The Longest Day
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For the astronauts of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital a single day will last for nine months. We earthbound readers will have to content ourselves with 20 June, when here in Bloomsbury we’ll have 16 hours, 38 minutes and 22 seconds of daylight. Here are a few books to help you enjoy it.
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British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Ysenda Maxtone-Graham in vividly remembered detail by people who were there. Through this prism, it paints a revealing…
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Explore the daily lives of children around the world through the lens of a single, special day in June, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere and the shortest in the southern hemisphere.The rising and setting of the Sun is…
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Murder never takes a holidayA rock pool with a deadly secret. A bank holiday heatwave dominated by the murder of an unknown man.A sun-drenched picnic that ends in a sinister locked-room mystery. And an Adriatic holiday interrupted by a…
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Based on a lifetime of close observation, One Midsummer's Day explores swifts, the natural world and our place in it, in one of our greatest nature writer's most ambitious books to dateIt takes a whole universe to make one small…
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Stonehenge is the most famous prehistoric monument in Europe and is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year. 'Impressively researched, full of charming anecdotes and engagingly written,' says the Daily Telegraph's Andy…
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A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of Country."...a fascinating barometer of the state of the…
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A fascinating and illuminating look at the sun and our relationships to it, from one of our greatest science writers.'Illuminating!' Professor Brian Cox'Every Steve Jones book is a masterclass in clear and captivating writing with…
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Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'GUARDIAN'Stunning... An uplifting book'SUNDAY TIMESA team of astronauts in the International…
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Join Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic , introduced by Susan Sontag.'A wonderful work of art.' Jon McGregor'Extraordinary in its confidence and enchantment.' Chris Power'Addictive,…
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Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell…
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