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Joe Beech, a London publisher, is in his fifties. Strong and healthy, married for twenty-five years with two grown children, with many friends and attractive to women, his life would seem good - yet he is haunted by a sense of pain and foreboding. A family skiing holiday in Austria with friends seems to promise respite, yet under the brightness of the snow, the physical exhilaration, the shared jokes and memories from other holidays, somethin...

Her study shows how Paris has drawn into its magnetic field people who have variously found there education or enlightenment, a refuge or a secret garden, even a different identity.

A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount' Sunday Telegraph'An excellent suite of essays on transience and remembrance' GuardianA toy train.

A richly descriptive book, she traces the course of many historical London journeys across time and shows how destruction and renewal are a constant rhythm throughout London's rich history.

This biography tells the true story of Martin Nadaud, an itinerant stone mason from the Creuse region, at the geographical heart of France, who became a builder and architect in Paris and who would eventually return to his birthplace as Prefect of the entire department.

The story of 3 houses, which represent the changing face of England over 4 centuries, told through the lives of the people who lived in them. From Eugenia Stanhope, who sold Lord Chesterfield's scandalous letters, to the just-literate wife of a parish clerk who wrote riddles in his registers, this is a miniature of history.

Subtitled "The history of one London village". An evocation of the complex history of London, a city of villages, revealed through this particular study of Kentish Town.

When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family's possessions, she uncovered the obscure and moving life of one woman, Celestine Chaumette. This is Tindall's brilliantly original recreation of the vanished world of a French village.

A masterpiece of miniaturist, social history. By closely examining the history of one house, Gillian Tindall tells the story of Southwark and the south bank, the river Thames and indeed of London itself.