The Great Fire of London
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'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from...
The Madness of Cambyses
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'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.' The...
A Possible Life
Sebastian Faulks, Sian Thomas, Rupert Degas and Samuel West
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Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out...
The Life of a Stupid Man
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'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'...
The Millstone
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A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin...
The Streets
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From the author of "Half of the Human Race" (Channel 4 "TV Book Club") comes an intricate and...
Wailing Ghosts
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'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and...
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years, Fun Home is a darkly funny...
Family funeral parlor suicide coming out
Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870-1910
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From the late nineteenth century onwards religion gave way to science as the dominant force in...