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    Happy Valley was the name given to the Wanjohi Valley in the Kenya Highlands, where a small community of affluent, hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. While Kenya's early colonial days have been immortalised by farming pioneers like Lord Delamere and Karen Blixen, and the pioneering aviator Beryl Markham, Happy Valley became infamous under the influence of troubled socialite, ... Leer más

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  • 1939: The Last Season

    A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult world of their parents. They sparkled their way through a succession of balls and parties and ... Leer más

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  • An English Affair

    Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

    WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014.Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution.Britain in 1963 – Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above all, old-fashioned ... Leer más

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  • Debs at War

    1939-1945

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  • Dear Lupin

    Letters to a Wayward Son

    "Among the funniest [letters] ever dispatched in the vain hope of steering a black sheep onto something like the straight and narrow." — The Wall Street JournalNostalgic, witty, and original, Dear Lupin by Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer tracks the entire correspondence between a father and his only son. When the book begins, Charlie, the son, is studying at Eton, although the studying itself ... Leer más

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  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Man Booker Prize Winner)

    A Novel

    Series series Vintage International
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    Burundi has recently emerged from twelve years of devastating civil war. Its economy has been destroyed and hundreds and thousands of people have been killed. In this book, the voices of ordinary Burundians are heard for the first time.Farmers, artisans, traders, mothers, soldiers and students talk about the past and the future, war and peace, their hopes for a better life and their relationships ... Leer más

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  • Give a Man a Fish

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    Series series The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
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  • The Pillar of Salt

    de Albert Memmi ...
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