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    Writing the Thames
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    Writing the Thames

    Thames aficionado Robert Gibbings once wrote that 'the quiet of an age-old river is like the slow turning of the pages of a well-loved book'. Writing the Thames tells a much-loved river's story through the remarkable prose, poetry and illustration that...
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    Scholars, Poets and Radicals
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    Scholars, Poets and Radicals

    Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a...
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  • The Food Lovers' Anthology
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    The Food Lovers' Anthology

    'Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.' - Talleyrand'He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.' - Jonathan Swift 'There is no love sincerer than the love of food' wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1903. Poets,...
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  • The Curious World of Dickens
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    The Curious World of Dickens

    Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth, this book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating some of his abiding preoccupations. Prompted by quotations from the novels and other writings, each themed chapter explores...
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    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    No work has challenged its readers like Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. His 'Proverbs of Hell' have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of these...
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    My Way
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    My Way

    Inspired by the Frost/Nixon interviews and Walter Isaacson's authorsubjectrelationship with Steve Jobs, Alan Friedman tells the story of SilvioBerlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned Prime Minister, who hasdominated Italian life for the past...
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    Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping
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    Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping

    Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's Little Red Book with the Analects of Confucius, and more.For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology of Marxism, while challenging...
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    Daily Wisdom: Sayings of the Companions of the Prophet
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    Daily Wisdom: Sayings of the Companions of the Prophet

    Sayings of the Companions of the Prophet (PBUH) is a selection of 365 profound and pithy observations made by the Prophet's illustrious Companions. The sayings supplement and complement the life-giving message of the Qur'an and Sunnah that these...
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    A Talib's Tale
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    A Talib's Tale

    John Butt came to Swat in 1970 as a young man in search of an education he couldn't get from his birthplace in England. He travels around the region, first only with friends from his home country, but as he befriends the locals and starts to learn about...
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    Daily Wisdom: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad

    Pitch to pre-publication journals as well as Islamic Horizons, Al Jadid, and Azizah magazine Will approach bloggers with mainstream Islamic interest such as MuslimMatters.org Target major Muslim US associations including Muslim Student Association,...
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    Un-Discovered Islands
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    Un-Discovered Islands

    Critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack returns in the Autumn of 2016 with a brand new excursion into the beautiful, mysterious and mythical landscapes of the world with Un-Discovered Islands. Gathered in this book are over twenty...
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    James Sowerby
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    James Sowerby

    First full biography of James Sowerby using some new, as well as extensive scholarly resources Provides authoritative and enlightening accounts of how some of the most important botanical works were produced and used. Covers the importance of botany at...
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  • Paint My Name in Black and Gold
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    Paint My Name in Black and Gold

    Leeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of Mercy. Over the next five years, they would rise from local heroes to leading alternative band, before...
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  • Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom
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    Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom

    The legendary music impresario (and producer of bands likeThe Yardbirds and Wham!)tells his life story in a series of mesmerisingly candid vignettes.Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Lifeis the book Simon Napier-Bell's fans have always...
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  • Damnable Tales
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    Damnable Tales

    These are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells. This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen,...
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    Between the Devil and the Deep
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    Between the Devil and the Deep

    "One of the best accounts ever written of deep-water diving and its staggering, haunting dangers." Robert Kurson, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Divers Deep underwater lurks a mysterious man-made illness. It has gone by many names over the...
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  • Tales from the Colony Room
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    Tales from the Colony Room

    Entertaining, shocking, uproarious, hilarious . . . like eavesdropping on a wake, as the mourners get gradually more drunk and tell ever more outrageous stories' Sunday Times This is the definitive history of London's most notorious drinking den, the...
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  • The Hockneys
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    The Hockneys

    'He has a view of me no one else has.' - David HockneyThe Hockneys is a never before seen insight into the lives of one of the world's most famous artists and his family by youngest brother John, from growing up in the Second World War in Bradford...
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    Leon Battista Alberti
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    Leon Battista Alberti

    One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti's output encompassed engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humour, political commentary and more. He employed irony, satire...
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    Blaise Cendrars
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    Blaise Cendrars

    In 1912 the young Frdric-Louis Sauser arrived in France, carrying an experimental poem and a new identity. Blaise Cendrars was born. Over the next half-century, Cendrars wrote innovative poems, novels, essays, film scripts, and autobiographical prose...
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    Speaking East
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    Speaking East

    Isidore Isou was a young Jew in war-time Bucharest, and barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris where in 1945 he founded the avant-garde movement Lettrism, described as the missing link between Dada, Surrealism, Situationism and...
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    Louis-Ferdinand Cline
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    Louis-Ferdinand Cline

    Louis-Ferdinand Cline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond remains huge. This book sheds light on Cline's groundbreaking novels, which drew extensively on his complex...
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    Christine de Pizan
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    Christine de Pizan

