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There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. The author uncovers the truth about them.

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One mans journey to uncover the final resting place of the historical King Arthur.

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A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory.

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A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail.

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The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the bestselling author of The Victorian City and The Victorian House.

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The history of 12,000 years of the British landscape, from the Ice Age to the twenty-first century, by prizewinning author Nicholas Crane, co-presenter of COAST.

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From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded - evidence of man's effect on Britain is everywhere. This title includes over 250 maps and photographs that changes the way you see your surroundings.

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Truth, tragedy and magic, the story of America's original inhabitants

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A searing account of urbanlife in modern India, told through the eyes of an ordinary working class Muslim woman, Syeda X.

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The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. This book tells the story of the Middle Sea itself - a story that begins with the Phoenicians and the Pharaohs and ends with the Treaty of Versailles.

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A thrilling account of the life of Spain's last Moorish king and the ending of seven centuries of Spanish Islam.

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A history of the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine, as well as an account of how inventors first came to own and profit from their ideas and how invention itself springs forth from logic and imagination. It takes us into the human mind, explaining how 'eureka' moments occur - when the brain is most relaxed.

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From tools and devices to construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores wood the material that shaped human history.

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'He is as funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell' Observer

It was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our post-war greatness, and it promoted some of the boldest and most brilliant schemes this isle has ever produced: it was the Welfare State, and it made you and I.

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Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. In love with Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was sent to a labour camp. So began her life as a 'hidden' Jew, her marriage to a Nazi, her intervention through her husband on behalf of Pepi, and her life at the end of the war in Eastern Germany.

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A popular writer, blogger, and Middle East scholar analyzes the disastrous collapse of the Middle East and America's future role there, and shows why the best case for Syria is that it becomes a country with the same standards of safety and prospects as Somalia.

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Thackeray's biographer, D.J. Taylor, updates The Book of Snobs (1848) for the twenty-first century. Waspish, acute and very funny.

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The untold story of the 999 young, unmarried Jewish women who were tricked into boarding a train in Poprad, Slovakia on March 25, 1942 that became the first official transport to Auschwitz.

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The brilliantly researched and thrillingly told history of one of the greatest theatres in the world.

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The printer was not the only villain, though, and Harley had to find the unknown writers who wished to bring the government down.

Full of original research, The Paper Chase tears through the backstreets of London and its corridors of power as Edwardss allegiances waver and Harleys grasp on parliament threatens to slip.