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'Exquisitely written and ripe with detail' Sunday Times. 'An engaging book ... He knows his Briti...

People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap: When the creature ...

In 1945 Britain was the world''s leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achieve...

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Taking humanity's complex relationship with the sea as its starting point, 'Seven Tenths' is an e...

Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully-written b...

People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap: When the creature ...

Book Three in the Gerald Samper series finds Samper recuperating in Sussex, when he learns that f...

Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celeb...