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'There is something holy about Georgetown at dusk. The Atlantic curling the shoreline . . .'The first adult novel from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021. It is 1960 and the Walcotts are moving into the city from the village of Highdam....
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Virago
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2016-06-30
ePub
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*The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller*Well hark at you, stumbling upon my autobiography. Bet you wouldn't have put money on that three years ago, eh?! Please don't stress yourself out too much, though, it's actually socially acceptable nowadays that you're interested....
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Cornerstone Digital
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2016-06-30
ePub
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY...
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Penguin
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2016-06-30
ePub
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The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both...
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Penguin
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2016-06-30
ePub
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'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary man' Ken LoachTony Garnett's story begins in working-class, war-torn Birmingham where he movingly describes the trauma of his mother's death following a back-street abortion. Nineteen days later, stricken with grief, Tony's...
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Constable
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2016-06-30
ePub
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On Bowie is a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fansInnovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January 2016, David Bowie created art...
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Headline
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2016-06-28
ePub
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A wickedly funny illustrated memoir by award-winning cartoonist Peter Bromhead. One of New Zealand's best-known cartoonists, Peter Bromhead has led a colourful life. In his satirical illustrated memoir, Bromhead, as he is affectionately known, shares his life in words...
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Nz Epenguin
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2016-06-27
ePub
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Terry Ledgard is no stranger to mischief and adventure. Having survived childhood in outback Australia, he joined the Army and rose through the ranks to become an SAS medic in Afghanistan. As he endured explosive action, blood-curdling trauma and gut-wrenching...
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E-Penguin
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2016-06-27
ePub
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'I'd stare at my opponent from across that cage and think, What the f**k are you gonna do to me? Nothing's gonna break me, you don't know where I've been.'From fighting to survive as a kid to doing combat in the world's most brutal arena, this is the remarkable story of...
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E-Penguin
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2016-06-27
ePub
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A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks leading up to King of Pop Michael Jackson's death. Michael Jackson's final months were like the rest of his short and legendary life: filled with deep lows and soaring highs, a constant hunt for privacy, and the pressure and...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2016-06-21
ePub
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DON'T MISS SYLVIA PATTERSON'S BRAND NEW MEMOIR, SAME OLD GIRL, COMING SPRING 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2016 'Celebratory and elegiac' Guardian 'A roller-coaster memoir' Sunday Times 'Funny, anecdote-packed, nostalgic but also very touching' The...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2016-06-16
ePub
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‘Policing is like this everywhere but not everywhere is Scilly’Meet Sergeant Colin Taylor, he has been a valuable member of the police force for over 20 years, 5 of which have been spent policing the ‘quiet’ Isles of Scilly, a group of islands off the southwestern tip...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2016-06-16
ePub
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door of a small...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-06-16
ePub
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The Waugh family has been writing books since the nineteenth century. Evelyn's father, brother and son were all writers and now his grandson has taken up the baton. Based on recollections of his father, Auberon, and on a mine of hitherto unseen documents relating to...
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Headline
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2016-06-16
ePub
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In Journey of a Thousand Storms Dr Kooshyar Karimi, author of Leila's Secret, tells his gripping personal story of surviving prison in Iran and life as a refugee before finding success in Australia.
Kooshyar Karimi had two careers in Iran, one as a doctor and one as an...
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E-Penguin
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2016-06-13
ePub
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By the author of Their Royal Highnesses, Charles, Prince of Wales and Olivier, this is a biography of the Queen Mother.
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Abacus
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2016-06-09
ePub
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This is a biography of Laurence Olivier, the actor, director, impresario, founder of the National Theatre, Oscar-winning film star and the first peer in the history of the profession.
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Abacus
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2016-06-09
ePub
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Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art world, with the visitors' book of the Essex townhouse they shared from 1945 until 2008 painting them as Zeligs of British society. The names recorded inside make up an...
Editeur :
Constable
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2016-06-09
ePub
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Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she was born in Russia and has lived in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Israel, Canada, and the United States. As a multiple émigré, her decision to write in English...
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Virago
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2016-06-07
ePub
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'Part Germaine Greer and part Mae West, she is not a woman you should spurn' Guardian'Nell's distinctive voice, both written and spoken, has had a powerful and provocative place in Irish society ... fascinating ... evocative ... riveting' Irish TimesJournalist Nell...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2016-06-03
ePub
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