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An impeccable English butler takes a motoring holiday and looks back on a lifetime of service, and on what he never allowed himself to say.
A genial and funny tour of how we came to know what we know about the universe, the Earth and ourselves.
Raised in a survivalist household in rural Idaho, the author teaches herself enough to reach university, and pays a heavy price for the education.
The private notebooks of a Roman emperor, a practical guide to composure, duty and meeting life as it comes.
A personal-finance primer built around two father figures with opposite attitudes to money, work and investing, and what the author says he learned from each.
A practical guide to releasing control over what other people say and do, and spending that energy on your own choices instead.
A man lives contentedly in an endless house of marble halls, statues and tides, until signs of another presence begin to unsettle his world.
Woolf's elegant argument that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write fiction, and why history made that so hard.
The rise of Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith's son, through the dangerous court of Henry VIII, told in intimate, present-tense prose.