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Biographies
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Chums : How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK€11.99
A damning look at the university clique-turned-Commons majority that will blow the doors of Westminster wide open and change the way you look at our democracy forever.
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The Mandela Brief : Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid (Paperback)€15.99
Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression.
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Vita Nuova : A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text€12.99
A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.
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The Master of Masters : The Life of Josef Cretzan€19.95
From humble beginnings in Romania, Josef Cretzan went on to become one of the most accomplished glass blowers of the 20th century.
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Vanderbilt : The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty€15.99
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires-one in shipping and another in railroads-that would make him the richest man in America.
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Sybille Bedford : An Appetite for Life€13.99
Sybille Bedford's life contained all the grand feeling and seismic events of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death. Her father died when she was just fourteen and her mother, a great socialite and litterateur, fell victim to a debilitating morphine addiction.
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The Presidents : 250 Years of American Political Leadership€18.99
There was a huge upsurge of global interest in US politics during the Trump presidency, culminating in the November 2020 election, the victory of the Democrat candidate Joe Biden and the subsequent, horrifying response in the storming of the US capitol.
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Magnificent Women and Flying Machines : The First 200 Years of British Women in the Sky€18.99
Full of entertaining adventure, here at last is a proper record of Britain's wonderful women of the air.
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Mathew Perry: Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing (Large Paperback)Special Price €17.99 Regular Price €21.99
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening - as well as a hand extended to anyone struggling with sobriety.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022 : A celebration of her life and reign€12.99
Long did she reign and peacefully may she rest: this beautiful and thoughtful tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II celebrates the life of a remarkable woman whose 70 years on the throne made her the longest-reigning monarch in British History.