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A biography of the New Zealander who was one of the foundational figures of modern physics and pioneer of the Cavendish Laboratory.

Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics

Matthew Wright

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The story of four remarkable French women who belonged to different Resistance cells. Arrested by the Gestapo, they were sent to Ravensbr?ck. They survived - and joined forces after the war.

The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How An Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp

Lynne Olson

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After a penurious childhood in Liverpool and an unhappy stint in the merchant navy, AA became a model and socialite - until her success and jobs dried up after being outed in the press. She ... read more

Bonjour, Mademoiselle!: April Ashley and the Pursuit of a Lovely Life

Jacqueline Kent

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Twenty-seven remarkable people, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Hannah Arendt, Gidon Kremer, Romain Gary, Mark Rothko, Arvo Pärt: their stories interwoven with the historical, ethnic and pol... read more

Baltic Souls: Fate in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Jan Brokken

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Following a sharp analysis of the cultural history of inequality, TP considers how we might alleviate it in our own society.

Nature, Culture, and Inequality

Thomas Piketty

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Quiet, forgetful lives in a small town on the Austro-Hungarian border are shaken up by the events of 1989: an epic of historical complicity, brilliantly executed.

Darkenbloom

Eva Menasse

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Artichokes, anchovies, avocadoes, almonds, acai berries... bread, bacon, Brazil nuts, borlotti beans... peach, pretzel, pickle, prawn, pineapple, pomegranate, pistachios... A world of tempta... read more

Artichoke to Zucchini: an alphabet of delicious things from around the world

Alice Oehr

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Lilly and Her Slave

Hans Fallada

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From the home of the indigenous Formosans to a European trading post, from a Japanese colony to the last bastion of the Republic of China. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understan... read more

Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan

Jonathan Clements

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Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt was the French archaeologist who, in the 1960s, faced down both de Gaulle and Nasser to dismantle and move a dozen temples - including the vast Abu Simbel - t... read more

Empress of the Nile: the Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Destruction

Lynne Olson

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From the hurly-burly of the raised bed to the deep peace of contemplative cultivation.

Zen in the Garden: the Japanese art of peaceful gardening

Miki Sakamoto

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After the Romanovs: the Extraordinary Lives of Russian Exiles in Paris Between the Wars

Helen Rappaport

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The first biography of the extraordinary writer who died in 2020. An officer in the 9th Lancers, Morris was posted to Trieste in 1945. He was the only journalist to accompany the 1953 Britis... read more

Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides

Paul Clements

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The author of several good books on Russian imperial history turns her attention to the array of gifted exiles in Paris after the Revolution: Nijinsky, Diaghilev, Bunin, Chagall, Stravinsky,... read more

After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris Between the Wars

Helen Rappaport

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Two families tangled in a story of forbidden love, from the Georgian author (who writes in German) of the bestselling The Eighth Life. This is considerably shorter than that first, excellent... read more

My Soul Twin

Nino Haratischvili

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The overturning of Newtonian physics in the C20th by Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, et alia. Translated from the German.

The Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world

Tobias Hurter

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Lux: a novel

Elizabeth Cook

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Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street: the children’s cookbook recommended by Ottolenghi and Nigella

Felicita Sala

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Ambitious and accessible book about the roots of architecture, government, art...

The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation

Michael Brooks

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Charming picture book about gardens around the world, growing fruit and vegetables and recipes for youngsters, by the same author/illustrator who did Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street. Ages 5-... read more

A Year in Fleurville: recipes from balconies, rooftops, and gardens

Felicita Sala

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The story of diplomats like Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch consul in Lithuania, who enabled thousands of Jews to escape the Holocaust.

The Just: how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust

Jan Brokken

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In praise of curiosity: the author's investigations began when she found herself living next door to its two-acre remnant. Part biography, part memoir, part history of science, this is as in... read more

The Ghost In The Garden: in search of Darwin’s lost garden

Jude Piesse

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King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

Michael Dobbs

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In Love with George Eliot

Kathy O’Shaughnessy

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Social Physics: how good ideas spread — the lessons from a new science

Alex Pentland

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An acclaimed novel by a Georgian who writes in German... at 900 pages it promises loves, lives, and losses through a hundred years on the fringes of the Russian and Soviet empires. We have ... read more

The Eighth Life (for Brilka)

Nino Haratischvili

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Nightmare in Berlin

Hans Fallada

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A World of Three Zeroes: the New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emissions

Muhammad Yunus

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Walking in Berlin: a flaneur in the capital

Franz Hessel

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Margaret the First

Danielle Dutton

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The Death of Murat Idrissi

Tommy Wieringa

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At Dusk

Hwang Sok-yong

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The Eighth Life

Nino Haratischvili

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Richard Nixon: the life

John Farrell

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Billion Dollar Whale

Tom Wright

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Guest House for Young Widows: among the women of ISIS

Azadeh Moaveni

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