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I still think about Peter, the manI loved most in the world, all the time. At two in the afternoon, when he would come and pick me up and take me for rides; at five, whenI would read to him, head on his chest; in the despair at seven p.m., when he would hold me and rub...
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Penguin
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2011-03-31
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WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD AND THE LA TIMES BOOK AWARD'Masterly. Brilliantly crafted, powerfully written and deftly reported' Guardian The urgent and unforgettable true story of post-Katrina New Orleans . . .In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city...
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Penguin
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2011-03-31
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Some of the most talked about books of recent years, Alan Clark's diaries provide a witty and irreverant insider's account of political life in Britain. Now in one volume.'From the moment the first scabrous and brilliant volume was published, people wanted more. Now...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-03-24
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When Anthony Macris' son was diagnosed with autism, he and his partner Kathy had two choices: do what they were told and could afford or do what they thought best. This is the tragic, joyful, instructive story of how they confronted the condition that changed their...
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E-Penguin
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2011-03-23
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Acting wasn't a long-held childhood dream for Larry Lamb, instead his childhood memories are filled with recollections of his parents continuously fighting. Life in the Lamb household veered from laughter and happy moments to hysterical outbursts. Larry was only too...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2011-03-03
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From the whistle-blowing teacher behind the headlines: one inspirational teacher, one extraordinary year, hope and heartbreak on the front lines of an inner-city school, To Miss With Love by Katharine Birbalsingh is the remarkable and eye opening exposé of our education...
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Penguin
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2011-03-03
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When father-of-two Sam loses his job, he reluctantly agrees to stay at home while his wife returns to work. Secretly thinking this whole parenthood thing a breeze of leisurely jaunts to the park, reading the paper while the children play quietly and occasionally...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2011-02-28
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What happens when a man wonders aloud if a pig would make a good pet? A great deal - once his wife discovers a kind the size of a handbag.Matt Whyman is a writer and house husband. He enjoys the quiet life. His career wife, Emma, prefers the chaos a big brood can bring....
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-02-17
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The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.No strangers to the demon booze, her parents were deeply involved in a passionate relationship that rose to exciting highs and plunged to terrible and often...
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Transworld Digital
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2011-02-08
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Joan Woodcock always dreamed of becoming a nurse. And in 1966 the dream came true. From her very first day as a naive 16 year old cadet, standing nervously outside the matron's office, this is Joan's story of an eventful career spanning over forty years in NHS...
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Review
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2011-02-03
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365 DAYS. TWO WORDS. ONE MIRACULOUS TRUE STORY. One recent December, at age 53, John Kralik found his life at a terrible, frightening low. All aspects of his life seemed to be failing: his relationships with his children and partner, his work, his health. Then, hiking...
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E-Penguin
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2011-01-27
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Sometimes the slow road can be the fastest way to sort things out Relationship-challenged, with the résumé of a vagrant, Tom Trumble is at one of life's crossroads. So he takes up an offer to go on a seriously long walk the ancient Christian pilgrimage of...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2011-01-27
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This is the story of a family which has always lived in the heart of one of the traditional working class communities of the North. Originally immigrants from Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, their saga, their triumphs and tragedies unfolded in the cobbled...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-01-20
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From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-01-11
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Nearly every week the headlines of national newspapers shout allegations about the latest credit card fraud, internet paedophile, or major corporations whose computers have been hacked. But what people may not realize is that the nature of computer crime is becoming...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-01-11
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Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped execution,...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
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2011-01-06
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The first member of Duran Duran to write his memoirs tells the full story of the excesses, glamour and excitement they lived through in the 1980s.When 19-year-old Andy Taylor returned from his band's tour of military bases in Germany and saw an advert in Melody Maker in...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-12-30
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The full and honest story from one of the UK's favourite celebrities, including her astonishing fightback from the superbug that nearly killed herLeslie Ash has been one of Britain's most popular actresses for many years now, having made her big break in the film...
Editeur :
Orion
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2010-12-30
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A highly personal, anecdotal family memoir of the Wellington legacy.Jane Wellesley is a member of one of Britain's most illustrious families. Her father, the 8th Duke of Wellington, was born in 1915, a hundred years after the first Duke's momentous victory over Napoleon...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-12-30
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Lionel Logue was a self-taught and almost unknown Australian speech therapist. Yet it was this outgoing, amiable man who almost single-handedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britain's greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2010-11-25
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