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When the Hogarth Press published Gorky's book of apercus in 1920, it could hardly have been to greater acclaim: according to Leonard Woolf, 'it makes one hear, see, feel Tolstoy... as if one... read more

Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev

Maxim Gorky

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Six decades of letters to family, friends, editors and lovers, from the author of Couples and many others.

A Life in Letters

John Updike

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Reissued by Slightly Foxed as one of their lovely clothbound hardbacks, this is the classic WW2 memoir of a Spitfire pilot who joined up in 1939 at the age of 17 - and survived. First pub... read more

First Light

Geoffrey Wellum

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By pegging her narrative to White's diary entries of 1781, when White was 60 and still seven years short of publishing The Natural History of Selborne, the miraculously sensitive Uglow rele... read more

A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer ...

Jenny Uglow

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Holland has written previous good books about his grandfather. In this new magnum opus, he considers not the life but the extraordinary array of legends, mysteries and industries that ensure... read more

After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal

Merlin Holland

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Ypi follows her prize-winning memoir of growing up in Hoxha's Albania - Free: Coming of Age at the End of History - with an investigation of her aristocratic Ottoman grandmother, filling in... read more

Indignity: A Life Reimagined

Lea Ypi

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From Carlos the Jackal and Baader-Meinhof to the Iranian Revolution and Israel's Raid on Entebbe in which the commander Yoni Netanyahu (brother of Benjamin) was killed. Burke, an eminent war... read more

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s ...

Jason Burke

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A lively, slim account of the moral upheavals that rocked the Biedermeier sensibilities of Kant's birthplace (later the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad).

A Scandal in Königsberg

Christopher Clark

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Pivotal moments that illuminate our history, avoiding the canon in favour of intimate glimpses of private experience.

A History of England in 25 Poems

Catherine Clarke

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A rich and scholarly undertaking: AD has gone looking for unconventional lives across the period and found them in abundance. His portraits are rounded, unexpected and humane.

Queer Georgians

Anthony Delaney

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We anticipate the index being the most closely examined part of this thorough book.

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy ...

Eleanor Doughty

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From the shipwreck of two Spanish sailors in Yucatan in 1511 to the multicultural modern state.

Mexico: A History

Paul Gillingham

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A dazzling work of scholarship that brings together firsthand accounts from myriad sources to show that the primary driver for the abolition of slavery was the enslaved themselves. By the au... read more

Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atl ...

Sudhir Hazareesingh

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Retells the startling story of 'Dunsterforce', the bunch of loons under Lionel Dunsterville whom the British government authorised to go to the Caspian after WW1 to stop the Bolsheviks, secu... read more

Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World W ...

Nick Higham

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An embattled government, a resentful population and a metropolitican elite: it's not exactly 1789 but surely food for thought. Fine reportage on the present state of our good neighbour by th... read more

Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation ...

Andrew Hussey

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The melting pot seems to be turning into a cauldron worthy of Macbeth's witches...

A Short History of America: From Tea Party to Trump ...

Simon Jenkins

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The heartlands of the Habsburg empire were altered by two World Wars to a Cold Ward frontier. Since 1989 what 'Central Europe' means has mutated again - and continues to evolve. This deft na... read more

Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea ...

Luka Ivan Jukic

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A close observation of the last decade of Karimov's dictatorship and the fairly frosty 'Uzbek spring' that has followed his death in 2016 - by an experienced journalist who has spent years i... read more

Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan ...

Joanna Lillis

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A careful and even study of modern antisemitism by a leading historian, sensitive to the changing definitions of the term.

On Antisemitism: A Word in History

Mark Mazower

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The allure of Catholicism in the C20th. Some were incensed.

Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark

Melanie McDonagh

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Double, double toil and trouble at the house of Dr. Dee et al.

The Years of the Wizard: The Strange History and Home Life of Renaissa ...

Rachel Morris

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Dizzying encounters and immense historical arcs: a hugely entertaining look (often from a bicycle) at our peculiar, scattered island nations, by the author of The Discovery of France.

The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History

Graham Robb

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For anyone who wants to understand how a democracy slides into a dictatorship, this compelling account might be a useful place to start. It shows the grisly anti-logic of a process that was ... read more

Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

Volker Ullrich

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Before they could begin their empire, the Romans had to conquer and unite Italy itself. A reinterpretation of this early expansion that sheds light on the values at the core of their imperia... read more

Children of Mars: The Origins of Rome’s Empire ...

Jeremy Armstrong

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Lively introduction to one of Ancient Greece's city states. Erudite and punchy.

Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower

Andrew Bayliss

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How the 90% lived and how they became a political match for the elite (organising, along the way, the world's first general strike).

Plebs Romana: People, Politics and Power in Ancient Rome ...

Peter Jones

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An elegant new translation.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

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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 Betr ...

Jonathan Freedland

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New espionage history of two pivotal networks behind enemy lines in Belgium, agents who risked their lives to smuggle intelligence out of the occupied country.

The White Lady: The Story of Two Key British Secret Service Networks B ...

Helen Fry

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The concluding volume in his thorough quartet on German history. Well illustrated, this book details the Nazi rise to power through the development of the persecution of the Jews.

The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945

Frank McDonough

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U-boats were central to Hitler's strategy, a major threat to the Allied forces. Intensely claustrophobic, at the mercy of the elements, they were also feared by their crews who had the highe... read more

Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-boat War 1939-45

Roger Moorhouse

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The author pays tribute to the merchant seamen of many countries, as well as the Allied navies, who experienced the harrowing dangers of the Arctic convoys supporting the essential Soviet wa... read more

The Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War Two ...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

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One of the few accounts by a POW of the Japanese during WW2, these clear, humane diaries - edited by his daughter - bear remarkable witness both to horrors and to the will to survive.

A Cool Head in Hell: The Wartime Diaries of a British Doctor from Dunk ...

Harry Silman

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The first-person account of a Palestinian man in his thirties, whose everyday existence is disrupted by the brutal realities of war and occupation.

Who Will Tell My Story? A Gaza Diary

Anonymous

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A collection of frontline reportage, poetry, photography and art.

Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

Fatima Bhutto

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An erudite account of Islam from the end of the C19th to the present day: the effect of European imperialism and the shift from subjection to agency.

Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

Faisal Devji

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