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Anne Lister was a wealthy Yorkshire heiress, a world traveller and an out lesbian during the Regency era – a time when it was difficult simply to be female. She wrote her diary in code derived from Ancient Greek, including details of her liaisons with women. Liberated by her money, she remained unmarried, opened a colliery and chose to dress all in black. Some locals referred to her as Gentleman Jack and sent her poison pen letters, but this did not dissuade her from living mostly as she pleased. On inheriting Shibden Hall, Anne chose to travel abroad, before returning to Halifax and courting Ann Walker, another wealthy heiress twelve years her junior. They renovated Shibden Hall together and considered themselves married, to the horror of Walker’s relatives. The biography combines excerpts of Lister’s own diaries with Angela Steidele’s erudite and lively commentary.
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How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?
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From the Battle of Catterick (AD 598) to the premiership of Tony Blair, one of Britain’s bestselling authors, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a strong narrative with all the most important and interesting dates in our history in a text that is as characteristically stylish as it is authoritative.
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A sparkling social history of the ‘Dollar Princesses’, the young American heiresses who married into the English aristocracy.
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This telling of the story of Jane’s life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the way in which home is used in her novels to mean both a place of pleasure and a prison.
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A masterpiece of narrative non-fiction, set around an American crime and the birth of the FBI, a thrilling investigative account of a forgotten moment in history.
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An internationally admired figure, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is the most high-profile monarch in the world, enjoying enduring and wide-ranging popularity.
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As a young medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell. He observed as Dr Bell identified a patient’s occupation, hometown and ailments both imagined and genuine from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was meanwhile cultivating essential knowledge that would help him to develop and define the art of the detective novel. From Doyle’s early days surrounded by poverty and violence, to his escape to University and finally to his first days as a surgeon in his own practice, acclaimed author Michael Sims traces the circuitous yet inevitable development of Arthur Conan Doyle as the father of the modern mystery, whose most famous creation is still the most well-known and well-loved of the canon’s many members.
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‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie
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In the village of Road in Wiltshire during the summer of 1860, a family awakes to discover that a gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, has the unenviable task of conducting the investigation.
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A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick – the remarkable story of the extraordinary woman who defied her times by living as a man
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In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. The book takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting. Beautifully written, it combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now.
