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Approaching forty, Nigel Marsh's life seems almost perfect: he has moved with his family from the UK to Sydney and runs the Australian office of a leading advertising agency. However, he is also stressed, overweight and struggling to balance a career, a marriage and the...
Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2011-12-20
ePub
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Ground-breaking biography of the creator of fiction's best loved detectiveThough Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognised the world over, for decades he was overshadowed by his creation, Sherlock Holmes - one of literature's most enduring characters. Conan Doyle was...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-12-15
ePub
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The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its founder, Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), was an Australian actor who...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2011-12-15
ePub
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I am a wanderer: one with a hoarder's love of houses and things...I am tracing here a memory map of all the places that have stayed with me and, since this is also a map of all the voyages of discovery, this is also the story of the getting to those places.' In Memory...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2011-12-15
ePub
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For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century. Hoover was lauded when he died as...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
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2011-12-09
ePub
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The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2011-12-08
ePub
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**My Mad Fat Diary is now a hit comedy series on E4.**It's 1989 and Rae is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint off-green bath suite and a larder Rae can't keep away from....
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-12-08
ePub
Offre spéciale
-63%
7,99€
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In the coming weeks and months I was further humiliated by Auntie Blodwen. The beatings were usually around the head or on the back of the legs, the arms or bare bottom. Auntie Agnes would hold me down in the office, the cloakroom, or in the cellar, while Auntie Blodwen...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-12-08
ePub
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The best football autobiography I have ever readThe Sunday Times Alex Ferguson is a legend in his lifetime, universally respected for his tough, but caring managerial style. This book covers the beginning of his football career, including his triumphant 1999 run to the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-12-08
ePub
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From Sarah Bradford, the best-selling author of George VI, Elizabeth and Diana, the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II, now celebrating the Platinum Jubilee -- her 70th year on the throneElizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-12-06
ePub
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At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever.Before long, Martha is on...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-12-02
ePub
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Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules that she is to be sent to a convent school with the instruction that she is to get an...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-12-02
ePub
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In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner and the establishment, Martha is now 16 and her time at the convent school is up.In Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed, she...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-12-02
ePub
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Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of her, she shakes her head, feeling she hasn't the heart or the strength...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-12-02
ePub
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Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start.As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-12-02
ePub
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A Guest at the Feast is Colm Tóibín's touching memoir.A Guest at the Feast moves from the small town of Enniscorthy to Dublin, from memories of a mother who always had a book on the go to the author's early adulthood, from a love of literature to the influences of place...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-12-01
ePub
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The true story of the most famous SAS operation in history.'Bravo Two Zero' was the code-name of the famous SAS operation: a classic story of bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. BRAVO TWO ZERO by patrol commander 'Andy McNab' became an international bestseller, as...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-12-01
ePub
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Trouble began in 1963. I'm not blaming it on President Kennedy's assassination or its being the beginning of the sixties or the Vietnam War or The Beatles...The trouble I'm talking about was my first real trouble, the age-old trouble. The getting in trouble as in ' Is...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2011-12-01
ePub
Offre spéciale
-65%
8,49€
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The incredible story of the American who saved more lives than Schindler - great literary, scientific and artistic figures such as André Breton, Heinrich Mann, Marc Chagall and Max Ernst who represented the political and cultural elite of Europe. This is one of the last...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-11-30
ePub
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America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-11-30
ePub
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