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Fatal Purity by Ruth Scurr
Category: History
"Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale and fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing ...Show more
John Aubrey - My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
Category: Travel Guides
'Light, ingenious, inspiring, a book to reread and cherish' Hilary Mantel 'A delight...the book I would take with me to a desert island' David Aaronovitch I was born about sun rising in my maternal grandfather's bedchamber on 12th March 1626. St. Gregory's Day, very sickly, likely to die. ...Show more
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
Category: Biography
This is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote. You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. But he was a passionate collector, an early archaeologist and the inventor of modern biography. With ...Show more
Napoleon - A Life in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr
Category: Home and Garden
'Glorious... Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesA revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written for our own time, not in power politics or epic battles, but through his love of nature and the gardens that gave his ...Show more
Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr
Category: History
A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written for our own time, not in power politics or epic battles, but through his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade Napoleon's gardens range from his childhood olive groves in ...Show more
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