Alfred Russel Wallace : A Life by Peter Raby
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In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast - his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within a fortnight, his outline and Wal ...Show more
No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface from Patrick Modiano by Francoise Frenkel
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A bitter, beautiful and important bookRobert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENTThe French sensation, now in English translation.Fran oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving ...Show more
What Do You Do with Them on Sunday's? by Harold Kent
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A compelling portrait of the life of drovers and stockmen working on the big cattle stations in the 1950s, from a first-time author who spent most of his working life in the Australian Outback.Banjo didn't get it quite right, but then again, Banjo probably had never been a drover.So begins this gritty a ...Show more
W SOMERSET MAUGHAM by IVOR BROWN
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Vita's Other World - A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-West by Jane Brown
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Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West
Strictly Personal - Some Memoirs of Cecil H. King by Cecil Harmsworth King
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Darling Pol - Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967 by Mary Wesley; Patrick Marnham (Editor)
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'They met by chance in the Palm Court of the Ritz Hotel on the evening of 26 October 1944. By the time she eventually caught the train back to Penzance two days later they had fallen in love and Eric had declared that he was determined to marry her...' Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham be ...Show more