the traumatic effects of family breakdown.
Gielgud: A Theatrical Life, 1904-2000

Gielgud: A Theatrical Life, 1904-2000

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This authoritative biography of John Gielgud deals in fascinating detail with the life and work of the greatest classical actor of the twentieth century. Drawing on recollections of more than...
W.B.Yeats: A Life

W.B.Yeats: A Life

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In this biography of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) the author shows him through a life of tumultuous creativity through which he strove to bring new meaning to poetry, vision and politics....
Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill To Eden

Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill To Eden

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The untold story of life as a Churchill and Prime Minister's wife. Winston Churchill was Clarissa's uncle. When she married the 55-year-old Anthony Eden, then Foreign Secretary, the crowds roared...
Children of the Raj

Children of the Raj

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And then there were the children educated in India. Brendon reveals appalling stories of abuse at the hands of servants. What frequently unites Brendon's wildly different subjects is their loneliness--drawing...
Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair

Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair

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A book that tells the story of London since the Thirties through the 26 streets and stations of the Monopoly board. Acclaimed comic writer Tim Moore travels through the best...
The Cliveden Set: Portrait of an Exclusive Fraternity

The Cliveden Set: Portrait of an Exclusive Fraternity

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The Cliveden Set had its roots in South Africa immediately after the Boer War. Back in England its members formed a self-appointed pressure group. They would often meet at Cliveden...
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth

The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth

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The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the...
Sharing the Climb

Sharing the Climb

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Sharing the Climb traces the development of the Anglican mission in Oro (Northern) Province in Papua New Guinea from 1948 to 1967 through the experiences of Sister Nancy White.
Return to Diversity

Return to Diversity

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Now updated to cover events since 1989, this highly acclaimed text offers a complete political history of East Central Europe from World War II to the present by one of...
Florence Nightingale and the Crimea, 1854-55

Florence Nightingale and the Crimea, 1854-55

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These short extracts from government papers of 1854 are a snapshot of events, as they were presented to Parliament. The Charge of the Light Brigade is highlighted, as well as...
Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War

Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War

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The hitherto untold story of the peacetime equivalent of ULTRA, an extraordinary cryptographic effort conducted in conditions of unprecedented secrecy over three decades which gave Western counter-intelligence experts a fascinating...
The Princess: The moving new novel about the young Diana

The Princess: The moving new novel about the young Diana

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'Traces Diana's journey from shy schoolgirl to blushing bride with verve, wit and a dash of foreboding' Daily Mail 'Touching and distinctive' Rachel Hore 'Riveting, revealing, an absolute must-read' Imogen...
Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero

Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero

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With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon...
Dalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel: A Critical Survey and Filmography

Dalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel: A Critical Survey and Filmography

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As a screenwriter, novelist, and political activist, Dalton Trumbo stands among the key American literary figures of the 20th century--he wrote the classic antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun, and...
The Fatalist

The Fatalist

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AS SEEN ON AUSTRALIAN STORY Shortlisted for The Ned Kelly Awards Best True Crime 2018 Shortlisted for The Danger Prize (writing about Sydney and crime) 2018 'I first met Lindsey...
Reports from a Turbulent Decade

Reports from a Turbulent Decade

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These are some of Australia's finest thinkers analysing the key issues that have had a major impact on Australia over the last turbulent decade, collated by our most influential think...
Glory Be

Glory Be

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A Mississippi town in 1964 gets riled when tempers flare at the segregated public pool. As much as Gloriana June Hemphill, or Glory as everyone knows her, wants to turn...
Everything Glittered

Everything Glittered

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Society girls try to find a murderer in a city filled with secrets and stunted by shame, in this queer hysterical thriller by award-winning author Robin Talley, perfect for fans...
The Mother and Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope

The Mother and Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope

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Dozens of influential leaders have heard the pleas of mothers and children in developing countries. Raising their voices to inspire a movement to increase healthy pregnancies and lower death rates,...
War, 1914: Punishing the Serbs

War, 1914: Punishing the Serbs

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Dealing with the events leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, and mirroring recent events in Serbia, this report contains the diplomatic exchanges that followed the assassination...
BOX 88 (BOX 88, Book 1)

BOX 88 (BOX 88, Book 1)

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An organisation that doesn't exist. A spy that can't be caught. Years ago, a spy was born... 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a...
The Day the President Was Shot

The Day the President Was Shot

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The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service...
Pushing the Boundaries: Cricket in the Eighties: The Perfect Gift Book

Pushing the Boundaries: Cricket in the Eighties: The Perfect Gift Book

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Derek Pringle is finally ready to tell his story of cricket in the 80s. First chosen by England whilst still at university in 1982, Derek featured in the national side...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II

Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II

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How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China

Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China

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In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan,...
Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon

Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon

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This first anthology of women's international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to middle twentieth century. Revealing a major distortion in current understandings...
Politics and International Law: Making, Breaking, and Upholding Global

Politics and International Law: Making, Breaking, and Upholding Global

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International law shapes nearly every aspect of our lives. It affects the food we eat, the products we buy, the rights we hold, and the wars we fight. Yet international...
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies

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This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color...
Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global

Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global

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Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon's history,...
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

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Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...
Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law

Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law

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Place is inextricably linked to history by way of culture, language, philosophy, faith and the development of worldviews. The richness and depth of experience of the Asia-Pacific region has been...
The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 3, Genocide in the

The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 3, Genocide in the

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Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it...
Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and

Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and

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With Britain by late 1916 facing the prospect of an economic crisis and increasingly dependent on the US, rival factions in Asquith's government battled over whether or not to seek...