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V. S. Naipaul
A great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Patrick Marnham
The most popular pilgrimage site in the world
That is Lourdes, a small town in the French Pyrenees, where in 1858 Our Lady appeared to the young peasant girl Bernadette…
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Courage and betrayal in Occupied France, involving SOE, British Intelligence, the Gestapo and the French Resistance
Warburg, condemned to obscurity and confined to a mental hospital, regained his sanity by studying the rituals of the Native Americans of the Southwest who, for thousands of years, practiced…
Despite his colourful claims, Diego Rivera was not actually raised by a magical nurse who let him roam the forest. After studying in Mexico, he became a key figure in…
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Mary Wesley famously began writing at the age of 70. Her ten best-selling novels won her thousands of fans, and described the world of war-time London, with its fear and…
Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to…
An engaging new biography of the masterful Mexican muralist of indefatibable energy both as an artist and personality, released by Knopf in hardcover as a retrospective exhibition of Rivera’s work…
Anthony Burgess
The essential biography
Mary Wesley
Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: ‘after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again. These remarkable letters, which were inspired by…
Irene Nemirovsky
From the author of the bestselling Suite Francaise. Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham. In 1929, 26-year-old Irene Nemirovsky shot to fame in France with the…
