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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with RosieAbandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to...
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Penguin
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2014-06-26
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On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the new Australian capital to be built on a sheep paddock they called Canberra. Almost a century later, Griffin's design - but most of all...
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E-Penguin
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2014-06-25
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The civil wars that brought down the Roman Republic were fought on more than battlefields. Armed gangs infested the Italian countryside, mansions were besieged in the city, and bounty-hunters searched the streets for "public enemies." Among the astonishing stories to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-06-23
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In July 2012 Thomas Harding’s fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. Shortly afterwards Thomas began to write. This book is the result.Beginning on the day of Kadian’s death, and continuing to the one-year anniversary, and beyond, Kadian Journal...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-06-22
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Lyndall Gordon, the acclaimed biographer of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, grew up in Cape Town, South Africa in the 1950s. This intimate and moving memoir is the story of Rosie, Ellie, and Romy- her closest friends from childhood until their early deaths.Daughters of...
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Virago
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2014-06-19
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Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, a place from which `a ship takes fourteen days to reach anywhere that matters'. Born to a mother whose mysterious illness confined her for years to life indoors,Lyndall was her secret sharer, a child who grew to know life...
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Virago
Parution :
2014-06-19
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'Many people feel like a one-night stand is something to be ashamed or embarrassed of. I disagree...'We've all (well not quite all, perhaps) had at least one: a one-night stand. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2014-06-19
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Money, cars, homes, holidays, parties and all the shoes you've ever dreamed of. The life of a footballer's wife or girlfriend must be as glamorous and exciting as her other half, right? But behind the closed doors of the WAG's world, there are all the pressures as well...
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Transworld Digital
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2014-06-19
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Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected,Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia.Under his grandson,...
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Transworld Digital
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2014-06-19
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Agatha Christie’s 80 novels and short-story collections have sold over 2 billion copies in more than 45 languages, more than any other author. When Christie finally killed off her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, the year before she herself died, that ‘detestable,...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2014-06-19
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Brief Histories
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Zelda la Grange grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a few years after the end of Apartheid she would become a most trusted assistant to Nelson Mandela, growing to respect and cherish the man she had been taught...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-06-19
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The newly discovered diary of a wartime nurse - a fascinating, dramatic and unique insight into the experiences of a young nurse in the Second World War.'I always seem to be saying good-bye to men whom I might have loved had there been enough time...'1939: 18-year-old...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-06-12
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'Warm, anxious and true - a Little Book of Un-Calm' Caitlin MoranShortlisted for Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the National Book AwardsSometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than you can possibly imagine. By turns...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-06-12
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'The noises were fuzzy in the darkness. Like hearing a domestic dispute through an apartment wall. As a cop, it was a scenario I'd experienced many times as I'd approached a stranger's front door. But this was different. This time I wasn't going anywhere. I wasn't...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2014-06-05
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In the early winter of 1983, a generous season for memories, Michael Tierney attended his first - and only - game with his father, John. For a self-employed electrician with nine children to support, this was the rarest of opportunities. Miraculously, Celtic overturned...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2014-06-05
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Menzies (Ming) Campbell is one of the few politicians in Britain who is universally admired and respected by people of all parties and by the voting public.Born into an ordinary Glasgow family, Ming spent much of his youth striving to become an international athlete. He...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-06-05
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Capturing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of science fiction, this unique autobiography by Robert Silverberg shows how famous stories in this genre were conceived and written. Chronicling his career as one of the most important American science fiction...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2014-05-29
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This is the life story of the legendary Liverpool and Scotland 1960s footballer known as 'The Saint'. Bought by Bill Shankly from Motherwell in 1961, Ian St John was widely thought of as one of the most significant signings ever made by Liverpool FC, and was a key...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-05-29
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Liam Pieper was raised by his bohemian parents to believe in freedom and creativity, and that there's nothing wrong with smoking a little marijuana to make life more interesting.A fast learner,Liam combined hippie self-actualisation with gen Y entrepreneurialism. By his...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2014-05-28
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FROM THE CLUBS OF ESSEX TO THE LOVE ISLAND VILLA, REALITY STAR JOEY ESSEX HAS LIVED AN EXTRAODINARY LIFE. GRAB YOUR COPY OF HIS BESTSELLING MEMOIR NOW Readers LOVE Joey Essex:'I wish that I could read it all over again. I would really recommend it. Sad that it had to...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-05-22
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