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Final Demands

By: Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes and its sequel, Fame and Fortune, were widely acclaimed for their dazzling and moving portrait of an era and a generation. Now, in Final Demands, the culminating volume in the trilogy, writer Adam Morris and his high-flying Cambridge contemporaries find themselves at the peak of influence and success as New Labour and the Blair boom years take them high on the slippery pole of success.

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Katherine the Queen

By: Linda Porter

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The general perception of Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a matronly consort to nurse him as his health declined. This title presents an accessible biography of this fascinating woman.

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Party at Silver Spires

By: Ann Bryant

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Nicole is so proud to be starting at Silver Spires boarding school, but she can't help worrying that her new friends will realize that she doesn't really fit in. After all, they have expensive clothes and amazing holiday homes, while she couldn't even afford to come to school without her scholarship. And now there's an ultra-glam welcome party.

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Unreliable Sources

By: John Simpson

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Examines how Great Britain's free press changed the world and changed itself over the course of the last hundred years, from the creation of the "Daily Mail" and the first stokings of anti-German sentiment in the years leading up to the First World War, to the "Sun"'s propping up of the Thatcher government, and beyond.

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The Crucible of Christianity

By: Jonathan Hill

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Christianity is the largest religion in the world, its influence felt in every corner of the globe. But where did this religion come from? How did it take shape and formulate its beliefs? This book takes us back to the beginnings, setting us in the world of the Roman Empire and assessing the dominant philosophies of the time.

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Facts are Subversive

By: Timothy Garton Ash

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For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp precision, what he has found. This book collects his writings since the millennium, that addresses some of the crucial questions of our time. It is history of the present on a scale by turns panoramic and human.

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Lustrum

By: Robert Harris

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It's Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, and Clodius is an ambitious playboy.

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Stalin's Nemesis

By: Bertrand M. Patenaude

Leon Trotsky, the intellectual of the Russian Revolution, might have succeeded Lenin and become the ruler of the Soviet Union. But by the time the Second World War broke out he was in exile, living in Mexico in a villa. Stalin personally ordered his secret police to kill his fiercest left-wing critic. This book reconstructs a famous state crime.

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A Brush with Nature

By: Richard Mabey

Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for "BBC Wildlife Magazine". This collection brings together his favourite pieces and presents a view of the changing natural landscape in which we live.

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