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  • The Quality of Love : Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
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    Ariane Bankes

    The Quality of Love : Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
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    When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes...
    When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives...
  • Mortal Secrets : Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
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    Frank Tallis

    Mortal Secrets : Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
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    Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wu...
    Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativit...
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    Elsa Richardson

    Rumbles : A Curious History of the Gut
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    A Financial Times most anticipated read for 202...
    A Financial Times most anticipated read for 2024. Have you ever had a gut feeling? Found something hard to stomach? Have you gone belly up under pressure? Did you pull yourself together and show so...
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    Andrew Ziminski

    The Stonemason : A History of Building Britain
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    A stonemason's story of the building of Britain...
    A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on...
  • Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
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    Helena Kelly

    Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
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    Almost everything we think we know about Jane A...
    Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious su...
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    The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens
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    Think you already know the story of Charles Dic...
    Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again. Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John F...
  • Between Britain : Walking the History of England and Scotland
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    Alistair Moffat

    Between Britain : Walking the History of England and Scotland
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    The border between Scotland and England is rich...
    The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their nationalism: Sal...
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    Alistair Moffat

    The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
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    Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story o...
    Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotl...
  • 1314: The Year of Bannockburn
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    Callum Watson

    1314: The Year of Bannockburn
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    The Battle of Bannockburn has long been recogni...
    The Battle of Bannockburn has long been recognised as one of the most influential moments in Scottish history. The fighting that took place on 23rd and 24th June 1314 is frequently presented as a s...
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    Alan Johnson

    Harold Wilson
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    Harold Wilson was one of the most successful po...
    Harold Wilson was one of the most successful politicians of the twentieth century. Prime Minister from 1964-70, and again from 1974-76, he won four elections as well as a referendum on UK membershi...
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    Prit Buttar

    To Besiege a City : Leningrad 1941–42
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    Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Bo...
    Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024. A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using origina...
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    Hero City
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    One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully ...
    One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege, strugg...
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