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    In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815

    Jenny Uglow,Jenny Uglow

    A beautifully observed history of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars from one of Britain’s greatest historians.

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    The Lost Carving

    David Esterly

    Republished to meet the resurgent interest in wood arts and craft, an inspiring reflection on creativity and mastery by a world-renowned artisan

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    North and South

    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    ‘A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social conscience’ Joanna Trollope Milton is a sooty…

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    Henry Fielding

    Jenny Uglow

    This study offers a fresh introduction to the achievement of Henry Fielding (1707-1754) as dramatist, journalist and novelist.

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    Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time

    Jenny Uglow

    From one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.

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    A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration

    Jenny Uglow,Jenny Uglow

    From acclaimed biographer Jenny Uglow, a portrait of Charles II and the first decade of the Restoration: a time of glamour and gossip, drama and risk, faction and crisis.

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    Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

    Jenny Uglow

    Tells the story of Thomas Bewick - the farmer’s son from Tyneside who became one of Britain’s greatest and most popular engravers.

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    William Hogarth: A Life and a World

    Jenny Uglow,Jenny Uglow

    William Hogarth was an artist with overflowing imagination and his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. This book showcases the portrait of a proud, stubborn…

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    The Pinecone

    Jenny Uglow,Jenny Uglow

    Jenny Uglow vividly brings to life the story of Sarah Losh - lost Romantic genius, antiquarian, architect and visionary.

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    A Little History of British Gardening

    Jenny Uglow

    how the suburbs dug for victory in World War II. With a brief guide to particular historic or evocative gardens open to the public, this is a book to put…

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    Elizabeth Gaskell

    Jenny Uglow,Jenny Uglow

    Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age. This biography traces Elizabeth’s youth in rural Knutsford, her married years in the tension-ridden city of Manchester…

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    Sybil & Cyril

    Jenny Uglow

    From Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.

    In 1922, Cyril Power, a…

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    Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

    Jenny Uglow,Jenny Uglow

    A scrupulously forensic literary appreciation of Edward Lear and his ‘nonsenses’ by one of our most cherished historians - without losing any sense of fun.

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    Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition

    Jenny Uglow,Jenny Uglow

    Words & Pictures by Jenny Uglow is a beautifully illustrated little book exploring the relationships between British writers and artists.

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    George Eliot

    Jenny Uglow

    One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite…

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    The Quentin Blake Book

    Jenny Uglow

    A fascinating, fully illustrated overview of the life and work of one of the world’s best-loved illustrators, Quentin Blake, celebrating more than seventy years of work that has redefined illustration.

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    The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810

    Jenny Uglow,Jenny Uglow

    In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they…

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    Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

    Jenny Uglow,Jenny Uglow

    A lavishly produced biography of the man whose wildlife illustrations shaped the way we view the natural world.

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    Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

    Jenny Uglow,Jenny Uglow

    ‘A joy to read.’ Sunday Times ‘Outstanding.’ Daily Telegraph ‘Excellent.’ The Spectator ‘Superb.’ Literary Review ‘Scintillating . Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts - streamlined, full of movement…

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    Cousin Phyllis

    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,Jenny Uglow

    Lodging with an Independent Minister on the outskirts of London, Paul Manning is initially dismayed to discover that the uncle he must visit in the country is also a churchman…

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    Suzanne Cooper: Paintings under the spare room bed

    Jenny Uglow,Lucy Hughes-Hallett

    The first book on forgotten 1930s artist Suzanne Cooper.

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    Walter Crane

    Jenny Uglow

    An exploration of the life and work of Walter Crane, the pioneering British socialist artist who transformed the illustration of children’s books.

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