Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army
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Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (18561929) was a key figure in late Imperial Russia, and one...
Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions
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This new book about the 1st Duke of Wellington provides a novel take on the traditional biography in...
The Allure of Chanel
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Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek
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Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and...
Dune
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Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of...
Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice
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Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African...
Across the Endless River
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From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, a historical novel about...
The Ballad of John Latouche: An American Lyricist's Life and Work
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Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a...
Landscape of Dreams: The Gardens of Isabel and Julian Bannerman
Isabel Bannerman, Julian Bannerman and H.R.H. The prince of wales
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Isabel and Julian Bannerman have been described as 'mavericks in the grand manner, touched by...