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This magnificent book - which takes its title from a remark of the singer Josephine Baker - gives us the cultural landscape of black genius from the mid C20th to the present. We are in extr... read more
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The marvellous Attlee takes us on the journey, through space and time, of one violin, whose voice "was powerful enough to unbuckle joints". Cremona, Russia, Venice, Alpine forests... (Her la... read more
Lev’s Violin: An Italian Adventure
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The story of the son of a Parsi-convert vicar near Birmingham who, convicted for mutilating horses and writing threatening letters to the vicar, contacted Conan Doyle to unravel the mystery ... read more
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An account of farming in Britain today - from sheep farming to polytunnels. Bella Bathurst's previous subjects have included the Lighthouse Stevensons, so she gets our vote.
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The story of diplomats like Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch consul in Lithuania, who enabled thousands of Jews to escape the Holocaust.
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From the author of 'Ma'am Darling' and other hoots, a ragbag of tales and thoughts about the Beatles and their circle which somehow adds up to a wonderful account of their charisma and influ... read more
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
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A funny, self-deprecating memoir of living in Lyon (the lodestar of budding cooks), learning the ropes chez la Mere Brazier and the Institut Bocuse. The title does not refer (as far as we kn... read more
Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking
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A fine, close study of a city continuously inhabited for five thousand years, by an expert academic.
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
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First vol of the unexpurgated diaries, with the second due in the autumn. (A selection was published in 1967 but there was a 60-year embargo on the full text.)
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The story of London's notorious drinking den, the realm of the great and foul-mouthed Muriel Belcher. Constructed from interviews with many of its principal players.
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Being, at Sandoe's, afficionados of the stale squashed fly, 'indulgence' is not the word that comes to mind. Niche culinary and social history.
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From foxhunting to the Factory Acts, sport has never just been a game: it plays a key role in history.
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A Short History of the World According to Sheep
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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. NB Publication of this book has been de... read more
Magdalena: River of Dreams
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KnD was born in Derry, on the border between the Five Counties and Eire; one parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. This is a remarkable debut that combines memoir, nature writing and th... read more
Thin Places
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A magnificent history of peoples and cultures, trade routes and conflicts. For all those who have felt the siren call of opalescent Himalayan slopes.
Himalaya: A Human History
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Sicily: Island of Beauty and Conflict
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Reinvention, escape, adventure, romance, survival... Not all the women were 'port out starboard home'. Gripping and entertaining social history from the author of 'Queen Bees'.
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Fur: A Sensitive History
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Joan Leigh Fermor's biographer turns to Eddy Sackville-West, Desmon Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys and the unusual salon they created at Long Crichel in Dorset, where Nancy Mitford, Benjam... read more
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A fascinating account of the gradual triumph of one method of sorting data, from the Great Library of Alexandria to the present decline in our digital age.
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A superb narrative of the 'underside' of the Italian Renaissance: the Genoese and Neapolitans; the women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, engineers, prostitutes, farmers and citizens ... read more
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A cultural history through seven coloured lenses. Its broad frame of reference encompasses Shakespeare, Goldfinger (first name Auric), Goethe, Roman marbles, Bronze Age gold, Mayan jade... C... read more
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History
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