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Based on five walks in central London, Peter Clark illuminates the settings of Dickens's London, his life, his journalism and his fiction. He also explores `The First Suburbs' (Camden Town, Chelsea, Greenwich, Hampstead, Highgate and Limehouse) as they feature in Dickens's writing.

Bealport is a portrait of a place, at once sympathetic, mordant, unsparing, comic, tragic and universal, and of a way of life that is passing. It is a novel of a town, and to no small degree of every town in America and beyond.

The author, critic and broadcaster Barnaby Rogerson looks at six people who between the fact and the powerful myth shaped North Africa. Praised by the "Astene Bulletin" as 'an example of dazzling erudition worn lightly'.

The writer who captured the feeling of the world ahead of him was also inextricably bound to the city he was based in. Author of "Franz Kafka: The Early Years" looks closely at this relationship here.

The Responsibilities of Democracy explores the overall health of UK democracy, giving a balanced analysis of its values and flaws. It is also a clarion call to the electorate and politicians to nurture and protect the gentle values on which democracy depends. No reader seeking to understand democracy can afford to ignore this book.

Named "Man of the Millennium" in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe's history: a printing press with mechanical movable type. This development sparked the printing revolution, which is regarded as the milestone of the second millennium and represents one of the central contributions in the turn to modernity. His printing press came to play a key role in the development...

Stripping away the many lays of Nazi and Allied propaganda, Reuth argues that Rommel's life symbolises the German tragedy: to have followed Hitler into the abyss, and to have considered that to be his duty.

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Integrity in Public Life provides a critique of and an essential guide to integrity, leaving the reader with some hope for its continued place in public life.

In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that, as with any disease, to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must first consider the circumstances of its emergence, along with the symptoms and complications it causes in both the people and the dictator.

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Former British Prime Minister best known for the creation of the National Health Service.

Accompanying Hennessy's radio programme of the same name, a series of encounters with key politicians of then and now. In this volume, Blair, Heseltine, Cable, Warsi, Ashdown, Harman and many others.

An addition to the "Haus Curiosities Series", described by the "Independent" as 'the thinking person's commuting read.' Former MEP Elles considers the ways in which Britain has perceived the EU incorrectly.

When Alejandro Luque receives a book of photographs taken in Sicily by the Argentinian writer, essayist, and poet Luis Borges, he decides to trace the writer's journey, setting off with a group of friends on his own Sicilian odyssey. Meticulously identifying the location of each photograph, Luque uses Borges's pictures to imagine the range of emotions that the renowned writer felt as he experienced the same views. As his hunt for the locations...

First ever 'Researcher in Residence' at 10 Downing Street Jack Brown looks at the spatial and personal aspects of the lives of Prime Ministers as they play out behind closed doors, and how the building has featured in the limits and potential of the role.

Birgit Haustedt guides readers through the city of Venice in poet's footsteps, showing us the sights through Rilke's eyes. A literary travel companion featuring guidebook-style information and supported by eleven detailed maps of city walks.

Beautifully illustrated with coloured maps and charts, Phantom Islands shows the cunning of imposters and frauds, the earnestness of explorers searching for knowledge, and the pleasure that can be found in our willingness to deceive and to be deceived.

The Statesman and the Tramp reveals the intimacy that can arise when two extraordinarily different men share their common struggle.