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Syria's Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town
Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Yet it lives in another world. Besieged by Syrian government forces since 2011, its people were...
Index, A History of the
A story of ambition, obsession and alphabetical order Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up....
Handwritten: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
In an era when the practice, indeed the art, of writing by hand is fast giving way to the keyboard, it is timely to pause and to consider the volume...
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
'Rich, authoritative, and highly readable ... [a] tour de force' David KynastonChairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving...
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict (SIGNED)
'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David KynastonChairman Mao...
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
'Rich, authoritative, and highly readable ... [a] tour de force' David KynastonChairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving...