For Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working at the exclusive Heyworth's department store in Cambridge is a dream come true. Once the girls step inside the elegant building - surrounded by luxurious dresses and beautiful accessories - the hardships of their own lives are...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2014-09-25

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On a beautiful, balmy evening in Cuba in 2007, David Hicks walked out of Guantanomo Bay, in that moment ceasing to be a detainee of the United States and regaining his rights as an Australian citizen. Watching on was the man who had fought for four long years for Hicks'...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2014-09-24

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Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married life, birth, and childrearing in a foreign...

Editeur : Seal Press
Parution : 2014-09-23

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18 April 1942. Sixteen planes take off from a US Navy carrier in the mid-Pacific. A squadron of young, barely trained flyers under a famous daredevil, Jimmy Doolittle, they are America's first retaliation towards Japan since Pearl Harbor. Their mission: to bomb Japan's...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2014-09-18

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When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow , The Hostage and Borstal Boy . But Behan drowned his...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2014-09-18

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The award-winning autobiography from the British politician and author of the Sunday Times bestseller, This Boy.In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life.The Britwell...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2014-09-18

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What makes Noddy Holder tick? Godfather of glam, national treasure and thinking grandmother’s crumpet, Noddy has been at the epicentre of British pop culture since he stormed on to the music scene in the 1960s, and in The World According to Noddy he gives us a hilarious...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2014-09-18

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Oh Dear, Doctor! is the fourth in the series of Dr Clifford's richly entertaining and true-life accounts of his experiences as a G.P. in a small West Country practice. Once again the inhabitants of Tadchester and Sanford prove that patients are not necessarily a...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2014-09-18
Collection : The Dr Clifford Chronicles
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If there’s an adventure to be had, it’s likely that David Hempleman-Adams has been there first. Ranking alongside Ranulph Fiennes and Chris Bonnington in the pantheon of British explorers, he is the first person in history to achieve what is termed the Adventurers’...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2014-09-18

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An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is the only way to get ahead.Nordberg follows women such...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2014-09-16

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Is it every woman's fate to turn into her mother? This is renowned writer and journalist Virginia Ironside's poignant and blackly funny memoir of life with fashion professor and media icon Janey Ironside. Stylish, beautiful and self-loathing, Janey Ironside was to lead...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2014-09-11

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The critically acclaimed memoir from the well-loved broadcaster Gerry AndersonGerry Anderson broadcast every day out of Londonderry, which once upon a time was called Doire Colmcille, evolving, under the influence of the English, into LondonDerry in the 17th century. On...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-09-11

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**WINNER British Sports Book Awards SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR****Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award**Gareth Thomas had it all. He was a national hero, a sporting icon. He was a leader of men, captain of Wales and the British Lions. To him,...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2014-09-11

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Arguably the most gifted artist of her generation, Amy Winehouse died tragically young, aged just 27. With a worldwide fanbase and millions of record sales to her name, she should have had the world at her feet. Instead, in the years prior to her passing, she battled...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2014-09-11

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As seen in Drawing From Life exhibition at National Portrait Gallery, 2023In this fascinating and entertaining second volume, Christopher Sykes explores the life and work of Britain's most popular living artist.David Hockney's career has spanned and epitomised the art...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-09-11

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Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-09-11

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'This deeply researched and grippingly written biography brings Cromwell to life and exposes the Henrician court in all its brutal, glittering splendour.' Kate Williams, IndependentThomas Cromwell's life has made gripping reading for millions through Hilary Mantel's...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-09-11

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What Next Doctor? is the third book in the hilarious Dr Clifford Chronicles, true-life experiences as G.P. in a West Country practice. This instalment commences when Dr Clifford and his bride wake up to a bizarre confrontation on the first day of their honeymoon - and...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2014-09-11
Collection : The Dr Clifford Chronicles
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The Best of Both Worlds is the true story of how childhood misery and trauma helped Gordon Smith discover a gift that has helped many people throughout the world. He has helped those who are in mourning come to terms with death and bereavement by working as a medium to...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-09-11

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The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries.TRAVELLING TO WORK is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of curiosity and sense of adventure. Michael was not the BBC's first choice for the travel series AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, but after its...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2014-09-11

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