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Authoritative biography of cult writer and author of NAKED LUNCH, William Burroughs (1914-1997).It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.'...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-02-06
ePub
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Elizabeth Taylor has been called the last great star of Hollywood's Golden Age. Her legendary beauty and luminous performances continue to enthral movie fans nearly seventy years after she made her screen debut, aged only ten. From the wide-eyed MGM ingénue she became...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2014-02-06
ePub
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Styles come and and go, but fashion has an enduring appeal, a rich history, and an everyday practical relevance for millions.Launched to coincide with London Fashion Week 2014, this book offers a host of new perspectives on a classic subject. Professional fashion...
Editeur :
Ilex Press
Parution :
2014-02-03
ePub
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The Roman empress Faustina the Elder (c. 97-140) and her daughter Faustina II (c. 130-175) have been subject to criticism from the earliest records, described in turn as fickle, unfaithful, and treasonous. Yet their husbands, the emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-02-01
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Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, My Judy Garland Life will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or held a candle to a star.Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie Boyt's life since she was three years old, comforting,...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2014-01-31
ePub
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Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life. In this, the first-ever book to be written about him, Daniel Farson, friend and confidant to Bacon for over forty years, gives a highly personal, first-hand...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-01-31
ePub
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It isn't nice but you're an animal, so you can do it, dressed in green and brown and black waiting to be attacked and smiling because you had bullets for teeth. Adnan Sarwar, a Pakistani boy from Burnley, joined the British Army – the White Man’s Army. Why did he do...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-01-30
ePub
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'Tremendous. A moving and haunting tribute to the human spirit' WILLIAM BOYDInto the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead6 April 1994: In the skies above Rwanda the president’s plane is shot down in flames. Near Kigali, Jean-Pierre holds his family close,...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2014-01-30
ePub
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'Glamorous, cultured, moody, Lispector is an emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce. Benjamin Moser has brought to life her essentially tragic nature in all its complexity' Edmund White'That rare person who looked like...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-01-30
ePub
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RAE'S BACK! But now it's 1990. The Berlin wall is down and the Happy Mondays are up, really up, but the new decade's brought new mortifications for Rae Earl and she's MADDER and FATTER than ever. About to enter the most important year of her life - her actual bloody A...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-01-30
ePub
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Wild Child by Alan Croghan: a child's journey through crime, punishment and redemption. From the moment his mother went into labour with him - on a transatlantic flight - Alan Croghan's life was chaotic. As a young boy in north Dublin, he drank, took drugs and rarely...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-01-30
ePub
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The incredible autobiography from Claire Lorrimer, bestselling romance novelist and daughter of 'Queen of Romance' Denise Robins.You Never Know is former WAAF officer and bestselling novelist Claire Lorrimer's autobiography, containing a graphic description of the six...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-01-30
ePub
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With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid,...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2014-01-23
ePub
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George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived. Here we see the author's simple, bardic honesty turned on himself.In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-01-23
ePub
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"Now Michael, you're the son of a naval officer, you must behave like a naval officer at all times..."What Captain William Rutherford told his seven-year-old son Michael was to stay with him all his life. Born in 1950, Michael was truly his father's son, even serving...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2014-01-23
Collection :
Tom Thorne Novels
ePub
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This new Supplementary Dictionary of Sports Personalities contains over 250 biographical entries on famous individuals from the world of sports. Spanning a wide range of sporting disciplines, including cricket, football, javelin, boxing, and bullfighting, this A-Z...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-23
ePub
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Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his death in September 2012.NotoriousCharlie Richardson was the most feared gangster in 1960s London. Boss of the Richardson Gang...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2014-01-20
ePub
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'Climbing is a bit like rolling a dice - sometimes things fall into place and you achieve your aim. Sometimes your number comes up.' - Sue Fear, April 2006When mountaineers Lincoln Hall and Sue Fear collaborated in writing Fear No Boundary, neither could have imagined...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2014-01-17
ePub
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No Cake,No Jam is the heart-warming true story of a little girl’s London childhood during the Blitz, and of how she rose above adversity through sheer guts and strength of character.Marian Hughes was born in the same year as her father committed suicide. She spent most...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2014-01-16
ePub
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Er war einer der erfolgreichsten Journalisten in der jungen Bundesrepublik: Rudolf Michael (1890-1980) machte Bild zur größten und wichtigsten Boulevardzeitung Deutschlands. Sein Erfolgskonzept, der desillusionierten deutschen Nachkriegsgesellschaft möglichst wenig...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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