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Written with humour and insight, this informal memoir is a delightful celebration of the passions...

In 1921 Hugh Walpole founded the Society of Bookmen, a club for publishers, booksellers and liter...

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Richard Charkin's experience as a publisher is unique among his generation. Over the past half ce...

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This is the remarkable life of a man who rose from humble beginnings to the very top of the Briti...

Ralph Bennett, a Cambridge historian, was drafted into Bletchley Park in 1940 to work in Hut 3 wh...

The true story of how young Alexander Oppenheim, born in 1925, the son of a rich Berlin banking f...

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A SHATTERED IDOL

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In 1997, the Bar Council, which regulates the behaviour of barristers, appointed Michael Scott, a...

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