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Excerpt: Monsieur Auguste Gaudron and his Fabulous Balloon

A rich historical novel based on the true story of Louisa Maud Evans, a fourteen-year-old girl whose demise – tumbling 8,000 feet into the Bristol Channel – captured the imagination of the city…

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Excerpt: Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts

The Battle of White Mountain and the Courage of a Queen

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Excerpt: The Rise of Tescobethan Sheds

A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

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Excerpt: Eavesdropping on the Enemy

The Man Who Saved MI6

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Excerpt: The Last Emperor of Mexico

A Disaster in the New World

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Excerpt: The Ruin of All Witches

Life and Death in the New World

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Excerpt: Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester

A True Restoration Tragedy

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Excerpt: Thebes' West Bank

A Traveller's Guide from Aswan to Alexandra

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Excerpt: Fabric by Victoria Finlay

Victoria Finlay spins us around the globe, weaving stories of our own relationship with cloth

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Excerpt: A Thousand Golden Cities

‘Description of Kabul’ from Bāburnāma by Bābur

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Excerpt: A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions

This excerpt from A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions investigates the story of seeing from the evolution of eyes 500 million years ago to the present day.

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A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World with Jose Luis González Macías

The Wild Beauty of Lighthouses