Books & authors

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2020

The Haunting of Alma Fielding A True Ghost Story

Kate Summerscale

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2019

Furious Hours

Casey Cep

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2019

On Chapel Sands

Laura Cumming

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2019

The Lives of Lucian Freud Youth

William Feaver

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2019

Maoism A Global History

Julia Lovell

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2019

Guest House for Young Widows Among The Women of ISIS

Azadeh Moaveni

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2018

Hello World How to be Human in the Age of the Machine

Hannah Fry

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2018

The Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre

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2018

Amateur A True Story About What Makes A Man

Thomas Page McBee

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2018

Imperial Twilight The Opium War and The End of China’s Last Golden Age

Stephen R Platt

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2018

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity

Carl Zimmer

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2017

The Islamic Enlightenment The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason

Christopher de Bellaigue