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Distringuished as both a
great novelist and a
great poet. Thomas Hardy
(1840-1928) had a writing
career which spanned more
than sixty years,
concentrating first on
prose and then, after
publishing his last novel
in 1895, on verse. A
master of the short lyric
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Hardy is pre-eminently
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lost happiness; but he is
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rural life are the
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Anthony Burgess' epic
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represent different kinds
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contemporaries to survive
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celebrity of dubious
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the Vatican as a subtle
negotiator and shrewd
manipulator to become the
controversial architect
of church revolution and
a candidate for
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lives of these two men,
related to each other not
only by family ties but
also by sympathy, genius
and a deep common
understanding of
mankind's frailties,
Burgess explores the very
essence of power.
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Investigator Petric makes
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a homicide investigator
have been less in demand.
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premeditated death does
land on the detective's
desk. It is no abused
lover or a distant
sniper's victim but a
government official - the
chief of the interior
ministry's police - shot
dead at close range.In a
thriller that recalls the
first excitement of
Martin Cruz Smith's
Moscow and the Vienna of
Graham Greene's The Third
Man, author Dan
Fesperman brilliantly
renders the fragmented
society and underworld of
Sarajevo at war - the
freelancing gangsters,
guilty bystanders,
drop-in correspondents,
the bureaucrats
frightened for their jobs
and very lives - and he
weaves through this torn
cityscape one man's
desperate, deadly
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people in the worst
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The King James Bible of
1611 has been one of the
richest sources for
English language and
literature for nearly
four centuries and is
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greatest poetic beauty.
This beautifully designed
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Steiner's introduction
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history of English
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moving personal reading
of the greatest of texts.
It also places the Bible
within the history and
development of
Judaeo-Christian thought.
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This is the account of
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surface of the whole
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among the people most
damaged by the breakup of
the Soviet Union,
traveling among Buddhists
and animists, radical
Christian sects,
reactionary Communists
and the remnants of a
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from the site of the last
Czar's murder and
Rasputin's village, to
the ice-bound graves of
ancient Sythians, to
Baikal, deepest and
oldest of the world's
lakes. This is the story
of a people moving
through the ruins of
Communism into more
private, diverse and
often stranger worlds.
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Jeez Curwen, a British
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African National
Congress, has received
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should never have been
involved. He is
incarcerated in the
maximum security jail
outside Pretoria,
awaiting
execution.
By the
time his son Jack,
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years ago, discovers
that the British
government has washed its
hands of his
father
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'A is for Apples, some
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Mr Hoppy, a retired
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attractive widow Mrs
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lavishes all her
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Alfie, her pet tortoise.
Mr Hoppy's wildly
ingenious plot to defeat
his rival and win the
love of his lady will
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fewer than 140 tortoises,
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When Michael Holroyd's
life of Strachey first
appeared in 1967, it was
hailed as a landmark in
contemporary biography.
Drawing now on new
material, published and
unpublished, Holroyd has
completely revised and
rewritten his masterwork
to tell the full story of
this complex man and his
world as it could not be
told while many of
Strachey's friends and
lovers were still alive.
And at the heart of the
story is the poignant
liasion between Strachey
and the painter Dora
Carrington. A panorama of
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political and sexual life
of a generation, LYTTON
STRACHEY reverberates in
the mind like a great
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Had a frustrating day?
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When Lt. General Rom-o
Dallaire received the
call to serve as force
commander of the UN
mission to Rwanda, he
thought he was heading
off to Africa to help two
warring parties achieve a
peace both sides wanted.
Instead, he and members
of his small
international force were
caught up in a vortex of
civil war and genocide.
Dallaire left Rwanda a
broken man,
disillusioned, suicidal,
and determined to tell
his story. An
award-winning
international sensation,
Shake Hands with the
Devil is a landmark
contribution to the
literature of war: a
remarkable tale of a
soldier's courage and an
unforgettable portrait of
modern war. It is also a
stinging indictment of
the petty bureaucrats who
refused to give Dallaire
the men and the
operational freedom he
needed to stop the
killing. 'I know there is
a God, ' Dallaire writes,
'because in Rwanda I
shook hands with the
devil. I have seen him,
I have smelled him and I
have touched him. I know
the devil exists and
therefore I know there is
a God.'
