Captain of the Carpathia: The Seafaring Life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron
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Responding to Titanic's distress calls in the early hours of 15 April 1912, Captain Arthur Rostron...
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,...
Marcus Simaika Pasha: Father of Coptic Archaeology
Samir Simaika and Nevine Henein
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Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864-1944) was born to a prominent Coptic family on the eve of the...
In a Guardsman's Boots: A Boy Soldier's Adventures from the Streets of 1920s Dublin to Buckingham Palace, WWII and the Egyptian Revolution
Caroline Rochford and Paddy Rochford
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When he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin's Royal Hibernian Military...
Inside the Recording Studio: Working with Callas, Rostropovich, Domingo, and the Classical Elite
Peter Andry, Robin Stringer, Tony Locantro and Placido Domingo
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As a record producer and administrator, Peter Andry has worked with many of the 20th century's...
Francois Boucher and the Luxury of Art in Paris, 1703-1770: Artist, Collector and Connoisseur
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More than any other artist of his generation, FranA ois Boucher is associated with the consumption...
A Most Secret War: R.V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45
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The history of scientific intelligence - its birth, its importance during the Second World War and...
The Adventures of Augie March
Christopher Hitchens and Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, The Adventures of Augie March includes an introduction by...
The Book of Numbers
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A monumental, uproarious, and exuberant novel about the search-for love, truth, and the meaning of...
Open the Cage, Murphy!
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"Top pick of this year's celeb memoirs". (Daily Mail). To describe Open the Cage, Murphy as...