Since she founded the Farmers' and Country Bureau from her farmhouse in the Peak District more than twenty years ago, Patricia has been helping love blossom the length and breadth of rural England. She has hundreds of marriages to her credit and numerous babies,...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-09-29

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From priceless eighteenth-century dining tables hidden away in decaying farm sheds to tattooed travellers with a penchant for Wedgewood china, professional auctioneer Philip Serrell has seen it all. In An Auctioneer's Lot he brings to life a world in which the most...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-09-29

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In MY HEROES the 'world's greatest living explorer' (Guinness Book of Records), writes about the people who have inspired him - from explorers to policemen, families to freedom fighters. Wherever in the world Ranulph gives one of his lectures or motivational speeches,...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-09-29

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BIG FAT GYPSY WEDDINGS has been the most talked-about show on TV and delivered ratings almost as enormous as the frothy, bejewelled frocks its subjects wear. This book offers a window into the secret and surprising world of Gypsies and Travellers in Britain today. ...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-09-29

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NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY AND STARRING BEN AFFLECK'Highly entertaining . . . constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author's Uncle Charlie' New York Times'Moehringer writes with a survivor's wisdom . . . The Tender Bar is a memoir, but has...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2011-09-15

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This wonderfully entertaining journey takes us from Alistair Horne's childhood as a wartime evacuee in America to his career as a highly successful historian and biographer, via a stint as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. We travel with him from Germany...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2011-09-08

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'A wonderful tale of 1950s Britain... a vivid account of a midwife's lot' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'I couldn't put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'Charming, sad, humorous and poignant'...

Editeur : Seven Dials
Parution : 2011-09-01

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'Very funny and frank' Independent'Reads like Scrubs: The Blog ... funny and awful in equal measure' Observer* * * * * * *The bestselling real life story of a hapless junior doctor, based on his columns written anonymously for the Telegraph. IF YOU'RE GOING to be ill,...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-09-01

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This is a re-issue of Blue Nights and Long Nights ISBN 9780552158527.Card-playing corpses, unfaithful husbands and 'flying' ladies - life as an ambulance driver in the 1970s was certainly varied ...At the age of twenty-three, Les Pringle decided to escape from office...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2011-08-19

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Louis Greig, a war hero and rugby international, entered the privileged world of the British royal family as mentor, physician and friend to a young and hesitant Prince Albert, the man who became King George VI and whose challenges were so vividly brought to life in the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-08-18

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This is the inspiring account of a family's struggle to break into their son's autistic world - and how a beautiful retreiver dog made the real difference.Dale was still a baby when his parents realised that something wasn't right. Worried, his mother Nuala took him to...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-08-18

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The second volume of Alan Clark's bestselling DIARIES, covering the downfall of Margaret ThatcherThe first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2011-08-11

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'Both unputdownable and utterly engaging' Jonathan Raban, The Times Literary Supplement'I started reading Theroux's Sir Vidia's Shadow, the story of his friendship with V. S. Naipaul over thirty years and five continents - its origins, development, and sad, enigmatic...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-08-04

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After ten years with the Metropolitan Police, Mike Pannett has returned to his North Yorkshire roots. Working a rural beat in God's Own Country he finds that life and crime in the countryside continue to throw up fresh challenges. When a drug dealer targets the towns...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-07-21

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Riveting and candid memoir of life behind the scenes as US Ambassador and Prime Minister's Press Secretary - a Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Meyer was Ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2003, during which time he was an eyewitness to and participant in...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2011-07-21

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This is the incredible story of a boy who escaped from a secret world.Mikey is a Romany Gypsy and grew up living in a caravan on sites across the UK. He adored his family and the rich and vibrant Romany culture he'd inherited. Eventually though he was forced to make a...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-07-07

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The 1000-year-old kingdom of Hungary, which formed a major part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was dismembered by the Allies in 1918. Phoenix-like, the Hungarian people survived the horrors of war, the disappointment of the first socialist republic, the disillusion of...

Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2011-06-30

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From choirboy to cowboy . . . In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2011-06-27

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Captured by terrorists, kept in solitary confinement, guarded by men with AK47s and little respect for life. Could you survive it? Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. They are abducted by a criminal gang,...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2011-06-27

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In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's author, a fashion icon, and...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2011-06-23

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