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Christmas during war-time - a memoir of community spirit and the sense of coming together and supporting each other Dot May Dunn grew up in Derbyshire, the daughter of a miner, during the wartime years. In 1951 she joined the NHS as an early recruit and went on to train...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2015-11-05
ePub
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The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in the ice and its...
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Penguin
Parution :
2015-11-05
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For anyone on Instagram, The Fat Jew (@thefatjewish) is pretty much essential-following: hilarious posts several times a day, which are laugh-out-loud-funny.Money, Pizza, Respect is a loosely autobiographical account of how Josh 'The Fat Jew' Ostrovsky went from...
Editeur :
Hardie Grant Books (UK)
Parution :
2015-11-05
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Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his Gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers’ ploughs.Historians still...
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Transworld Digital
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2015-11-05
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A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at the Front, hoping that one day someone may see them grow; a nurse tends a man back to health knowing he will be court-martialled and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2015-11-05
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'Magical' Daily Mail'I finished it with an ache in my heart and a tear in my eye' SpectatorFrom the author of Cider With Rosie, Village Christmas is a moving, lyrical portrait of England through the changing years and seasons. Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the...
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Penguin
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2015-11-05
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The definitive award-winning biography of Cristiano Ronaldo - fully updated to include the 2022 World Cup, Ronaldo's explosive exit from Manchester United and his record-breaking transfer to Al-NassrAs the Qatar World Cup opened to worldwide jubilation, Cristiano...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
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2015-11-05
Collection :
Guillem Balague's Books
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Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State. She studied with Agrippina Vaganova, the most revered and influential of all Russian ballet instructors, and in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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At the turn of the twentieth century, London was a breeding ground for the avant-garde. Modernist writers like T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound became infatuated with the Orient. Pound in particular was inspired by the clarity and precision of Eastern poetry to...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2015-10-31
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'We all have stories to tell. These are mine.' Drew BarrymoreBorn into Hollywood royalty, Drew Barrymore is one of the biggest stars of her generation. Despite an unconventional childhood, she has built a life and career of her own that millions of fans...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2015-10-29
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The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.'A rare glimpse of the tangled undergrowth of English snobbery, prejudice and reactionary politics' New York Times 'A fine group portrait of a truly remarkable tribe' AtlanticAmong the six...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-10-29
ePub
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Just in time for the Chairman's centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan's bestselling Frank: The VoiceFinally the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed 'The Entertainer of the Century,' deserves and requires. Like Peter Guralnick on...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2015-10-29
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The definitive biography of an extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman'There was no possibility of taking a walk that day . . .' With these words Charlotte Brontë began Jane Eyre and changed English literature irrevocably.Claire Harman's...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-10-29
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The first comprehensive biography ever published about America's favorite living pop icon, Beyonce, from New York Times bestselling biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli. Beyonce Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing in pageant shows and...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2015-10-27
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Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one of the most important movements in rock history. Seeking a sense of home and identity, she would discover both while moving...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2015-10-27
ePub
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'Hair-raising' Sunday Times'Simultaneously entertaining and appalling' Financial TimesTwenty years ago - before Lehman Brothers; before PPI; before a global recession and crises with the Euro - before all that, there was Nick Leeson, the original rogue trader.When...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2015-10-22
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‘Quite brilliant; beautifully, cleverly observed; funny, heart-breaking.’ – Roddy DoyleHilary is four, not yet five, and she has a mother and a father and an older brother and sisters. She even has a name at home – Billy – that is different from her written-down name....
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2015-10-22
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After the recent success of Princess, More Tears to Cry the Princess Al-Saud and Jean Sasson are collaborating on this new book to bring readers up to date not only with the Princess and her family but the stories and experiences of characters who formed the focus of...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2015-10-22
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A MUST-HAVE COLLECTION OF RARE AND UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF KATE BUSH.WITH ESSAYS BY HER BROTHER, JOHN CARDER BUSH, ABOUT KATE'S LIFE AND CAREER.Stunning and unique images from throughout Kate Bush's career including:Outtakes from classic album shoots and never-before-seen...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2015-10-22
ePub
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