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Plucking Roses

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Stars In Their Eyes

Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel

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Frank Dikötter

Our Killer Applications

Civilization: The West and the Rest

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Rebuilding A Nation

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‘Polenta E Grappa’

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Charles Guthrie

Arabian Knights

The War That Never Was: The True Story of the Men Who Fought Britain’s Most Secret Battle

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Codes of Honour

Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins

By J E Lendon

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Tales of the City

Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe’s Twentieth Century

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John Gray

Declarations of Intent

100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists

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James Hall

Three Attempts on Michelangelo’s Life

Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine

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Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing

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Michelangelo: A Life on Paper

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Elaine Showalter

Paradise Unachieved

Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

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Frank McLynn

Full Pelt History

Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

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Not All Façade

Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius

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Alexandra Harris

Conversation Pieces

The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume VI: 1933 to 1941

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Robert Irwin

Consuls & Catwomen

Time, a Falconer: A Study of Sarban

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Bernard O’Donoghue

He Noticed Such Things

The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose – Volume IV, 1956–1962

By Edward Mendelson (ed)

Nathan Abrams

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Arthur Miller: 1962–2005

By Christopher Bigsby

Adam LeBor

Aftershocks of the Risorgimento

Jerusalem: The Biography

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Giles Milton

A Pair of Bristols

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Jonathan Mirsky

Keeping the Faith

Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet

By Yangzom Brauen (Translated by Katy Derbyshire)

Bryan Appleyard

Going To Town

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier

By Edward L Glaeser

Anthony Daniels

The Unnameable

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

By Siddhartha Mukherjee

Alan Ryan

Karl’s Way

How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism

By Eric Hobsbawm

Mark Glanville

Horror Stories

Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory

By Chil Rajchman (Translated by Solon Beinfeld)

John Sutherland

My Own Private Idiolect

The Language Wars: A History of Proper English

By Henry Hitchings

The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

By Nicholas Ostler

Eric Kaufmann

Swimming Beyond the Mainstream

Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways

By Olivier Roy (Translated by Ros Schwartz)

Frederic Raphael

No Alcibiades!

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Stuart Clark

All Possible Worlds

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

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The Book of Universes

By John D Barrow

Thomas Marks

Making Strides

The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, Literature, Theory and Practice of Pedestrianism

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Amol Rajan

Rise and Fall of the Soul Rebels

I & I: The Natural Mystics – Marley, Tosh & Wailer

By Colin Grant

D J Taylor

Talking Inheritance

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Adrian Turpin

Like Father, Like Son

Anatomy of a Disappearance

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Ursula K Le Guin

Shagun Marriage

Custody

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Keith Miller

Curtain-Twitching

King of the Badgers

By Philip Hensher

Leo Robson

Rodents’ Rights

When the Killing’s Done

By T C Boyle

Anthea Bell

Misfits on Mallorca

The Island of Second Sight

By Albert Vigoleis Thelen (Translated by Donald O White)

Anthony Cummins

Digression Tactics

The Architect of Ruins

By Herbert Rosendorfer (Translated by Mike Mitchell)

Charlotte Newman

Three Women of Letters

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The Cookbook Collector

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Daughters-in-Law

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