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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In...
Emily Noble's Disgrace
'A brilliant, original read' - Daily Mail 'Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped' - Janice Hadlow, author of The Other Bennet Sister The case is...
D is for Death: meet the most entertaining and intriguing new
'A little bit Margery Allingham with hints of Mitford, definite tones of Eva Ibbotson and as delightful as I Capture the Castle, D is for Death is an instant classic....
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WINNER of the James Tait Black Prize 2021 and The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021.As seen in Document Journal, Guardian and The White ReviewLush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola...
Bartali's Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy's Secret Hero
This 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist by author Megan Hoyt and illustrator Iacopo Bruno brings to light the inspiring, true story of Gino Bartali, a beloved Italian cyclist and...
Last Dance in Salzburg (Miss Ashford Investigates, Book 4)
Agatha Christie meets Julie Caplin in this exciting new cosy crime series that captures the glamour of the 1930s with the gorgeous escapist destinations! November 1930.After accepting an invitation to...
Irgun: Revisionist Zionism, 1931-1948
In October 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services described the Irgun Tsvai Leumi - National Military Organization - as 'an underground, quasi-military organisation with headquarters in Palestine ... fanatical...
Air Wars 1920-1939: The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics
Spain (1936-9), China (1937 onwards), Mongolia (1939), Finland (1939-40) and France (1939-40) were a testing ground for a new approach to air tactics with western democracies and totalitarian states analyzing...
The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and
Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War...
Experimental Units of Hitler's Condor Legion
At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air Force and Army formed what was...
British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914-1930
During World War I, Britain's naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building 'a navy second to none',...
Some Liked It Hot
Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot...
The Mothers of Quality Street (Quality Street, Book 2)
The ups and down of three plucky factory girls, set against the backdrop of the Britain's best loved wrapped chocolate The Quality Street Factory is fizzing with the news that...
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still...
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WINNER of the James Tait Black Prize 2021 and The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021.As seen in Document Journal, Guardian and The White ReviewLush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola...
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still...
Tiger Woman: A Wild Life
Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist's favourite: Betty May - aka the Tiger Woman - was a woman like no other.Born into abject poverty in Limehouse, Betty May...
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on
To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the...
Sinners of Starlight City: A sumptuous historical novel of revenge and
FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ANIKA SCOTTMadame Mystique is a performer extraordinaire, come to work her scandalous magic at the glittering 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Of African American and Sicilian heritage,...
Old Sins
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The past is never far behind you . . .Old sins have a nasty way of catching up with you, as Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone discovers in this gripping...
Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films,
Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves "in trouble" comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of...
Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial
A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central...
Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates including Jospehine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the...
Harlem After Midnight
* LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD *'Perfection ... this is a story about family, friendship, love, and sacrifice ... with a big dose of jazz! I loved it!'...
From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise
The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity-its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history-is told for the first time in...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL,...
Takeover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third ReichA Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the...
Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39
British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin...
A Truth To Lie For (Elena Standish Book 4)
The fourth novel in Anne Perry's breathtakingly tense and exciting spy thriller series, featuring young British photographer and secret agent Elena Standish, who will need every ounce of her strength...
Rusted Souls
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Retirement beckons for Chief Constable Tom Harper. Can he stop a spiralling crime spree involving love letters, robbery and murder before he hangs up his boots for good?"A knockout conclusion...
Crowned and Dangerous
Lady Georgiana Rannoch knows nothing is simple when you're thirty-fifth in line for the British crown, but her upcoming marriage proves to be the ultimate complication in the tenth mystery...
Before All The World
'A mesmeric, enrapturing read' Eimear McBride'Beautiful and original' Colm Toibin'In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish's combination words, [Before All the World] moves forward and back and forward...
Before All The World
'A mesmeric, enrapturing read' Eimear McBride'Beautiful and original' Colm Toibin'In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish's combination words, [Before All the World] moves forward and back and forward...
From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the [...]
The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity-its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history-is told for the first time in...
The King Maker: The Man Who Saved George VI
Louis Greig, a war hero and rugby international, entered the privileged world of the British royal family as mentor, physician and friend to a young and hesitant Prince Albert, the...
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between [...]
An original account of the life and work of legendary designer Jan Tschichold and his role in the movement in Weimar Germany to create modern graphic design Richly illustrated with...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a [...]
'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939
Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939 examines classic French film, exploring and analyzing the cinema as an institution, the textual system to which it gave rise, and...
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken
Author: Nita TyndallFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 236g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "A heartbreaking and bittersweet novel about the need for queer joy even in the...
The Empire: 'Wonderful. A lifelong love letter to the theatre' Reverend Richard Coles
Welcome to The Empire theatre1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid the glitz and glamour, he soon...