 | Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 by David Kynaston
Buy used from: £9.45 Only read this last week, but it's a great book with so many memorable voices. It really evokes an age that I can almost remember.
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 | Lady Hester by Lorna Gibb
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.99 A lovely book to read, almost like a novel. Hester was a fabulous woman and this book gives insight into some of the historical complexity of the region while allowing us to share in her adventures.
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 | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
Buy used from: £1.39 Dramatic and captivating, you really feel you're there.
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 | By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London by Adrian Tinniswood
Buy used from: £0.10 Sorts out lots of misconceptions about this event and has relevance to the rise of fundamentalism today
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 | Unnatural Murder: Poison In The Court Of James I: The Overbury Murder by Anne Somerset
Buy used from: £0.01 Scandal and intrigue in an often ignored period
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 | Freya Stark: Passionate Nomad by Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £4.98 Still the best bio around on Freya Stark, captures some of the essence of her travels as well as her incredible life
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 | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.00 My favourite book by Theroux. Through desert and bush with style and substance.
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 | Obsessive Genius: Marie Curie, A Life in Science by Barbara Goldsmith
Buy used from: £1.74 A scholarly approach that still allows us to enjoy this great woman's achievments
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 | Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy
Buy new: £7.75 / Used from: £4.23 Far, far better than any of its predecessors. Beautifully written with lots of new facts
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 | Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edward W. Said
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £5.52 So glad this seminal, important book is now a classic. Everyone should read it.
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