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MARY BEARD’S POMPEII WINS THE 2008 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE10 Jun 2009

Last night Mary Beard took home one of the £20,000 Wolfson History Prizes for her widely acclaimed book Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town. The other winner was Margaret McGowan, with Dance in the Renaissance. The judges were Sir Keith Thomas (Chairman), Dame Averil Cameron, Professor Richard Evans and Sir David Cannadine.
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Profile Author in New Scientist18 Jun 2009

Michael Brooks, author of 13 Things that Don’t Make Sense investigates the mysteries of gravity.
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... and another one18 Jun 2009

Nick Lane, author of Life Ascending explains the evolutionary need for sex
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	Ox-Tales: Air Various A major publishing event, Ox-Tales is a remarkable collaboration between Profile Books, the Hay Festival, Oxfam and 30 of the leading fiction writers based in Britain and Ireland. MORE

A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin Chris Mullin Alan Clarke meets Yes Minister in this wry and self-deprecating diary about life in the New Labour Government from 1999 to 2007. Says Mullin, ‘It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.’ MORE

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On Roads: A Hidden History
Joe Moran
We use roads every day, yet we have no idea of why our journeys are the way they are – of how roads are built, signposted, mapped or numbered. In unravelling this history, cultural historian Joe Moran throws a whole new light onto our history and our daily lives.
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	Ox-Tales: Earth Various A major publishing event, Ox-Tales is a remarkable collaboration between Profile Books, the Hay Festival, Oxfam and 30 of the leading fiction writers based in Britain and Ireland. MORE

Ox-Tales: Fire Various A major publishing event, Ox-Tales is a remarkable collaboration between Profile Books, the Hay Festival, Oxfam and 30 of the leading fiction writers based in Britain and Ireland. MORE

Click here for more information about ‘Ox-Tales: Water’

Ox-Tales: Water
Various
A major publishing event, Ox-Tales is a remarkable collaboration between Profile Books, the Hay Festival, Oxfam and 30 of the leading fiction writers based in Britain and Ireland.
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	Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town Mary Beard ‘Much of what you think you know about Pompeii may turn out, on reading this eye-opening book, to be wrong... MORE

Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine Raja Shehadeh An extraordinary and moving memoir by the award-winning author of Palestinian Walks - updated with a new foreword. MORE

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Vermeer’s Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
Timothy Brook
Vermeer’s Hat offers us a rich new understanding both of Vermeer’s paintings and of the era they portray. ‘Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.’ Sunday Telegraph
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