Tudors: The History of England of Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
By Peter Ackroyd
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A review of ’The Best of Mountain and Wilderness Writing’
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Sixty essays to help people ’recalibrate their lives and connect with the natural world’
A book review of ’The Sweetness of a Simple Life’
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Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
’The first full account’ of America’s role in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh
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’Austria declared war on us. Bastards.’
A review of ’The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution’
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