The PartitionIn the aftermath of the horrors of the Irish Famine, the grim, distrustful relationship between Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom deteriorated into a generations long argument about 'Home Rule'. The unprecedented nature of the Irish problem with most Irish people wanting to break away from the world's largest Empire made it extraordinarily difficult for either side to come up with a compromise. For many years actual independence seemed

Yet it took the arrival of Maxwell

Learn to draw a collection of adorable fantastical creatures

dooming Italy to its own prolonged and unwinnable war

the vainglorious Dane whose RAF squadron was wiped out trying to disrupt Nazi invasion plans

the family begins to see the deep connections between their own and the planet's suffering

but enough are revealed in this book to enable experts and non-experts alike to go out in search of a butterfly that thrills and enthrals all who encounter it

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in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido

to finding Christianity and reflecting on the ups and downs of a life in the public eye

'Sunlight Hours' paints a picture of three generations of women

Born in Paris to American parents in 1881

'Lustrum' is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power