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The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Ros ...

Michelle Young

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Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists

Miriam O'Connor

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The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East ...

Sean Mathews

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An account of the journey undertaken by the young Habsburg emperor (including a visit to his sister Marie-Antoinette at Versailles) that persuaded him that reform was necessary.

The Emperor Incognito: Joseph II’s Journey through Enlightenment ...

Monika Czernin

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An illustrated monograph of the American painter, placing her at the centre of the Surrealist movement.

Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist World

Alyce Mahon

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The late C18th odyssey of Ahmad Khan, whom Selim III spotted in Constantinople in the retinue of the French envoy and who later reached London.

A Passage to Europe: The Astonishing Travels of an Indian Prince in th ...

Rahul Markovits

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Reflections on the lives and work of T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, William Empson, F. R. Leavis, and Raymond Williams.

Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read ...

Terry Eagleton

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London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780-1820 ...

Susanna Avery-Quash

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An immense continental sweep, from Ancient Greece to the present. The author's Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation was excellent and we think this will be too.

Europe: A New History

Roderick Beaton

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From the C12th to the C15th, holy wars of conquest and conversion forever altered the coastal lands of the Baltic, harrying the last pagan lands of the Wends, Livs and others living between ... read more

The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades

Aleksander Pluskowski

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A wonderful and most unusual approach to the history and culture of Russia and a tribute to its vast and nation-defining wildernesses.

The Oak and The Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires ...

Sophie Pinkham

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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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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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From the author of Lost Paradise: the Story of Granada, an excellent history from Mecca to Cordoba that takes in Islamic libraries in Spain and Ottoman coffee houses in London.

Crucible of Light: Islam and the Forging of Europe from the 8th to the ...

Elizabeth Drayson

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The author enjoys confounding received opinions as he finds Sufi lodges in Cyprus, red-haired European Sultans and Arabic-speaking Christian Kings.

Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History ...

Tharik Hussain

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From Brexit in the west to territorial war in the east, this book makes sense of the political, economic and social tumult of contemporary Europe. Rich in both archival and anecdotal detail.

Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World ...

David Marsh

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Doing the hokey-cokey with Europe - and who danced with whom - by the astute political observer.

Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 194 ...

Tom McTague

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Monumental paintings, portraits and still lives by this tremendous and all-but-forgotten C17th woman painter, whose work suggests that most unusually she painted her (male) nudes from life. ... read more

Michaelina Wautier

Jean Bastiaensen

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Martin's 5,500 mile walk across Europe is a feat by any measure. Living simply, camping discreetly, grateful for the kindness of strangers, stoic in the face of physical hardship and reve... read more

One Woman Walks Europe

Ursula Martin

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Larissa Salmina was a wild child of the USSR who rose to be Keeper of Italian Drawings at the Hermitage by her mid twenties; Francis Haskell was a distinguished, deracinated Cambridge art hi... read more

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent

Iain Pears

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The German Paintings before 1800: National Gallery Catalogues ...

Susan Foister

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Mercier, a French journalist, travelled to London in 1780 and began writing his account of his experiences there. (He seems to have felt about London much as we tend to about Paris!). First ... read more

Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and ...

Louis-Sebastian Mercier

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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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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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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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A fascinating study of art and national identity which considers the influence of foreign artists such as Holbein and Gentileschi, and foreign influences in the work of Hogarth, Kauffman and... read more

The Foreign Invention of British Art: From Renaissance to Enlightenmen ...

Leslie Primo

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Nearly 600 pieces of glass from the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Middle East dating between 1500 BCE and 1000 CE: the lavishly ilustrated catalogue of the stupendous Getty collectio... read more

Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Anastassios Antonaras

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Following the path of a wolf who crossed the Alps from Slovenia to Verona and was tracked by GPS provides AW with a most particular view of wildness, culture, habitat and climate change - ab... read more

Lone wolf

Adam Weymouth

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Married respectively to Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, these two young, beautiful, dynamic empresses were involved in most of the major aspects of their times. Looking at them in parallel - ... read more

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power ...

Nancy Goldstone

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RB is the ne plus ultra of Habsburg chroniclers. Readers will recall his bestselling memoir Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89. Here is a biography of exemplary ele... read more

Maria Theresa: Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment ...

Richard Bassett

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Pevsner, Gombrich, Weidenfeld... the list of 1930s' émigrés who profoundly enriched British culture is extraordinary and very long. OH argues that we forget our proud tradition of asylum a... read more

The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigres Transformed the Br ...

Owen Hatherley

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The history of the Baltic states, how they differ from one another, and their individual and collective significance to the West.

Baltic: The Future of Europe

Oliver Moody

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Apparently they ruled the ancient world, yet vanished during the Middle Ages - only to be reinvented across Europe as national forefathers.

The Celts: A Modern History

Ian Stewart

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The 1,500-mile watershed stretching from Austria to Romania is still home to a third of Europe's wildlife, including lynx, chamois, bears, and bison that roam its high alpine meadows and its... read more

Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness: A Journey through the Carpathi ...

Nick Thorpe

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One married the Tsar, another wed Kaiser Wilhelm's brother, another a Russian Grand Duke, the fourth a Battenberg. Their lives were overshadowed (and some cut short) by the Russian Revolutio... read more

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The curious destinies ...

Frances Welch

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Marie de France, Julian of Norwich, Christine de Pizan, Margery Kempe: a spirited look at the lives of these four women that also illuminates the world around them, by a bright young academi... read more

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women ...

Hetta Howes

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