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Missing is Shelley MacKenney's remarkable story of life as a 'missing person'. An inspirational tale of her journey through extreme personal crisis."You can run, but you can't hide from yourself."Abandoned by her mother as a young child and with a father constantly on...
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Penguin
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2014-05-22
ePub
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When Nathan discovered a job lot of the first 106 adventures for sale on eBay, there was never any question that he would place a bid.When the books arrived, he lost himself in the old adventures. Yet, as he flicked through the pages, there was another story being...
Editeur :
Headline
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2014-05-22
ePub
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Mark Wallington has a dream. He is going to change the face of British comedy.Unfortunately for the residents of north London, he's going to finance this dream by becoming a gardener.The result is The Day Job, an account of a year spent working in other people's...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2014-05-19
ePub
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In June 1940 Britain expected enemy invasion. Despite Churchill's determination to fight on the beaches, many parents made desperate efforts to send their children abroad to safety. Thousands left for America, Canada, Australia and other distant countries.In this...
Editeur :
Headline
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2014-05-08
ePub
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'The book is f***ing BRILLIANT! Just arrived NYC and wanked myself laughing. Literally tears. Irritated looks all around. What a great writer you are. It's a classic. You absolutely got the whole shite early 70s thing down precisely as it was. Names, smells, sounds,...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-05-08
ePub
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The cultural and political history of the watershed decade of the 20th century, as told by the New Yorker.The 1940s were a decade of upheaval and innovation: they saw the Nuremberg Trials and Israeli statehood, Casablanca and Duke Ellington, smallpox and skyscrapers,...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-05-08
ePub
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"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present...
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Penguin
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2014-05-01
ePub
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In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to the new world of Cambridge.The old Scots word ‘glamour’ means magical charm, and the first time he was played I Put a Spell on You, John...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-05-01
ePub
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In 1972 Abbie Ross’s cosmopolitan parents move the family from London to rural North Wales, exchanging a town house in Islington for a remote farmhouse on a hill. Abbie’s Liverpudlian grandparents – dedicated followers of Liberace, sleek in scented mohair and patent...
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Transworld Digital
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2014-04-24
ePub
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This is the moving true story of Jeanette Roberts, a young London girl who survived appalling abuse in her own childhood, and so determined to give other children in the same position the love and care she had been denied. A chance meeting with a small boy she caught...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-04-10
ePub
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After returning from a trip to Brunei, Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles. It is the life of a man desperate to earn a living through the written word. He finds at first...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-04-03
ePub
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The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia-a story of courage, resilience, and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-04-03
ePub
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‘a funny, evocative memoir that perfectly captures a significant slice of Australian life.’ Peter FitzSimonsIt is the end of 1961 and the New South Wales country town of Albury lies flat on its back in the sun, swatting flies, with its feet sticking out over the mighty...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2014-03-24
ePub
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The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to the action as anyone during the dramatic events of the mid-20th...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-03-20
ePub
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As the eldest daughter of a prolific letter writer, Jane Torday received hundreds of letters from her father over the years. From irreverent advice and hilarious family anecdotes to moments of great poignancy, Roger Mortimer‘s missives are a touching and witty portrait...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2014-03-20
ePub
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Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize Let me take you down the thin...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-03-20
ePub
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No Regrets is Coleen Nolan's gripping new memoir about love and heartbreak.As a member of the Nolan sisters, Coleen Nolan was born into the spotlight and has stayed there ever since. She has now become one of the nation's favourite TV presenters and is used to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-13
ePub
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Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is a memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup, as told to and edited by David Wilson. Solomon Northup (July 1808 – 1863?) was a free-born African American from New York, the son of a freed slave. A farmer and violinist, he owned a...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-03-08
epub sans DRM
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Lucia Graves, daughter of the poet Robert Graves and his wife Beryl, grew up in the beautiful village of Deia on the island of Majorca. Neither Spanish nor Catholic by birth, she nevertheless absorbed the different traditions of Spain and felt the full impact of...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2014-02-27
ePub
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Three Biographies of Lewis Carroll: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll + Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home + The Story of Lewis Carroll” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Life and...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-02-27
epub sans DRM
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