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A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–45 by Michael Haag; The Durrells: The Story of a Family by Richard Bradford ...
John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse; John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits by Richard Ormond ...
My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...
Tim Whitmarsh: Roots of The Republic - Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophical Masterpiece by James Romm ...
Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand ...
On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...
Once upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...
When Churchill declared victory, the young people of the church paraded a full-size effigy of Adolf Hitler to the green and ...
No Sketching! - Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy by Charles Darwent ...
A divorcee in her sixties named Rose travels to Almería to see a specialist, who may or may not be a quack, about a mystery ailment that may or may not be imagined. She is accompanied by her daughter, ...
According to the American academic William Kelleher Storey, Rhodes was able to go a long way towards realising his vision ...