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Travels with a Tangerine
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
John Murray
Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, ...
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The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
James Frey
John Murray
James Frey isn't like other writers. He's been called a liar. A cheat. A con man. He's been called a saviour. A revolutionary. A genius. He's been sued by readers. Dropped by publishers because of his controversies. Berated by TV talk-show hosts ...
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Prince
Rory Clements
John Murray
Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour and fear. Plague rages, famine is rife, the ageing Queen's couriers scheme: Elizabeth's Golden Age is truly tarnished. Meanwhile Spain watches and waits - and plots.Into this turmoil a small cart ...
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Total War
Michael Jones
John Murray
Following on from The Retreat, Total War traces the fighting from the battle for Kursk in 1943 to the bloody battle for Berlin. Using powerful eye-witness accounts he tells a story of vicious brutality on both sides.
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Trespassers on the Roof of the World
Peter Hopkirk
John Murray
No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately ...
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Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders
Gyles BRANDRETH
John Murray
In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and when the two friends make a series of macabre ...
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Why We Run
Robin Harvie
John Murray
Everyone can run. It is the simplest of sports, requiring only a pair of trainers and the open road. Its simplicity is part of its beauty. But why do we do it? Obsessive amateur runner Robin Harvie wants to understand what makes him run mile after ...
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Sugar Island
Sanjida O'Connell
John Murray
1859. Unrest is brewing in the South as Emily, an actress from England, arrives in Georgia to begin life with her new husband Charles. On arriving, Emily realises that Charles has been keeping a terrible secret from her – he is a slave-owner. On ...
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Constance - The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde
Franny Moyle
John Murray
In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's ...
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Traitor
Rory Clements
John Murray
The Elizabethan navy has a secret weapon: an optical instrument so powerful it gives England unassailable superiority at sea. Spain will stop at nothing to steal it and seize the two men who understand its secrets - its operative William Ivory, ...
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