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Stylus & Substance

Timothy Farrington

A Yearn to Return

True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen

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David Andress

Exquisite Corpse

Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror

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Daisy Dunn

O, Lesbia!

Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic

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John Foot

Grave Matters

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El Generalísimo: Franco – Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness

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Robin Simon

Vision Improbable

John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture

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Jerry White

Concrete & Clay

Up in the Air: A History of High-Rise Britain

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The Modern British City 1945–2000

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Will Wiles

Door to Door

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings

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Richard Smyth

In a Pickle

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Testing Times

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Anna Reid

Little Women, Big State

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

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Linda Yueh

Good to Grow?

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

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Charles Darwent

One Line to Live

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Sarah Watling

Brushes with Power

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Edith Hall

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Robert Crawford

Advice to Poets

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Creative Accounts

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Mary, Martha & All the Rest

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Martin Vander Weyer

Trial by Numbers

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Richard Davenport-Hines

Giver & Taker

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Charles Shaar Murray

Talkin’ ’bout Their Generation

Truly

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Cat on the Road to Findout

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Bread of Angels: A Memoir

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Adam Douglas

Passage to New York

Howard Davies

Be More Productive

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The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century

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Carl Miller

What Lies Below

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Patrick Porter

Tent Flap

On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War

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Thomas Morris

Diagrams Dissected

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Diane Purkiss

The Hand of Odd

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Oliver Soden

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Great Writers & the Cats who Owned Them

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Ruth Padel

Heroes of All Stripes

Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction

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Nigel Andrew

Birds Behaving Badly

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John Mullan

With All Due Respect…

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Sara Wheeler

On the Road Again

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Greyhound

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Chris Stokel-Walker

Endless Scroll

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Molly Pepper Steemson

Behind the Kitchen Curtain

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Blessed be the Bar

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Mark Ford

Critics in the House

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Joseph Williams

In Different Voices

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Zoe Guttenplan

Wrinkle in Time

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Paul Genders

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Nikhil Krishnan

The Last Bohemians

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Sarah Moorhouse

Call to Nature

Helen of Nowhere

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Peter Kemp

Where Death Feels At Home

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N S David

Messiah in Meltdown

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Jack Barron

Seer Genius

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Holly Connolly

Growing Pains

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Sagar Castleman

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