WD won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence. Discursive, erudite and observant, he turns now to the story of Colombia's mightiest river.
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The wires are owned by individuals, corporations and states: an invention once hailed as a democratising force has concentrated power in places it already existed.
A Chinese woman comes to make a new life for herself in London. This is a love story told by fragments of conversation. Guo is a superb writer.
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One in a second trio of reprints of the adored Eva Ibbotson. A young dancer escapes a stifling existance in Cambridge to join a corps de ballet en route to the Manaus Opera House, on the ba... read more
When the author makes an impulsive trip to Koenigsberg, her grandmother - after sixty years' silence on the matter - begins to tell her own wartime story. Deeply moving.
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Its second subtitle is "an adventurous history of botany". JG is a scientist and an historian of exploration (his "The Rattlesnake: A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea" was excellent).
One in a second trio of reprints of the adored Eva Ibbotson. A struggling opera company is hired for a single performance at an Austrian castle, but their under wardrobe mistress has somethi... read more
Unjustly ejected from the Liberal government in 1915 as a 'German sympathiser', Haldane's influence on many of our institutions was great, and lasting.