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The last thing sexy
thirty-something Beth
expected was to get
involved with a much
younger man. But when she
finds him spying on her
in the dressing room at
work she embarks on an
erotic journey, teaching
and teasing as she leads
him through myriad
sensuous exercises at her
stylish modern home. As
their lascivious games
intensify, Beth soon
begins to realise that
she is the one being
awakened to a new world
of desire
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When Ernest Fletcher is
found bludgeoned to death
in his study, everyone
is shocked and mystified:
Ernest was well-liked and
respected, so who would
have a motive for killing
him?
Enter
Superintendent Hannasyde
who, with consummate
skill, begins to uncover
the complexities of
Fletcher
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6 June 1944 is one
of the most momentous
days in history: the day
Allied forces crossed
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These are dark days for
England; the Tudor
succession hangs
precariously in the
balance, along with the
lives of its people. The
wrong religion can all
too easily mean a brutal
death in a time when the
difference between
'faithful' and 'heretic'
rests on the monarch
alone. With the shadow of
the dreaded Inquisition
looming across the
continent from Spain,
one family, lead by two
brave men
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There are hundreds of
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An accessible guide to
wine targeted at 20-40
year-olds dealing with
the complicated matter of
wine in an easy to
understand, fun and
clear fashion. The book
comprises 22 chapters,
from the simplest
explanation of how to
taste wine to a more
in-depth look at the
principle of wine regions
and styles from around
the globe.
The book
covers, amongst other
things: How to work out
which wines you like
best, where to buy wine;
which wine myths make us
most mad; plus a useful
grid to help you identify
the style of wine you
like and then mix and
match through the
unique
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Jess and Nancy, girls
from very different
backgrounds, are nursing
in France during the
Great War. They have much
in common for both have
lost their lovers in the
trenches, so when the
war is over and they
return to nurse in
Liverpool, their future
seems bleak.
Very
soon, however, their
paths diverge. Nancy
marries an Australian
stockman and goes to live
on a cattle station in
the Outback, while Jess
marries a Liverpudlian.
Both have children;
Nancy's eldest is Pete,
and Jess has a daughter,
Debbie, yet their lives
couldn't be more
different.
When
the second world war is
declared, Pete joins the
Royal Air Force and comes
to England, promising
his mother that he will
visit her old friend. In
the thick of the May
blitz, with half of
Liverpool demolished and
thousands dead, Pete
arrives in the city to
find Jess's home
destroyed and her
daughter missing. Pete
decides that whatever the
cost, he must find
her...
From the
rigours of the Australian
Outback to war-ravaged
Liverpool, Debbie and
Pete are drawn
together... and torn
apart...
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The charge of the Light
Brigade is one of
Britain's best-known
glorious military
disasters. On 25 October
1854, during the siege
of Sebastopol, the Light
Brigade attacked Russian
gun positions at
Balaclava. The charge
lasted 7 and 1/2 minutes;
of 673 officers and men
who went into action,
247 men and 497 horses
were lost. This book
shatters many long-held
conceptions of how and
why it happened, and who
was to blame. Mark Adkin,
a former professional
soldier, has combined
military expertise and
detailed research of
participants' accounts
with a careful
examination of the actual
ground. The result is a
gripping and definitive
study of a debacle that
has never ceased to
entral the imagination.
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Michael Booth has had his
fill of celebrity chefs
and their recipes. He
wants to know how
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In a series of long
essays, James Wood
examines the connection
between literature and
religious belief, in a
startlingly wide group of
writers. Wood
re-appraises the writing
of such figures as Thomas
More, Jane Austen,
Herman Melville, Anton
Chekhov, Thomas Mann,
Nikolai Gogol, Gustave
Flaubert and Virginia
Woolf, vigorously
reading them against the
grain of received
opinion, and
illuminatingly relating
them to questions of
religious and
phiosophical belief
Contemporary writers,
such as Martin Amis,
Thomas Pynchon and George
Steiner, are also
discussed, with the
boldness and attention to
language that have made
Wood such an influential
and controversial figure.
