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On Looking into the Abyss: Ultimately Thoughts on Culture and Society: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

By Himmelfarb, Gertrude

The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China

By Carr, Caleb

Letters from London (Vintage International)

By Barnes, Julian

Mixed European Dumpbin/Shrinkwrap Only

By John Berendt

On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal (Vintage Departures)

By Simeti, Mary Taylor, Desser, Robin

Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home

By White, Bailey

The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

By Bumiller, Elisabeth

In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason and Discovery

By Peck, M. Scott

Still Life: A Tunbridge Wells Childhood

By Cobb, Richard

The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Inside Story of the Man Who Made Modern China

By Li, Zhisui

Venice: Pure City

By Ackroyd, Peter

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

By Bakewell, Sarah

Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea

By Thomas Wright

The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts

By de Waal, Edmund

The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey

By Tindall, Gillian

The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives

By Knight, Lynn

Still Life: A Tunbridge Wells Childhood

By Cobb, Richard

Whisperings in the Blood

By Davidow, Shelley

Women

By Attallah, Naim

Generations of Memories: Voices of Jewish Women

By Jewish Women in London Group

Time Remembered

By Finn, Ralph L.

The Corncrake and The Lysander

By Macdonald, Finlay J.

A Canterbury Childhood

By Kenneth Pinnock

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Greenblatt, Stephen

The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford

By Thompson, Flora, Shuckburgh, Julian

A Victorian Household: Based on the Diaries of Marion Sambourne

By Nicholson, Shirley, Sambourne, Marion

Hedingham Harvest: Victorian Family Life in Rural England (National Trust classics)

By Robinson, Geoffrey

The Illustrated Cider with Rosie

By Lee, Laurie

Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties

By Macdonald, Ian

Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling

By King, Dr Ross