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Warlords At Sea

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The Great Terroriser

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Liberal With A Punch

Isaiah Berlin: Flourishing, Letters 1928-46

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Still Searching

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A Paranormal Patriach

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Lemon Squeezers

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The Fraudulent Philanthropist

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Pub Idol

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Moscow’s Media Mogul

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Nigel Jones

The Hungover Life of Patrick Hamilton

Steve King

From Mountain Top to Ocean Floor

The Earth: An Intimate History

By Richard Fortey

Aidan Hartley

How the West Can Win

Soldiers of Light

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Helen Randolph

New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam

The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York

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Christopher Ondaatje

In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin

In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession From Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin

By John Ure

A C Grayling

Man and Beast

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A Brief History of the Human Race

By Michael Cook

Simon May

Brotherhood

The Friend

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Patrick O'Connor

On a String and a Prayer

Orchestra - The LSO: A Century of Triumph and Turbulence

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On The Grapevine

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By Christy Campbell

Sebastian Shakespeare

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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: The True Story of How The Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time

By David Edmonds, John Eidinow

William Palmer

Coastal Calamity

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By Stephen Taylor

Nick Broomfield

Hang ‘Em High

Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

By Scott Turow

John Hamilton

Bankrolling the Bombers

Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks

By Loretta Napoleoni

Rachel Hore

To The Bitter End

The Lemon Table

By Julian Barnes

Francis King

Portrait of a Writer

The Master

By Colm Tóibín

The Miner's Tale

The Miner’s Tale

GB84

By David Peace

Olivia Glazebrook

The Agony Of Amnesia

Remember Me

By Trezza Azzopardi

Christopher Hart

Savage Life

Cloud Atlas

By David Mitchell

John Murray

Balkan Tragedy

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By David Albahari (Trans Ellen Elias Bursac)

Lindy Burleigh

Corsets And Colonials

One Last Look

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Tom Fleming

This Pointless Life

Home Land

By Sam Lipsyte

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A Writer’s Mate