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Edward Trencom's Nose
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 18.99Situated on London's Foster Lane, there is a quintessentially Georgian, redbrick house with a green door bearing the sign trencoms, 1662. It's the home of the Trencom family's cheese store, a generational establishment begun by Humphrey Trencom that now, 303 years later, is run by Edward Trencom. Quaint though it may seem, it bears witness to... more...
Big Chief Elizabeth
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 7.99In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza?a word that meant "big chief". The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, who caused a sensation in Elizabethan... more...
Samurai William
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003; US$ 7.99An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg In 1611, the merchants of London's East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named William Adams. Foreigners had been denied access to Japan for... more...
The Boy Who Went to War
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 25.99A powerful and true story of warfare and human survival that exposes a side of World War II that is unknown by many? this is the story of Wolfram Aïchele, a boy whose childhood was stolen by a war in which he had no choice but to fight. Giles Milton has been a writer and historian for many years, writing about people and places that history... more...
According to Arnold
Pan Macmillan UK 2009; US$ 18.03Meet Arnold Trevellyan ? charismatic, exuberant and somewhat strange. His love of mushrooms is matched only by a passion for Flora, his wife of twelve years. One day, while searching for mushrooms, Arnold makes a wondrous discovery that will turn his world upside down. He abandons Flora and heads to the South Pacific where he finds himself marrying... more...
Wolfram
Hodder & Stoughton 2011; US$ 20.83Wolfram Aïchele was nine years old when Hitler came to power: his formative years were spent in the shadow of the Third Reich. He and his parents - free-thinking artists - were to have first hand experience of living under one of the most brutal regimes in history. Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War overturns all the clichés about life under Hitler.... more...
Wolfram
Hodder & Stoughton 2011; Not AvailableWolfram Aïchele was nine years old when Hitler came to power: his formative years were spent in the shadow of the Third Reich. He and his parents - free-thinking artists - were to have first hand experience of living under one of the most brutal regimes in history. Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War overturns all the clichés about life under Hitler.... more...
Paradise Lost
Hodder & Stoughton 2011; Not AvailableOn Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions. PARADISE... more...
Paradise Lost
Hodder & Stoughton 2011; US$ 22.64On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions. PARADISE... more...
Samurai William
Hodder & Stoughton 2011; Not AvailableBestselling author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg , Giles Milton, takes us on a fascinating Jacobean adventure. more...









