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Quercus
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2023-05-25
ePub
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A FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA STRONG WORDS TOP 50 BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Dizzying and fragrant . . . truly a captivating achievement!' Aimee Nezhukumatathil'If you read this book you will be changed . . . this book feels like an actual elixir' Kiese Laymon'A...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2023-04-27
ePub
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Travel writing mattersExplore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the most respected travel writers in the world: Levison Wood, Monisha Rajesh, Jessica Vincent and...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2023-02-09
ePub
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'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle ParanqueTHIS PAPERBACK FEATURES ADDITIONAL MATERIAL ON HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH IIHow the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has...
Editeur :
Wildfire
Parution :
2022-09-29
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Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2022-09-22
ePub
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7,99€
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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - AND PERFECT GIFT FOR HISTORY BUFFS!'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph_____________________________FROMTHE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2022-09-15
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The third and final volume of the remarkable Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon___________________________________________'An utterly addictive glimpse of London high society and politics in the 40s and 50s.' Robert Harris'An instant classic ....
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2022-09-08
ePub
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During the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the Christian Church will take centre stage once again, as the established religion in England. But why does the Church have such prominence in state affairs, and should it keep this privileged position in...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2022-06-09
ePub
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'DEVASTATINGLY AFFECTING' THE TIMES'EMOTIONALLY COMPELLING' OBSERVERIn 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring plan: to smuggle all her pupils out of Nazi Germany under the nose of the Gestapo.The - mostly Jewish - children who...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2022-04-28
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The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon.'A masterpiece - a time machine that transports the reader back to British politics and high society at the end of the 1930s.' Robert Harris'The uncensored, unvarnished thought of one...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2021-09-09
ePub
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Fifty years after their marriage, Jack and Michael's story is one of the milestone events in the fight for equal rights, and this memoir the unmissable account a remarkable couple.On September 3, 1971, at the dawn of the modern gay movement, Michael McConnell and Jack...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2021-06-01
ePub
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The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries.Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2021-03-04
ePub
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'David Bodanis is an enthralling storyteller. Prepare to be taken on a surprising, wide-ranging and ultimately inspiring journey to explore what makes us human' Tim HarfordCan you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognising that, as the old...
Editeur :
The Bridge Street Press
Parution :
2020-11-05
ePub
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Prince Louis François de Bourbon-Conti — cousin of King Louis XV of France — was a patron of contemporary intellectuals such as Diderot, Beaumarchais, and Rousseau, and well-known as an avid art collector. His stroke of genius was the purchase of the Romanée vineyard,...
Editeur :
Flammarion
Parution :
2020-10-21
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HORS COLLECTION
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The story of Henry VIII's queens - as seen through the eyes of Jane Rochford, sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and cousin to Katherine Howard.'Outstanding ... fascinating and moving' Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of THE DUCHESSJane Rochford was sister-in-law to Anne...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-12-12
ePub
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A Times Book of the Year 2019'You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it' Sunday Times'A remarkable work and an important addition to the extraordinary wartime history of literary London' Literary ReviewWho were the Lost Girls? At least a dozen or so young...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2019-09-05
ePub
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Manu Gandhi, M.K. Gandhi’s grand-niece, joined him in 1943 at the age of fifteen. An aide to Gandhi’s ailing wife Kasturba in the Aga Khan Palace prison in Pune,Manu remained with him until his assassination. She was a partner in his final yajna, an experiment in...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2019-08-20
ePub
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The real Anne Lister, and the official companion to the hit BBC series created by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne Jones.In Gentleman Jack, historian and series consultant Anne Choma draws from the explosive diaries of Anne Lister to recreate the life and times of...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2019-04-25
ePub
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Whatever we may think of Alexander--whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath--most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career. When he used religion astutely, he and his army prospered. In Egypt,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-02
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The two saints whose lives Vita Sackville-West contrasts in this double biography were recorded by very different epithets: 'the great' and 'the little'. Both women were Carmelites, both canonised and both shared the same name. But whilst Teresa of Avila was...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-03-08
ePub
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