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Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign

For three years, from 2007 until 2010, Sherard Cowper-Coles was on the diplomatic frontline in Kabul as the West’s mission ...

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Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, And Lost, 1934-1961

Paul Hendrickson claims to have done the seemingly impossible: to present Ernest Hemingway in a whole new light. Hendrickson focuses ...

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My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the underdog, it ...

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The Beginner's Goodbye

When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact; some seemed to have ...

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This is How You Lose Her

Junot Diaz's new collection, "This Is How You Lose Her", is a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate ...

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Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order

The world is drowning in debt, in paper promises. Can we stay afloat? In this book, Philip Coggan shows how ...

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