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In 1921, Fran̤oise Frenkel Рa Jewish woman from Poland Рopens her first bookshop in Berlin. It is a dream come true. The dream lasts nearly two decades. Then suddenly, it ends. It ends with police confiscations and the Night of Broken Glass, as Jewish shops and businesses are smashed to pieces. It ends when no one protests. So Fran̤oise flees to France, just weeks before war breaks out. In Paris, on the wireless and in the newspapers, horror has made itself at home. When the city is bombed, Fran̤oise seeks refuge in Avignon, then Nice, which is awash with refugees and terrible suffering; children are torn from their parents; mothers throw themselves under buses. Horrified by what she sees, Fran̤oise goes into hiding. She survives only because strangers risk their lives to protect her.
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Ludwig Bemelmans’ charming intergenerational friendship with the late-in-life ‘First Lady of Interior Decoration’ provides an enormously enjoyable nostalgia trip to the sun-soaked glamour of Los Angeles, where de Wolfe surrounded herself with classic movie stars and a luminous parade of life’s oddities. With hilarity and mischief that de Wolfe would no doubt approve, ‘To the One I Love the Best’ lifts the curtain on 1950s Hollywood – a bygone world of extravagance and eccentricity, where the parties are held in circus tents and populated by ravishing movie stars.
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When Philippa and her family relocated to the wilds of Wyoming, the sound of wolves close to their new home fed her lifelong fascination. But as she settled into life in the US, she discovered many residents weren’t happy to share their land with wolves. Philippa listened to what locals have to say and travelled further from home to talk to rangers, conservationists, hunters and ranch owners to try and learn when and why opinions on wolves became so polarised. It’s now more than a decade since wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park. To many, their reintroduction seemed like a victory. But what does the future hold for wolves in a land where many people resent they were ever there at all? How can ever-increasing human populations learn to live alongside large predators before we end up with a planet devoid of them?
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It was one of the most searing images of the 20th century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow – and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling – and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, ‘Spare’ is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.
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An anthology of classical literature, both non-fiction and fiction, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome.
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The very best of British and Irish nature writing selected by the natural history writer Patrick Barkham.
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A collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people.
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Alfred Milner was one of Britain’s most famous empire builders who both contributed to the Allied victory in World War I and left an indelible imprint on the history of South Africa. Yet is legacy is contested and little understood. Largely responsible for the Boer War – a conflict marking the end of the British Empire – afterwards Milner helped to unify South Africa, but brewed resentment among Afrikaners. In Britain, from 1916 Milner was part of Lloyd George’s five-man War Cabinet, and the driving force behind the Imperial War Cabinet which increased the status of Britain’s Dominions. In this biography, Richard Steyn argues that Milner’s reputation should not be solely defined by his 8 years’ service in South Africa. If he was the wrong man to send to that country, he was the right person in a far greater international conflict.
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Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide – the thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz – a luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter in the 1920s. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he uncovers the everyday chaos that reigns behind the smooth facades of the gilded dining room and banquet halls. In hilarious detail, Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maitre d’hotel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy. Illustrated with his own charming line drawings, Bemelmans’ tales of a bygone era of extravagance are as charming as they are riotously entertaining.
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For over half a century Noël Coward was the British theatre’s most renowned dramatist, director and star. These diaries chronicle the last 30 years of his life, from his war-time concert tours, to his triumphant re-emergence in the 1960s.
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Anne Glenconner’s glittering life hasn’t always been golden. As she revealed in her astonishing bestselling memoir ‘Lady in Waiting’, it has been one of stark contrasts – from growing up in the splendour of Holkham Hall to living in a tent in the jungle of Mustique, from travelling the world with Princess Margaret to coping with her wildly unpredictable husband Lord Glenconner. Tragically, she has also survived the loss of two of her sons and nursed a third son back from a coma. Now in her ninetieth year, and at her happiest, Anne brings her bracing honesty, characteristic wit and courage to reflect on and reveal more about her long and unexpected life, her extremely volatile marriage, and what it’s taught her. As a wife, she became a master in the art of keeping the peace, knowing when to pick her battles, when she needed help – and when to take a lover.
