Edith Wharton
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The name 'Edith Wharton' conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness -...
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
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Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness....
Fatal Glamour: The Life of Rupert Brooke
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Rupert Brooke (b. 1887) died on April 23, 1915, two days before the start of the Battle of...
Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
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"[A] fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book...Delicious, occasionally fantastical,...
Lost Lion of Empire: The Life of Ewart Grogan DSO, 1876-1976
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An African Younghusband - the compelling life of a great adventurer. Ewart Grogan, 'the baddest and...
Mail Men: The Unauthorized Story of the Daily Mail - The Paper That Divided and Conquered Britain
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"A wonderfully gossipy history" Sunday Times "Riotously Entertaining" New Statesman Perhaps because...
Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life
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From the bestselling author of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves', this is the hilarious new book from Lynne...
Henry the Liberal: Count of Champagne, 1127-1181
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Over the course of the twelfth century, the county of Champagne grew into one of the wealthiest and...
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, 1957-1969: Volume 1
Samuel R. Delany and Kenneth R. James
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For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of...
Investigation of Fraud and Economic Crime
Michael J Betts and David Clark
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Fraud costs the United Kingdom a reported GBP198 billion per year and the Crime Survey for England...