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| London: The Biography | A Heart-Breaking Work of Staggering Genius | |||||||||
| Renowned as the biographer of Charles Dickens, Thomas More and William Blake, Peter Ackroyd has now taken on the metropolis... |
Is it? Of course that's the first thing you want to know. And you probably also wonder, how dare he? But David Eggers is there before you... |
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| A History of Britain | ELIZABETH I | |||||||||
| Schama does not concern himself with whether the concept of “Britain” ever actually existed. He simply assumes so, and that we agree... |
A new biography of Elizabeth and a collection of her writings attest to her determination and intelligence... |
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| Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis | The Artist and the Garden | |||||||||
| "Working toward the Führer" remains Ian Kershaw's main thesis in Nemesis, volume two of his Hitler biography... |
Though the English have long been infatuated with the garden, they were surprisingly slow to commission paintings that testified to their horticultural passions... |
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| Civilisations | The Spiritual Teaching of Marcus Aurelius | |||||||||
| Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s purpose in Civilisations is “to change the way we think about civilisation: to present it as a relationship between one species and the rest of nature...” |
Marcus Aurelius's "spiritual exercises" are a comforting blend of compassion and resignation... |
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| Experience | King of the World | |||||||||
| By the time he left Oxford, being Himself was - in his own words - the least that he could do... |
Born Cassius Clay metamorphosed into Muhammad Ali; Remnick's compelling new biography charts the rise of one of the most powerful icons of the 20th century... |
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