The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940
Samuel Beckett, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Lois More Overbeck and Dan Gunn
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The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of...
The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign;...
Venetian Navigators: The Mystery of the Voyages of the Zen Brothers
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In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic,...
Voltaire: A Life
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We think of Voltaire as the epitome of the Enlightenment; in his own time he was also the most...
Young Blood: The Inside Story of How Street Gangs Hijacked Britain's Biggest Drugs Cartel
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'The young bloods did not care whether they killed criminals or civilians...' The Cartel is...
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals: Volume 1
Samuel F. B. Morse and Edward Lind Morse
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The American inventor Samuel Morse (1791-1872) spent decades fighting to be recognised for his key...
So They Call You Pisher?: A Memoir
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In this humorous and moving memoir, Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life....
Strange Places, Questionable People
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For over thirty years, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events...
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
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The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman;...
Tempting the Fates
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General Dare Wilson saw action in France 1940 (Dunkirk), Italy and North West Europe (where he won...