Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today – this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poetWilfred Owen tragically died in battle just a few days before the Armistice. Now, during the centenary year of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-11-14

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Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into the modern world....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-11-14

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As her mother slipped into the darkness of old age, Lisa Appignanesi began to realise how little she knew of the reality behind the tales she had heard since childhood. She had shunned her parents' stories of war-time Poland, but now she set out to find the truth. In...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2013-11-07
Collection : Virago Modern Classics
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A classic mountaineering memoir by one of the UK's foremost female climbers.'A story of climbing and compulsive love of mountains ... magnificent' OBSERVERIn 1945, when Gwen Moffat was in her twenties, she deserted from her post as a driver and dispatch rider in the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-11-07

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Joan Lock's warm and nostalgic account of her three years of training as a young student nurse in the early 1950s. Perfect for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE.WhenJoan Lock began her formal training as a young nurse in the 1950s, she was unprepared for the strict discipline...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2013-11-07

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ON THE ROAD: GROWING UP IN EIGHT JOURNEYS - MY EARLY YEARS is a new form of autobiography, in which TOP GEAR presenter Richard Hammond tells the story of his early life through a series of significant driving episodes. He's a child in the back seat of Dad's car on the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-11-07

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'I think anyone who doesn't believe there is life out there will eventually end up looking as ignorant as those people who used to think that the earth was flat and if you went too far out to sea in your boat you'd fall off the end of the world. Ridiculous.' Shaun...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2013-11-07

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‘Weir perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian’ The TimesBritain’s foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-11-07

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This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often overshadowed by Napoleon’s military might. In this triumphant biography, Kate Williams tells Josephine’s searing story, of sexual obsession, politics and surviving as a woman...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-11-07

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The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirées and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-11-07

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Discover a magical true story of the power of love and motherhood . . . 'Filled with warmth and love, and is so life-affirming' 5***** reader reviewTwo-week-old Suzanne was left at the door of Nazareth House orphanage - abandoned by the very people who should have...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-11-07

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Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-11-07

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An unusual coincidence occurred early one morning at the most visited war memorial in the United States as a shaft of sunlight hit one of the 58,282 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The name was Larry Byford. So begins a unique personal journey to discover the...

Editeur : Mainstream Digital
Parution : 2013-11-07

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In the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of men. It is this aura of tragedy that makes Huntly Gordon’s memoir, drawn from his letters...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2013-11-07

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In the summer of 2013 David Suchet will film his final scenes as Hercule Poirot. After 24 years in the role, he will have played the character in every story that Agatha Christie wrote about him (bar one, deemed unfilmable) and he will bid adieu to a role and a...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2013-11-07

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The remarkable true story of the bestselling author ofThe Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, and the real women she met in Afghanistan'Composed of heartbreak, hope, poignancy and candour' LA TIMESIn a little beauty school in the war zone of Kabul, a community of women comes...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2013-11-07

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'A tale of Machiavellian plots and coups d'etat, it's just all so gripping' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2THE ULTIMATE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS STORYSince 2006, Twitter has grown from the accidental side project of a failing internet start-up, to a global icon that by 2013 had...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2013-11-05

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One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can really...

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2013-11-05

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The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin - the new biography of Teddy Roosevelt from the bestselling author of Team of Rivals, the inspiration for Spielberg's LincolnDoris Kearns Goodwin, author of the acclaimed multi-million copy bestseller Team of Rivals:The...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-11-05

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Benjamin Britten was one of the most important and unusual figures in twentieth-century music. This is the perfect introduction to his many wonderful works and his fascinating, controversial life.Benjamin Britten single-handedly transformed the reputation of British...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-11-01

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