Writing here about his
own childhood struggle to
believe, Wood says that
'the child of evangelism
if he does not believe,
inherits nevertheless a
suspicion of
indifference. ' Wood
brings that suspicion to
bear on literture itself.
The result is a unique
book of criticism.
Illuminating and exciting
and compelling... one
never doubts the
soundness of his
judgements... There is
wonderful writing
throughout this
collection.
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Having sold over 200, 000
copies in hardback, Rick
Stein's classic guide to
the best of British
seafood is now available
in paperback. Rick (and
Chalky his trusty dog)
discover great dishes and
small delicacies amongst
the tidal estuaries,
shingle banks and rocky
shores of Britain. Rick
travels from the bleak
Suffolk coast where
fishermen scrape a living
catching cod to the wild,
clear waters of
Scotlands lochs bringing
back an abundance of
stories and imaginative,
colourful recipes. The
book is organised
geographically with each
chapter covering one of
the regions featured in
the series. Rick
describes the
fish-catching and
fish-eating traditions of
each area as well as
details of the local
life, legends and
literature. He singles
out local delicacies and
includes six to eight
recipes per chapter. Each
chapter is illustrated
with stunning food and
landscape photography and
ends with an area map and
a guide to a small
selection of the best
hotels, restaurants,
pubs and specialist
suppliers (including
information on extra
locations, not featured
in the series). Just as I
do in the restaurant to
keep ahead of the game,
I look for the best
suppliers, the freshest
fish and who catches
them. In a way, this is
what this series is
about, the fish I love,
for all sorts of reasons
not just taste or fashion
where they come from and
the people who catch them
and the best way to cook
them. As a result of
looking around the
country for the best
seafood, its turned out
to be a love affair with
the changing coastline of
Great Britain and Ireland
and the business of going
to sea in small boats to
catch the freshest prime
fish we have. Rick Stein
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THE PSYCHO-ANALYSIS OF
CHILDREN, first
published in 1932, is a
classic in its subject,
and revolutionised child
analysis. Melanie Klein
had already proved, by
the special technique she
devised, that she was an
pioneer in that branch of
analysis. She made
possible the extension of
psychoanalysis to the
field of early childhood,
and in this way not only
made the treatment of
young children possible
but also threw new light
on psychological
development in childhood
and on the roots of adult
neuroses and psychoses.
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Whether you suffer from
aches, pains and creaky
joints, or you simply
feel old beyond your
years, Keep Your
Joints Young will
help you achieve a better
body and a healthier
life.
Sarah Key,
a renowned
physiotherapist and
bestselling author,
shows you how to keep
your skeleton young with
a series of stretches
designed to combat
stiffness and
pain.
This
practical and accessible
guide shows you how
to:
- spot the
tell-tale warning signs
of imminent joint
problems
- take
immediate action to
reverse the trend
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exercise to alleviate
pain and restore full
mobility
With
stretches to suit all
levels of ability and a
30-minute daily regime,
Keep Your Joints Young
will help you break
the bad habits that come
with our increasingly
sedentary
lifestyle.
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'Far, far away in the
high, high mountains in
a deep, deep valley in a
dark, dark cave - there
lived a mighty dragon.'He
was an awesome and
frightening creature,
terrorising whole armies,
destroying castles,
demolishing forests and
kidnapping princesses.
But this mighty dragon
had a deep, dark secret
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Walking the streets of
Moscow,
indistinguishable from
the rest of its
population, are the
Others. Possessors of
supernatural powers and
capable of entering the
Twilight, a shadowy
parallel world existing
in parallel to our own,
each Other owes
allegiance either to the
Dark or the
Light.
The
Night Watch, first
book in the Night Watch
Trilogy, follows Anton,
a young Other owing
allegiance to the Light.
As a Night Watch agent he
must patrol the streets
and metro of the city,
protecting ordinary
people from the vampires
and magicians of the
Dark. When he comes
accross Svetlana, a
young woman under a
powerful curse, and
saves an unfledged Other,
Egor, from vampires,
he becomes involved in
events that threaten the
uneasy truce, and the
whole
city...
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You've heard of the lone
ranger? I'm his brother
hydrangea!
The
other night I
dreamt
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You have never read a
book like this
before...
