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Europe in the Looking-Glass by Robert Byron

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Written in 1925 in the time between the wars Byron’s account of a journey through the heart of Europe captures a vanished world just ten years away from being irrevocably changed by the Second World War. This was Byron’s first book and as such there are some points where the pretension of youth comes through […]

Anything Goes by Lucy Moore

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Lucy Moore’s biography of the Roaring Twenties is a masterpiece of popular history, as addictive as a good novel. The book it’s structured thematically with chapters on literature, sport and Hollywood among other things and the switch from subject to subject is seamless so there is a easy flow throughout that draws the reader on […]