Akenfield
Ronald Blythe
Still the best portrait of modern rural life in England, subtle and compassionate - Roger Deakin, BBC
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An Innkeeper's Diary
John Fothergill
An intriguing, witty and provocative diary on the art of innkeeping by one of Britain's best known hoteliers.
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
For more than two years, the Frank family lived like ghosts in a cramped set of rooms at the back of an office building in Amsterdam. The diary Anne Frank kept of her time in hiding still captivates the world.
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Dickens' London
Charles Dickens
This selection of celebrated essays by Charles Dickens conjures up a peerless, eyewitness account of the 19th-century capital, from the rarefied world of Whitehall to working-class conviviality and blighted slums.
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The Folio Book of Historic Speeches
Compiled by Ian Pindar
A speech can start a revolution, inspire a people, change a belief and make plain the moving forces that shaped history. The Folio Book of Historic Speeches brings together epoch-defining speeches, from Pericles on the eve of battle, to Neil Armstrong's transmission from space.
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If This is a Man
Primo Levi
On arriving at Auschwitz in February 1944, more than 500 of his fellow deportees were sent straight to the gas chambers. Survivor Primo Levi was one of the 'lucky' ones. In this heart-breaking and searing memoir he tells his story.
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Jane Austen's Letters
Jane Austen
In her correspondence as in her novels, Jane Austen's voice is unmistakable. Witty and observant, intimate and gossipy, her letters provide a unique insight into both her own personality and the society in which she lived.
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Letter From America
Alistair Cooke
Vibrant with wit and charm, covering the great events of history, but always interested in day-to-day life, Cooke's legendary broadcasts provide a remarkable portrait of the United States in the second half of the 20th century.
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Lives of the Engineers
Samuel Smiles
They were giants whose works still dominate the British landscape; self-made men who became the architects of the industrial revolution. This single volume edition brings together the exceptional individuals of an age when Britain was 'the workshop of the world'.
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
A fictionalised account of Jack's own journeys across America with his friend Neal Cassady, Kerouac’s beatnik odyssey captured the soul of a generation and changed the landscape of American fiction for ever.
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The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe’s modern classic tells the thrilling story of the United States’ pioneering space missions. Alan Shephard, Charles Yeager and John Glenn were among the aviators with ‘the right stuff’, that elusive quality beyond mere bravery.
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The Spy's Bedside Book
Compiled by Graham and Hugh Greene
Graham Greene worked for MI6 during the Second World War; his brother Hugh was a foreign correspondent and one of the last Allied journalists to leave Berlin in 1939 - so they knew the spying game from within.
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What are the Seven Wonders of the World? And Other Cultural Lists
Peter D'Epiro and Mary Desmond Pinkowish
As phrases they are familiar: the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the seven wonders of the ancient world, the twelve labours of Hercules . . . But can you name the horsemen? Why seven wonders? And who challenged Hercules to clean the Augean stables?
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