The
Celestine Prophecy
contains
secrets
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Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall
Villette
The
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Andy Cameron is one of
Scotland's best-loved
comedians. He has
appeared in countless
television, theatre and
cabaret shows during his
30 years in showbusiness
and he never fails to
reduce his audience to
tears of laughter.Behind
the jokes and smiles,
however, is an amazing
life story. Born in
London to a Scots father
and an English mother,
Andy's mum abandoned him
when she ran off with
another man while his
father was in Egypt
during the Second World
War. He was looked after
by an elderly lady but
was later found in a
bombed-out building after
one of the air raids of
the Blitz. When his
father was recalled from
the desert, Andy was
taken by troop train to
Rutherglen to be brought
up by his beloved granny,
Bella. He started out on
the comedy scene in the
early '70s, compering
other acts at the Rolls
Royce club in Glasgow.
Andy then worked his way
through the Scottish
social-club scene and up
the cabaret tree to take
his place in theatres and
on our television screens
in shows such as It's
Andy Cameron, Andy
Cameron Live and Shammy
Dab. He brought much fun
and laughter to the
airwaves with his
fantastic Radio Scotland
show Andy Cameron's
Sunday Joint, which ran
for 15 years. A man of
many talents, he played
the role of taxi driver
Chic Cherry in the
long-running Scottish
soap High Road and also
recorded the most
unlikely of hit songs,
'Ally's Tartan Army' to
cheer on Scotland's
national side in the 1978
World Cup campaign. He
now broadcasts his Sunday
radio show on Clyde 2 and
has never been more
popular with his
after-dinner act and
cabaret shows, both at
home and abroad.
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With her mother dead and
her father currently in
prison awaiting trial for
her murder, a pregnant
Frankie is blamed for the
tragedy and forced to
live with her wideboy
fiance, Jed O'Hara, in
a trailer on his parents'
land. Frankie struggles
to adapt to their gypsy
way of life, but when
her daughter, Georgie,
is born, things go from
bad to worse. Jed's
mother is a loud,
brazen, domineering
woman, who has always
yearned for a daughter
herself, and she begins
to take over her baby
granddaughter. Meanwhile
Frankie's family and
friends know that Jed is
cheating on her, but
blinded by love and a
sucker for his charm,
Frankie refuses to
believe them.
Then one day the
unthinkable happens. Sick
to the stomach at her
discovery, Frankie for
once sees Jed for what he
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that the man she loves is
not only heartless, but
also violent and
dangerous. Petrified for
the safety of herself and
her family, Frankie
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Sleek, firm, vibrant
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The Success Through the
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beyond the Sun signs to
provide penetrating and
eerily accurate insights
into readers'
personalities. In
addition to an in-depth
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the mean-ings,
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characteristic behaviours
of the Moon, Mercury and
Venus signs are presented
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light on individuals'
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personality are seen not
as shameful, but as life
challenges and essential
material for the business
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The chariot changed the
face of ancient warfare.
First in Mesopotamia,
then in Asia Minor and
Egypt, charioteers came
to dominate the
battlefield. In c. 1286
BC at Kadesh in the
Eastern Mediterranean -
where the troops of
Ramesses II overwhelmed
the Hittites - 5, 000
chariots were deployed.
Its use is recounted in
Indian epics and Chinese
histories. Homer's Iliad
tells of the attack on
Troy by Greek
charioteers. When
Alexander the Great
descended into the North
Indian plain in early
326BC, he found chariots
as well as elephants in
the armies ranged against
him. After its
disappearance from the
battlefield, chariot
racing attracted hundreds
of thousands of
spectators. The Emperor
Nero drove his own
ten-horse chariot in the
Olympic Games (he fell
out but still won the
prize). In Constantinople
in AD 352 a three-day
riot, ignited by a
chariot race, left over
30, 000 people dead after
the Emperor Justinian had
to send in troops to
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rise and fall of the
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Illustrated throughout
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least as depicted in
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the world's first
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machine.
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French Leave followed
John Burton Race, wife
Kim and six children to
the South of France.
There he rediscovered
good home cooking using
fresh, seasonal produce.
