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1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare James Shapiro Winner of the 2006 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction, this excellent biography (partially inspired by the movie Shakespeare in Love) focusses on the year of Shakespeare's 35th birthday and assesses the links between his personal and professional life. Paperback - Faber & Faber - 2006 (S… |
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A Bad Birdwatcher's Companion Simon Barnes Renowned sportswriter Simon Barnes may yet become known as the man who made birdwatching cool. After the success of his first title "How to be a Bad Birdwatcher", this excellent small hardback introduces the bad birdwatcher to 50 of Britain's commonest birds. Each b… |
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A Book Addict's Treasury Rugg/Murphy A quirky compilation of snippets, writings, sayings and anecdotes over the ages all to do with books - loving books, collecting books, devouring books, smelling books, storing books - with lots on the wonderful pleasure of book-buying (a chapter we love at Mr B's!), the art of properly settling … |
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A Brief History of Tea Roy Moxham Ode to tea from Chinese discovery to quintessentially Britishness Paperback - Constable & Robinson - 2009… |
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A History of Bath Graham Davis and Penny Bonsall A gorgeous, glossy new book on the history of Bath . It takes an inspirational look at this wonderful city from it origins and early history, through frivolity and fashion, its residents, its workers, urban politics and the emergence of Bath as we know it today. With beautiful colour … |
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A Pinch of Posh - A Beginner's Guide to Being Civilised Mr & Mrs Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen "A Pinch of Posh" takes a seriously light-hearted look at how to lead a more civilised and, frankly, posh existence. If you fancy learning what's posh food and what's not, how to spot a fake prada from 100 paces, how to break in a waiter with an eyebrow command or just how to prope… |
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A Reading Diary Alberto Manguel In a few words:Charismatic Argentinian book nut re-reads 12 of his favourites, tells us why he loves them, where he reads them and anything else that they happen to prompt in his polymath mind. In more words: One of the world’s greatest writers on the wonders of reading, descr… |
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Agent Zigzag Ben Macintyre Eddie Chapman was perhaps the perfect double-agent, safe-breaker, blackmailer, seducer and egotist but also deeply loyal, courageous and ultimately patriotic. His story, as his WW2 case-handler wrote, would in fiction be rejected as improbable. A cross between a more real Bond and a more exciting Sm… |
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Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the 2nd World War Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War Alistair Cooke, well-known journalist and broadcaster, journeyed across the U.S. as World War II broke out, talking to all the ordinary folk he came across, from miners to lumberjacks, recording a fascinatin… |
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All-Round Genius: The Unknown Story of Britain’s Greatest Sportsman Mick Collins Now, I'm not to bad with the old leather and willow for a monkey, and I can hold my own on the snooker table down at the Jungle Inn - but the subject of this biography, Max Woosnam, puts every one of us to shame. He was so outrageously talented in every form of sport it is just silly. Whil… |
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Alphonse Mucha Sarah Mucha A book full of rIch, swirling colour, flowing manes of hair and all the intricate detail of art nouveau. Mucha, the Czech artist, spent much of his life in Paris and was one of the first and most influential artists of the period. As well as his iconic images of Sarah Bernha… |
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An English Eye: Photographs of James Ravilious Peter Hamilton (Foreward by Alan Bennett) This beautiful collection showcases the work of James Ravilious, a British photographer of rural life and landscape. In his foreward, Alan Bennett comments on the non-nostalgic nature of Ravilious' images and the way in which they don't flinch from revealing reality - they show real cou… |
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