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Susannah Gibson charts the struggles and immense achievements of a group of trailblazing women who risked their reputations to become public intellectuals. Burdened with ailing children and unsympa...
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, ‘The Ibis Trilogy’, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldier...
Red squirrels and red kites, drained lakes and flooded valleys, sulphurous springs and sea-filled caves. The land, sea and skyscapes of the UK are constantly shifting. Species, landmarks and ways o...
America, 2049: At a Cold War-era research station, a group of highly-trained women with the code-name White Alice are engaged in climate surveillance. But the terms of their employment become incre...
Whether it’s the distress of a bad haircut (age-otori) or longing for the food someone else is eating (groaking), the pleasure found in other people’s happiness (confelicity) or the sho...
Eluned Hughes is stuck. It’s 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners’ strike is ravaging her community; her sister’s swanned off with a Thatcherite policeman; and her boyfrien...
In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. Th...
Mixing thoughtful, original and contemporary pieces with trailblazers from the past, this is a gloriously eclectic celebration of self-expression. Maya Angelou’s perfectly fitting dress made ...
The world of 1907 is poised between the old and the new: communist regimes will replace imperial ones in China and Russia; the telegraph is transforming modern communication and the car will soon d...
The untold history of the Western invasion of Soviet Russia – and the tragedy it created. In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted by a long, brutal war, 15 nations cobbled toge...
Susie Dent, Britain’s cleverest lexicographer, linguistic expert and much-loved national treasure, explores all the very best red herrings, cock and bull stories, white elephants and nine-day...
What if you still had so many more strange questions about the universe? And what if Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move mountains, fill the solar system ...
In April 1944 a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3000 SS men and their bloodhou...
How did descendants of Viking marauders come to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East? It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freebooters, of fortunes made and fortunes lo...
Fairy-tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was formed. In this book, travel-writer Nick Jubber explores thei...
If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney – that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr...
For more than 50 years, Betjeman’s writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places. Betjeman is England’s greatest topologist: whether he’s talking about a townha...
Betjeman’s England is a place of patriotic poets and seaside coves, provincial cathedrals and eccentric dons. ‘Tennis Whites and Teacakes’ brings together the best of BetjemanR...
Eccentric, sentimental & homespun, John Betjeman’s passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war & progress & he waged a private war to save it. ...
This collection comprises all of John Betjeman’s poetry. His work is known both for its range and mastery of poetic form.
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John Betjeman was one of the most obstinately uncategorizable writers of the twentieth century. This acclaimed selection of his work contains both poetry and prose, as well as a slightly abbreviate...