'Poignant, fascinating, entertaining and informative... reminds us exactly how much did happen in that time span and of how many tantalising hints he left behind' Financial Times 'Brilliantly captures Kennedy's entire life through the prism of his final months... the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-07-16

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'I loved this book ... a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, LoveWith her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-07-11

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Thomas Macaulay always inspired both admiration and hostility. He introduced English education to India, creating a class of westernised Indians often reviled as ‘Macaulay’s children’, but today many former ‘Untouchables’ literally worship him as their liberator from...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-07-04

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True stories of prison breaks including those of Frank Abagnale, whose story is told in Catch Me If You Can; Henri Charrière who claimed to have escaped from the supposedly inescapable Devil's Island - the true story as opposed to his questionable memoir, Papillon; Bud...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2013-07-04
Collection : Mammoth Books
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On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of £2,500,000 (the equivalent of £41 million today). It was called the crime of the century, and the thieves were relentlessly pursued by Scotland Yard until half...

Editeur : Virgin Digital
Parution : 2013-07-04

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‘Looking back, I think I knew I was in trouble the first time I met him. The road he took me down was at once both more liberating than I could have dreamed of, and yet more intense than I could cope with. If the path of love doesn’t always run smooth ... then how much...

Editeur : Virgin Digital
Parution : 2013-07-04

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In 1973, Brian Thompson kissed the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth North for the first time, in a busy supermarket car park along the Leeds ring road. This is the story of the unexpectedly joyous consequences – ones to baffle many, not least themselves – until her death,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-07-04

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Each and every single one of the 100 plus children I have cared for over the past 62 years are very much in my heart.'It is 1945, the war is finally over and victory marches fill the streets of London. Brenda and her friends, happy that at long last the war is over,...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2013-07-04

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In 2008, Louis Smith was the first Briton in over 100 years to win an Olympic medal in individual gymnastics.In 2012 he followed up that triumph with two more. Since then, Louis has been crowned the winner of STRICTLY COME DANCING with his partner Flavia and he is now...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2013-07-04

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Now a New Showtime Original SeriesShowtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America relied on...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2013-07-02

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Entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries are heading West to seek their fortune.Their Mecca is Silicon Valley - where one person can achieve so much with just initiative, talent and a good idea. Meet David Filo, co-founder of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-06-30

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Gustave Flaubert, whose Madame Bovary outraged France's right-thinking bourgeoisie when it was first published in 1857, is brought to life in Frederick Brown's new biography in all his singularity and brilliance. Frederick Brown's portrayal is of an artist fraught with...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-06-30

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Welcome to northern New South Wales, where the 'local wildlife' doesn't just mean the native fauna, but the people as well. When Robert Drewe moved to this small community, he was expecting a few eccentrics and interesting animals -- and he got them. Giant pythons,...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2013-06-26

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When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2013-06-24

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Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas in the presence...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-06-20

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In 1998, Sarbjit Athwal was called by her husband to attend a family meeting. It looked like just another family gathering. An attractive house in west London, a large dining room, two brothers, their mother, one wife. But the subject they were discussing was anything...

Editeur : Virgin Digital
Parution : 2013-06-20

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The British monarchy may be over a thousand years old, but the House of Windsor dates only from 1917, when, in the middle of the First World War that was to see the demise of the major thrones of continental Europe, it rebranded itself from the distinctly Germanic...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2013-06-20
Collection : Brief Histories
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In this first ever full-length...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-06-19

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Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2013-06-13
Collection : Tom Thorne Novels
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‘Die, and it’s the vile earth; live, and it’s the golden parasol,’ went the old Burmese saying. Why not aim for the pinnacle with everything they had? The vile earth would be theirs soon enough. A year after Burma’s military coup in 1962, Ed Law-Yone, daredevil...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-06-13

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