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Already receiving praise for revolutionising the history of sexuality, this book is bound to be a fascinating analysis of sex and identity in early-modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750

Noel Malcolm

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Selected Poems

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

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The Qur’an: English translation with parallel Arabic text

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The Monk

Matthew Lewis

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The Masnavi, Book Five

Jalal al-Din Rumi

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The Masnavi, Book Six

Jalal al-Din Rumi

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Silences within and without the self: different kinds of silence over twelve centuries, from the icy solitude of the Anglo-Saxon Seafarer to mystic withdrawal, stoic endurance, Renaissance ... read more

Silence: A Literary History

Kate McLoughlin

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Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926

Jonathan Schneer

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A short, admiring new assessment by the distinguished historian.

Queen Elizabeth II: A Concise Biography of an Exceptional Sovereign

David Cannadine

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Art, Feminism, and Community: Feminist Art Histories from Turkey, 1973-1998

Ceren OEzpinar

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The great scholar of early archaeology looks at early trade routes - further intriguing background to Dalrymple's The Golden Road.

Driven by the Monsoons: Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China

Barry Cunliffe

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Encyclopaedic, fascinating. 5th revised edition.

The Oxford Companion to Wine

Julia Harding

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Ulysses: Second Edition

James Joyce

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Mme du Châtelet proposed intellectual autonomy over the cult of philosophical disciples enjoyed by Voltaire and Kant. She also believed that women should "share in all the rights of humanit... read more

The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman: Emilie du Chatelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy

Andrew Janiak

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The huge army that landed in East Anglia in 845CE became a constant presence for the next fifteen years - unlike previous raids that took place only in the summer months. New archaeological... read more

Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers

Dawn M. Hadley

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The story of one of the most tumultuous moments in British history, which analyses how James I's rule was haunted by Elizabethan political norms and values.

From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I

Susan Doran

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The Italian

Ann Radcliffe

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg

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The Prime Minister

Anthony Trollope

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Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

Thomas Dixon

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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

Cheryl Misak

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Already receiving praise for revolutionising the history of sexuality, this book is bound to be a fascinating analysis of sex and identity in early-modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750

Noel Malcolm

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First edition, second printing in fine condition with a near-fine dust jacket. The jacket has a couple of small scratches and a minimal amount of shelf wear to top edge.

John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art

Frances Spalding

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An example of how one book leads to another: from the 'Book of Isaiah' we learnt that Turgenev was a favourite writer of Isaiah Berlin. This book is a masterpiece, a perfect novel from the ... read more

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

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Dublin lives: seventeen stories from the C20th and C21st by as many writers. Authors include Joyce, Behan, McGahern, Elizabeth Bowen and Kevin Power.

Dublin Tales

Helen Constantine

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Wildsmith's three wonderful bestiaries in one volume, first published in 1967-1968: all creatures portrayed are given their lyrical collective nouns too, wakening the imagination: a walk of ... read more

Brian Wildsmith’s Animal Kingdom: Paws, Claws, Tails & Roars

Brian Wildsmith

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A 65th anniversary edition of this greatly loved classic. Ages 8-11.

Tom’s Midnight Garden

Philippa Pearce

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9000BC years ago there were pastoral economies; by 3000BC the desert reasserted itself. A fascinating study of human adaptability in the face of early climate change and geophysical influenc... read more

Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa

Barry Cunliffe

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Durer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World

Prof Ulinka Rublack

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The Earth After Us: What legacy will humans leave in the rocks?

Jan Zalasiewicz

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Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882

Queen Victoria

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The British and Irish peoples, from their origins to the Norman Conquest, by the author of the classic 'Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000' (see below in 'Some of This Year's Favouri... read more

Britain Begins

Barry Cunliffe

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75 years of intelligence gathering, including dirty tricks and their consequences.

A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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The English Hymnal

Oxford

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The Real Traviata: The Song of Marie Duplessis

Rene Weis

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