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Every Man’s Library

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Il Duce and His Demise

Mussolini: A New Life

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On the Wrong Side of Progress

FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast

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Evolution's Captain: The Tragic Fate of Robert FitzRoy, the Man who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World

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It’s All Cuneiform to Me

Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon

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The Spy in the Straightjacket

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A Fine Young Cannibal

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Art and Maternity

Whistler and His Mother: An Unexpected Relationship

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The Chippy Composer

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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian of Letters

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Midwife to Genius

Furious Vissarion: Belinski's Struggle for Literature, Love and Ideas

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Lovely Jim

The Last Englishman: The Life of J L Carr

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A Portal To Eternity

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Touching The Void

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A Tale Of One City

Dubrovnik: A History

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Isabel Hilton

Montezuma’s Shaggy God Story

Survivors In Mexico

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The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War

Feeding The Beast

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Memorable Deedes

At War With Waugh: The Real Story of Scoop

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Tale From Tiananmen

Lake with No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China

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Going out of Print

Injury Time: A Memoir

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The Life of Bryan

Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood

By Bryan Magee

Simon Heffer

The Enemy Within

An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War

By Donald Thomas

John Adamson

The Last Crusade

Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571

By Hugh Bicheno, Norman Stone (foreword)

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Crops and Cavemen

After The Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5,000 BC

By Steven Mithen

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Britannia Rules the Waves

Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1857

By Peter Padfield

Oleg Gordievsky

Who Has Really Won?

The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB

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Patrick O'Connor

A King of Infinite Space

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image and the World

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Under The Knife

Second Opinion: Doctors, Diseases and Decisions In Modern Medicine

By Richard Horton

Tristan Quinn

Capital In Flux

Factory

By Gillian Darley

Thomas Hodgkinson

Body Double

Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form

By Michael Sims

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

By Mary Roach

Steve King

The Courteous Critic

Pieces of My Mind: Writings 1958-2002

By Frank Kermode

Susanna Jones

Radical Devotion

Somersault

By Kenzaburo Oe, Philip Gabriel (trans.)

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The Art of Diction

Learning To Talk

By Hilary Mantel

Francis King

Hell’s Antechamber

Living Nowhere

By John Burnside

Madeleine Minson

The Last Virgins?

The Rules of Engagement

By Anita Brookner

Sebastian Shakespeare

Fear and Loathing in the Canaries

Lanzarote

By Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wyne (trans)

Sophia Watson

Fools And Monsters

Notes On A Scandal

By Zoë Heller

Andrew Barrow

Adventures In Heaven

A History of Facelifting

By Duncan Fallowell

Alan Rafferty

This Is Almost Your Life

Thinly Disguised Autobiography

By James Delingpole

Michael Thorn

The Boys and Girls Are Doing It

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