Books for the Bayeux Tapestry

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Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he…

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Having survived revolution, numerous wars, fire and attempted seizure over the course of 900 years, the Bayeux Tapestry has emerged with totemic status as one of the most important artefacts of European history. Spread out over seventy…

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'I cannot be killed indoors,' he said, 'nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.' 'Well,' she said, 'how can you be killed?'…

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Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15,000 years ago, to…

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Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a…

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**Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023****Chosen as a book to watch out for in 2023 by ​The Times, ​Observer, ​Guardian,​ Irish TImes and ​Scotsman**'An epic the north has long…

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'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah WatersThe nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to…

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The new historical novel from the bestselling author of Fates and Furies'Lush, gripping and ferocious, MATRIX is animated with sensual detail on every page' MADELINE MILLER'An audacious piece of storytelling, full of passion, wisdom and…

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'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual' Helen CastorManuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and…

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What can a scrap of embroidery tell us about how to live? How can the past help us imagine unconstrained lives when not all traces remain? To explore these questions, Alice Hattrick turns to the embroidery designer May Morris and her…

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The new memoir in a triptych from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo in which she moves to Hastings to find a room of her own and immerses herself in local history‘This is urgent, compelling but also delightful…