In Search Of Berlin

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A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ONDAATJE PRIZE’A masterful portrait of one of the world’s greatest cities… A must-read’ PETER FRANKOPAN’Such a delightful read’ KATJA H …

Now Then

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‘An enlightening, enjoyable and frequently very funny journey into what makes Yorkshire stand out from the crowd … a fascinating insight into our wonderful region and the people that make it what it …

An Uneasy Inheritance

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‘Fascinating’ Spectator’Entertaining’ Sunday Times’Enthralling’ Guardian’Beautiful, funny and moving’ Daily Mail’Compelling and moving’ Observer’Replete with vivid – often hilarious, often shocking – …

Once Upon a Time World

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‘Phenomenal… Utterly absorbing’ Sunday Times, ‘Book of the Week”[A] fabulous romp of a book’***** Mail on Sunday A Financial Times ‘Book to Read in 2023’In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, intro …

The Lost Queen

‘A good story, embracing character, emotion and drama… refreshing.’ THE TIMES’A splendidly sympathetic and sparky portrait… Wittily written and rich in detail’ Miranda SeymourDespite Catherine of …

The Diaries of Mr Lucas

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‘A kaleidoscopic portrait of post-war queer life’ Guardian’Fascinating’ The Times’Absorbing, illuminating, highly entertaining and often very funny’ Spectator’Fascinating, bitchy, humorous and shockin …

The Liberation Line

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‘Highly original’ Simon Heffer, Telegraph’Masterful… A gripping tale’ Giles MiltonThey certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a foreign land. But, as locomoti …

This is Not America

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*A TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR*'[Owolade’s] argument has needed saying for years’ Janan Ganesh, Financial Times’Compelling and admirable’ Sunday Times’Passionate and timely’ Observer’Excellen …

Johnson at 10

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***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****A FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*’Excellent… first class… both fair and damning.’ Daniel Finkelstein, The Times ‘Aut …

The Ghost at the Feast

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An NPR Book of the YearAt the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was one of the world’s richest, most populous, most technologically advanced nations. It was also a nation divided along …

Language City

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WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2024Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and – because many have never been recorded – when they’re gone, it will be fore …

The Other Renaissance

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‘Enlightening and fascinating’ John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine …

The Collaborators

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‘A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.’ Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in c …

A City Runs Through Them

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An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges.Dublin started life on the south bank of the River Liffey and for six or seven centuries that is more …

Stuffed

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‘Delicious… Wonderful’ Guardian’Fascinating… Full of incident and food for thought’ Mail on Sunday’Delightful… Vogler offers up a feast of tales about popular British foods’ Financial TimesA SUN …

The Path of Peace

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Blackwell’s Non-Fiction Book of the Month’A formidable achievement’ Rory Stewart’Thoughtful [and] heartfelt’ Observer’Profound [and] compelling’ Spectator’A noble endeavour’ New StatesmanWithout a per …