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When Brian Johnston was a schoolboy, his reports were full of phrases such as 'talks too much in school' and 'apt to be a buffoon'. Later millions of radio listeners would be delighted to discover that some things never changed! Johnners brought his unique wit and...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2011-11-30
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Two months after his eleventh birthday, on 9 July 1944, the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp closed behind Ladislaus Löb. Five months later, with the Second World War still raging, he crossed the border into Switzerland, cold and hungry, but alive and safe. He...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would be safe where they...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2011-11-30
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'Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to...
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Transworld Digital
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2011-11-30
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Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicans and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden. Arguably the greatest British art form ever invented, these gardens were...
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Transworld Digital
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2011-11-30
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Michael Parkinson: 'What was the nearest to kick-off that you made love to a woman?'George Best: 'Er- I think it was half-time actually'George Best was the first celebrity footballer and to many the greatest British player ever. In Scoring at Half-Time he gathers...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
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2011-11-30
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"Buffett has generously endowed us all with a sensible and intelligent roadmap for investing." —Robert G Hagstrom "Warren Buffett - The Oracle of Everything. He has been right about the stock market, rotten accounting, CEO greed, and corporate governance. The rest of...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-11-28
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The Inside Story of America's Ultimate Warriors When Osama bin Laden was assassinated, the entire world was fascinated by the men who had completed the seemingly impossible mission that had dogged the U.S. government for over a decade. SEAL Team 6 became synonymous with...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2011-11-28
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When Ron and Reg Kray were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1968, most people thought that was the last they'd hear of two of the most notorious and vicious criminals Britain has ever produced. Instead, the twins and their evil doings have since achieved almost iconic...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-11-25
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The Krays were a product of their age, nurtured by a doting mother and created by their community, the East End of London. Their name alone conjures up images of power, violence and greed - and even brother Charlie couldn't steer the twins Ron and Reg clear of murder...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-11-25
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Some families save and others throw away. The Kohners, a Jewish family living in Bohemia at the end of the nineteenth century, threw very little away. A hundred years later their casually assembled archive of over a thousand family letters, hundreds of photos, diaries...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-11-24
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There are those who say - and Peter Cook himself was among them - that most of his humour was autobiographical. Others - and Peter Cook himself was among them -contend that this simply isn't the case. The truth, of course, lies somewhere in the middle. Peter Cook made...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-11-24
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'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down . . . let's have a little fun . . .'In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2011-11-24
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The long-awaited illustrated biography of Michael BubleMichael Buble is the most successful male artist in the world at the moment. Born in British Columbia to a family of Italian fishermen, music is in the family blood and it was Michael's grandfather first introduced...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2011-11-24
ePub
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Donncha O'Callaghan is one of Ireland's leading international rugby players, and a stalwart of the Munster side. He was a key figure in the Irish team which won the IRB 6 Nations Grand Slam in 2009, and has won two Heineken Cup medals and two Magners League titles with...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-11-24
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Most Americans know Patrick Henry as a fiery speaker whose pronouncement "Give me liberty or give me death!" rallied American defiance to the British Crown. But Henry's skills as an orator -- sharpened in the small towns and courtrooms of colonial Virginia -- are only...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2011-11-22
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The remarkable true story of a family who move into a rundown zoo-already a BBC documentary miniseries and excerpted inThe Guardian.In the market for a house and an adventure, Benjamin Mee moved his family to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo in the English...
Editeur :
Weinstein Books
Parution :
2011-11-22
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A couple of years ago, Martin Knight began a quest to delve into his family history. He had a head start on many amateur genealogists, as 30 years earlier he had produced a school project on the very subject. The project was based on the papers and oral history of his...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-11-18
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British vet, Nick Trout, a modern day James Herriot working in Boston, USA, returns with a completely captivating true story.After exposing the fascinating life of a vet in his previous book, Trout now delves into rich emotional territory with the story of two dogs who...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-11-17
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In her debut memoir Narrow Margins Marie Browne saved her family from financial ruin by moving her long-suffering husband, three children and a dog on to a houseboat called Happy Go Lucky in search of a less stressful, alternative way of life.Now in Narrow Minds the...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
Parution :
2011-11-17
Collection :
The Narrow Boat Books
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