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...
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
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Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its...
War is War: By Ex-Private X
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Alfred Burrage's War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a...
Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero
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Nicholas Whittaker's much-loved classic recollects the long sunny days of his childhood when,...
Posthumously: For Jacques Derrida
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In 2004, Jacques Derrida gave one of his final interviews prior to his death. Regarding the future...
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire
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Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved...
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
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From Mahatma Gandhi and John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King and Leo Tolstoy, the works of Henry...
The Day Job: Adventures of a Jobbing Gardener
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Mark Wallington has a dream. He is going to change the face of British comedy. Unfortunately for the...
Death and Mr Pickwick
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On 31 March 1836 the publishers Chapman and Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly...
Foo Fighters: Learning to Fly
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Everyone from Sir Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page to Queens of the Stone Age now relishes the chance...