After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe
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After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe
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Includes:: fresh & bold flavours from Spain. With over 120 recipes, Spanish Bible provides an easy-to-follow

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Between 1936 & 1945, tens of thousands of people across Spain were executed at the hands of General Franco. With the country only recently coming to terms with the scale of his reign of terror, Paul Preston
- the leading expert on 20th century Spain
- attempts to assess the General

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Between 1936 & 1945, tens of thousands of people across Spain were executed at the hands of General Franco. With the country only recently coming to terms with the scale of his reign of terror, Paul Preston
- the leading expert on 20th century Spain
- attempts to assess the Generalísimo`s motives in The Spanish Holocaust. Using cold, hard evidence & a series of revealing descriptions, Preston reveals the true extent of the terror the Franco regime inflicted on Spain`s population
- something the author believes is tantamount to a holocaust, such was the extend of cold-bloodied killings. Nothing is concealed in Preston`s work, which makes it one of the most important contemporary history books in 2012. Buy your copy today!


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Helen has little idea what lies ahead when she offers her spare room to an old friend of fifteen years. Nicola has arrived in the city for treatment for cancer. Sceptical of the medical establishment, placing all her faith in an alternative health centre, Nicola is determined to find her own way to deal with her illness, regardless of the advice that Helen can offer. In the weeks that follow, Nicola`s battle against her cancer will turn not only her own life upside down but also those of everyone around her. ” The Spare Room” is a magical gem of a book that packs a huge punch, charting a friendship as it is tested by the threat of death. ...

In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete & oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others
- particularly on the lonely & romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist & destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. Over the course of one momentous term, David & Evert forge an unlikely friendship that will colour their lives for decades to come... Alan Hollinghurst`s masterly new novel evokes the intimate relationships of a group of friends bound together by art, literature & love across three generations. It explores the social & sexual revolutions of the most pivotal years of the past century, whose life-changing consequences are still being played out to this day. Richly observed, disarmingly witty & emotionally charged, The Sparsholt Affair is an unmissable achievement from one of our finest writers.
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In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete & oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others – particularly on the lonely & romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist & destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. Over the course of one momentous term, David & Evert forge an unlikely friendship that will colour their lives for decades to come... Alan Hollinghurst’s masterly new novel evokes the intimate relationships of a group of friends bound together by art, literature & love across three generations. It explores the social & sexual revolutions of the most pivotal years of the past century, whose life-changing consequences are still being played out to this day. Richly observed, disarmingly witty & emotionally charged, The Sparsholt Affair is an unmissable achievement from one of our finest writers. ...

This is the story of the adventurers who risked death to discover strange life forms in the farthest corners of Earth. Beginning with Linnaeus, a colourful band of explorers made it their mission to travel & bring back astonishing new life forms. Acclaimed science writer Richard Conniff brings these daredevil ”species seekers” to life. Alongside their globe-spanning tales of adventure, he recounts some of the most dramatic shifts in the history of human thought. At the start, everyone accepted that the Earth had been created for our benefit. People weren`t sure where vegetable ended & animal began, they couldn`t classify species & didn`t understand the causes of disease. But all that changed as the species seekers introduced us to the pantheon of life on Earth-and our place within it. ...

In the decades following the First World War, when aviation was still a revelation, flight was perceived as a spectacle to delight the eyes & stimulate the imagination. Robert Wohl takes us back to this time, recapturing the achievements of pioneering aviators & exploring flight as a source of cultural inspiration in the United States & Europe. Wohl begins the story of aviation in this era with a fresh account of Charles Lindbergh's dramatic New York-Paris flight in 1927, then goes on to discuss how Mussolini identified his fascist regime with the modernist cachet of aviation. Wohl shows how the Hollywood film industry
- aided by such director-flyers as William Wellman, Howard Hawks, & Howard Hughes
- created the aviation film; how writers such as Antoine de St-Exupery helped foster France's self-image as the winged nation; & how the spectacle of flight reached its tragic apotheosis during the bombing campaigns of the Spanish Civil War & World War II. Generously illustrated with rare photographs, paintings, & posters, this book offers a gripping account of aviation & its hold on the popular imagination during the first half of the twentieth century.

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