Books & authors

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2022

My Fourth Time, We Drowned Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route

Sally Hayden

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2022

The Restless Republic Britain Without a Crown

Anna Keay

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2022

A Fortunate Woman

Polly Morland

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2021

Islands of Abandonment Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

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2021

Aftermath Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

Harald Jähner

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2021

Things I Have Withheld

Kei Miller

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2021

Fall The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

John Preston

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2021

Free Coming of Age at the End of History

Lea Ypi

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2020

The Idea of The Brain A History

Matthew Cobb

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2020

Black Spartacus The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Sudhir Hazareesingh

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2020

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield What War Does to Women

Christina Lamb

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2020

Stranger in the Shogun's City A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Amy Stanley