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Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer...
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Penguin
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2013-01-28
ePub
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The famous essay that really kicked off the Marquis' restoration. First translated in '53. With numerous selections from his writings.
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Disruptive Publishing
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2013-01-27
epub sans DRM
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A true story of shattered childhoods...Following her escape from Nazi Germany and the loss of her family Judith searches for unconditional love and acceptance. In a bleak boarding house she meets her future husband – another Jewish refugee who cares for her when she is...
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Headline Accent
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2013-01-24
ePub
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Why is Christina Rossetti, probably the major woman poet of Victorian Britain, so invisible today? This is the central question addressed in this biography. Rossetti, author of Goblin Market , My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird and In the Deep Midwinter has often been...
Editeur :
Virago
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2013-01-24
ePub
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Among You is the gripping real-life story of a soldier serving on the front line in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an unforgettable, unflinching account of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder.Jake Wood lives parallel lives: encased in the glass tower of an...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2013-01-17
ePub
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In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 – a piece that inspires dread in many professional pianists. His timing could have been better. The next twelve months...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-01-17
ePub
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Chevy Chase is a much-loved Hollywood star. His success as a writer and actor on Saturday Night Live in the 70s made him a household name. It had been a long, hard route to the top for Chevy. Behind the fame lay a childhood riddled with abuse. But his remarkable...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2013-01-17
ePub
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Langston Hughes survived as a writer for over forty years under conditions that made survival virtually heroic. Determined on a literary career at a time when no African American had yet been able to live off his or her writing, Hughes not only faced poverty and racism...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-01-17
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Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelistOlivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-10
ePub
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Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelistOlivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-10
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Country Living welcomes back Steven Coffmans celebrated collection of essays about life on the farm. Hailed by Library Journal as “amusing, exuberant, and poignant,” it now includes three entirely new and thoroughly delightful articles to...
Editeur :
Hearst Books
Parution :
2013-01-10
ePub
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A beautifully packaged celebration of mothers and daughters that will touch the heart—written by former Country Living columnist Faith Andrews Bedford. From the joyous chaos of raising small children to the thoughtful adventure of being a grandmother who...
Editeur :
Hearst Books
Parution :
2013-01-10
ePub
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From the author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day comes an intimate memoir of loss, self-discovery, and growth that will resonate deeply with any woman who has ever mourned the passage of time, questioned her own purpose, or wondered, "Do I have what it takes to...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2013-01-08
ePub
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Born into a high-ranking samurai family at the onset of the Meiji period, Etsu Sugimoto's own life mirrored the radical shifts her country faced. Originally destined to be a priestess, she instead became the arranged bride of a Japanese merchant in Cincinnati, later...
Editeur :
Disruptive Publishing
Parution :
2013-01-04
epub sans DRM
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Kahane, father of Olympia Press founder Maurice Girodias, recalls his life and his incredible publishing run in Paris from '31-39.
Editeur :
Disruptive Publishing
Parution :
2013-01-04
epub sans DRM
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'I always wanted everything so frantically, and I'm just the person that can't have them.' Based on family papers and memories, this picture of middle class life at the end of the nineteenth century tells the poignant story of Winnie Seebohm, Victoria Glendinning's...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2013-01-03
ePub
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'Michael Lewis is, by a long way, the most important financial writer alive today' Spectator'As traders would say, this book is a buy' Financial TimesBy the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORT and the original business classic LIAR'S POKER comes the classic...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-01-03
ePub
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFor eleven years, Danielle Steel took to the streets with a small team to help the homeless of San Francisco. She worked under cover of darkness distributing food, clothing, bedding, tools, and toiletries to the city’s most vulnerable...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-01-03
ePub
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Sites of gruesome murders, stories of killings, frauds, jewel thefts and treachery are all part of Mad Frankie Fraser's grand tour of Britain's criminal underworld. As one of the most notorious gangsters of the 20th Century, he is perfectly placed to give us the lowdown...
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Virgin Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton.Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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