Penguin and the Lane Brothers : The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution [1 ed.] 9781925203417, 9781863957571

An intimate partnership of three brothers – Allen, Richard and John Lane – lay at the heart of Penguin Books, the twenti

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Penguin and the Lane Brothers : The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution [1 ed.]
9781925203417, 9781863957571

A timely history of the neglected figure of Daniel Sutton – the medical revolutionary who paved the way for present-day

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A detailed and fascinating biography of the holy man who helped to topple an empire. Rasputin: The Untold Story is a ri

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On July 18, 1969, a car driven by Senator Edward M. Kennedy plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast

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A deeply personal, heart-wrenching memoir of the author's upbringing in Communist China during the Cultural Revolut

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Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the black men who followed John Brown to Harper’s Ferry in 1859 When John Br

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Now translated into 13 languages The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer phar

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Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central Americ

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