Do you remember the West End of London during the 1950s? Did you live or work there? If so, I want to hear from you ...This was the advertisement author Pip Granger placed in a local newspaper, and the response was immediate. Soon she was hearing from people who...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-08-17

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Author Alexa Stevenson had spent most of her life preparing for the wrong disasters. When her daughter is born 15 weeks early, she is plunged into the strange half-light of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, where she learns the Zen of medical uncertainty and makes the...

Editeur : Running Press Adult
Parution : 2010-08-10

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This is a diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful observation, providing both a compelling record of five remarkable decades and a revealing, often hilarious and sometimes moving account of Gyles...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-08-05

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In November 1940, Arthur Bancroft kissed his sweetheart, Mirla, goodbye and signed up with the Royal Australian Navy to go to war. He was nineteen years old. Arthur's War is the extraordinary story of his ordeal, and his survival. Arthur made a habit of cheating death...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2010-07-28

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Mike Pannett used to work the beat in Central London - tackling drugs and knife crime - so when he moved back to Yorkshire he was hoping for a quieter life. But it seems the moors and villages of his native county aren't as sleepy as he once thought...A casual remark...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-07-08

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Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where Charlotte Moore grew up, and where she lives today. It's a time warp where little has changed since her family took it on in 1888. They were a diverse family of doctors and soldiers, liberal politicians and...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-07-01

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Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States.Part memoir,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-06-30

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Comedian and writer Lily Bragge knows what it is to be a user and a taker, a liar, cheat and thief. It wasn't until she had lost everything - custody of her son, her friends, her career, her possessions and , almost, her sanity - that she was able to gain some kind of...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2010-06-28

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The concluding volume of Dave Pelzer's million-copy bestselling memoir.'I don't blame others for my problems. I stand on my own. And one day, you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself.' These words were eighteen-year-old Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-06-24

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An inspirational account of how anyone can achieve their full potential from the bestselling author of the MY STORY trilogy.MOVING FORWARD is a motivational book written for anyone wanting to move forward, to change their lives, no matter what their past may have...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-06-24

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In her first book, Trish Ryan chronicled the ways in which finding faith lead her to the happily-ever-after ending that had eluded her for so long. Only it wasn't an ending. It was a beginning.In A MAZE OF GRACE, Ryan picks up where she left off, sharing the early...

Editeur : FaithWords
Parution : 2010-06-22

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In February 2003, Adam Ramanauskas was living every boy's dream.At twenty-two he'd been noted as a star of the future and already hadone AFL premiership under his belt. He was having the time of his life. Then the bottom fell out of his world. The discovery of an...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2010-06-15

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The follow up to the top five Sunday Times bestseller I'm Only Being Honest reveals Jeremy Kyle's lighter side as he opens up on topics such as celebrity, middle age, parenting and Gordon Brown.Love him or loathe him, you can't ignore Jeremy Kyle...Is he the most...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-06-10

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This brutally honest memoir explores one man's journey through life and the secrets, shame, and trauma that his addiction revealed. Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked...

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2010-06-07

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A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he'd never been fit. In a bid to escape...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-06-03

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Robert Twigger goes to the Far East in search of the world's longest snake - 'echoes of Gerald Durrell's trips crossed with Redmond O'Hanlon's foray into the heart of Borneo . . . a fantastic book' DAILY MAILAbout to be married,Robert Twigger decides on his last great...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-06-03

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Best-selling author of Angry White Pyjamas travels across the Rocky Mountains by canoeFifteen years before Lewis and Clark, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, looking to open up a trade route, set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-06-03

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George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-06-03

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Carol McGiffin has been on Loose Women almost since it started over a decade ago, and she is known and adored by their millions of viewers as one of the most-loved presenters on the show. She’s brimming with brilliantly funny anecdotes and controversial opinions, and...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-05-27

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Bestselling author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS, BIG SNAKE and VOYAGEUR enters into the desert in search of a lost oasis'Last night my son wanted to appease me because of some annoyance he had caused. "Show me your desert things," he said, "show me your crystals and stones."...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-05-27

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