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In the form of a collection of street maps, an episodic history of diverse stories, some lost, forgotten or hidden within one of the great cities of the world.

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A towering figure in the art world unravels the mystery of the worlds most controversial relic.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families.

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they have seen the countrified lanes of Londons marshy south bank give way to a network of wharves, workshops and tenements and then seen these, too, become dust and empty air.

Rich with anecdote and colour, this fascinating book breathes life into the forgotten inhabitants of the house the prosperous traders;

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A gorgeous evocation of the country house party by celebrated social historian Adrian Tinniswood.

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The secret history of England's most notorious county

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We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it. Punch

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Focusing on the local New Jersey/New York Irish-American experience, this interdisciplinary book is a case study in what Irish-Americans have contributed to public and cultural life in the United States: how they have retained elements of Irish culture and invented elements of their own ethnic American culture.

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The extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New Colony.

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From a prize-winning historian, the story of the powerful men who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well in antebellum New York City -- showing how slavery and corruption built modern New York.

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In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the Kingdom of Women, where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries.

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A tragic fire at the Stardust nightclub on Valentine's Day, 1981 in a working-class suburb of Dublin caused the deaths of 48 young people, with an average age of just 19 years. After years of families and survivors fighting to find out what really happened, new inquests held in 2024 finally revealed the full story.

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Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer.

In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris monastery to watch two men fight a duel to the death.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s counterculture movement.

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A view of the south of Ireland political, social, geographical through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it.

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In Jew Town in India's Cochin, two small communities descended from 'a lost tribe of Israel' are living side by side, on the brink of extinction. When their last two members of child-bearing age refuse to marry, their fate is sealed. This is their story.

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The extraordinary story of the UKs most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steels acclaimed portrait of the St Kildans lives is now updated in this reissued edition.

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This gripping and vivid book is, amazingly, the first comprehensive world history of the most important transport innovation of the modern age.

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The story of one of the Boston area s most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and residents have influenced American culture When the Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful space for contemplation. This cemetery, located not far from Ha

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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 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.