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This book of bush tales vividly evokes an era now gone, when people struggled in isolation to tame the land and when camaraderie and mateship were everything.Young Brian Taylor was a ringer on Queensland cattle stations some fifty-five years ago. He worked on huge...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2012-10-01
ePub
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Antonio Carluccio is a larger-than-life character who, over his 50-year career, has inspired thousands of people with his no-fuss Italian cooking and passion for good food and wine.But behind the famous name is a man whose life has been full of unexpected twists and...
Editeur :
Hardie Grant Books (UK)
Parution :
2012-10-01
ePub
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With wit and candour, Tim Rice describes the gilded path that took him from cricket and comic-obsessed schoolboy to one of the world's best-known lyricists. Along the way he worked as a petrol pump attendant and articled clerk before becoming a management trainee at...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-10-01
ePub
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At 1pm on 26 June 1996 the Sunday Independent's crime reporter Veronica Guerin was shot dead by a motorcycle pillion passenger as she waited at traffic lights on the outskirts of Dublin - the victim of her own crusading expos-s of leading criminals. Her death profoundly...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-09-30
ePub
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In 1866 Britain's foremost explorer, Dr David Livingstone, went in search of the answer to an age-old geographical riddle: where was the source of the Nile? Livingstone set out with a large team, on a course that would lead through unmapped, seemingly impenetrable...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2012-09-30
ePub
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I don't feel sorry for myself. Today everything is all right.I look at it is this way, it can't ever be as bad as it was then...'Sean Hogan was just eight years old when he was confined in the notorious Artane Industrial School under the brutal regime of the Christian...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-09-30
ePub
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Adoption is one of the great, untold stories of our recent past. It is a truly epic tale of loss, guilt, identity, family feuds, reunion and redemption. It is a subject, until very recently, surrounded by secrecy and taboos. This is the heart-warming true story of a...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-09-30
ePub
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Boudica has been immortalised throughout history as the woman who dared take on the Romans - an act of vengeance on behalf of her daughters, tribe and enslaved country. Her known life is a rich tapestry of wife, widow, mother, queen and Celtic quasi-Goddess. But beneath...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-09-30
ePub
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'An honest and deeply chilling account of what it's like to suffer from a compulsion to look for love in what are most definitely the wrong places' ElleFor Sue Silverman, the wrong places to look for love include: At the end of a phone, when a stranger calls her college...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-09-30
ePub
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Piers has got a new job. He's off to America to be the 'Nasty Brit' judging the show America's Got Talent - surely a role he was made for? And with unprecedented access to people, places and parties on both sides of the pond, he'll get the inside scoop on the world of...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-09-30
ePub
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This is the remarkable, and sometimes shocking, life story of one of the most famous faces of British television. Born with a rare disease called Poland Syndrome, which meant he spent most of his first two years in and out of hospital, Jeremy Beadle was brought up in a...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-09-30
ePub
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'Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the relentless courage and heroism amidst the insanity of the Vietnam war. The final few pages are the most shocking I have read in any book.' - Tim PeakeA stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war.As a child, Robert...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2012-09-30
ePub
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A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he kept as a teenage tearaway and the uncut past burst in like a blast of raw air.
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-09-30
ePub
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Rupert Everett's first memoir - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on publication in 2006. Reviewers compared him to Evelyn Waugh, David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron. ButRupert Everett is - of course - one of...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2012-09-27
ePub
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The Sword of Albion concludes the most comprehensive and intimate life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with a glittering array of sailors and civilians, heroes and villains, husbands, wives and lovers. Here are Nelson's famous victories at the battles of the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-09-27
ePub
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More gypsy tales from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author...Rosemary Penfold's A FIELD FULL OF BUTTERFLIES was a beautiful and evocative memoir of her life growing up in the fields of the English countryside. A moving testament to a forgotten world and a rapidly...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2012-09-27
ePub
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This is the incredible true story of the unbreakable bond forged between Treo, the world's most highly decorated dog, and his handler Sgt. Dave HeyhoeWhen Dave Heyhoe was sent to Afghanistan to help detect the Taliban's murderous roadside bombs, he knew he'd need a...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2012-09-27
ePub
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The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness - shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award - is a remarkable, compelling and moving memoir of a farm, a family and a home.When Selina Guinness and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with Selina's uncle...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-09-27
ePub
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Surfing in Ireland was once considered little more than a fringe and slightly lunatic pursuit. The treacherous coastline and ice waters of the Atlantic did not sit comfortably with the stereotype of surfing as the favoured pastime of the bronzed and privileged. But with...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2012-09-27
ePub
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A startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust, by the bestselling author of The War Lovers. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2012-09-25
ePub
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