A LOVE LOST.A LIFE CUT SHORT.'From the moment I set eyes on him I adored him. The connection between us was so strong it went beyond everything else. His job, my job, his lifestyle, my lifestyle. All that fell away.'And then one earth-shattering day Christina's worst...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-03-29

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**WINNER OF THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD**'This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets. Obviously that's something I should be fairly well-qualified to know about, and I'm going to be as honest as the...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-03-29

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I don't thinkI can actually remember a time in policing whenI didn't want to join the Armed Offenders Squad. My early reasons for joining probably weren't the purest, though I just thought they looked really cool.' Five Foot and Fearless is the inspiring story of Liz...

Editeur : Nz Epenguin
Parution : 2012-03-28

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In this "moving and powerful memoir" (Mayim Bialik), comedian Moshe Kasher details his outrageously dysfunctional early years in this darkly hilarious, absurd coming-of-age story. Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2012-03-28

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Kevin J. Mervin was one of over 2,000 British Territorial Army soldiers called up to fight in the Iraq War in February 2003. Based on a diary kept throughout his tour of duty, the author's personal account of the conflict illustrates what it was like for a 'part-timer'...

Editeur : Mainstream Digital
Parution : 2012-03-23

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WRITTEN WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARK BOSTRIDGE In her bestselling first volume of autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War, lamenting the destruction of a generation which for her included those...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2012-03-22
Collection : Virago Modern Classics
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On December 24th 1971, the teenage Juliane boarded the packed flight in Peru to meet her father for Christmas. She and her mother fought to get some of the last seats available and felt thankful to have made the flight. The LANSA airplane flew into a heavy thunderstorm...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-03-22

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With The Cook's Companion front and centre in half a million kitchens, Stephanie Alexander is the very definition of a household name. Each day thousands turn to her 'food bible' for the most reliable recipes and advice. But before Stephanie Alexander penned a word for...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2012-03-21

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Rebellion, revolution, experimental living, feminist communes, street theatre, radical magazines, love affairs - gay and straight - sex, drugs and rock and roll.Michèle Roberts, one of Britain's most talented and highly acclaimed novelists, now considers her own life,...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2012-03-15

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On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression...How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives haven't seemed right?...

Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2012-03-15

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Desperate circumstances were something Evelyn Prentis had to get very used to when she began her life as a nurse. It was in 1934 that Evelyn left home for the first time to enrol as a trainee at a busy Nottingham hospital in the hope of £25 a year. A Nurse in Time is...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2012-03-15

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In April 1982 Harry Benson was a 21-year-old Royal Navy commando helicopter pilot, fresh out of training and one of the youngest helicopter pilots to serve in the Falklands War. These pilots, nicknamed 'junglies', flew most of the land-based missions in the Falklands in...

Editeur : Preface Digital
Parution : 2012-03-15

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A unique and gloriously nostalgic account of one eventful year in the fire service for readers who loved books such as CALL THE MIDWIFE and TRUST ME, I'MA VET.Nothing about the county fire service was quite what Malcolm expected when he joined the watch in Shrewsbury....

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2012-03-15

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Tired of soy milk lattes and eternal traffic snarls, journalist Susan Kurosawa and husband Graeme Blundell bought a 1920s fishing shack at Hardys Bay on the NSW Central Coast and set about transforming it into ‘Peacock Cottage’ (named for resident bird Alfredo). This...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2012-03-01

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Thirty years after the Falklands War 'Secret Millionaire' Tony Banks is still haunted by his experiences in the South Atlantic. As a member of the crack Parachute Regiment his unit was the first to land on the Falklands and he fought in the bloody first and last battles...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-03-01
Collection : William Lorimer
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Max and Vicky Hardcastle, newcomers to the beautiful Yorkshire village of Ramsthwaite, are finallly settled into their tumble-down old farm. But their new rural life doesn't always go to plan, for whetherMax is plotting to get the better of rival antiques dealers or...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2012-03-01

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No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names. Written by...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-03-01
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Published in 1996, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma was the first in-depth study of the artist's life. It has not been superseded.In this substantially revised, updated edition - to coincide with the artist's centenary, which will be celebrated from autumn 2008...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2012-03-01

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What was it like to be an advertising woman on Madison Avenue in the sixties and seventies, that Mad Men era of casual sex and professional serfdom? Now, in her immensely entertaining and bittersweet memoir, Jane Maas reveals all…·Was there really that much sex at the...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-03-01

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'With this one word, Lili had finally understood many things: that no matter what she promised or sacrificed or gave, she would always be 'broken' to her daughter.' When Jasmin Darznik finds a photo among her father's possessions shortly after his death, she recognises...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-03-01

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