Alma slowly recovers through a brief love affair with an Aboriginal artist, and both women become involved with the Angel…

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In a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war, a young boy, Jamie, is knocked off his bike and dies in a city…

In the final paper on the Oedipus complex, Klein develops her theories of the earliest infant stages of development,…

Uncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century and reveals the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle…

The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion…

The circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel over the bill, or 'recknynge' - long regarded as…

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who -…

The memoir behind the documentary One Night in Turin, the inside story of a World Cup that changed our footballing nation…

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\nA brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short storiesLove and…

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An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London. Prize-winning historian, novelist and…

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Presents an acerbic response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon. In the character of Trick E Dixon, the author portrays an…

Beyond the walls of the house, he encounters chatty hairdressers and priests, wolf hunters and monstrous carnival effigies.…

Set against the cultural and political backdrop of Belfast, before, during and after the Troubles, No Surrender offers a…

'The classic, groundbreaking account of women's lives in Greece and Rome' Mary BeardFor centuries, half the ancient world…

The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories…

High up in the remote mountain passes on the Indian border with Tibet, China and Pakistan, Ladakh has been a centre for…

The suffragettes outraged Victorian society but their personal lives were just as dramatic as their public actions. adn…

Records the experience of swimming in open water among hundreds of sharks, the beauties of strange seas and landscapes and…

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\nNow she finds herself with the dilemma of two competing urges: wanting to know what\'s in the suitcase, and wanting not to…

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Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to…

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In 1845, a Reading bookseller came across the portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a…

- Cast a stunning concrete plant pot. - Build a child's treehouse with cling film. There are ideas for projects for everyone…

The spectre of another world war haunts journalist Walter Craig and disturbs the peace of his seaside holiday. Craig and his…

As he attempts to negotiate the present, he remembers holidays on the beach with his brothers, his early working life…

After midnight, 19 June 1815... On the battlefield more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lie dead and wounded; Drawing on a…

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Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question…

This enjoyable and revealing book - the first biography of Christo - is also the story of Dixter from 1910 to 2006, a unique…

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