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"one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside..."

"A giddy delight sometimes breaks through Mr Jackson’s sober researches..."

"A chilling study of the arts under the Nazis...."

"Utterly compelling book looks at perspectives ranging from Victorian women to slaves..."

"A gripping account of the nation’s greatest mistake is timely and relevant..."

"Wilson-Lee is a diligent historian, a dogged researcher and an engaging writer...."

"Katrina Gulliver considers how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy..."

"Anita Anand combines interesting details with forensic research and an eye for colour..."

"A spiky, dystopian satire is reissued for the first time in a century..."

"Decades of failed harvests during the Little Ice Age encouraged global trade, imperialism and the establishment of new European entrepôts..."

"a salacious and tragic tale..."

"an intelligent and unsentimentally argued account of one of the most horrifying moments in the history of the Raj..."

"climate, disease and the end of an empire..."

"an impressive account of a medieval warrior’s quest to be England’s first regnant queen..."

"(a) humane and convincing book..."

"On inequality of opportunity in UK education..."

"a cracking story of an extraordinarily brave woman...."

"there is hope amid the despair..."

"a moving record of a life well lived in the face of appalling obstacles..."

"stimulating, though at times overly academic..."

"Patrick Bishop revels in contradictions of Conservative who was notoriously private..."

"A thought-provoking book revisits modern capitalism as much as Victorian aesthetics..."

"The Map of Knowledge is popular intellectual history at its best..."

"It is the kind of obsessive book I like best — a full-body immersion into Greeneland..."

"It is her enthusiasm as much as her scholarship that makes this such a beguiling read..."

"With this book as our evidence, we can say that Sorge was an impeccable spy, and also that Matthews is an impeccable biographer. ..."

"a gripping, miss-your-subway-stop read..."

"an elegantly written and superbly researched survey of a great geographical and historical puzzle. ..."