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A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National ...

You wouldn’t guess from the cover design—three songbirds silhouetted over swatches of picturesque Englishness—but Catherine Clarke’s A History of England in 25 Poems hits one of its sweet spots with a

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I have the problem with bookcases that everyone has, namely their failure to expand indefinitely to accommodate the permanent leakage of books from the outside world into my house. When I downsized to

Best books… Roy Foster The emeritus professor of ...

Charles Hill Court, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey. A country house with French, Dutch and British influences built in 1908. It has a formal drawing room with four sets of French windows and a circular libr