John Keay

Due South

Coromandel: A Personal History of South India

By Charles Allen

Fergus Fleming

Planning Permission Pending

Phantom Architecture

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Anna Minton

Metropolis Now

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

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David Lewis-Williams

There Be Foragers

Affluence without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

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Sarah Wheeler

A Pistol, a Bible and A Thousand Fur Seals

Selkirk's Island

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Patricia Duncker

Memory Slain

Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia

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Susan Crosland

Parts of America Still Untouched by Progress

Old New World

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Tristan Garel-Jones

Looking Death in the Face Daily

Bullfighting

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Lucy Moore

Honour among Thieves

Playboys & Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London

By Angus McLaren

Nicholas Roe

The Birth of Romance

A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

By Rachel Hewitt

Richard Davenport-Hines

High & Mighty

Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy

By Chris Bryant

Kevin Jackson

Rise to the Occasion

Levitation: The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension

By Peter Adey

John Harwood

Scare Stories

The Ghost: A Cultural History

By Susan Owens

Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds

By Leo Braudy

Francis Wheen

He Names the Guilty Men

The Abolition of Britain: From Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair

By Peter Hitchens

Jonathan Meades

Rogues’ Gallery

The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914

By Simon Heffer