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A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage.'I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak.'When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-02-25
ePub
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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMENWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NOGA ARIKHA'Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth . . . an extraordinary double story' Oliver Sacks'It is Hustvedt's...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2010-02-04
ePub
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Amy Dickinson's advice column, 'Ask Amy', appears daily in more than 150 newspapers across the USA, read by more than 22 million readers. Her motto is 'I make the mistakes so you don't have to'. In The Mighty Queens of Freeville,Amy Dickinson takes those mistakes and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2010-02-04
ePub
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There are currently 35,000 franchisee businesses operating in the UK in a variety of different sectors, but choosing, evaluating and securing the right franchise is often the hardest part of the process. Get Started in Franchising is an indispensable guide that tells...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
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2010-01-29
ePub
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Something in our world is changing. In ten years time 60% of us will be over 55. The retirement age is likely to move up to 70; modern medicine ensures that most of us will live well in to our 80s and most of us will choose to do some work, paid or voluntary, while we...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2010-01-07
ePub
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CITYBOY is Geraint Anderson's bestselling exposé of life in the City of London.In this no-holds-barred, warts-and-all account of life in London's financial heartland, Cityboy breaks the Square Mile's code of silence, revealing tricks of the trade and the corrupt, murky...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2010-01-07
ePub
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How many lives can one abandoned kitten touch?This is the heart-warming and unforgettable story of a truly idiosyncratic cat with a strong sense of loyalty and love, and a taste for fast-food.When he was just a few weeks old, Dewey Readmore Books was shoved through the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2009-12-15
ePub
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Rediscovered after 80 years gathering dust on a family bookshelf and first brought to public attention on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, A VERY UNIMPORTANT OFFICER is a detailed and intimate account of the experience of Captain Stewart, an ordinary officer in the front...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-12-11
ePub
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This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold and a tortured soul.'From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he was dead.This is Danielle Steel's powerful story of the son she lost and the lessons she...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-12-01
ePub
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Pelham Cottage - with its infamous unlocked back gate - was where Annabel Goldsmith kept an open house for some of the most sophisticated and iconic people of the 1960s and 1970s.Lady Annabel Goldsmith - society hostess and eponym for an exclusive Mayfair nightclub -...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2009-11-26
ePub
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Courage is sometimes found in the unlikeliest places ...Dominic is a sixteen year-old man-child: while he has the body of a prize-fighter, as a result of a terrible seizure when he was a small child he has been left with the mind of a child. In the centre where he...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-11-05
ePub
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1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-29
ePub
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Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of his unconventional, exceptional family, and reveals the ingredients for the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer'.Discover SirRanulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's personal expedition to...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-10-15
ePub
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On April 13th, 2004 Gloria Hunniford's 41 year old daughter, Caron Keating, died after a secret seven year battle with cancer. The world that had changed with Caron's diagnosis, now shattered. Life had been cruelly interrupted, a black hole opened in Glorias heart, she...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-10-15
ePub
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Clarissa was born into wealth and privilege, as a child, shooting and hunting were the norm and pigeons were flown in from Cairo for supper. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father was a brilliant surgeon to the Royal family. But he was also a tyrannical and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-10-15
ePub
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When his grandson was born, Daniel Gottlieb began to write a series of heartfelt letters that he hoped Sam would read later in life. He planned to cover all the important topics—dealing with your parents, handling bullies, falling in love, coping with death—and what...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2009-10-13
ePub
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In 1996, Sheryl became the most famous footballer's wife in Britain when lurid stories of physical abuse by her husband Paul Gascoigne became front-page news. However, as the most idolised footballer of his generation, Gazza was untouchable, and the fact that he'd been...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-10
ePub
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Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s Southern California, Gringa is the story of a young girl conflicted...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist shares his unique experience as a heart transplant surgeon and U.S. senator inspiring people to make a difference wherever they are and whatever position they are in by helping others, risking failure, challenging the status quo,...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2009-10-05
ePub
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Alastair Cook forced his way into the record books in 2006, becoming one of the few England players to score a hundred on debut. By going on to become the only Englishman to hit seven Test centuries before his twenty-third birthday,Alastair found himself in the company...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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