Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World
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Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches...
Around the World in a Napier: The Story of Two Motoring Pioneers
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In the nineteenth century, Jules Verne imagined a journey round the world. At the start of the...
Canterbury Pubs
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Canterbury is a colourful and cosmopolitan city that manages to combine a rich and often dramatic...
How to be a Medieval Woman
Margery Kempe and Barry Windeatt
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'And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man...
The Christmas Angel
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'We're all pilgrims,' he said thoughtfully. 'One way or another, aren't we? Always searching for...
Rivers: A Very Short Introduction
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Rivers have played an extraordinarily important role in creating the world in which we live. They...
The End of October
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At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic...
Two Steps Forward
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Zoe, a sometimes artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended...
Fiction Romance Travel
Real and Imagined
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During the Heian period (794-1185), the sacred mountain Kinpusen, literally the "Peak of Gold," came...
Sleeping on Jupiter
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding...