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|author= Michael Jones

|title= The Black Prince

|rating= 5

|genre=Biography

|summary= Generally known during and shortly after his lifetime as Edward of Woodstock, having been born at Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, the eldest son of King Edward III was arguably one of the Kings that never was. At last we have a modern biography to put him in his proper perspective.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972932</amazonuk>

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|author= David E Hoffman

|summary=Pitching up at an auction and picking up a lost masterpiece for a pittance is the dream for most art lovers. That seemingly happy circumstance happened to bookseller John Snare at a sale in 1845 and is the centrepiece to Laura Cumming's excellent ''The Vanishing Man – In Pursuit of Velazquez''.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587041</amazonuk>

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~~|author=G A Jones~~

~~|title=The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Travel~~

|summary=There's brave, and there is brave. I may well have been born in a coastal county but certainly would baulk at the idea of setting out to sea with four colleagues in a 37'-long boat. Boats to me are like planes – the bigger the better, and the safer I feel as a result. But luckily for the purpose of this book, George Jones was born with a much different pair of sea-legs to mine, and took to the waters of the English Channel, the North Sea and beyond in ''Naromis'' with brio. But – and this is where the further definition of bravery comes in – he did it in August 1939, knowing full well that he would be sailing full tilt into the teeth of war.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262334</amazonuk>~~

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