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The Devils of Cardona
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2016
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الدين والدم: إبادة شعب الأندلس
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2009
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Black Sun Rising
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2020
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The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism
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2007
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Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent
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2012
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11 editions
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Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
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2015
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5 editions
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The Savage Frontier: The Pyrenees in History and the Imagination
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2018
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The Emperor of Seville (The Bernardo de Mendoza Mysteries Book 2)
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My Father's House: In Search of a Lost Past
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2014
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Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia
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World on Fire
Writing always requires an element of faith, that if you can find the right words, they might resonate and lead to some positive outcome somewhere, or help bring about a moment of clarity between writer and reader. But it’s difficult to find words that can convey the magnitude of the catastrophes that are now bearing down on the world, even more quickly than some of those who once warned about
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Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World:
"Sigh . . . another person whose life is in upheaval decides she needs to know what the simple folk do, and goes a-traveling. The most tragicomic moment of complete un-self-awareness comes when the author reckons up what it would take to live in deep "
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"Not at all cosy as the title may suggest, this book is a brilliant, sensitive and thought-provoking account of the present and pasts of the residents and staff of the eponymous Cinnamon Gardens, a home for retired people in western Sydney. The home i"
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"A great thriller by the wonderful Philip Kerr. I must have read nearly all his Bernie Gunther series and this find in a charity shop didn’t disappoint. No need to rehash it all - take my word for it that the Chandler-esque similes and metaphors were "
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| Brilliant and compelling study of the strange case of Lucrecia de Leon, a young woman in late sixteenth century Spain who was tried for dreams that appeared to have a seditious and heretical content. Kagan does a great job in showing how this was pos ...more | |
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| Outstanding collection of essays, photographs and poems from writers and scholars from different disciplines, reflecting on the colonial/imperial construction of the desert as an ‘empty’ space and the opposite of civilisation. These essays tell very ...more | |
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| Having torn through Good People, I’ve been on a bit of a Marcus Sakey jag. This one didn’t disappoint. The same taut-as-a-bow string prose, the same tension, the same atmosphere of menace and violence. Like Good People, this outing picks up the theme ...more | |
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| Five stars for this violent, scorching thriller that you just can’t look away from till it’s over. When Tom and Anna Reed stumble on some hidden money when a tenant dies of a heart attack, they think they’ve found a magic solution to their problems. ...more | |
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| Despite its glowing reviews, and my appreciation of Sakey’s narrative talents, I have to say that this did not impress me much. Firstly, I found the lead characters very two dimensional and unengaging. I don’t have to like the characters in a crime n ...more | |
“even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers . . . as far as I know, all the fighting men of our army want peace; and it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
― Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
― Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
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