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Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (20th edition)

Susie Dent

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£45.00

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Paradise Gardens

Monty Don

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£40.00

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Japanese Gardens: A Journey

Monty Don

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£40.00

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The Chambers Dictionary (13th Edition): The English dictionary of choice for writers, crossword setters and word lovers

Chambers

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£39.99

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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 of 'On Food and Cooking' has spent a decade thinking about the science behind smells. The result is a work of great scientific and historical scholarship, as well as being essent... read more

Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells

Harold McGee

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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 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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A measured account of the Bible around the world, not just in the traditionally Christian countries of the West.

The Bible: A Global History

Bruce Gordon

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

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Peter Sarris

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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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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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Before the East India Company took hold, the dazzling Mughal courts received a raggle-taggle caravan of C16th and C17th merchants, priests and adventurers.

Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World

Lubaaba Al-Azami

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The outlines of this diplomatic mission may have been written about before but what makes this book so enjoyable is the character of the British ambassador, Archie Clark Kerr, about whom his... read more

The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War

Giles Milton

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As the great Gore Vidal cheerfully pointed out, the CIA was an instrument of US imperialism.

The CIA: An Imperial History

Hugh Wilford

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Boxing, football, horse-racing, cricket: each grew from different social roots and so enable the dextrous Horspool to construct the framework for his ideas. He's an historian, an editor at t... read more

More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain

David Horspool

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Entertaining (if you can refrain from weeping) and dramatic; by the experienced Westminster correspondent.

The Right to Rule: Thirteen Years, Five Prime Ministers and the Implosion of the Tories

Ben Riley-Smith

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More from the author of This Much Is True.

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Miriam Margolyes

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A collection of the late Mantel's essays and journalism spanning four decades, including her 2017 Reith Lectures. Sheis eloquent and ironic company always; her range of subjects is vast and ... read more

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

Hilary Mantel

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In one generation, the Mongols reshaped the balance of world power, aided by the internecine struggles of the Byzantines, Seljuks, Crusaders and others.

The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

Nicholas Morton

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A selection of the Venerable Blythe's columns, with contributions by Rowan Williams, Richard Mabey, Julia Blackburn, Ian Collins et al. Inquisitive, gentle and modest, but surprising and fun... read more

Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside

Ronald Blythe

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A valuable account of one of the greatest advocates in modern history, revered not only in South Africa but around the globe as a defendant of the rule of law.

The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid

Thomas Grant

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Opens up the world of the second Bloomsbury generation: Eddy Sackville-West, Stephen Tomlin, Julia Strachey...

Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Reimagined Love, Freedom and Self-Expression

Nino Strachey

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Illuminating and panoramic narrative of nomadic peoples and their historical importance.

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Anthony Sattin

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As entertaining as it is fascinating: it turns out the poet's ancestors were quite an act to follow. (He did!)

The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England

Emily Brand

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Reinvention, escape, adventure, romance, survival... Not all the women were 'port out starboard home'. Gripping and entertaining social history from the author of 'Queen Bees'.

Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel

Sîan Evans

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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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Slough House 9.

Clown Town

Mick Herron

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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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Ghosh weaves his own family history into the story of Papaver somniferum and its world-wide reach.

Smoke And Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

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An old spy is chased, a damning file appears from nowhere, a civil service enquiry is obstructed... Herron works his compusive magic again in this new stand-alone thriller.

The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

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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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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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