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It's the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in 1910. More than the class on the novel he suffers a series of traumatic activities, from your clandestine love affair that tears apart the loved ones with whom he life, towards the unprecedented activities on the war by itself.Author, Henry Eliot, shares his suggestion
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Set Amongst the seaside amusements and dilapidated boarding homes of Brighton’s pre-war underworld, , historian and broadcaster David Olusoga examines how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for hundreds of years. Drawing on new genetic and genealogical investigation, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interv
Blackburn’s first novel (just after two ingenious short story collections) is undoubtedly an experimental and disarmingly funny examine death and decline. Narrated by dystopian synthetic intelligence machines, the story follows a woman who impersonates her brother by texting from his mobile phone immediately after his suicide., historian and bro