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Murder at Wrotham Hill

Murder at Wrotham Hill

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Author: Diana Souhami Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique...
We Are The Legion: The Royal British Legion at 100

We Are The Legion: The Royal British Legion at 100

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Author: Julie Summers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Formed in 1921 to provide welfare to soldiers returning from the First World War, the Royal British Legion is today the...
Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex

Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex

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Author: Rachel Feltman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical treatments...
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution -- Shortlisted for the Bailie Gifford prize for Non-Fiction

Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution -- Shortlisted for the Bailie Gifford prize for Non-Fiction

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Author: Tania Branigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Took my breath away.' BARBARA DEMICK'Haunting.' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'A masterpiece.' JULIA LOVELL A 13-year-old Red Guard revels in the great adventure,...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History

Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History

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Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity

How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity

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Author: Jill Burke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

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Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

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Author: Sian Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 QUEEN BEES looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor,...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

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Author: David Lammy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who...
Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations

Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations

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Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

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Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly...
Australia's Worst Disasters

Australia's Worst Disasters

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Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence

Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence

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A Time of Paradox: America from the Cold War to the Third Millennium, 1945-Present

A Time of Paradox: America from the Cold War to the Third Millennium, 1945-Present

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The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

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Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...