    The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the booktrade, writing more than 40 works including poetry, historical and political...
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    Freedom from Violence and Lies
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    Freedom from Violence and Lies

    Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure as outstanding modern literary works, and his life was no less dramatic, rising from poor beginnings to become a writer, physician and philanthropist.In this new biography Michael C. Finke analyses Chekhov's major...
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    Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley

    Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. This new biography is a rich and lucid account that charts the different phases of Huxley's career: from the early satirist who depicted the glamorous despair of the postwar...
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    The Invention of Oscar Wilde
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    The Invention of Oscar Wilde

    One should either wear a work or art, or be a work of art', Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde's self-creation as a 'work of art' and a carefully constructed cultural...
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    Henri Matisse

    A new, critical biography of the innovative and influential French artist Henri Matisse.Henri Matisse's experiments with form and colour revolutionised the twentieth-century art world. In this concise critical biography, Kathryn Brown explores Matisse's...
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    Power on the Inside
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    Power on the Inside

    The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-widePower on the Inside is the first book to examine the historical development of prison gangs worldwide, from those that emerged inside mid-nineteenth-century Neapolitan prisons to...
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    Ornette Coleman
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    Ornette Coleman

    The compelling story of one of America's most adventurous jazz musicians.Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the...
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all the major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young...
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    Ren Magritte
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    Ren Magritte

    An illuminating reappraisal of Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte.The Belgian surrealist artist Ren Magritte redefined the way we think about art. Famous for his men in bowler hats, Magritte's witty and provocative work inspired generations of later...
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    Dmitry Shostakovich
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    Dmitry Shostakovich

    A vivid, absorbing new biography of Dmitry Shostakovich.Dmitry Shostakovich was one of the most successful composers of the twentieth century - a musician who adapted as no other to the unique pressures of his age. By turns vilified and feted by Stalin...
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  • Escape Pod
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    Escape Pod

    The fifteenth anniversary of the hit science fiction podcast Escape Pod,featuring new and exclusive stories from today's bestselling writers.Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary ofcutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod. Escape Pod...
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    The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway
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    The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway

    Kathryn Janeway reveals her career in Starfleet, from her first command to her epic journey through the Delta Quadrant leading to her rise to the top as vice-admiral in Starfleet Command. Discover the story of the woman who travelled...
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  • The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories
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    The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories

    Named as one of '50 Writers You Should Read Now' by The Guardian.A mind-bending short-story collection from award-winning science fiction author Nina Allan.A collection of short stories from the award-winning author of The Rift and The Dollmaker, Nina...
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    Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa 1974
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    Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa 1974

    Award-winning writer JD Morvan and renowned photographer Abbas' stunning graphic novel masterpiece which uses iconic photos to uniquely illustrate the historical 'Rumble in the Jungle' boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. On the...
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    Little Victories
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    Little Victories

    The award winning graphic novel autobiography of a father, and the challenges he faces raising his autistic son.A beautifulvisual exploration of the highs and lows experienced by a parent learning howto adapt to his son's autism. Faced with a challenging...
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  • The White Mosque
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    The White Mosque

    In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites travelled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated...
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    I Judge No One
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    I Judge No One

    Why was Jesus, who said 'I judge no one', put to death for a political crime? Of course, this is a historical question - but it is not only historical. Jesus's life became a philosophical theme in the first centuries of our era, when 'pagan' and...
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    Black Crown
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    Black Crown

    The epic story of a man born into Caribbean slavery, who defeated Napoleon's armies and crowned himself a free black king.How did a Caribbean child, born into plantation slavery, come to defeat Napoleon's armies in battle and crown himself king of the...
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  • An African in Imperial London
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    An African in Imperial London

    Winner of The High Plains Book Award for Non-FictionA vivid biography of an African Edwardian chronicler of London, in a time of social upheaval.In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people...
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  • Under Red Skies
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    Under Red Skies

    Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understand the shifting sands of...
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  • High Risk
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    High Risk

    This is a dark, raw and uncompromising tale of the human condition in extremis, drawing on the many lives of Ben Timberlake: as an archaeologist, Special Forces soldier, combat medic and drug addict.Starting with Ben's first near-death...
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  • Bibi
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    Bibi

    For many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment; yet he continues to dominate Israeli public life. How can we explain his rise, his hold on Israeli politics, and his outsized role on the world's stage?In Bibi, Anshel...
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  • Remnants of Partition
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    Remnants of Partition

    The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Through the possessions saved by her own great-grandparents as they fled their homes, she discovers the unique power of such objects: to unlock...
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  • Break-Up
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    Break-Up

    Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon's political partnership changed the face of Scotland, bringing the country to within 200,000 votes of independence in 2014 and holding sway at Holyrood for more than a decade. Since the referendum, Scottish nationalism...
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