DD has written several books on the Near East: she is the perfect author for this intriguing topic.
Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978178738305020/08/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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The director of the Bodleian includes some of the US president's deleted tweets in an historical survey that ranges from the Library of Alexandria to the Windrush papers. The surprise is tha... read more
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A superb account of how European imperialism in Asia was undermined by a network of ingenious radicals, who used printing presses, global travel and the colonisers' languages to spread their... read more
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An elderly woman in a home is losing her power of speech: a therapist delicately helps her to unburden herself of a secret... The dark horse of new French fiction.
Gratitude
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Translated from the German, this is a substantial book on the man who led Europe out of the Napoleonic chaos; the father of realpolitik, according to Kissinger.
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
Hardback £32.00