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Crooked Plow
Author :
Itamar Vieira Junior
Published: 1923
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Descendants of freed african slaves still living in poverty and modern slavery on plantations in rural Brazil through the 20th Century with a cultural memory back to Africa
Synopsis 24 words
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24 Jan '26
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24 Jan '26
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fiction
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Swift Blaze of Fire
Author :
Lin Rose Clark
Published: 2025
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The life of Robert Hilliard - Olympian, Cleric, Brigadista - and his family
Synopsis 232 words
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11 Dec '25
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11 Dec '25
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non-fiction
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Against the Machine
On the Unmaking of Humanity
Author :
Paul Kingsnorth
Published: 2025
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Synopsis extract:
The Machine is what others call The System, or Global Capitalism etc.. ...
Synopsis 108 words
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23 Nov '25
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23 Nov '25
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non-fiction
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A Room Made of Leaves
Author :
Kate Grenville
Published: 2020
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18th Cnetury Young woman from Bridgerule marries and emigrates to Australia where whe finally achieves independence
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11 Jul '24
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11 Jul '24
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fiction
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The Dawn of Everything
A new view of the history of humanity
Authors :
David Graeber , David Wengrow
Published: 2021
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An interpretation of the latest thinkingin human deep history and archaeology. It is not all an inevitable story of progress from cave to today - different ways were possible and can still be achieved.
Synopsis 108 words
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29 Apr '23
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29 Apr '23
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non-fiction
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The Anarchy
The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Author :
William Dalrymple
Published: 2019
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The rise of the East India Company from small trading organisation to the first global corporation more powerful than a coumtry
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27 Feb '22
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27 Feb '22
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non-fiction
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Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
unlisted author
Published: 1956
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Based on interviews with old people in a traditional Suffolk farming village (Braxhall, near Woodbridge) during the early 1950's - remembering the pre-mechanisation farming and village life.
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19 Jan '22
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19 Jan '22
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non-fiction
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The Last Kingdom
Author :
Bernard Cornwell
Published: 2004
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The wars between the Danes, the Saxons and the Britons as seen by a Northumberland lad.
Synopsis 56 words
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15 Jun '21
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15 Jun '21
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fiction
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Underland
Author :
Robert Macfarlane
Published: 2019
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Exploring beneath the ground as a way of exploring deep time
Synopsis 30 words
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30 Dec '19
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30 Dec '19
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non-fiction
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