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Rutter - a literature graduate who notes the etymological link between 'text' and 'textile' - travelled the British Isles researching the social history of wool and knitting. This charming a... read more
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"It may be that all borderlands hum with the frequencies of the unconscious; after all, borders are where the fabric is thin". This one is that wild, once barbed strip between Turkey, Bulgar... read more
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
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A provocative account of her well-lived life that exposes the profound misogyny of the music industry.
Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
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In the early 20th century an easily overlooked square in Bloomsbury was the home, at one time or another, of the modernist poet H.D., Dorothy L Sayers, the classicist Jane Harrison, the hist... read more
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Re-issue of her classic 1976 memoir. Arriving in Britain in 1952 to study child development at the University of London, Gilroy was at first denied teaching positions but eventually became t... read more
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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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Most lives are untidy, and mine is no exception... She made herself a success in Fleet Street when journalism was still a very male domain, edited Elizabeth David and inspired the look - if ... read more
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A welcome reissue of this 1948 classic in the gorgeous Little Toller Nature Classics series. A careful survey of buildings associated with traditional farms, it is also fascinating social hi... read more
An English Farmhouse
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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 Short History of the World According to Sheep
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A remarkable work of research and skill, which brings to life Tsunemo, a country priest's daughter who defied conventions when her world was radically changing.
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A curator of fashion at the V&A for most of her working life, CW uses her experience and sensitivity to clothes to explore how, in her own family's life, the secrets of clothes measure out t... read more
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes
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The author began his bookselling life in the King's Road (not at Sandoe's but Slaney & Mackay, where JdeF worked for him briefly). For the last 30 years he has managed the Waterstones in Can... read more
The Bookseller’s Tale
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The veteran commentator considers the 1960 coup that deposed Menderes, and traces the parallels that divide Erdogan's Turkey.
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Alex Renton is a journalist and writer: he uncovers his own family's slave-owning past and uses this as a means of approaching the growing debate about such legacies and contemporary consequ... 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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How to keep chickens, make soap, create a kitchen garden, dip candles, tie knots, and a lot more. This might well take the place of the old 'Weekend Books' in an era of lockdowns.
Lost Skills and Crafts Handbook
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Argues that Castro's visit to New York for the opening session of the UN in September 1960 had immense influence on the decade that followed.
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In this magnificently madcap adventure, SR pursues rumours of old pianos into all corners of Siberia: Arctic, Altai, Kamchatka, Princess Volkonsky in Irkutsk... She writes well, has a lovely... read more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia
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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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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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The author of 'The Queen of Whale Key' and 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' has found a new subject with which to amaze us: the case of the 'Croydon Poltergeist' and its investigation by the N... read more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding
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A vibrant blend of social history and memoir: argues that this three-month period of nation-wide, wintry shutdown gave rise to unprecedented cultural renewal. Fingers crossed for 2021 and 2... read more
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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 story of the magazine that began in a someone's spare room 125 years ago. What - and who - made it so successful?
Glossy: The inside story of Vogue
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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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Three generations of impresarios gave us the Savoy, Gilbert & Sullivan, and made Wilde a transatlantic celebrity.
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Marr has a gift of presenting complex issues with clarity; here he uses a diverse cast to show where we are and how we got here.
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged
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Mecklenberg Square in Bloomsbury with Virginia Woolf, H.D., Dorothy L Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison and economic historian Eileen Power.
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This epic tale of the Sassoons and the Kadoories in 1930s Shanghai is like 'Dynasty' transferred from Texas to the global stage of China-Baghdad-London in the 1930s. NB Publ... read more
Kings of Shanghai
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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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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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Sicily: Island of Beauty and Conflict
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