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| 12. Georgiana, Duchess of DevonshireAuthor: Amanda ForemanPublisher: FlamingoList price: £9.99 Paperback Publication date: 07/06/1999 ISBN-13: 9780006550167 / ISBN: 0006550169 Compare pricesGeorgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century "It Girl". She came from one of England's richest and most landed families, and married into another. She was, beautiful, sensitive and extravagan... |
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| 14. London: The BiographyAuthor: Peter AckroydPublisher: VintageList price: £14.99 Paperback Publication date: 21/08/2008 ISBN-13: 9780099422587 / ISBN: 0099422581 Compare pricesWhen the eminent novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd finished writing London: The Biography, he almost immediately had a heart attack, such was the effort of his 800-page work about the "hum... |
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| 17. Mother Tongue: The English LanguageAuthor: Bill BrysonPublisher: PenguinList price: £8.99 Paperback Publication date: 29/07/1999 ISBN-13: 9780140143058 / ISBN: 014014305X Compare pricesWho would have thought that a book about the English language would be so entertaining? Certainly not this grammar-allergic reviewer, but The Mother Tongue pulls it off admirably. Bill B... |
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