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Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
By Iain Sinclair
Paperback
Published 25-Feb-2010
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Offers a personal record of the author's north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. This documentary fiction seeks to capture the spirit of place, before Hackney succumbs to mendacious green papers, eco boasts, sponsored public art and the Olympic Park gnawing at its edges.
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England, the Autobiography
By John Lewis-Stempel
Paperback
Published 06-Jul-2006
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Presented chronologically, this title offers a portrait of England and the English - and the unique place of both in world history. Through the words of those who saw it and made it, it covers: the Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, the Peasants' Revolt, Henry VIII's break with Rome, the Great Fire of London, Nelson at Trafalgar, and the world wars.
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Bluestockings
By Jane Robinson
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Published 29-Apr-2010
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In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. This title tells the story of the fight for female education in Britain.
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Lion and the Unicorn
By Richard Aldous
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Published 25-Oct-2007
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Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals. The vitriolic duel between Gladstone and Disraeli was nothing less than a battle to lead the richest powerful nation on earth. To Disraeli, his antagonist was an 'unprincipled maniac'. For Gladstone, his rival was 'The Grand Corrupter'. Victorians were electrified by the confrontation.
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Family Britain, 1951-1957
By David Kynaston
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Published 03-May-2010
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Family Britain continues David Kynaston's groundbreaking series Tales of a New Jerusalem, telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
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Gomorrah
By Roberto Saviano
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Published 03-Oct-2008
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The explosive international bestseller
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Smell of the Continent
By Richard Mullen
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Published 18-Jun-2010
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A marvellous romp through a hundred years of Victorian tourism on the continent
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Hamas
By Beverley Milton-Edwards
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Published 26-Mar-2010
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Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East. But how did Hamas grow to be so powerful? Who supports it and what is its future? This illuminating study of Hamas provides insightful answers to these pressing questions.
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