Collecting and Displaying China's Summer Palace in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
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In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and...
The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
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'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering...
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
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In this novel based on the extraordinary life of the gay brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell...
Death in Persia
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Lucy Renner Jones and Roger Perret
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Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach - journalist, traveler,...
A Rising Man
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The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition. Captain Sam Wyndham,...
Crime historical fiction fiction
To Keep the Sun Alive
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A cinematic debut about an Iranian family and their fruit orchard, caught up in the Revolution of...
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel -...
The House of Velvet and Glass
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Katherine Howe, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane"...
Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
Eric Stanislaus Stenbock and David Tibet
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Described by W. B. Yeats as a "scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,"...
How to be a Victorian
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How to be a Victorian - a time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain by the BBC's Ruth Goodman We...