Pubs for the People
£18.99A fascinating trip into the world of the English pub, tracing its past and exploring how it represents the hope of a more connected and compassionate future.
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Creative Journeys
£20.00This book collects interviews with trailblazers and misfits from the worlds of music, literature, film and art, including Neneh Cherry, Maxine Peake, Jarvis Cocker, Lemn Sissay, Andrew Weatherall, Raymond Carver and Jeremy Deller.
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Eclipsing the West
£12.99An incisive, data-driven look at the rise of China and India that considers how these new 'superstates' are reshaping the world order.
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Lying Abroad
£20.00Lying abroad reconstructs the tumultuous early modern career of a jobbing ambassador, Henry Wotton, the man James I sent to Venice in 1604 to restore Anglo-Venetian relations. It recounts his back-story then follows his daily life in diplomacy, poised between tedium and crisis – a life endlessly theatrical.
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Monasticism in Late Medieval England, C.1300-1535
£25.00Monasticism in Late Medieval England provides an ideal introduction to this subject for students and scholars alike. It combines translated sources relating to every aspect of late medieval monastic life with the first extended overview of pre-Reformation monasticism in England for a generation.