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"laced with the stories of individual women and their times... heart-wrenching..."

"Sadly, insight is delivered sparingly, and the shade of Mr Pooter, only without such good jokes, hovers over these pages..."

"Crampton writes beautifully of the area’s charms..."

"The untold story of an Edwardian detective and her eccentric sleuthing skills...."

"Wolf certainly writes a sprightly sentence and knows how to leaven the statistical stodge with interesting vignettes. ..."

"My expectations of Chanel’s Riviera were high..."

"why the crusades remain fascinating..."

"The stories of Soviet children caught up in the horror of the Nazi invasion make powerful reading..."

"a remarkable book — grim and fascinating..."

"As long as poverty and maritime trade exist, so will piracy..."

"reads like the culmination of a lifetime’s wanderings in the very farthest outposts of scientific and medical history..."

"an astonishingly assured debut by an extremely talented young historian..."

"The ugliness of conquest..."

"continue[s] to speak against denialism..."

"kaleidoscopic..."

"The lack of any sense of direction is bewildering, and might be deliberate..."

"what it's like to be forced to flee your home ..."

"the real pleasure of The Animal’s Companion lies in its stories..."

"The remarkable story of the flamboyant Sikh who killed an imperial die-hard to avenge the victims of the Amritsar massacre..."

"offer[s] a timely backdrop to Britain’s present woes..."

"a beautiful and often moving reflection on history, warfare, undersea exploration, friendship, courage and tragedy..."

"Robert Elms mourns the squats and slums of 1970s Notting Hill before luxury apartments, gyms and coffee chains spread throughout the city..."

"sometimes leads to caricature..."

"well-stocked with interesting and revealing facts..."

"A little book of anti-Crusovian polemic..."