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Artwork
Peter Campbell
A retrospective in association with theLondon Review of Books
Peter Campbell was the resident designer and art critic for theLondon Review of Books. He worked for the magazine from its first appearance in 1979 and wrote more than 300 pieces, mainly about art but also about such things as escalators, weeds, bicycles, bridges and hearts. Each fortnight from 1996 ...
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Ambiguous Republic
Diarmaid Ferriter
A major appraisal of the crucial decade in Ireland's recent history
'Hard-nosed scholarship and moral passion underpin Diarmaid Ferriter's work.'Now he turns to the key years of the 70s, when after half a century of independence, questions were being asked about the old ways of doing things.Ambiguous Republicconsiders the widespread social, cultural, economic and political upheavals of the ...
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Fans Not Customers
Vernon Hill
These are tough times for all of us - but it is still possible to defy gravity and create massively ...
Most companies plod along doing things as everyone always has. So there are huge opportunities for people trying to break the mould, even in old-fashioned businesses like banking or insurance. Of course it happens all the time in the digital world, ...
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Cézanne
Alex Danchev
A remarkable new biography of a cultural icon
Today we view Cézanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing on a vast range of primary sources, Alex Danchev tells the story of an artist who was never accepted into the official Salon: he was considered a revolutionary at best and a ...
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Destiny in the Desert
Jonathan Dimbleby
A unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein -'the end of the beginning'- and the bloody...
It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms:'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet the true ...
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Dolly
Susan Hill
Susan Hill, author ofWoman in Black, is the greatest living writer of ghost stories, and here is a ...
The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot Lock, a large decaying house, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward are parked for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt and her cruel ...
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Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?
Mick O'Hare
The latest title in the bestselling'Last Word'series
Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet?Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?, the eagerly-awaited new'Last Word'collection, has the answers to these questions and many more.Seven years on fromDoes Anything Eat Wasps?,theNew ...
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On The Map
Simon Garfield
From Mappa Mundi to Google Maps - the bestsellingJust My Typeauthor turns his gaze to maps
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories.From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. His ...
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A Short History of England
Simon Jenkins
The definitive concise account of our remarkable past
Which battle was fought'For England, Harry and St George'? Who demanded to be painted'warts and all'? What - and when - was the Battle of the Bulge?InA Short History of England, bestselling author Simon Jenkins answers all these questions - and many more - as he tells the tumultuous story of a fascinating nation. From the invaders of the dark ...
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Events, Dear Boy, Events
Ruth Winstone
Brings twentieth-century British politics vividly to life and reveals perspectives on the tumultuous...
Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the ...
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The Diaries of Nella Last
Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson
A collected edition of bestselling author Nella Last's diaries, including substantial never-before ...
'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.'So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid ...
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The Economist: Managing Uncertainty
Marion Devine, Michel Syrett
Global recession, rebellion in the Middle East, and heartrending natural disasters in places as far ...
This book looks at managing uncertainty as a new business imperative. It·analyses the sources and triggers of business turbulence, and explores different models for classifying uncertainty·explores the cost of uncertainty in the shape of business ...
