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The Bucket by Allan Ahlberg - the enthralling childhood story one of Britain's best-loved children's authors'My mother, who was not my mother, I see her now, her raw red cleaner's hands twisting away at her apron as she struggled to speak. Adoption was a shameful...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-09-05
ePub
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**A Sunday Times Book of the Year**The closest you’ll ever get to the most infamous drug kingpin in modern history, told by the person who stood by his sideThe story of Pablo Escobar, one of the wealthiest, powerful and violent criminals of all time has fascinated the...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2019-08-22
ePub
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The remarkable true story that became a viral news sensation.Former Royal Engineer Sean Laidlaw was working as a bomb disposal expert in Syria when he heard whimpering from the rubble of a school that had exploded and collapsed. Upon further inspection he found that the...
Editeur :
Coronet
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2019-08-08
ePub
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'Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny' KATHY BURKE'Give[s] powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain's current fracturing' OBSERVERI'm a scrounger, a liar, a hypocrite, a stain on society with no basic morals - or so they say....
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Ebury Digital
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2019-07-11
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Another beautiful, revelatory country diary from one of the best nature writers in Britain.'If you’ve never read Mark Cocker, then you must. His style is sharp, selfless, and wonderfully evocative, his knowledge deep and wide-ranging but lightly borne, his curiosity...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-07-04
ePub
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'Thrillingly honest, funny, incisive and hopeful, this is the perfect gateway into a discussion on mental health' Marian Keyes'Truly one of the most powerful books about mental health that I’ve ever read.' Daisy BuchananOne of the Independent's top ten millennial...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
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2019-07-04
ePub
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The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole – now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside.Contains: Blood – but not as much as you might imagineSweat – and the prisons no longer provide...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2019-06-20
ePub
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Three men. 470 kilometres. Twenty-one days.Welcome to the downhill hiking club . . .At a boozy, cricket-filled afternoon at Lord's, Dom Joly convinces his two closest friends to agree to the unthinkable: a challenging hike across Lebanon, from the Israeli border in the...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2019-06-13
ePub
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WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2020__________________________'A moving story of love, tradition and landscape.' Evening Standard, 'Books of the Year''A moving, multilayered memoir... extraordinary, ambitious... its...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2019-06-06
ePub
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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.As you'll discover in his incomparable memoir, inventor, mechanic, TV presenter and walking tall as the definition of the British eccentric, Edd China sees things differently.An unstoppable enthusiast from an early age, Edd had 35 ongoing car...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2019-05-16
ePub
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The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory, for fans of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia Purnell'Gripping: Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2019-05-09
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For most of her life, Stefanie Preissner was a people-pleaser. From hair-raising sleepovers and endless offers of cake to unwanted second dates and unrealistic work demands, she said yes to everything - even if it scared her or made her uncomfortable. Until, one day,...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2019-05-09
ePub
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Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath tigerfish from the Congo, arapaima from the Amazon, 'giant devil catfish' from the Himalayan foothills . . .As his catches attract...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-05-02
ePub
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, from the co-host of the podcast WHATTHE MIDWIFE SAID________________No sleep for twenty hours. No food for ten.And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers...Midwives are there for us at some of the most challenging, empowering and defining moments...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2019-04-30
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'A subtle, moving celebration of place and connectedness . . . The Grassling brings the sounds, smells and sights of the countryside alive like few other books. Burnett stretches the limits of prose, infusing it with poetic intensity to create a powerful, original...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-03-28
ePub
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For fans of Nala's World and Arthur, this is an uplifting and unforgettable true story about how the love of a good dog can save your life.Rob Kugler adopted his chocolate Lab Bella as a puppy - a bundle of fun and love to keep his girlfriend company as he headed off...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2019-03-21
ePub
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This book examines a selection of prison memoirs by five renowned African writers: Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ruth First, Wole Soyinka, Nawal El Saadawi and Jack Mapanje. Detained across the continent from the 1960s onward due to their writing and political engagement, each...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-02-15
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'I was the shadow child no one ever saw...'From the day she was born until she escaped aged 30, Katy Morgan-Davies knew nothing but a life in captivity. Her father was the deluded and cruel leader of a cult based in South London who brainwashed those around him.Her...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2019-02-01
ePub
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What do you do when the person you’re meant to trust the most in the world is the one trying to destroy you? ‘When people met her they thought how lovely she was, this attractive woman with a beautiful laugh. But she was one person in public and another behind closed...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2019-01-24
ePub
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'The classic of memoir of inter-generational strife, with an afterword from author of The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry and an introduction from Anthony Quinn. Subtitled ‘a study of two temperaments’ Edmund Gosse's childhood memoir tells the often fractious, often comic...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-12-06
ePub
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