The Spy Who Came in from the Co-Op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage
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On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article "Revealed: the quiet woman...
Winifred Gerin: Biographer of the Brontes
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The biographer Winifred Gerin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bronte siblings, stumbled...
Tennyson: To strive, to seek, to find
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other...
The Fires Beneath: The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist
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The Fires Beneath is a powerful and affecting story of love and loss. Monica Wilson, nee Hunter, was...
Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics
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Chance Witness by Matthew Parris - a hilarious and fascinating portrait of life in politics, from...
Letters of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath, Karen Kukil and Peter K. Steinberg
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The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume One (1940-1956). Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers...
Ludwig Wittgenstein: An Intellectual Biography
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After the triumph of his intellectual biography, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now...
Isaac Newton: Pocket Giants
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Isaac Newton had an extraordinary idea. He believed the physical universe and everything in it could...
100 Things You Will Never Find: Lost Cities, Hidden Treasures and Legendary Quests
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What happened to Amelia Earhart's aeroplane, Van Gogh's painting of Dr Gachet and the crew of the...
Abraham's Dice: Chance and Providence in the Monotheistic Traditions
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Most of us believe everything happens for a reason. Whether it is "God's will," "karma", or "fate,"...