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From the trenches of World War I to the heart of revolutionary China, Harold J. Timperley bore wi...

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Ken Atkinson's business career began with selling ice cream in a northern English town. Humble be...

A teenage girl vanishes without a trace.

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China, 1860. For ten years a bizarre Christian cult - the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom - has been loc...

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A fresh parable linking the Chinese classic story with the worlds of Western Asia and Roman Pales...

Can you save the world with a dance? Can you call dragons with music? And can you do this when no...

There is fighting all over the Middle East, Christian mercenaries are marching on Jerusalem and m...

Beyond Hallucinations is not a technical manual, a futurist manifesto, or a collection of breathl...

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