Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting
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Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering...
An Elizabethan Assassin: Theodore Paleologus: Seducer, Spy and Killer
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In this first biography of Theodore Paleologus, new documentary evidence exposes him as a hardened...
Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent
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On 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to...
Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid
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It's Messi vs Ronaldo, it's Catalonia vs Castilla. It's the nation against the state, freedom...
George Orwell: English Rebel
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An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of...
My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley
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This is the true story of one woman's life set against the backcloth of the great events of the...
Gertigstrasse 56
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A gripping narrative account of one family's struggle against fascism in Germany. Spanning...
Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s
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Colvin studies the evolution of Fado music as the soundtrack to the Portuguese talkie. He analyzes...
The Wines of Northern Spain: From Galicia to the Pyrenees and Rioja to the Basque Country
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There's no doubt about it, Spain is the most exciting country in Europe when it comes to wine. As...
Norman Bethune in Spain: Commitment, Crisis & Conspiracy
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Born to fanatical religious zealots, deeply wounded by an unloving mother and a weak father whom he...