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An academic couple - she's a hotshot and he's twelve years late on his doctoral thesis - move to Vermont. Naturally the husband is easily distracted by a variety of local fauna, principally ... read more

Country People

Daniel Mason

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The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect

Jasmin Lee Cori

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Tennis Whites and Teacakes

John Betjeman

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The Secret Lives of Colour: AMAZING NEW EDITION + 25 NEW COLOURS

Kassia St Clair

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Competing artistic ambitions and secrecy in 1920s' Provence: a slow-burn debut.

The Artist

Lucy Steeds

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This powerful, well researched group biography (including Erika Mann, Laura Knight and Rebecca West) is a reminder of why international law matters. Excellent.

The Nuremberg Women: At the Trial that Brought the Nazis to Justice

Natalie Livingstone

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What does the UK look like from the outside - especially since Brexit? Here is an informed, acute and amiable view.

Fantastic Kingdom: A Stranger’s Notes on a Contrary Country

Helene von Bismarck

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Liberal democracy and globalisation seemed set to prevail in the 1990s but they are withering under geopolitical chauvinism. The jacket design is surprising, shall we say.

The Return of the Great Powers

Brendan Simms

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From Calcutta in the late 1960s to Brooklyn in the 2020s, Ghosh deploys his exceptional historical sensitivity alongside his deep concern - and knowledge - about climate change.

Ghost-Eye

Amitav Ghosh

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A delightful debut in which a mixed-race girl in C19 London decamps to France and finds her metier as a poison-taster for a duke in his fairytale chateau. All goes swimmingly until her speci... read more

Feast

Catherine Kurtz

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Violence, lust and greed in Dublin gangland is the background of this highly lauded debut.

All Them Dogs

Djamel White

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An out-of-work actor lands an unorthodox role in a psychological experiment, wearing a black bag with eyeholes cut out. Soon he finds himself going method... Based on a real study of the 'me... read more

Black Bag

Luke Kennard

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Eden’s Shore

Oisín Fagan

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Lady Joker: Volume 1

Kaoru Takamura

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On the day Griffiths married Salman Rushdie in 2021, her dearest friend suddenly died. Months later, Rushdie suffered the attack that nearly killed him (recounted in his memoir Knife). This... read more

The Flower Bearers

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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The decade-long pursuit that ended when a Spanish assassin killed Trotsky with an ice pick in Mexico City in 1940.

The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy

Josh Ireland

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Aphra McQueen is the dauntless Parliamentary researcher poking her nose into a highly sensitive MI6 case involving an Iranian assassin.

Spies and Other Gods

James Wolff

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Around India in 80 Trains: One of the Independent’s Top 10 Books about India

Monisha Rajesh

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An elegant new translation.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

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The tale of a courageous but hapless group of well-connected plotters in Berlin, carefully researched by the author of The Escape Artist.

The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them

Jonathan Freedland

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The ninth book in the series that began with the terrific Slow Horses.

Clown Town

Mick Herron

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Clever and wise reflections over a year in her own back garden - which of course is magnificent and varied.

Diary of a Keen Gardener

Mary Keen

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First edition, fine condition, with minimal shelf wear. Blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover.

Echoing Voices: More Memories of a Country House Snooper

John Harris

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The author's mother was a teacher who became a human rights investigator during the war in Chechnya, and was murdered by Russian-backed forces when her daughter was fifteen. Injustice and im... read more

Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me

Lana Estemirova

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From the 1780s to (almost) the present; with particular reference to the roles of the Amendment and the Supreme Court. Lepore is a professor at Harvard.

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Jill Lepore

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The author retired from teaching in Yorkshire to devote himself to looking after badgers... and then foxes and deer...

Interrupted Journeys: Badgers and Other Roadside Distractions

Adrian Potter

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An engaging tour of vanished worlds in Britain and Ireland: besides Doggerland and Dunwich, there's a surreal Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight, Bronze Age settlements in the Sci... read more

Lost to the Sea: A Journey Round the Edges of Britain and Ireland

Lisa Woollett

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An engaging tour of vanished worlds in Britain and Ireland: besides Doggerland and Dunwich, there's a surreal Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight, Bronze Age settlements in the Sci... read more

Lost to the Sea: A Journey Around the Edges of Britain and Ireland

Lisa Woollett

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The Bibby Resolution started llife as an offshore Swedish oil rig. It has then been sold, renamed and re-purposed several times - as a barracks (Falkands), prison (US), oil worker quarters... read more

Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Ship

Ian Kumekawa

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The wonders of the deep, by a national treasure and his long-term collaborator. Illustrated.

Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness

Sir David Attenborough

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The history of the Baltic states, how they differ from one another, and their individual and collective significance to the West.

Baltic: The Future of Europe

Oliver Moody

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On the forging of a ruthless political mind, plotting to assassinate Caesar and establishing the era of bloody, autocratic rule that would become Rome's undoing.

Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome

Josiah Osgood

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The uprising of ordinary people in 1524 was the largest before the French Revolution; its end was ghastly. This first revisiting of the subject in a generation is by the Regius Professor of ... read more

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War

Lyndal Roper

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Vivid and authoritative, this excellent book shows the continuing significance of the greatest Byzantine emperor.

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Professor Peter Sarris

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A first biography of the late Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield and many other books and essays. His friends included John and Christine Nash (in whose house he came to live), Cedric Morris... read more

Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe

Ian Collins

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The February 1917 Revolution and Tsar Nicholas's doomed failure to reform: a close and riveting account.

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

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