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A compelling true story of the reality of undercover police workFor over 20 years, Joe Carter has worked for the police as an undercover cop. Travelling the globe on different passports, fraternising with thieves and international drugs and arms dealers, working...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2016-06-02
ePub
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For the past four years Jane Miller, author of Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times. Her beautifully observed pieces about life, politics and Britain open a window to her American readers of a world...
Editeur :
Virago
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2016-06-02
ePub
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Portland Place is the diary of Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, which she recently uncovered whilst clearing out her loft. Working as a secretary for the BBC at the time, Sarah's diary describes the life of a suburban girl who certainly wasn't 'swinging' but who was,...
Editeur :
Constable
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2016-06-02
ePub
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"One goal of this memoir is to inspire people to fight for change. It takes what I call the Art of Tough and I've had to do it all my life." -- Senator Barbara Boxer Barbara Boxer has made her mark, combining compassionate advocacy with scrappiness in a political career...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2016-05-31
ePub
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Invercargill, at the far southern end of New Zealand. It's the late 1960s and two blokes sit in a modest shed drinking tea. The old bloke is telling stories about his life; the young bloke, a junior reporter, is typing earnestly on his Olympia portable typewriter....
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Nz Epenguin
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2016-05-30
ePub
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'Man, there's nothing like being told you're dying to make you feel alive.' In 2013, Dr Feelgood founder, Blockheads member and musical legend Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal cancer. With ten months to live, he decided to accept his imminent death and went on...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2016-05-26
ePub
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Edward III lived through bloody and turbulent times. His father was deposed by his mother and her lover when he was still a teenager; a third of England's population was killed by the Black Death midway through his reign; and the intractable Hundred Years War with...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-05-26
ePub
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Unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of his time, Graham Greene had always guarded his privacy, remaining aloof, mysterious and unpredictable. Nonetheless, he took the surprising step of allowing Norman Sherry complete access to letter and diaries, and gave his...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-05-26
ePub
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A stark, lyrical and personal account of the psyche in crisis from the bestselling author of Wild and Kith"I want to describe it for those who have never experienced it but who perhaps know someone with it. If this book can befriend just one person in that terrifying...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-05-26
ePub
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An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases -- and the panic and corruption that make them worse.Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2016-05-24
ePub
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In December 2012, Juliana Buhring became the first woman to circumnavigate the world by bicycle. With only a few months of training and little sponsorship, support or money she left from Naples on 23 July 2012 to cycle the world. Raised in a religious cult as a child,...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2016-05-19
ePub
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Does where you have lived help shape who you become?A book that will tug at the heart strings and make you smile…In this unique anthology of memories, famous faces from the worlds of television, music, film and books reveal insightful, sometimes surprising and often...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
Parution :
2016-05-19
ePub
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As ‘the voice of darts’, the inimitable Sid Waddell helped transform it from an unfashionable pub game to a massively successful international sport. His uninhibited enthusiasm, classical allusions and memorable one-liners endeared him to millions. His son Dan Waddell...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2016-05-19
ePub
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Ferne McCann is a TV personality, style icon and influencer and for the first time she's telling her story.In Cross My Heart,Ferne tells her own story in her own words. She lifts the lid on love and heartbreak, the ups and downs behind the scenes of ITV''s much loved...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2016-05-19
ePub
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Part memoir, part his take on life, the universe and Hollywood, this is an all-round portrait of a true original. David Gest was the star of this year's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! His tall tales, huge sense of fun and sheer likeability proved to be ratings...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-05-12
ePub
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The last signatory to the Declaration of Independence was one of the earliest to sign up for the Revolution: Thomas McKean lived a radical, boisterous, politically intriguing life and was one of the most influential and enduring of America's Founding Fathers. Present at...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2016-05-10
ePub
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Peace and tranquillity. For once nothing terrible is happening. After years of dodgy moorings, ankle-deep mud, exploding toilets and all the other normalities of live-aboard life, the Brownes now seem to have found the perfect spot in which to park Minerva, their aging...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
Parution :
2016-05-06
Collection :
The Narrow Boat Books
ePub
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'A wickedly entertaining new memoir' Daily MailAccording to the Daily Mail Ian Ogilvy was 'the undisputed star of 1970s TV as the dashing Simon Templar in Return Of The Saint'. The show turned him into a household name, causing him to be touted as the next James Bond....
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2016-05-05
ePub
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Voted the UK’s Favourite Nature BookThe memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger’s and MeEvery minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-05-05
ePub
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IsolatedCommand Post Keating - one of the most vulnerable US army bases in Afghanistan. Located at the bottom of a deep valley, soliders are exposed. The Taliban can see every move and attack is imminent.OutnumberedJust before sunrise on 3 October 2009, hundreds of...
Editeur :
Preface Digital
Parution :
2016-05-05
ePub
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