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Daughter of F.E. Smith and married to Lord Camrose, Pamela Berry was at the centre of British life for 50 years. This biography of one of the 'Bright Young Things', who became a redoubtable ... read more

Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power

Harriet Cullen

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£25.00

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The father of Neoplatonism hoped to reach India to study the Upanishads, only to be reach the Tigris. Now Mir has not only trailed him to Egypt, Italy, Greece and Turkey but completed his jo... read more

Travels with Plotinus: A Journey in Search of Unity

Moin Mir

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£16.99

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One of many events to celebrate Queen Vic's Diamond Jubilee, the Duchess of Devonshire's was perhaps the most glamorous. 700 guests in C18th costume assembled in a specially commissioned ten... read more

Power & Pleasure: The Devonshire House Jubilee Ball 1897

Elisabeth Kehoe

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£25.00

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The best place to eat in Mardin, Yeats and Ibn Battuta, the ancient wonders of Antakya, Gaziantep, Diyarbakir, Göbeklitepe and Karahan Tepe... Layers of empires, peoples, cultures in the la... read more

An Irishman in Northern Mesopotamia: A Journey of Discovery in South-East Turkiye

Nicholas Mackey

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A thousand years of Cadogan/Chelsea history, well illustrated; with support from family archives.

Cadogan: The Lives, Loves & Legacy of a Chelsea Family

Tamsin Perrett

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£60.00

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A lavish book on this Georgian artist who lived c.1866-1918 and influenced Georgian and Russian avant-gardists and Modernists. Large format, many illustrations.

Niko Pirosmanashvili: A Study of His Life and Art

Tengiz Mirzashvili

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£95.00

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These fine photographs span 15 years of visits to Transylvania and the wider country.

A Love Letter to Romania

Darran Rees

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£40.00

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The Ornamental Wilderness in the English Garden

James Bartos

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£30.00

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Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth

Kirsty Stonell Walker

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Churchill in Punch

Gary L. Stiles

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£50.00

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Gilded City: Tour Medieval and Renaissance London

Duncan A. Smith

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A short biography of the woman who managed Leach Pottery in Cornwall for forty years and was a fine potter in her own right. She met her husband, Bernard, in New York in the wake of the Grea... read more

Janet Leach: Potter

Joanna Wason

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The author and her husband ran the excellent Chelsea Rare Books in the King's Road, a bit further down than Sandoe's, in the 1970s and 1980s.

A Bookshop in Chelsea

Philippa Bernard

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£18.50

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He was Churchill's secretary and edited the work of Somerset Maugham and Sassoon; his proteg?s included Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer and many others.

Edward Marsh: A Life of Poets, Painters and Players

Sharon Mather

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The pursuit of two grandmothers, purged from the author's family history by her Hampstead communist parents: the vicissitudes of genealogy and family politics.

Unravelled: A Family Lost and Found

Fanny Mills

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A biographical study of this beguiling, exuberant artist that highlights his travels and the range of his work: oil portraits, pastels; orientalism, fashion...

Liotard: A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century Europe

Christopher Baker

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Olivier, Ashcroft, Rigg, Rickman... A chronicle of postwar theatre.

The Final Curtain: Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors

Michael Coveney

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Something to wear for dinner at the Castle of Otranto?

Gothic Fashion The History: From Barbarians to Haute Couture

Katie Godman

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LCW's 1947 memoir of her life as a gallerist; at the Wertheim Gallery she showed a swathe of English Modernist artists - Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Cedri... read more

Adventure in Art

Lucy Carrington Wertheim

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She was a prolific garden designer during the first half of the C20th, much influenced by Mughal and Moorish gardens.

Constance Villiers Stuart in Pursuit of Paradise

Mary Ann Prior

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Divine Love: The Art of the Nativity

Sarah Drummond

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Figures of the Enlightenment: A Catalogue of Eighteenth-century Meissen from a Private Collection

Philip Kelleway

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Nobody Will Shoot You If You Make Them Laugh

Simon Murray

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L.S. Lowry: The Art and the Artist

T.G. Rosenthal

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£35.00

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John Nash: Artist & Countryman

Andrew Lambirth

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Everyday at least for that great patroness... loved not least because she paid her bills on time. This illustrated chronology of the porcelain, its commissioning and use, is a magnificent bo... read more

Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sevres Porcelain

Rosalind Savill

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£200.00

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Carves out a space in modern British art history for Helen Sutherland, Myfanwy Piper and a host of lesser known female collectors, gallerists and friends.

The Women who Shaped Modern Art in Britain

James Scott

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Benton End Remembered: Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing

Gwynneth Reynolds

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Looks at houses built among the destruction during a five-year period, both survivors and others that have since disappeared.

Raised from the Ruins: Monastic Houses after the Dissolution

Jane Whitaker

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A lavish illustrated book on one of the most comprehensive private collections of pocket watches. Includes baroque glories and wonderful enamelled watches for export to Turkey and China in t... read more

A Voyage Through Time: The Masis Collection of Horological Masterpieces

Richard Chadwick

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£220.00

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10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator 1828 – 2020

David Butterfield

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£25.00

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We are often asked for books on our patch of London but there aren't many. Here is a new one, and it should be good - Cruikshank is perfect for this.

Built in Chelsea: Three Centuries of Living Architecture and Townscape

Dan Cruickshank

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£30.00

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Travels of a Painter

James Reeve

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The Great Retreat

Alexander Korolev

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£35.00

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Laurie Lee: A Folio

Jessy Lee

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£24.99

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English Country Houses

Vita Sackville-West

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£10.99

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