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In his remarkable account of the last Medici, famous aesthete and historian Harold Acton (1904-1994) takes up the causes which led to the disappearance of a house which has left indelible traces on the art, literature and commerce of the world;

The story of Maurice Girodias and the Olympia Press is one of the most bizarre and flamboyant in publishing history.

Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, in 1878, and educated at St Paul's College and Lincoln College, Oxford. Interspersed are poems that often distil the theme of a prose description and show that Thomas's strength as a poet is more than equal to his creative achievement as a writer of prose.

The Anglo-American alliance was the cornerstone of Churchill's foreign policy after 1940. Churchill carried on the war in 1940 because he believed that American help could save the British Empire. This book argues that his faith was misplaced, and that Franklin Roosevelt saw an end to imperialism as one of America's war aims.

Sir Harold Acton (1904-1994) - famous aesthete and historian - brings 18th-century Naples vividly to life, with unforgettable characters such as Lady Hamilton and Nelson, royal eccentrics and plenty of court intrigue. 'An elaborate comedy of manners played out over 700 pages.' The Times

'This is a peace house,' reads the notice on the Williamses front door. But as Sara says, 'Who needs nukes? We got Dad.' Dad certainly is noisy, a genial but dangerous thunderstorm. Ma, though less alarming, is voluble in the extreme, living in a world of good causes and positive thinking.

An autobiographical novel recording a true experience out of the body, followed by a London ball at which, against a background of social comedy, the theme is taken up and developed into a passionate argument for the immortality of the soul.

Melinda Paleface is a heart-throb: a high official in the Foreign Service, a French sailor, two English captains, an American airman, even the celebrated native King, Yoyo of Jubaland fall under her spell. And yet, among the other girls in the cypher department she is, as the original blurb, said 'as quiet as an Amanita in a basket of mushrooms'.

Well known in the 1920s and 1930s chiefly as a novelist (whose books were admired by Arnold Bennett, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and others), Gerhardie fell mysteriously silent at the beginning of the Second World War and did not publish another book during the remaining thirty-seven years of his life.

At Cricklepit School Juniper feels safe with Ranjit and the reassuring presence of teachers like Mr Merchant and Miss Plum.

Drawing on the author's memories of her own childhood, Gene Kemp's The Well is the account of Annie Sutton's growing up in a Midlands village during the years before the Second World War.

The Mink War, Gene Kemp's first narrative poem, tells how the animal inhabitants of Whitsman's Wood are forced to band together and do battle with an army of mink on the run. As Gillian Cross has said: 'Gene Kemp has addressed a wide range of readers in a variety of genres.

Dennis Potter's death in 1994 deprived British television of its most controversial figure. Potter was a prolific writer of genius. Yet while his subversive television plays scandalized and delighted the nation, they also made him the butt of the tabloids, who nicknamed him 'Dirty Den' for his 1989 serial "Blackeyes".

It had a brief life, falling foul of a libel threat, and for a long time was very scarce. Beneath its surface blacknesses of mood and double-dealing, what makes this book more diverting than painful is the amused unblinking eye the author brings to bear on an unusually wide range of characters.

First published in 1926, this novel featured a preface strenuously denying that it was anything but a work of fiction, William Clissold is nevertheless a character whose thought and background is so thoroughly documented in the work that the reader cannot help identifying him to some extent with the author himself.

First published in 1926, this novel featured a preface strenuously denying that it was anything but a work of fiction, William Clissold is nevertheless a character whose thought and background is so thoroughly documented in the work that the reader cannot help identifying him to some extent with the author himself.

First published in 1926, this novel featured a preface strenuously denying that it was anything but a work of fiction, William Clissold is nevertheless a character whose thought and background is so thoroughly documented in the work that the reader cannot help identifying him to some extent with the author himself.

Sir Stanley Unwin's best-known book was The Truth About Publishing. It was first published in 1926 and held sway as a sort of vade-mecum of the trade for decades afterwards.

London and provincial cities like Bristol, Leeds and Birmingham are examined and special attention is given to certain types of towns: railway towns like Crewe and Swindon, and seaports and holiday resorts many of which were developed in conjunction with the railways.

Features letters to and from Igor Stravinsky, the composer's correspondence with his publishers, that cover the years 1928-39 and the publication of the "Violin Concerto", the "Concerto per due pianoforte soli", "Jeu de Cartes", the "Concerto in E flat", and the "Symphony in C". These letters offer glimpses into his daily life.

Presents Igor Stravinsky's correspondence. This book offers information relating to the composer's association with dance, to his relationship with other composers and musicians, and to the daily, financial, and familial concerns of his life.

Presents a selection of letters to and from Igor Stravinsky. This book provides information about Stravinsky's relationships with other musicians, and about his methods of composition. Based on letters to Stravinsky from his first wife Catherine, it helps in an understanding of the composer's personal and family life.

The author spent the South African winter of 1957 touring the country for the Guardian. This book presents an evocation of the atmosphere of apartheid, and an impression of life in South Africa at a time of great tension.

Moorhouse's evocation of a beautiful, turbulent and little-known region is masterly and unforgettable. 'It was high time someone put Pakistan on the travel bookshelf, and this is what Geoffrey Moorhouse has done - with style, relish, much wit and enormous good humour ...

Sir Isaac Harman, international Bread and Cake magnate, suffers an onslaught of women. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman is a witty, sardonic and thoughtful novel about sex, society and women's independence.

'We are lucky to have Jan Morris, and her gift of transporting us to other realms.' Salley VickersThe Hashemites are the oldest, proudest, most romantic and most tragic family of Greater Arabia.

Nor does he forget that the garden is also a children's playground, window-cleaner's base and domain of cars and clothes lines. 'A basic and eminently practical book about gardens - ordinary gardens, such as are owned by thousands of people all over Britain.

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, although made as Communist propaganda to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the mutiny in 1905, is an undoubted film classic.

showing us the enthralling interplay of politics, avarice, hate, national pride, and religious fanaticism in that part of the globe.' The New YorkerThe Market of Seleukia is a portrait of the Middle East at the catalytic moment of the Suez Crisis.