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Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder ...

Mark O'Connell

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The Hare with Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition): A Hidden Inheritance ...

Edmund de Waal

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First edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket: almost as new.

The Warwickshire Scandal

Elizabeth Hamilton

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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal

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One of the great commentators on C18th French history (The Great Cat Massacre and others) returns to the fray.

The revolutionary temper

Robert Darnton

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Reformation Of The Landscape

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From the earliest printing to C21st zines: a very engaging account. The author is Prof of Eng Lit at Balliol when not noodling about with like-minded eggheads and a Model 4 letter press.

The Book-Makers

Adam Smyth

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The Wide Wide sea

Hampton Sides

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Walls are famous for their ears – but they can also speak: Pelling gathers these silent shouts into a remarkable history through the scratchings and carvings in prisons, walls, lead roofs,... read more

Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Brit ...

Madeleine Pelling

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The author's Jewish great-grandfather was not simply a chemist who happened to get out of Germany in good time: he was involved in developing chemical weapons. An uncomfortable trail for the... read more

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

Joe Dunthorne

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A detailed, riveting account of the complex alliances that won WWII, drawing on hundreds of primary sources. As we know from his superb Appeasing Hitler, the genial TB writes with assurance ... read more

Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler

Tim Bouverie

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Thrilling narrative history embracing the Hundred Years War, the Black Death and - with plenty of turmoil and skulduggery - the end of the Plantaganets.

Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century ...

Helen Carr

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The story of the pursuit of nuclear power, charting the lives and struggles of the scientists who dedicated their careers to advancing our knowledge, with unforeseen consequences.

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965 ...

F. E. Close

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The un-making of the Raj: the 50-year process by which a single entity was torn into a dozen modern nations. SD tackles the immense complexities with gusto and intelligence.

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia ...

Sam Dalrymple

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Radicals, decadents, hacks, censors, printers, spies and patrons in the French Enlightenment and Revolution. The distinguished historian's previous book was The Revolutionary Temper: Paris,... read more

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century F ...

Robert Darnton

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The undermining of Communism in Poland and elsewhere through books: here is the story of the CIA programme to disseminate banned literature (Arendt, Solzhenitsyn, Orwell, etc.) behind the Ir... read more

The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War ...

Charlie English

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Western meddling of course but some grounds for optimism too.

The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Midd ...

Fawaz A. Gerges

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Looks at the gay community that flourished for decades in Cambridge when homosexuality was illegal, and its immense influence in British culture.

Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History

Simon Goldhill

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A new history of North and South America charting their relationship across the centuries, and exploring how they have defined themselves through engagement with and in opposition to each ot... read more

America, America: A New History of the New World

Greg Grandin

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Compelling investigation of the murder, days before the German withdrawal from Tuscany, of Einstein's Italian cousins.

The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a True Story of Murder ...

Thomas Harding

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The struggles of the Sword Beach landings on 6th June 1944.

Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle

Max Hastings

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The eight surrenders that marked the end of the War. Published as we approach the 80th anniversary of the Allied Victory.

Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders ...

James Holland

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The boundary between private and public has been porous since antiquity. But now our private lives are navigating C21st assaults in the form of routine data-harvesting, marketing and surveil... read more

Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life ...

Tiffany Jenkins

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DJ takes on another Big Year, this time the one that produced Horses, Blood on the Tracks and The Hissing of Summer Lawns. His book on '95, Faster than a Cannonball, was a riot.

1975: The Year the World Forgot

Dylan Jones

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A difficult subject to write about, this, since wreckers tended not to leave written records, but this thrilling survey of maritime realpolitik from C15th - C17th sheds a vivid light on the ... read more

Wreckers: Disaster in the Age of Discovery

Simon Park

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The author, a scholar of C19th literature at Edinburgh, grew up Romani in the post-Communist Romania of the 1990s. She weaves memoir and travel writing into a wider, potted history of a peop... read more

The Roma: A Travelling History

Madeline Potter

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Devised by FDR in the 1930s, 'national security' was designed to keep Americans safe everywhere. This brilliant study of the militarised, global policy that ensued is very pertinent now.

Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security ...

Andrew Preston

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An epic narrative, from Julius Caesar to the present, by the prolific screenwriter, journalist, classicist, diarist, historian and cultural commentator.

The World’s Game: Reflections on Western Culture ...

Frederic Raphael

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The momentous last year of war, told through the Imperial War Museum's unique collection.

1945: A Visual History

Anthony Richards

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An exploration of the unique conjuncture of preconditions that gave us - happily - the Renaissance.

The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance ...

Bernd Roeck

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In the concluding part of his trilogy about Nazi war criminals and the law, Sands turns to Pinochet, Chile's Disappeared and a former SS officer.

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Pata ...

Philippe Sands

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A blend of primary sources, official combat reports and contemporary German newspapers which portray the shifts in the Luftwaffe's mentality and morale.

Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain ...

Victoria Taylor

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A substantial and comprehensive new book from a professor at Rutgers University.

India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent

Professor Audre Truschke

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Deep-cover players of the waiting game for influence and action.

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infi ...

Shaun Walker

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These flourished until the C19th on the margins of the European Christian world: amongst the Sami, in the Baltics and in the Volga-Ural plain. A real contribution to the history of European ... read more

Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan P ...

Francis Young

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