The Vanishing Velazquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece, Paperback - Laura Cumming

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Shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing 2020 and Times Bestseller. Native is poignant and moving book which weaves together folk...

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The mystery of a mother's disappearance is explored by prize-winning author and art critic Laura Cumming, incorporating writing on art and photogra...

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigIllustration(s): 137 colour, 40 b&wNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 215 x 281 ...

The gripping, previously untold true story of the child abduction that inspired Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA'Nuanced and compassionate true-crime repo...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Maria NalivkinaIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and whiteTransla...

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She's a stranger in her own life - electrifying suspense from a bestselling author

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Teresa LimNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 36Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

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But the ever restless explorer was driven to pursue ever greater challenges, and greater risks, in what had become a personal quest-his own hero's ...

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lew...

Publisher: Galaxy PressAuthor(s): L. Ron HubbardNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 138 x 202 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

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The scandal of nineteenth-century Britain: the sensational trial of Caroline Norton for adultery with the first Victorian Prime MinisterPublisher: ...

The scandal of nineteenth-century Britain: the sensational trial of Caroline Norton for adultery with the first Victorian Prime Minister

Publisher: Canongate BooksAuthor(s): Cumming Alan CummingNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 232 x 25Cover type: PaperbackR...

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In this collection the multidimensional story of children's literature in the formative period of the long nineteenth century is illuminated, quest...

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An exploration of the idea of the masterpiece, over fifty world masterpieces, from cave paintings to Cezanne.

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Reducere. NEW EDITION: A collection of paintings, drawings, and prints from Western art illustrating the occupation and hobby of knitting during the 1800s. I...

Heather Dawe was 17 when she started running. A climber since youth, an obsession with wild places and the mountains was engrained in her DNA. An i...

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Empty graves. Coffins splintered. Bodies . . . missing. In the late nineteenth century, Fort Wayne, Indiana is rocked by an ongoing series of shock...

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Reducere. Literary Tomboys from the 19th to the 21st Century.Memorable Characters and Their Case For Free Expression More than anything, this study is an att...