The Good Soldier

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Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander wh …

Dante in Love

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With a biographer’s eye for detail and a novelist’s comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of literatur …

Sheila

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Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she quic …

The First Muslim

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The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited – and remade.Muhammad’s was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his nam …

Journals 1952 – 2000

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Frank, revelatory, suffused with wit and humanity, Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s journals offer an intimate history of post-war America, from his days on Adlai Stevenson’s campaign team to his years in JFK …

Overcoming Baby Blues

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Pregnant women are expected to glow, and new mothers are expected to bask in the delight of their baby. But for some women, this is a time of unsettling mood shifts and uncertainty. One in ten women e …

Knowing Mandela

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As Nelson Mandela was released from prison and the ensuing years saw the collapse of South Africa’s apartheid regime, John Carlin (‘one of the great post-apartheid chroniclers’ Financial Times) was th …

Absent Without Leave

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Absent Without Leave is not a book about what Private Stanley Livingston had to say. Like many veterans, Stanley Livingston barely spoke about the war. Instead, it is an attempt by his son to discover …

Stringer

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Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom rung of the Associated Press. It was an intense perio …

The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edge

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‘When I first urged Richard Shelton to write his naturalist’s memoir, I never expected him to produce a classic. But he has.’ Redmond O’Hanlon, author of Trawler Fish have been a lifelong obsession fo …

A Conversation About Happiness

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When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in Suffolk, and abandoned there. The set …

A Higher Call

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This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend.Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly da …

A Smile For My Parents

Heather Henderson is the only daughter of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister and founder of the Liberal party. Father and daughter were very close, and in 2011 Heather edit …

My Crazy Century

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More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klíma’s generation. Klíma’s story be …

My Crazy Century

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More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klíma’s generation. Klíma’s story be …

Lawrence in Arabia

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The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.com’s Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014The Arab Revolt against the Turks i …