The Good German of Nanking - The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe; Erwin Wickert (Editor); John E. Woods (Translator)
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In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to leave the city. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named John Rabe, who ran the local Siemens factory, refused on the grounds that it would show a bad example to his Chinese workers. Sendi ...Show more
Alfred Russel Wallace : A Life by Peter Raby
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In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast - his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within a fortnight, his outline and Wal ...Show more
No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface from Patrick Modiano by Francoise Frenkel
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A bitter, beautiful and important bookRobert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENTThe French sensation, now in English translation.Fran oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving ...Show more
What Do You Do with Them on Sunday's? by Harold Kent
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A compelling portrait of the life of drovers and stockmen working on the big cattle stations in the 1950s, from a first-time author who spent most of his working life in the Australian Outback.Banjo didn't get it quite right, but then again, Banjo probably had never been a drover.So begins this gritty a ...Show more
W SOMERSET MAUGHAM by IVOR BROWN
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Vita's Other World - A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-West by Jane Brown
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Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West
Strictly Personal - Some Memoirs of Cecil H. King by Cecil Harmsworth King
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