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33 years after publication of her huge bestseller Wild Swans, JC picks up where she left off... in 1978, leaving Chengdu as a student bound for London. 'It was like landing on Mars...' What ... read more

Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Jung Chang

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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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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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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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Kabul's Inter-Continental was opened in 1969 and Doucet (the BBC's Chief International Correspondent) has been staying there regularly since 1988. This is a brilliant history of Afghanistan ... read more

The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan ...

Lyse Doucet

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A meticulously researched history of Gaza, from 1948 to the present catastrophe.

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Anne Irfan

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Considers the precise nature of war crimes and the world's ambivalent responses - or complicity. Robertson KC has represented, amongst many others, Julian Assange, Salman Rushdie and the cur... read more

Eyeless in Gaza: Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes

Geoffrey Robertson

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Undoing our preconceptions about the world's dominant economic system, Beckert proposes a novel argument for how capitalism is as much a product of merchant societies in the Far East and Glo... read more

Capitalism: A Global History

Sven Beckert

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Hitherto buried data and lost documents contribute to this tale of political and economic hubris. The circularity of history is sadly manifest.

1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History ...

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Once upon a time, Lord Lundy was sent out to govern New South Wales. Now, says the great FM, he would be welcomed in our midst. A shrewd, anecdotal survey of emotion in history.

Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality

Ferdinand Mount

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A hymn to the extraordinary in the roadside ordinary, in praise of an endangered British species.

226 Garages and Service Stations

Philip Butler

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These case studies draw in all (English) human life through the different ways in which we live together, cheek-by-jowl.

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings

Dan Cruickshank

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A fine study, bringing together architectural, urban and social history.

The Modern British City 1945-2000

Simon Gunn

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Over a dozen houses including Farmleigh, Luggala, Kenwood, Biddesden...

The Houses of Guinness: The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great Bre ...

Adrian Tinniswood

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Cutlers, coopers, watchmakers etc, from the author of The World According to Colour: A Cultural History.

Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing T ...

James Fox

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By bus across the US, following the same route (Detroit to Los Angeles) that she made in her youth. A counterpoint to the 'Great American Road Trip', JP's narrative spins history, literature... read more

Greyhound

Joanna Pocock

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First edition, as new with a near-fine dust jacket - pristine other than a slight crumple at bottom of front cover.

English Hospitals, 1660-1948: A Survey of Their Architecture and Desig ...

Harriet Richardson

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Rollicking tragi-comedy of effort and squander.

The Fall of the House of Montagu: Dukedom, Debauchery and the Demise o ...

Robert Wainwright

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The boundary between private and public has been porous since antiquity. But now our private lives are navigating C21st assaults in the form of routine data-harvesting, marketing and surveil... read more

Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life ...

Tiffany Jenkins

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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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Eloquently addresses the brave lifeboat crews and volunteers who help the refugees in the small boats crisis. This short book began ‘with a feeling of deep disquiet’ following a perio... read more

We Came By Sea: Stories of a Greater Britain

Horatio Clare

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A collection of C19th photographic portraits of Black African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian and mixed heritage people. This feat of curation brings together plate negatives, stereoscopic imag... read more

Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britai ...

Renee Mussai

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A luminous meeting of the histories of fashion and of photography: images of early C20 dress, created for couturiers such as Fortuny, Poiret and Lanvin, made using the Lumiere brother's revo... read more

The Colour of Clothes: Fashion and Dress in Autochromes 1907-1930 ...

Cally Blackman

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When everyone walked: the network of footpaths and bridleways that connected rural communities and criss-crossed the land unchanged for centuries until the dominance of the internal combusti... read more

The English Path

Kim Taplin

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A sweep of Becker's finest images from the 1970s to the 2010s: Ed Ruscha, Arthur Miller, Jackie Onassis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cindy Sherman, Andre Leon Talley, Francois Truffaut, Gore Vidal, Dia... read more

Jonathan Becker: Lost Time

Mark Holborn

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An updated edition of her original gossipy Picnic Papers, which she edited as Anne Tennant with her great friend Susanna Johnston (and published in 1983). The list of contributors to this li... read more

Lady Glenconner’s Picnic Papers and Other Feasts with Friends ...

Anne Glenconner

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Volume 1 (1945-59) came out in May to great acclaim. This second volume closes with decriminalization, when subculture could begin to come culture. John Sandoe opened his shop in 1957.

Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 – Volume Two ...

Peter Parker

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One of many events to celebrate Queen Vic's Diamond Jubilee, the Duchess of Devonshire's was perhaps the most glamorous. 700 guests in C18th costume assembled in a specially commissioned ten... read more

Power & Pleasure: The Devonshire House Jubilee Ball 1897 ...

Elisabeth Kehoe

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While acknowledging the benefits of many transformations to social life in the last 60 years (e.g. gender equality), DG argues that there are costs - which fall disproportionately on the poo... read more

The Care Dilemma: Caring Enough in the Age of Sex Equality ...

David Goodhart

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So far as we know, Ms Gray didn't visit us for her research, but her book is nevertheless lively and informative. Our archives are available for a second edition.

The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High ...

Annie Gray

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A close examination of 125 years of data, from the late 1890s to the present: this is a remarkable and comprehensive piece of research.

Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite ...

Aaron Reeves

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A very handsome, large-format limited edition book of the lost photographs of Patrick O'Higgins, best known for Madame, his memoir about Helena Rubinstein. His photographs are a fascinating... read more

Monsieur: Patrick O’Higgins – The Lost Photographer ...

Patrick O'Higgins

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A deeply personal social history. From ancient Greece to 70s' New York, from Diogenes to her father, Eberstadt explores how people have used their bodies to challenge the world around them.

Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant

Fernanda Eberstadt

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Ghosh weaves his own family history into the story of Papaver somniferum and its world-wide reach.

Smoke And Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

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Looks back to a group of brave women in the later C18th and onwards - at a time when women had no property and no rights: Elizabeth Montagu, who took on Voltaire and won; Catherine Macauley,... read more

Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement

Susannah Gibson

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