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Seeker After Truths The Life and Times of G. A. Studdert Kennedy ("Woodbine Willie") 1883-1929

Parker Linda

ISBN: HB: 9781912174041, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy became one of the most famous army chaplains of the First World War, earning the nickname "Woodbine Willie" because of his habit of giving out both cigarettes and bibles to the men at the front. During the war he also earned...

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Secret Life of a Black Aspie A Memoir

Prahlad Anand

ISBN: PB: 9781602233218, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story. For the first four years of his life, Prahlad didn't speak. But his silence didn't stop...

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History of Art

Peggy Guggenheim The Shock of the Modern

Prose Francine

ISBN: PB: 9780300224290, Yale University Press, November 2016
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

<p>A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) broug...

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Man Who Stole Himself The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan

Palsson Gisli

ISBN: HB: 9780226313283, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 49 halftones

The island nation of Iceland is known for many things – majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood – but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family...

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Psychology

Becoming Freud The Making of Psychoanalysis

Phillips Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780300219838, ISBN: HB: 9780300158663, Yale University Press, March 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

"Becoming Freud" is the story of the young Freud – Freud up until the age of fifty – that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Imprudent King A New Life of Philip II

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300216950, Yale University Press, November 2015
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 colour illus.,14 black&white illus.

Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of t...

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Poetry

Wilfred Owen An Illustrated Life

Potter Jane, Stallworthy Jon

ISBN: HB: 9781851243945, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
144 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 60 colour illus.

Wilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he saw only five of his poems published in his lifetime...

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Memoirs of Walter Bagehot

Prochaska Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780300195545, Yale University Press, August 2013
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was a prominent Victorian lawyer, businessman, essayist and journalist. For 17 years he was editor of The Economist, and to this day the magazine includes a weekly "Bagehot" column. His analyses of politics, economics and p...

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Biography & Memoires

Strindberg A Life

Prideaux Sue

ISBN: PB: 9780300198065, ISBN: HB: 9780300136937, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist and hellraiser – August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite draw...

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Literary Criticism

Memories from the Twentieth Century A Kind of Trilogy

Pintor Luigi

ISBN: PB: 9780857425782, ISBN: HB: 9780857420817, Seagull Books, May 2013
204 pp., 25x15 cm

In these three short books – "Servabo: A Fin De Siecle Memoir", "Miss Kirchgessner", and "The Medlar Tree", collected in one volume in English for the first time – Luigi Pinto retraces a life marked, often in spite of itself, by politics. At once int...

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