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The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous...

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An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his...

An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his...

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The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was...

In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, a grave is discovered by the owner of a deserted farmhouse, which has...

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Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a...

A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the...

Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to...

Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society....

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John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers,...