My Crazy Century

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Spanning six decades that included war, totalitarianism, censorship, and the fight for democracy, My Crazy Century reflects on Ivan Klíma’s remarkable life while also looking at this critical period o …

The Baby Boom

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A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled ‘what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men’.The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and al …

Seven Flowers

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GARDEN MEDIA AWARDS, INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR**The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid. Seven flowers: seven stories full of surprise and secrets. W …

The Golden Thread

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The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and …

The Victorian City

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The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the bigge …

Masters of the Word

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From the author of A Splendid Exchange comes a remarkable history of media – from the alphabet to the internet – that examines how it has shaped human society over millennia.

In the Hour of Victory

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 MARITIME MEDIA AWARDSBetween 1794 and 1815 the Royal Navy repeatedly crushed her enemies at sea in a period of military dominance that equals any in history. When Napoleon eve …

Bang!

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‘Graham Stewart has done a terrific job. His book brings the decade vividly to life and convincingly places it in perspective… Excellent’ — Toby Young, Mail on SundayBritain in the 1980s was a pola …

The Battle

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A vivid and original reconstruction of the Battle of Waterloo.On the afternoon of 1 March, 1815, a fleet of ships dropped anchor off the southeast coast of France. After ten months in exile on the isl …

Turned Out Nice Again

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With a cast of thousands, including Peter Cook, Ken Dodd, Dusty Springfield, Spike Milligan, Rolf Harris, Bruce Forsyth and Reeves and Mortimer, Turned Out Nice Again reveals a world of comedians and …

A Japanese Mirror

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In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, art and legend, he shows the Japanese both ‘as they i …

The Great Railway Revolution

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Quite simply, the greatest transport story ever told and the first new and comprehensive narrative history of the American railroads in a generation.

Children of Light

In the early 1870s a night-time view over Britain would have revealed towns lit by the warm glow of gas and oil lamps and a much darker countryside, the only light emanating from the fiery sparks of l …

The Gilded Stage

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The Gilded Stage is a comprehensive tour of the world of opera. From its origins in the courts of northern Italy, to its internationally recognised position in modern culture, Snowman explores the soc …

Splendour and Squalor

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They were the black sheep of aristocracy and this is their story.From stately homes to the prisons of wartime Britain; from the House of Lords to Edwardian asylums; from the Ritz and the Dorchester to …

Anne Frank

Anne Frank received a red-and-white-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday in June 1942, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two yea …