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Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. However, it was the individual officers below them who actually led the troops to enact the orders. Some of these were remarka …

Reflections on the late Arthur Miller from over seventy writers, actors, directors and friends, with ”Arthur Miller Remembers”, an interview with the writer from 1995. Following his death in Februa …

Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemis …

The acclaimed author of The Magnetic Girl delivers “an elegy for her dead sisters . . . a heartfelt, painful family saga, skillfully told by a survivor” (Kirkus Reviews).   When J …

A true story about a troubled boy growing up with an extremely distressed family and an untamed mother who suppressed and self medicated her mental illness by inflicting pain on her children! …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION PRIZE 2021 ”A manifesto for recalibrating” DAILY MAIL ”I can”t think of many books where the reader feels so passionately on the side of the narrator” GUARDIAN ”A …

This book traces the life”s work of a man now widely regarded as one of the greatest economists, political philosophers and social theorists of the century. The result is the most alive and accessib …

The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and in …

For many, the arms trade and its dealers are the root cause of regional wars and global terrorism. In both public and academic debates, arms dealers are considered immoral as they profit from conflic …

My sand life, my pebble life. My life measured out in tides, coming in and going out. My life measured out in games of trying to spot the sea first. My life measured out in the delicious and indulgen …