Books & authors

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2012

Into the Silence The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

Wade Davis

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2011

Mao’s Great Famine The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe

Frank Dikötter

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2010

Nothing to Envy Real Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

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2009

Leviathan, or the Whale

Philip Hoare

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2008

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House

Kate Summerscale

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2007

Imperial Life in the Emerald City Inside Iraq’s Green Zone

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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2006

1599 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

James Shapiro

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2005

Like a Fiery Elephant The Story of B.S. Johnson

Jonathan Coe

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2004

Stasiland Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Anna Funder

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2003

Pushkin A Biography

T.J. Binyon

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2002

Peacemakers The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War

Margaret MacMillan

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2001

The Third Reich A New History

Michael Burleigh