The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, the American Colonel, Richard Cantrell,…

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"A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary…

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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIESLauren Groff's critically acclaimed The Monsters of Templeton…

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The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire…

The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around…

leading us into a whole new way of looking at the world' Michael Palin'Touched by genius' John Lewis-Stempel 'Absolutely…

The book follows the author's death-defying 200-mile journey in his antique Thomas Crapper bath - not just across the…

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WINNER OF THE 2014 THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZEIn the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the…

Unafraid of a challenge, Lois Pryce began the kind of adventure most of us could only ever dream of. Destination: Cape Town…

Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Armed only with the Spanish words for 'caution' and 'cheese',…

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The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two,…

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\n\'The perfect guide to the hidden history of London\'s streets.\' BBC History MagazineIn Cruickshank\'s London, Britain\'s…

OCTOBER 1789, NEW SOUTH WALESInto Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His…

\nNo building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding…

Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. But Paraguay, as revealed in this…

Jonny Bealby was devastated when his fiancee Melanie died unexpectedly while they were travelling in Kashmir. Bittersweet,…

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Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses…

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\nWith compassion and curiosity, [Elliott] uses the story of Dasani to make visible the cycles of poverty, inequity, and…

By the end of World War II much of Western Europe was in chaos. And is there any trace of the 2.7 million Americans who…