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The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare

The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare

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Author: Paul Strathern Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place...
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

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Author: David Edmonds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *New Statesman, Books of the Year* *FiveBooks, One of Nigel Warburton's Best Philosophy Books of 2020* On June 22, 1936, the...
Dante

Dante

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Author: John Took Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine Comedy. For all that has been written about the...
Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

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Author: Jonathan Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to...
Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester

Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester

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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

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Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of...
Einstein in Bohemia

Einstein in Bohemia

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Author: Professor Michael D. Gordin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Physics Today, Notable Books of 2020 A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring...
A Home for All Seasons

A Home for All Seasons

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Author: Gavin Plumley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Gavin Plumley considered himself a distinctly urban being...until he met his rural husband, Alastair. Together, they bought Stepps House - a...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table

Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table

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The Laurel and the Ivy: Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism

The Laurel and the Ivy: Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism

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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens

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The Pen and the Sword

The Pen and the Sword

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Dr. B.

Dr. B.

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Author: Daniel Birnbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel...
Barcelona Palimpsest

Barcelona Palimpsest

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Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

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Author: Will Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois'...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

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Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was...
The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth

The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth

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Author: Meriel Schindler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Rigorously researched, The Lost Cafe Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that...
The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression

The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression

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Author: Luiz Schwarcz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A beautiful work that is in turn haunting, touching and redemptive' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'Generous in spirit, devoid of self-pity, and...
Debs at War: 1939-1945

Debs at War: 1939-1945

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the...
Conspirator

Conspirator

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Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Helen Rappaport's Conspirator is a vivid account of Vladimir I. Lenin's years of exile in Europe, showing that this often-overlooked period...
The Lawless Land

The Lawless Land

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Author: Boyd Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'A rollicking adventure [with] the inventive twists and turns of a satisfyingly bustling plot.' New York Times 'Fantastic... Gerard Fox could...
Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs, 1939-1945

Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs, 1939-1945

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A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II

A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II

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The Unheralded: Men and Women of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift

The Unheralded: Men and Women of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift

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Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45

Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45

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First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

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Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II

Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II

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The World within War: America's Combat Experience with World War II

The World within War: America's Combat Experience with World War II

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Hijacking Enigma: The Insider's Tale

Hijacking Enigma: The Insider's Tale

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Peace and War: Growing Up in Fascist Italy

Peace and War: Growing Up in Fascist Italy

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Robert Peel: A Biography

Robert Peel: A Biography

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Author: Douglas Hurd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

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The Story of England

The Story of England

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The Secret of Emu Field: Britain's forgotten atomic tests in Australia

The Secret of Emu Field: Britain's forgotten atomic tests in Australia

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Author: Elizabeth Tynan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the...
Darkest Hour: Official Tie-In for the Oscar-Winning Film Starring Gary Oldman

Darkest Hour: Official Tie-In for the Oscar-Winning Film Starring Gary Oldman

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George Mackay Brown

George Mackay Brown

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Author: Maggie Fergusson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide...
The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?

The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?

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Author: David Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Did the Labour government improve people's lives? Are we healthier, wealthier or wiser; happier or safer than in 1997, when Labour...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was...
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman: With an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman: With an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Author: Andrzej Szczypiorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between...
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...
The Borgias

The Borgias

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Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent

Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent

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Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality....
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

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Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter

The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter

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Author: Mikail Eldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of...
Revolution: The History of England Volume IV

Revolution: The History of England Volume IV

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Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with...
Budapest: Between East and West

Budapest: Between East and West

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Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions...
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

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Author: Hana Videen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Delightful ... a pleasure' - Guardian Old English is the language you think you know until you hear or see it....