Charlotte Bronte: A Life
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On the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte's birth, Penguin is publishing the definitive biography...
In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love
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A story of love and grief. 'I became a widower and a father on the same day' says Joseph Luzzi. His...
The Marches
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LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017. "This is travel writing at its best." (Katherine Norbury,...
Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
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Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces...
The Month That Changed the World: July 1914 and WWI
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On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful...
The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson (Reisubok Sera Olafs Egilssonar): The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627
Karl Smari Hreinsson and Adam Nichols
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In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close...
The Long Shadow of Chernobyl
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Opening with an essay by Mikhail Gorbachev, the last head of state of the Soviet Union, awarded the...
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend
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A gripping retelling of the timeless epic of romance, enchantment and adventure, Peter Ackroyd's The...
The Portrait of a Lady
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Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between...