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Author of the celebrated and hilarious THE DUD AVOCADO, the classic novel about a young American ingenue in Paris, Elaine Dundy was born in New York in the 1930s. Her first years were spent in an apartment on Park Avenue until the stock market crash wiped out most of...
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Virago
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2012-01-05
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Captivated by the hit ITV true crime drama DES? Uncover the truth behind the trial of Rosemary West, another of Britain's most infamous serial killers.'Anyone reading this brilliant book will wonder whether justice was really done.' Evening StandardIn 1994, Frederick...
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Transworld Digital
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2011-12-31
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The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer.This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spirituality through the ages and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-12-29
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I am a wanderer: one with a hoarder's love of houses and things...I am tracing here a memory map of all the places that have stayed with me and, since this is also a map of all the voyages of discovery, this is also the story of the getting to those places.' In Memory...
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Virago
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2011-12-15
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Trouble began in 1963. I'm not blaming it on President Kennedy's assassination or its being the beginning of the sixties or the Vietnam War or The Beatles...The trouble I'm talking about was my first real trouble, the age-old trouble. The getting in trouble as in ' Is...
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Virago
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2011-12-01
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For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the day who attended her unlikely London...
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Virago
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2011-11-10
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When Mary Kennedy wrote Lines I Love a few years ago, it struck a chord in the hearts of Irish people across the country, quickly becoming a firm favourite with readers. In Lines for Living, Mary expands upon the themes from that bestselling book, once again sharing...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2011-10-06
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In 1950, Kathleen O'Malley and her two sisters were legally abducted from their mother and placed in an industrial school ran by the Sisters of Mercy order of nuns, who also ran the notorious Magdalene Homes. The rape of eight-year-old Kathleen by a neighbour had...
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Virago
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2011-09-08
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Bestselling biography of the enduringly fascinating Wallis SimpsonOne of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian Anne Sebba has written the first full biography by a woman of Wallis...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-08-18
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A moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group'An outstanding work... one of the best books on Virginia Woolf to date' Literary Review'Dunn's unlayering of this complex relationship is subtle and...
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Virago
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2011-07-14
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Tom Thorne Novels
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When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera's father told her about the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he promised to take her there so she could meet her half-sister, Bachanu, who had stayed behind. But at the age of sixteen - as she so...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2011-07-07
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Includes a Reading Group Guide and Author Q&AFrom her first humanitarian visit to Afghanistan in 1994, Suraya Sadeed has been personally delivering relief and hope to Afghan orphans and refugees, to women and girls in inhuman situations deemed too dangerous for other...
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Hachette Books
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2011-06-21
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The witty and brilliant autobiography from legendary, beloved and groundbreaking journalist Katharine Whitehorn.'A book to treasure for its wit, honesty, good sense and warm laughter' DAILY TELEGRAPHQ: A mother's place?A: In the wrong.Much loved for her frankness and...
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Virago
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2011-06-02
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There is one powerful smell closely associated with the making of coffee in bedsitters. It is the smell of burning plastic, and will go away if you move the handle of the pot away from the flame.Legendary journalist Katharine Whitehorn's classic handbook of quick,...
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Virago
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2011-06-02
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Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise. She hadn't seen it coming, and she certainly wasn't ready for it. Living a flawed, bittersweet version of the idyll she dreamed of in her twenties, in a tumbledown urban cottage by the Thames, with a son, a cat and a horse in a...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-03-31
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Break-ups, marriage and moving on.The last two and a half years of Katie Price's life have been anything but quiet. And yet through it all, while her private life continues to be played out on the front pages of the tabloids, Katie has always stuck to what she does best...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2010-10-28
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Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father’s terrible melancholy: he’d lost his mother when he was a little boy. Decades later, with her father now elderly and ailing, she decides to try to uncover the woman who continues to haunt him. Every...
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Algonquin Books
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2010-10-12
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Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in Colombia, in 2002 she was...
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Virago
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2010-09-21
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Carol Vorderman is everywoman: a single working mother, a businesswoman and a devoted daughter. And now, for the first time, she has decided to tell it like it is.Since 1982,Carol was much loved as co-presenter of Countdown with Richard Whiteley. Joining the show at the...
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Review
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2010-09-16
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A striking and sympathetic portrait of England's first Queen, Mary I - whose character has been vilified for over 400 years. Instead of the bloodthirsty bigot of Protestant mythology, Mary Tudor emerges from the pages of this deeply-researched biography as a cultured...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2010-09-02
Collection :
Tom Thorne Novels
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