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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters ofHenry VIII's reign.A pioneering poet, whose verse had a profound impact on Shakespeare, Surrey was nevertheless branded by one contemporary as 'the most foolish proud boy that is...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-03-13
ePub
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No Regrets is Coleen Nolan's gripping new memoir about love and heartbreak.As a member of the Nolan sisters, Coleen Nolan was born into the spotlight and has stayed there ever since. She has now become one of the nation's favourite TV presenters and is used to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-13
ePub
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Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is a memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup, as told to and edited by David Wilson. Solomon Northup (July 1808 – 1863?) was a free-born African American from New York, the son of a freed slave. A farmer and violinist, he owned a...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-03-08
epub sans DRM
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First published in 1936, this is the story of Elizabeth von Arnim's extraordinary life - and her equally extraordinary dogs. From her Pomeranian idyll (celebrated in her famous first book, ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN), to less happy days in London following the...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2014-03-06
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
ePub
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In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. 'My...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, started his literary career with the publication of The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor . . . 'On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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Fewer people have rowed across the Atlantic than have climbed Everest.Adam Rackley is among them. For 70 days he and his rowing partner ate, slept and rowed in a boat seven metres long and two metres wide, in one of the world's most extreme environments. This is his...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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In this uproarious collection of travel essays, the bestselling author of Life Will Be the Death of Me sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers absurdly hilarious stories. On safari in Africa, it's anyone's guess as to what's more...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2014-03-04
ePub
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Starring Oona Chaplin as a V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment), and Suranne Jones and Hermione Norris as trained nurses, The Crimson Field is a gripping drama set in a tented hospital on the coast of France, where plucky real-life V.A.D. Olive Dent served two years of the...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2014-02-27
ePub
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‘Perched on the back of a sunlit chair was something about 9 inches tall and shaped rather like a plump toy penguin with a nose-job. It appeared to be wearing a one-piece knitted jumpsuit of pale grey fluff with brown stitching, complete with an attached balaclava...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2014-02-27
ePub
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Lucia Graves, daughter of the poet Robert Graves and his wife Beryl, grew up in the beautiful village of Deia on the island of Majorca. Neither Spanish nor Catholic by birth, she nevertheless absorbed the different traditions of Spain and felt the full impact of...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2014-02-27
ePub
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Three Biographies of Lewis Carroll: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll + Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home + The Story of Lewis Carroll” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Life and...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-02-27
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Novels of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Lewis Carroll is best known for his...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-02-27
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Life Of William Shakespeare” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book, first...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-02-26
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Roughing It” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-02-25
epub sans DRM
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After the death of his best friend, Shane Dunphy runs away from his life working at a special needs crèche, and attempts to avoid his child protection instincts. However, when a part time journalism job in rural Ireland leads him to a family in desperate need of...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2014-02-20
ePub
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Marie Fleming became a household name in Ireland with her trail-blazing campaign for the right to die with dignity, when she took a landmark case against the Irish State to lift the ban on assisted suicide. But behind the Multiple Sclerosis sufferer's brave fight lay a...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2014-02-17
ePub
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Haatchi and Little B tells the inspiring and moving true story of Owen Howkins (also known as Little B, short for 'Buddy') and Haatchi, an Anatolian shepherd dog who was abandoned on a railway line as a puppy and left for dead.Thankfully,Haatchi was rescued, despite...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2014-02-13
ePub
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In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate modelled on the finest homes of England, complete with uniformed servants, daily muster parades and rose gardens. He wanted to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-02-13
ePub
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'An appraisal of a compelling character who might, at the age of 69 in January 2017, be sworn in as the most powerful woman in the history of the world.' The Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A revealing window into the le Carré-like layers of intrigue that develop when a...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2014-02-11
ePub
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