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Whose first records were produced by George Martin, and who had two singles banned by the BBC?Who earned rare reviews on Broadway for his dancing? Who rode on the back seat of the Goodies’ trandem? Who has been called ‘Britain’s best-known birdwatcher’? Who had his...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2008-09-04
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‘Give me the boy and I will show you the man’ the saying goes. In this warm, tender, wonderfully evocative and often hilarious memoir one of the best-loved men in Britain, Alan Titchmarsh, brilliantly recalls his childhood in 1950s Yorkshire. Growing up in the beautiful...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2008-09-04
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You've seen Suzi Q, the feature documentary about legendary 70s rocker Suzi Quatro. Now read Unzipped, the story of how Little Susie from Detroit grew up to become an international superstar musician - as told by the glam rock sensation herself.The glam rock icon behind...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2008-07-24
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The most successful African American in gay adult film, Bobby Blake has appeared in over one hundred movies. In My Life in Porn, Blake for the first time goes behind the scenes of the sex industry to reveal intimate stories that are sexy, fascinating, and sometimes...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
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2008-07-24
ePub
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How far would you go to be the perfect mother? The hilarious Wife in the North by Judith O'Reilly, based on her enormously popular blog, recounts one woman's attempt to move her family and her life from cosmopolitan London to rural Northumberland.Maybe hormones ate her...
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Penguin
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2008-07-03
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If you were enthralled by Fifty Shades of Grey you need to read Extra Confessions of a Working Girl, the real-life story of Miss S, a modern Working Girl. Having left behind the sauna where she was top girl, Miss S moves to London to start work as a stripper. But after...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2008-07-03
ePub
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Daoud Hari lost a way of life in Darfur. But amidst the carnage and turmoil, he found a new calling...As a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur region of Sudan,Daoud Hari grew up racing camels across the desert, attending gloriously colourful weddings and, when his work was...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2008-06-05
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Fifty years ago, in the fall of 1957, two thirteen-year-old boys were enrolled at an elite, boys-only New England boarding school. One of them, descended from wealth and eminence, would go on to Yale, then to a career as a navy officer and Vietnam war hero, and finally...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
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2008-06-03
ePub
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Brought up as a Christian, Marina Nemat's peaceful childhood in Tehran was shattered when the Iranian Revolution of 1979 ushered in a new era of Islamic rule. After complaining to her teachers about her Maths lessons being replaced by Koran study, Marina was arrested...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2008-05-15
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When Tig Hague kissed goodbye to his fiancee, Lucy, he was already thinking of his return. The couple were going house-hunting, looking for their first home together. Tig was only going to be gone a few days on a routine business trip - the annual highlight of an...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-05-01
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"If you think I'm going to lift the lid on what it is like to be paid to misbehave with celebrities, travel the world and get legless with rock stars; if you hope I'll reveal how gossip columns really operate behind the scenes; if you think I'm going to tell you what...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-04-24
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Rockabye is the lively memoir of a spontaneous young city-girl who becomes unexpectedly pregnant. That city-girl is Rebecca Woolf, who at 23, after the "holy shit, I'm pregnant" realization, decides to keep the baby, marry the boyfriend (in Vegas no less),...
Editeur :
Seal Press
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2008-04-15
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Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, she volunteered to translate for the prisoners. She spoke their language, understood their customs, and brought...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2008-01-11
ePub
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'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything even die.Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, PakistanIn...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-01-03
ePub
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A new edition of the bestselling memoir Shame, including additional content from the author updating her story to the present day. When she was fourteen, Jasvinder Sanghera was shown a photo of the man chosen to be her husband. She was terrified. She'd witnessed the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2007-09-06
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If you were enthralled by Fifty Shades of Grey you need to read Confessions of a Working Girl, the real-life story of Miss S, a modern Working Girl. Miss S is smart, sassy, sexually frustrated and broke. With the rent money due, she spots an ad for a student job with a...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-07-05
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This is the story of Baby Halder, a woman who overcame poverty, violence and a meagre education to write a book that would become an overnight literary sensation in India. Born in West Bengal, Baby is abandoned by her mother at the age of four, married at twelve to a...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2007-05-07
ePub
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'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, because the date is blue in my mind and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number nine or the sound of loud voices arguing.' Like the character Hoffman portrayed, he can perform extraordinary...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2007-02-22
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A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the TALE OF GENJI, this is one of the major Japanese Classics.
Editeur :
Penguin
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2006-11-30
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Further Under the Duvet is the hilarious sequel to Under the Duvet, full of witty and relatable observations on everyday life by bestselling author Marian Keyes 'Let's get one thing straight: I'm not an outdoorsy type. If I was offered the choice between white-water...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-09-07
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