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Emily Huckwell spent almost her entire life working for one family. Born in a tiny Sussex village in the 1870s, she went into domestic service in the Burton household before she was twelve, earning £5 a year. She began as a nursery maid, progressing to under nurse and...
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Virago
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2012-09-13
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Virago Modern Classics
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*The classic New York Times Bestseller*'Hugely enjoyable...it reads like a novel, a fantasy tale of rags and riches that happens to be true' Sunday Times'A fascinating journey into the Wild West of American capitalism' Daily Telegraph__________In the last years of the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-09-13
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This is the life story of one of the most successful business leaders of our time.The formative influence upon Investcorp founder Nemir Kirdar was his father, who was mayor of Kirkuk and who instilled a public-service ethic in all of his sons. The book describes the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-09-13
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With Duran Duran, John Taylor has created some of the greatest songs of our time. From the disco dazzle of debut single 'Planet Earth' right up to their latest number one album All You Need is Now, Duran Duran has always had the power to sweep the world onto its...
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Sphere
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2012-09-13
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'Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world.' - Barack Obama Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards Political Book of the Year Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world. Now, for the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-09-13
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*** By the Sunday Times bestselling author of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY ***From mod folk artist to flower power pixie elfin to the king of glam rockers, Marc Bolan was the ultimate chameleon. His far-reaching musical and stylistic influence is more relevant today than ever...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-09-13
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My Animals and Other Family by Clare Balding is a funny, brave, tender story of self-discovery'I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years.'Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer,...
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Penguin
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2012-09-13
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If you've had your heart broken/been on the dating scene/had sex, read Laid Bare. Unputdownable.' Kerri Sackville, author of The Little Book of Anxiety on LAID BAREA nakedly honest account of one man's emotional and mental oblivion after separation and divorce. And how...
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Hachette Australia
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2012-09-11
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Life in Ingrid Steffensen’s New Jersey suburb was safe, comfortable, and predictable. A college professor, wife, and mother of a preadolescent daughter, her carefully cultivated world was comprised of the usual suspects: family, work, book clubs, yoga classes, and...
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Seal Press
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2012-09-11
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In his sixtieth year, Tim follows up his bestselling book of 37 years earlier, Bullshit & Jellybeans, with this extraordinary take on his life as a 'mayor of two cities'. Every New Zealander knows Tim Shadbolt. We know him for his wide-mouthed smile, inimitable oratory,...
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Hodder Moa
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2012-09-10
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After a failed suicide attempt and recovery in the mad house, Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life.Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when she was sixteen and was the first person to show Martha true love and...
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Mainstream Digital
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2012-09-06
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From the author of the top ten bestseller The Junior Officers' Reading Club. When Patrick Hennessey returned home from Afghanistan, battle-worn, exhilarated, unsure if he'd see anything like it in his life again, he left behind him bands of friendship forged in the heat...
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Penguin
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2012-09-06
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'Hope I die before I get old', sang Roger Daltrey over forty years ago, but it didn't quite work out like that.The wild and passionate lead singer for supergroup The Who is still very much alive. The premature deaths of fellow group members Keith Moon and John Entwistle...
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Piatkus
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2012-09-06
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'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family...
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Penguin
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2012-09-06
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Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is in many ways the story of his generation. Other aspects of his personal history, though, such as the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-06
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Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is in many ways the story of his generation. Other aspects of his personal history, though, such as the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-06
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'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .'Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on...
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Penguin
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2012-09-06
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A highly-readable popular biography of 'Bloody Mary' - winner of the James Tait Black prize.Mary I is notorious for her persecution of Protestants and has been vilified by generations of partisan historians. H.F.M. Prescott brings a more humane and measured perspective...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-09-06
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A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance – a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2012-09-06
Collection :
The Resistance Quartet
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Die Beachtung, welche die Gattung Moralische Wochenschrift bisher erfahren hat und aktuell erhält, entspricht bei Weitem nicht ihrem tatsächlichen Stellenwert in der Aufklärungsepoche als Multiplikator und Katalysator aufklärerischer Ideen und Schreibweisen.Die 19...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-05
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