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Lives of Houses

Lives of Houses

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Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

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Author: Candice Millard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers. For...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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Author: Tiya Miles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...
Culture: The surprising connections and influences between civilisations. 'Genius' - William Dalrymple

Culture: A new world history

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Author: Martin Puchner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The surprising connections and influences between civilisations. 'Genius' - William Dalrymple Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues...
The Secret Life of John le Carre

The Secret Life of John le Carre

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Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930

The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930

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Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most

Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most

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Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

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Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative

Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative

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Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

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How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
The Last Night on the Titanic: Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style

The Last Night on the Titanic: Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style

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Author: Veronica Hinke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The Last Night on the Titanic demystifies life in all three classes aboard the world's most beloved ocean liner. Learn why...
Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups : Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain

Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups : Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain

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Body Of Secrets

Body Of Secrets

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Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated

Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated

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Love; A Curious History

Love; A Curious History

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Author: Edward Brooke-Hitching Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Edward Brooke-Hitching's delightful book is a collection of curiosities. From a 19th-century lonely hearts ad to a nuptial blessing of the...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

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Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
The Great Divide

The Great Divide

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Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the 20th Century

Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the 20th Century

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On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world

On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world

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Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his...
Churchill

Churchill

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Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Volume 1

Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Volume 1

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The Ship Thieves

The Ship Thieves

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Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia

Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia

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The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the American Revolution to World War I (Two-Volume Set) Part 1 - Slaves and Liberators, Part 2 - Black Models and White Myths

The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the American Revolution to World War I (Two-Volume Set) Part 1 - Slaves and Liberators, Part 2 - Black Models and White Myths

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The Landscape in Art: From 3000 B.C. to Today

The Landscape in Art: From 3000 B.C. to Today

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The Arts Festivals of the Olympic Games Melbourne

The Arts Festivals of the Olympic Games Melbourne

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The Chestertons

The Chestertons

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Queen of the Bawds: The Story of Madame Britannica Hollandia & her House of Obsenitie, Hollands Leaguer

Queen of the Bawds: The Story of Madame Britannica Hollandia & her House of Obsenitie, Hollands Leaguer

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The Book of Martyrs; or Complete Christian Martyrology

The Book of Martyrs; or Complete Christian Martyrology

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Rana Polity in Nepal

Rana Polity in Nepal

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The Only Enemy

The Only Enemy

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Mahan

Mahan

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Adventures Ashore & Afloat

Adventures Ashore & Afloat

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Virginia Voyages from Hakluyt

Virginia Voyages from Hakluyt

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David Williamson: Behind the Scenes

David Williamson: Behind the Scenes

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Footscray's: First Fifty Years

Footscray's: First Fifty Years

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A Precocious Autobiography

A Precocious Autobiography

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Fourcroy: Chemist and Revolutionary 1755-1809 (SIGNED)

Fourcroy: Chemist and Revolutionary 1755-1809 (SIGNED)

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George Higinbotham: Church and State - Education in Australia

George Higinbotham: Church and State - Education in Australia

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Green Beret, Red Star

Green Beret, Red Star

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The Worlds of Robert E Sherwood: Mirror to His Times 1896-1939

The Worlds of Robert E Sherwood: Mirror to His Times 1896-1939

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I Couldn't Smoke the Grass on My Father's Lawn

I Couldn't Smoke the Grass on My Father's Lawn

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Ferdinand Sauerbruch: A Surgeon's Life

Ferdinand Sauerbruch: A Surgeon's Life

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Broadcasting in Australia

Broadcasting in Australia

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Sketches of a Tour of the Lakes: The Treaty of Fond du Lac

Sketches of a Tour of the Lakes: The Treaty of Fond du Lac

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Jumping over the Wheel

Jumping over the Wheel

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Eleonora Duse

Eleonora Duse

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The 19th Century Criminal Underworld

The 19th Century Criminal Underworld

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Author: Stephen Carver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 209 Take a walk on the dark side of the street in this unique exploration of the fears and desires at the...