Rembrandt

…Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford   Christian Tümpel’s work on Rembrandt began over four decades ago when he received his doctorate for a study of Rembrandt’s history paintings in…

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Greenwood Dark

‘Somerville is a rambler, a wayfarer, a traveller or byways that lead him to discover matters of interest in unexpected places. In this he resembles the poet and the travel…

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Goethe

‘An invitingly colorful and compact volume… The new comer to Goethe will leave Boerner’s book with a clear impression of Goethe’s personality and of the scope of his work.’ Open

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A Woman in the Crossfire

…the forces of silencing and simplification. It is anything but an effortless read, but it does wedge open a space wherein, for a moment, it feels possible to genuinely listen.’…

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An Extraordinary Scandal

…of step with the electorate and became a victim of its own remote institutional logic, at odds with an increasingly open, meritocratic society. Charting the crisis from its 1990s origins…

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Fiction, Fact and Future

…can still protect by being in the EU.’ Anthony Gardner, US Ambassador to the European Union from 2014-2017   Since 1957, the EU has developed to become an open and

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Mary Seacole

…she was born a ‘free person,’ the daughter of a black mother and white Scottish army officer. Ron Ramdin – who, like Seacole, was born in the Caribbean and emigrated…

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A Journey Into Russia

…country whose contradictions, attractions and absurdities are still largely unknown to many people outside her borders. JENS MÜHLING studied literature at the Free University of Berlin and in Norwich, at…

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