From a Bookshelf nearby

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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.

  The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon – Duchess of Marlborough

  Hugo Vickers

  Hardback
  £25.00

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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

  Those Who Forget: One Family’s Story; A Memoir, a History, a Warning

  Geraldine Schwarz

  Hardback
  £20.00

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  A cultural history of twelve flowers - but this is not a flimsy loveliness but full of fascination and bite. Radioactivity, the slave trade, global warming, that old charmer Henry VIII, all ... read more

  Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People

  Kasia Boddy

  Hardback
  £14.99

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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

  Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender

  Frans de Waal

  Hardback
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