John Murray: 683 books

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Byron

Life and Legend

by Fiona MacCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces...
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by John Manley
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013

In The Romans: All That Matters, John Manley focuses on some of the fundamental aspects of the Roman Empire, especially those topics that have relevance beyond the study of Antiquity itself - how its material remains and philosophical concepts have survived and still influence us today. How did a...
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by John Manley
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014

- When did archaeology begin? - Who were the first antiquarians in early modern Europe? - How did archaeology free human history from biblical creationism? - How did archaeology become a pseudo-scientific discipline? - Who built the first museum? Leading expert Dr John Manley starts by dealing...
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The Riddle and the Knight

In Search of Sir John Mandeville

by Giles Milton
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012

In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as well. His book about that voyage, THE TRAVELS, was heralded as the most important book of the...
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Elizabeth Jane Howard

A Dangerous Innocence

by Artemis Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction....
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English for the Natives

Discover the Grammar You Don't Know You Know

by Harry Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013

'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there, vibrating with fear, desperately trying to figure...
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On Secret Service East of Constantinople

The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire

by Peter Hopkirk
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011

Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game,...
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A Long Lunch

My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them

by Simon Hoggart
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010

A host of memories from Simon Hoggart's forty-plus years in journalism. Simon reveals what Alan Clark said about Melvyn Bragg, what really happened at the Lady Chatterley trial, what Cherie Blair said to him and how he riposted, as well as the time John Sergeant drove a flight attendant to a fury,...
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by Justin Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009

Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano. Or where terms like bunkum, maverick, John...
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by Malcolm Gaskill
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006

By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen began interrogating women suspected of witchcraft, triggering the most brutal...
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When Britain Burned the White House

The 1814 Invasion of Washington

by Peter Snow
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013

As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. Shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political History Book of the Year Award 2014. In August 1814 the United States' army is defeated in battle by an invading force just outside Washington DC. The US president and his wife have just enough time...
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The Curious Habits of Dr Adams

A 1950s Murder Mystery

by Jane Robins
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013

'Was rich Mrs Gertrude Hullett murdered at her luxurious 15-room home on Beachy Head? Detectives are tonight trying to establish the cause of the 50-year-old widow's sudden death . . . ' Daily Mail, 1957 In July 1957, the press descended in droves on the south-coast town of Eastbourne. An inquest...
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The Traitors

A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit

by Josh Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017

'An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason. Beautifully written. A stunning debut' Damien Lewis Playboy. Fascist. Strongman. Thief. Traitors. John Amery is a drunk and a fanatic, an exiled playboy whose frail body is riven by contradictions. Harold...
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by Andy Lymer
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Small Business Accounting Made Easy is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to the art of managing your business books and accounts....
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