The Insider dominated the media on publication in March 2005 and instantly became a No.1 bestseller. Not only did it fill thousands of column inches with its revelations about prominent political and showbiz figures, it was critically acclaimed across the broadsheets...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2012-06-30

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn A Lotus Grows in the Mud, Goldie Hawn takes us on an inspiring odyssey and, with her trademark effervescent humour, reveals the lessons she's learned and the wisdom she's gained along the way. This is Goldie's chance to talk about...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-06-30

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This enthusiastically received collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciation of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world - sometimes in both. The names of many of them are familiar - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-06-30

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In 2002, Just For The Record was the book that everyone was talking about. Then in 2003, repackaged in a new, compact mass-market format, Just For The Record did it all over again being one of the most read books of the year. Since the break up of the Spice Girls, Geri...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2012-06-30

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A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time.A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-06-28

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And then there was David Bowie, the uber-freak with the mismatched pupils, the low-tech space face from the planet Sparkle. This was Bowie's third appearance on TOTP but this was the one that properly resonated with its audience, the one that would go on to cause a...

Editeur : Preface Digital
Parution : 2012-06-28

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Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self-interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless colonisation of Ireland; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-06-28

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From the summer of 2003 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a frank, funny and award-winning diaries. She was the first to reveal (among other things) how she became a working girl, what it feels like to do it for money, and where to buy the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-06-28

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The definitive biography ofThe Beatles, hailed as "irresistible" by the New York Times, "riveting" by the Boston Globe, and "masterful" by Time. As soon asThe Beatles became famous, the spin machine began to construct a myth -- one that has continued to this day. But...

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2012-06-25

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This is Sam Frears' story.This is also the story of an actor, a rock-climber and a man born with an extremely rare genetic disorder only affecting Ashkenazi Jews. Sam was supposed to live to the age of 5. In February, he celebrated his 40th birthday.Challenged by...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-06-24

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Not Waving But Drowning tells the harrowing true story of one man's childhood struggle against poverty and his subsequent drive to become a policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary. From his earliest days, Edmund Gregory possessed an awareness beyond his years....

Editeur : Mainstream Digital
Parution : 2012-06-22

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Fact is often stranger than fiction, and when Rod McLean, an escaped drug baron and alleged MI6 agent, was mysteriously found dead in a London flat after two months on the run, even Hollywood couldn't have scripted it better.McLean had only served seven years of his...

Editeur : Mainstream Digital
Parution : 2012-06-22

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George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-06-21

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The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books, and it ends on the day Campbell leaves...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-06-21

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Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As near perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get: intelligent,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-06-21

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The testament to a tragedy.Voices fromThe Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-06-21

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'They say you can never truly love a child that is not your own, but that goes against every instinct that runs through me. For I have loved children born to other women all my life and every child that I have ever cared for, I've adored with all my heart. Many I would...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-06-21

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In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history, Louise Monaghan crossed a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old daughter from the father who had callously snatched her from her home in Cyprus. Not knowing what lay ahead, the Irish mother...

Editeur : Mainstream Digital
Parution : 2012-06-14

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The explosive, no-holds-barred autobiography of Triggs, Roy Keane's confidant, adviser...and dog!Ten major trophies. A missed Champions League final. Player of the Year awards. Alf-Inge Haaland. Drunken nights. Contract negotiations. Patrick Vieira. Prawn sandwiches....

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2012-06-14

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ' . . . she is unravelling a long distorted mystery' KIRKUS REVIEWS Pursued...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2012-06-07
Collection : Virago Modern Classics
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