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The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE...
The White Road: A Journey Into Obsession
The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The gripping story of the lure of...
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
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A New York Times Bestseller An Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) Edmund de...
Letters to Camondo: 'Immerses you in another age' Financial Times
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son...
Orbital
Life on our planet as you've never seen it before **WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set...
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other
To observe a dog's guilty look. to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals...
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,...
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Laura Cumming, a kaleidoscopic memoir connecting her life as an art critic with the vivid world of her father's paintings and those of the...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating'
'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past'...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters
Author: Natasha Walter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS 'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL...
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. 'Rare and magical book.' - Bill Bryson 'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.'...
Exiles: Three Island Journeys
Author: William AtkinsFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 266g, 320 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.' - EDMUND DE WAAL'Atkins spins...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time. 'An exquisite book' -
'A true joy. A work of staggering complexity and bewildering economy.' TELEGRAPH 'Every page glitters' SPECTATOR 'Mesmerising' NEW STATESMAN A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ______________________ In Hands...
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater's prose...
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater's prose...
The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times
Author: Kit de Waal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian...
The Flaneur
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______________ 'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book' - Sunday Telegraph 'An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris' - Guardian 'White's genius as a flaneur is revealed in his...
Letters On Literature And Politics: 1912-1972
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of literary genius and political conscience stands Edmund Wilson, one of twentieth-century America's most formidable intellectual voices, and Letters on Literature...
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris
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Sir Henry Doulton
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Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young...