Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be: The Life of Lionel Bart
David Stafford and Caroline Stafford
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Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the...
Land of the Turquoise Mountains: Journeys Across Iran
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For Cyrus Massoudi, a young British-born Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty...
Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell
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There were few more controversial British politicians of the twentieth-century than Enoch Powell....
Murder, Mutiny & Mayhem: The Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish History
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The Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish History The Irish are celebrated at home and abroad as...
My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
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Monty Don, the face of British gardening, has written a weekly Observer column on his garden for the...
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...
Berlin Rules: Europe and the German Way
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In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and economic...
In Pursuit of Glory
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Bradley Wiggins is a British sporting legend. Not only has he won seven World Track Championships...
In the Peninsula with a French Hussar: Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain
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Albert Jean Michel de Rocca gives a riveting account of the Peninsular War from an entirely...
Head-On (Gegen Die Wand)
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When Head-On (Gegen die Wand, 2004) won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival,...