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The British empire observed through the lens of a single day: the 29th September 1923, when the Mandate for Palestine became law and the British empire reached its maximum extent, just as i... read more
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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.
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A panoramic account by the distinguished Harvard historian of five generations of a French provincial family originally from Angouleme, crammed with stories and archival research. ER has a d... read more
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The author's German grandparents were 'Mitlaufer' - those who went with the flow in the Third Reich. They just wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage... In this fascinating book... read more
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First non-fiction collection by the author of Lullaby and Adèle. A confrontation with the strictures placed on women in LS’s Moroccan homeland.
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A mix of memoir and analysis that recognises the challenges facing us now and salutes the social progress of the last five decades.
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An exuberant account of the importance to Modernism of what Truman Capote called "the all-time ultimate gallery of famous dykes" in Paris between the wars.
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The famous memoir of a late C19th childhood by a bricklayer's daughter, here in a lovely clothbound edition from Slightly Foxed.
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With Glenconners, Mitfords and Bertrand Russell in the mix, Toynbee is superb on privilege, class and progressive politics.
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Greek and Roman patrons, robber-baron philanthropists, welfare socialists, celebrity activists...: motives and results are explored through historical analysis and numerous interviews.
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Described by Churchill as "that strange, glittering being", Vickers met GD as an old lady in a mental hospital many years ago. She enraptured many, including Berenson, Proust and Rodin.
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De Waal is a (if not the) leading primatologist and ethologist whose research into cooperation, conflict,etc leads him to fascinating parallels between primate and human behaviour in aspects... read more
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These small utopias were described by one interviewee - a gardener with an impressively Eeyore-like dispostiion - as '51 per cent hard work, and 49 per cent disappointment'. They've never be... read more
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An account of the club, its remarkable members and their influence, since 1824. Scholarly and entertaining.
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Three generations of impresarios gave us the Savoy, Gilbert & Sullivan, and made Wilde a transatlantic celebrity.