
Roland Barthes
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Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is one of France's most important writers and theorists of the second...

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
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AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER. "A gripping account of the...

Shut Up Legs!: My Wild Ride on and off the Bike
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Even by the standards of a sport that requires enormous stamina and capacity for suffering, Jens...

Shut Up Legs: My Wild Ride on and off the Bike
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Even by the standards of a sport that requires enormous stamina and capacity for suffering, Jens...

Stretcher Bearer: Fighting for Life in the Trenches
Charles Horton and Dale Le Vack
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Among the thousands of men who shivered and suffered in the trenches during the First World War,...

The Daily Telegraph Book of Military Obituaries: Book 3
David Twiston Davies and Bramall
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David Twiston Davies's latest and highly entertaining collection of 100 Daily Telegraph military...

Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen
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As Tudors go, Elizabeth of York is relatively unknown. Yet she was the mother of the dynasty, with...

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi
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Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the...

John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
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This book is the winner, 2008 Otto Grundler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his...

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon
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This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often...