The Writer's Garden: How Gardens Inspired Our Best-Loved Authors
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Great things happen in gardens. No one can doubt the importance of the garden in Roald Dahl's life...
The Autobiography of a Super-tramp
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William Henry Davies was born in a pub and learnt early in life to rely on his wits and his fists -...
The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years
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British theatre is booming. But where do these beautiful buildings and exciting plays come from? And...
The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London
Ivan Maisky and Gabriel Gorodetsky
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Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The...
Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time
Nicolas Slonimsky and Peter Schickele
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A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and...
The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan
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Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world,...
Eleanor Marx: A Life
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Unrestrained by convention, lionhearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman....
A Word from the Wise: All the Witty Wisdom You'll Ever Need in One Lifetime from Those Who've Already Been There
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'A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees,' as William Blake so aptly put it. What he...
Richard III
William Shakespeare and Thomas Cartelli
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This Norton Critical Edition of Richard III is based on the First Quarto (1597) edition of the play...
Wearing the Trousers: Fashion, Freedom and the Rise of the Modern Woman
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In the 1850s a craze swept through the wardrobes of the women of British and American society. These...