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Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the...
Post-Wall German Cinema and National History: Utopianism and Dissent
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Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's immediate...
A Kind of Magic: Art Deco Vanity Cases
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After 1918, post-war euphoria spread across Europe and America. Technology was changing the pace of...
The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller
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Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art...
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 - 1849
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The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to...
Adam Faith: Big Time, the Life of
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Most pop stars' fame used to end with their 25th birthday, but Adam Faith just kept on being...
Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris
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Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer...
Brecht, Music and Culture: Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge
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The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht's closest friend and most politically...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin...
Funny How Things Turn Out: Love, Death and Unsuitable Husbands - a Mother and Daughter Story
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Muriel Newmarch was born in North London in 1903. She died in 2009, aged 106. Judith Bruce is her...