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  • Damn His Blood: Being a True and Detailed History of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick and Awful Retribution by Peter Moore 9780099554677 [USED COPY]

    Damn His Blood: Being a True and Detailed History of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick and Awful Retribution by Peter Moore 9780099554677 [USED COPY]

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    The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 - shot and beaten to death, his body set on fire and left smouldering in his own glebe...
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  • Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy

    Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy

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    In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really happened on that dark winter night?In Van Gogh's Ear, Bernadette Murphy...
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  • Essays and Letters by Friedrich Holderlin

    Essays and Letters by Friedrich Holderlin

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    One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected letters...
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  • Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

    Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

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    A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE 2020 CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST...
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  • The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery by Stephen Bates

    The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery by Stephen Bates

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON'A PAGE-TURNER'...
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  • Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country by Jan Morris 9780140274844

    Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country by Jan Morris 9780140274844

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    Jan Morris's magnificent book celebrates Wales and all things Welsh. Written as a deeply personal study, it reflects the rich bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and wonderfully...
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  • The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London Sarah Wise 9781844133307

    The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London Sarah Wise 9781844133307

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    Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three...
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  • One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin

    One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin

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    Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's...
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  • Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey 9780141019239 [USED COPY]

    Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey 9780141019239 [USED COPY]

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    An extraordinary tale of family feuds, forbidden love, civil unrest and the downfall of a mining dynasty Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It...
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  • The Secret History by Procopius

    The Secret History by Procopius

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    A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign...
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  • Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor 9780141018614 [USED COPY]

    Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor 9780141018614 [USED COPY]

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    FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME & THRILLERS SINCE 1945 Bleeding Heart Square is a tense historical thriller from the bestselling author of The Ashes of London1934, LondonInto the decaying...
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  • The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals Michelle Morgan 9781472139474

    The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals Michelle Morgan 9781472139474

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    'Ghoulishly entertaining' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement'This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of...
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  • Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey

    Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey

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    An extraordinary tale of family feuds, forbidden love, civil unrest and the downfall of a mining dynasty Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It...
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  • The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane: The Story of the Carr's Hill Murder by Jane Housham

    The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane: The Story of the Carr's Hill Murder by Jane Housham

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    A Victorian Murder. A Victorian Madman. A Modern Judgement.Gateshead, April 1866The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane takes the forgotten case of a child murder in 1866 as a springboard to delve deeply...
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  • Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor

    Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor

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    FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME & THRILLERS SINCE 1945 Bleeding Heart Square is a tense historical thriller from the bestselling author of The Ashes of London1934, LondonInto the decaying...
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  • Shadowland: How the Mafia Bet Britain in a Global Gamble by Douglas Thompson 9781845967796

    Shadowland: How the Mafia Bet Britain in a Global Gamble by Douglas Thompson 9781845967796

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    Shadowland is a revelatory and dramatic true-life thriller spanning much of the twentieth century, a page-turning chronicle of an elaborate Mafia plan to 'invade' Europe using 1960s London as a...
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  • The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge Rebecca Gowers 9781474606424

    The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge Rebecca Gowers 9781474606424

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    For over a century, a mysterious figure from 1870s California, going by the name of Major Harry Larkyns, has been written off as little more than a liar, seducer and cheat. And he is only remembered...
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  • Spirit Machines by Robert Crawford 9780224059015 [USED COPY]

    Spirit Machines by Robert Crawford 9780224059015 [USED COPY]

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    SPIRIT MACHINES, Robert Crawford's fourth collection, attends imaginatively to the fusion of spiritual experience and the insistently material world. In several of the poems, emotional and religious...
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  • The Damage Done by Peter Woolf

    The Damage Done by Peter Woolf

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    'For almost all my life, I've been the person you crossed the street to avoid...'Peter Woolf's life of drinking, drug-taking and thieving had begun before most people leave school. Spending most of...
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  • Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston 9780241388679 [USED COPY]

    Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston 9780241388679 [USED COPY]

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    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021'The best biography yet of the media magnate Robert Maxwell - by turns engrossing,...
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  • Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn: A Scandalous Story of Marriage and Betrayal in Restoration England by Nigel Pickford 9781399614962

    Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn: A Scandalous Story of Marriage and Betrayal in Restoration England by Nigel Pickford 9781399614962

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    The true story of a sensational marriage and murder in 17th-century London. For fans of THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER and GEORGIANA: DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE - with all the drama of THE FIVELady Bette,...
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  • A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment TV Tie-In by John Preston 9780241983898 [USED COPY]

    A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment TV Tie-In by John Preston 9780241983898 [USED COPY]

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    The bestselling book that inspired the Bafta-winning BBC drama,starring Hugh Grant and Ben WhishawCorruption. Blackmail. Conspiracy to murder. A Very English Scandal has all the hallmarks of a...
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  • Half the World in Winter by Maggie Joel

    Half the World in Winter by Maggie Joel

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    It is London, 1880, and Lucas Jarmyn struggles to make sense of the death of his beloved youngest daughter; his wife, Aurora, seeks solace in rigid social routines; and his eighteen-year-old daughter...
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  • Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980

    Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980

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    'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel 'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman 'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate...
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  • Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980 [USED COPY]

    Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980 [USED COPY]

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    'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate...
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  • Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840-1870 by Liza Picard 9780297847335 [USED COPY]

    Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840-1870 by Liza Picard 9780297847335 [USED COPY]

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    Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history...
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  • The Mile End Murder: The Case Conan Doyle Couldn't Solve by Sinclair McKay 9781781316436 [USED COPY]

    The Mile End Murder: The Case Conan Doyle Couldn't Solve by Sinclair McKay 9781781316436 [USED COPY]

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    'A fascinating book, by turns riveting and unsettling, and wonderfully rich in period detail.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found...
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  • The Curious Habits of Dr Adams: A 1950s Murder Mystery Jane Robins 9781848544727

    The Curious Habits of Dr Adams: A 1950s Murder Mystery Jane Robins 9781848544727

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    'Was rich Mrs Gertrude Hullett murdered at her luxurious 15-room home on Beachy Head? Detectives are tonight trying to establish the cause of the 50-year-old widow's sudden death . . . ' Daily Mail,...
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  • Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise

    Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise

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    This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in the Victorian period.Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women...
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  • Netherland by Joseph O'Neill 9780007275700

    Netherland by Joseph O'Neill 9780007275700

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    In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship...
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  • Netherland by Joseph O'Neill 9780007275700 [USED COPY]

    Netherland by Joseph O'Neill 9780007275700 [USED COPY]

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    In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship...
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  • Ponti by Sharlene Teo 9781509855339

    Ponti by Sharlene Teo 9781509855339

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    'Remarkable' - Ian McEwanShortlisted for Hearsts' Big Book Award 2018.Set in 2003 in the sweltering heat of Singapore, Sharlene Teo's Ponti begins as sixteen-year-olds Szu and Circe develop an...
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  • Ponti by Sharlene Teo 9781509855339 [USED COPY]

    Ponti by Sharlene Teo 9781509855339 [USED COPY]

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    'Remarkable' - Ian McEwanShortlisted for Hearsts' Big Book Award 2018.Set in 2003 in the sweltering heat of Singapore, Sharlene Teo's Ponti begins as sixteen-year-olds Szu and Circe develop an...
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  • My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

    My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

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    A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE & THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONAn exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive...
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  • Ponti by Sharlene Teo 9781509855315

    Ponti by Sharlene Teo 9781509855315

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    Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Fiction with a Sense of Place Award.Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.'Remarkable . . . her characters glow with life and humour' Ian McEwan2003. Singapore...
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  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510 [USED COPY]

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510 [USED COPY]

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    'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara...
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  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510

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    'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara...
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