A life of love and glamour as a 19th Century British Duchess: the perfect read for fans of BRIDGERTON and DOWNTON ABBEY'Wonderfully evocative [...] now reissued in an elegant new edition' ? Country LifeConsuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-10-13

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How does it feel to live and work in the world's most beautiful and luxurious tropical island resort, surrounded by white sandy beaches and aquamarine seas?How does it feel to be in the lap of luxury when you're thousands of miles from anywhere else? And when the guests...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2011-09-30

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David Weir's career is a tale of triumph on the pitch but also of victory over the assumption all top-level footballers are finished in their mid-30s. Weir, who turned 41 in May 2011, is the oldest outfield player to represent Rangers since 1945, passing the mark set by...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-09-15

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This is the story of an ordinary woman whose grief - and love - for her only son compelled her to do something extraordinary. When Margaret Davis's beloved son Steven was murdered by his own wife, a Philippino former prostitute, she travelled across continents to track...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-09-15

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Pilgrim State is a stunning memoir which tells the story of Dorothy Walker - equal parts beautiful, headstrong, brave and tragic. Her life is lovingly recreated by her daughter Jacqueline in homage to the remarkable woman she was. In the haunting opening pages, set in...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2011-09-01

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In November 2010, Andrew Strauss faced the ultimate challenge for an England cricket captain: winning the Ashes on Australian soil, a feat that had not been achieved for 24 years. By the end of a series that gripped the nation, he had led his team to an overwhelming...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-08-04

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What kind of a woman would sell her own child?A monster.Tess was just eleven years old when her mother sold her to a rich elderly man.Grace ran a brothel in Croydon and she plunged her young daughter into a terrifying world of sex and depravity. Grace was ruthless in...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-08-04

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Spike Milligan was one of our best-loved comics as well as one of our most original. In this first major assessment of Spike's life and career, the highly respected biographer Humphrey Carpenter has - through copious research and access to many of those closest to the...

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

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Andrew Carnegie, the great steel-baron-turned-philanthropist, was an industrialist unlike any other. His famous dictum, that he who dies rich dies disgraced, has inspired a generation of twenty-first-century philanthropists to follow in his footsteps and put their money...

Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2011-06-14

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Michael Vaughan tells the full, compelling story of a remarkable career - from his early days at Yorkshire, to his emergence as a world-class batsman; from the successful partnership with Duncan Fletcher that culminated in the raising of the urn at The Oval in 2005, to...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-04-28

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'The dream was football . . .'John Giles had a gift. At the age of three, he could kick a ball the way it was supposed to be kicked. And he knew that every hour that passed without kicking a ball was an hour wasted.'It was the same dream that most of the kids had at...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-11-11

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A unique memoir by Sir Michael Parkinson, reflecting on 100 of the most legendary encounters by the man who has met everyone who is someone.Sir Michael Parkinson occupies a unique place in the public consciousness. For many he is the chronicler of a generation. Through...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-10-14

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Auberon Waugh was a philosopher – savage, eccentric, but a philosopher nonetheless. More than any writer of his era,Auberon Waugh had a genius for dividing his readers, into the delighted and the infuriated, and he retains the ability to start a squabble...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-10-14

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'Uproarious and unflinching' Mail on Sunday'A truly incredible life story' The Sun'Most memorable . . . told in a voice as distinctive as his spoken one' Independent'Brims with his gift for genial anecdote' The Sunday Times* * *From the author of the bestselling Blowing...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-09-30

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Kenny Dalglish's relationship with Liverpool Football Club is one of the great love stories of sport. From the moment he first set foot in the Anfield dressing room nervously asking for autographs while having a trial at the club, Dalglish felt a passion for Liverpool...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-09-16

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Joe Hunter vs Luke Rickard, a killer who has stolen his identity and committed a vicious double murder. His motive? Revenge. His method? A blade. His mission? Kill anyone Hunter holds dear. It is a deadly duel of wits that takes Hunter from the streets of Miami to the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-08-19
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The perfect gift for a literary loverHave you ever dreamt of Darcy? Wished for Wentworth? Or even envied the womanly wiles of Emma? Perhaps you want to know a bit more about the author who so accurately describes the ins and outs of courtship, and whose novels have...

Editeur : Yellow Kite
Parution : 2010-08-11

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Cherry Denman has spent her life trailing husband Charlie round some of the world's most remote outposts and can ask for the lavatory in eleven languages. While some aspects of living abroad will always puzzle her - saunas, tofu and circumcision, to name just three -...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-05-13

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Imagine what it would be like if your thoughts weren't the only ones in your head.Ruth has lived with other people in her head since she was four years old. She splintered off into different selves when her grandfather began sexually abusing her. It was her way of...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-03-10

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Friends. Everyone needs them. Especially when relations between you and your family are less than perfect. And for the talented and ambitious Janet Street-Porter, her friends became her family. is the story of these vibrant characters – some famous, some infamous, all...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2010-03-04

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