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The Rocky Road is the autobiography of Eamon Dunphy - the man the Guardian called 'the most entertaining, blindingly brilliant pundit of all time'.For more than thirty years, no commentator on Irish sport, politics and culture has been the object of so much love, hatred...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-07
ePub
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"Oh, you live on a boat? That must be really cold in the winter. . ." Or,"Oh, you live on a boat? It must be great being so close to nature . . ." Or,"Oh, you live on a boat? It must be fantastic to be able to go wherever you like, whenever you like . . ."Narrow...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
Parution :
2013-10-07
Collection :
The Narrow Boat Books
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For ten years Geordie Greig was among a very small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast at Clarke’s restaurant on Kensington Church Street. Over tea and the morning papers, Freud would recount stories of his past and discuss art. It was, in...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-10-03
ePub
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As a boy in post-War England, legendary Kinks singer/songwriter Ray Davies fell in love with America – its movies and music, its culture of freedom fed his imagination. In Americana, Davies tries to make sense of his long love-hate relationship with the country that...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2013-10-03
ePub
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The glittering letters of British socialite Lady Diana Cooper to her son John Julius Norwich, from pre-World War Two London to post-Liberation Paris ‘Please, darling monster, write as often as you can. It’s so sad waiting for letters that don’t come and are not even...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-10-03
ePub
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The first volume of the definitive biography of Gandhi, one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century, from the great historian Ramachandra GuhaThe life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era. In this fascinating new...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-03
ePub
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In My Shoes by Tamara Mellon, tells the Jimmy Choo founder's jaw-dropping account of her life in the fashion business.'Wonderfully bling' Sunday Times'Part memoir, part MBA masterclass... an impressively erudite and candid autobiography' Glamour'From her troubled...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-01
ePub
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The chances are good that every one of us will become a caregiver at some point in our lives. We come to this challenge in the most personal way possible—we want to help someone we love, but we don't know how, and we're afraid of losing ourselves in this...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2013-10-01
ePub
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In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years, Carr's of Carlisle had become one of the largest baking businesses in the world -and is a by-word for...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-09-30
ePub
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Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi – the most important woman in Chinese history – brought...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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'This riveting account spares none of the detail and paints fascinating portraits of the desperate young pirates.' Daily MailAn extraordinary true story of piracy, heroism and survival on the high seas . . .8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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Can money buy you happiness?A few years ago Duncan Bannatyne might have said so. He was happily married and his businesses were thriving. Life was good. He couldn't have known that a storm was brewing on the horizon and that he would soon face immense personal and...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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Wild Tales by Graham Nash - a classic rock memoir of the legendary Hollies front man and member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungGraham Nash, lead singer and principal songwriter of the Hollies, then member of supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, made the incredible...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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Kevin Heffernan was a giant amongst GAA men. A giant with a brilliant mind who repeatedly warned everybody that he would not let his own mother get in the way of him winning one more game of football. Heffo was deeply admired and absolutely feared like no other. And...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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A funny, poignant and inspirational story of widely acclaimed comedian, writer and producer, Tim Ferguson.Tim Ferguson was a star of the international comedy circuit. Along with Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler he was part of the edgy, provocative and very funny Doug...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2013-09-24
ePub
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An essential guide to one of the most influential writers of the 20th centuryA Brief Guide to C. S. Lewis explores Lewis's life, from his reconversion to Christianity under the influence of his friend J. R. R. Tolkien, which had such a profound influence on his writing...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2013-09-19
Collection :
Brief Histories
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When the Great War broke out, Kitchener, with the foresight lacking in many of his contemporaries, insisted that it would last at least three years and that he must raise an army of 3 million men. This began with an immediate recruitment of 100,000 volunteers, and the...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2013-09-19
ePub
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Man or Monster?What drove this 18th Century nobleman to pen the works that made the name de Sade forever infamous? His life was a sorry record of imprisonment for the terrible deeds he perpetrated. But what of his books? Revolutionist, gaolbird, sentenced to die--and...
Editeur :
Disruptive Publishing
Parution :
2013-09-13
epub sans DRM
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Jacky was twenty-three when she arrived in Egypt for a holiday with her boyfriend, Dave. Little did she know that an innocent holiday would result in a horror beyond her imagination. Separated from Dave in a bustling street,Jacky fell and twisted her ankle, only to be...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-09-12
ePub
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