A Year of Beautiful Hardbacks
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Borderlines : A History of Europe, Told From the Edges
Beautiful. A true gem... [his] unique take on human nature through the history and heritage of the borderlands ends up being deeply moving.' - IRISH INDEPENDENT'Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable, perceptive and profound' IAN DUNT'A light-footed journey along the fault lines of history.' KATJA HOYERThe history...- £25.00 GBP
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Nature's Ghosts : The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back
Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation `Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.' Chris Packham For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have permanently altered the environment...- £22.00 GBP
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Saints : A new legendary of heroes, humans and magic
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. Illustrated with over thirty original paper cutouts by the author. 'Jeffs writes beautifully, erring just on the right side of florid,...- £30.00 GBP
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Storm's Edge : Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney
A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de force' SPECTATOR From Peter Marshall, winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018, Storm's Edge is a...- £25.00 GBP
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Vertigo : The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
*An Observer Book of the Year, 2024*'This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons...- £25.00 GBP
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Wild Thing : A Life of Paul Gauguin
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first full biography in over thirty years - written by the award-winning author of I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche. *Gorgeously...- £30.00 GBP
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Henry V : The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King
A brand-new life of England's greatest king from our bestselling medieval historian'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' ObserverHENRY V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms...- £25.00 GBP
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Monet : The Restless Vision
The Art Book of the Year, The TimesA Telegraph, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Economist, Tablet and Evening Standard Book of the YearA magnificent new biography of the founder of ImpressionismIn the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and...- £35.00 GBP
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Rural Hours : The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
*A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR APRIL*`A superb portrait of the complex imprint the countryside makes on the life of the mind . A treasure' Doireann N� Ghr�ofaIn Rural Hours, Harriet Baker tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved...- £25.00 GBP
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The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcast`Richly woven, highly readable ... Written with passion and verve' Spectator`Dazzling ... Not just a historical study but also...- £30.00 GBP
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The Haunted Wood : A History of Childhood Reading
A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMANCan you remember the first time you fell in love with a book?The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys...- £30.00 GBP
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Under the Changing Skies : The Best of the Guardian's Country Diary, 2018-2024
A beautiful journey through the British countryside, drawn from The Guardian's beloved Country Diary. With an introduction by Ian McMillan, and illustrations by Clifford Harper. 'Full of sparkle, wonder and surprise, here is the natural world in book form.' PATRICK BARKHAMFor over a century,...- £20.00 GBP
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