First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a psychiatrist: "It is impossible to resist the impression that people commonly apply false...
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Dragged in from the cold
Captain Scott - Pink Ice
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A tale of divine triangles, ugly Latin and stimulating ticks
The Story of V
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Concealed fashions
The Sari
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No grilling for an old chestnut
Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology
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Poops to give forgers ideas
The Art of Kula
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From the outside looking in
India Abroad
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Eye for 'primitive' beauty
The Tribals of India
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Burning ambition went up in flames
Ernest Jones, Chartism, and the Romance of Politics 1819-1869
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Iron hands finally lose their grip
A History of Hungary - The Hungarians
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Balancing blood and bluff
Members of the Russian intelligentsia associate Khrushchev with the excitement of de-Stalinisation and his secret speech at the 20th Party Congress in 1956, as well as the opportunities provided by...
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Outmanoeuvring of a maverick monarch by means of marriage
The People's King
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Fascists' fierce 'peace'
Haile Selassie's War
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See whose days are numbered
Making History Count
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Against the grain
Making War, Forging Revolution