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Simon Schama, CBE
Not - as often imagined - of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians…
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Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.‘ In inimitable style, our greatest historian and master…
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Simon Schama
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVERBelonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with…
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Asks crucial questions about the nature of empire, journeying from celebrations of industrial and imperialist power at the Great Exhibition, to the catastrophic Irish potato famine and the Indian Mutiny…
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Closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art for ever. This title…
From the author whose writing has been called sublime and whose ability to bring art and history vividly to life has earned him admiration worldwide, Hang-Ups is Schamas rallying cry…
Presents the story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. This title…
Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama’s unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash…
Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of the world’s most controversial superpower looks backwards and forwards to understand why now, more than…
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Passionate, provocative, entertaining and informative, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ranges far and wide: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, from preaching and Shakespeare to Victorian sages, from Charlotte Rampling and…
Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries. From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on…
Originally published in Great Britain in 2013 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House UK. A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2013 by Ecco, an…
Contains:\n1. Doctor Who - Eve Of The Daleks \n2. Doctor Who - Legend Of The Sea Devils
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