Now Home Leave finds John
and the family moving to
Devon where he is running
The New Angel restaurant
in Dartmouth. Describing
Devon as 'France without
the sunflowers', and
taking his inspiration
from the delicious fish
and shellfish, delivered
daily by boat to the
restaurant, the Devon
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form the farm, and
succulent lamb, venison
and game fresh from the
moors, John has created
150 brand-new recipes
that anyone can cook. The
simple and delicious
dishes include
imaginative twists on
classics - Moules
Marinieres becomes
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and new interpretations
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ideas for the Sunday
roast range from Roast
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and Apple, and Leg of
Lamb in Salt Crust.
Anyone who loved French
Leave will enjoy this
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In the summer of 1911
David Lloyd George, then
Chancellor of the
Exchequer, hired a young
schoolteacher called
Frances Stevenson to
tutor his daughter in the
summer holidays. He was
forty-eight, and married
with four children. She
was twenty-two and had
recently graduated with a
degree in classics. She
was highly intelligent as
well as very attractive,
and Lloyd George soon
began to employ her as
his secretary. At the
beginning of 1913 they
became lovers, on terms
spelt out by Lloyd George
with ruthless clarity: he
would not leave his wife
for her, nor would he
risk his career. She was
to become his private
secretary, run his
office and share his life
as fully as his family
and the need to avoid a
scandal would allow.
Their secret relationship
was to last for thirty
years until his wife
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In the summer of 1911
David Lloyd George, then
Chancellor of the
Exchequer, hired a young
schoolteacher called
Frances Stevenson to
tutor his daughter in the
summer holidays. He was
forty-eight, and married
with four children. She
was twenty-two and had
recently graduated with a
degree in classics. She
was highly intelligent as
well as very attractive,
and Lloyd George soon
began to employ her as
his secretary. At the
beginning of 1913 they
became lovers, on terms
spelt out by Lloyd George
with ruthless clarity: he
would not leave his wife
for her, nor would he
risk his career. She was
to become his private
secretary, run his
office and share his life
as fully as his family
and the need to avoid a
scandal would allow.
Their secret relationship
was to last for thirty
years until his wife
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They exploded onto the
national political scene
in 2004 and within four
years captured the
ultimate prize. In so
doing, they became a
First Couple like no
other: he the biracial
son of a free-spirited
Midwesterner and her
brilliant-but-troubled
Kenyan husband, raised
in Hawaii and Indonesia;
she brought up on Chicago
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When news of the death of
her ex-husband reaches
Binnie, it seems that
her tranquil life in the
West Country would come
to an end. To her
surprise, she discovers
that he had left her the
island in the beautiful
archipelago off the coast
of Cornwall where he had
spent his childhood, and
Binnie has to take her
family to the island
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Good King Wenceslas
looked out
On the
Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay
round about,
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The first volume of John
Campbell's biography of
Margaret Thatcher was
described by Frank
Johnson in the Daily
Telegraph as 'much
the best book yet written
about Lady Thatcher'.
That volume, The
Grocer's Daughter,
described Mrs Thatcher's
childhood and early
career up until the 1979
General Election which
carried her into Downing
Street.
This
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whole eleven and a half
years of her momentous
premiership. Thirteen
years after her removal
from power, this is the
first comprehensive and
fully researched study of
the Thatcher Government
from its hesitant
beginning to its dramatic
end. Campbell draws on
the mass of memoirs and
diaries of Mrs Thatcher's
colleagues, aides,
advisers and rivals, as
well as on original
material from the Ronald
Reagan archive, shedding
fascinating new light on
the Reagan-Thatcher
'special relationship',
and on dozens of
interviews.
The Iron
Lady will confirm
John Campbell's
Margaret Thatcher
as one of the greatest
political biographies of
recent
times.
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It was the year of sex
and drugs and rock and
roll; it was also the
year of the Martin Luther
King and Bobby Kennedy
assassinations, the
Prague Spring, the
Chicago convention, the
Tet offensive in Vietnam
and the anti-war
movement, the student
rebellion that paralysed
France, civil rights,
the beginning of the end
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and the birth of the
women's movement. With
1968: The Year that
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award-winning journalist
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a cultural and political
history of that
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social upheaval, when
television's impact on
global events first
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when simultaneously - in
Paris, Prague, London,
Berkeley, and all over
the globe - uprisings
spontaneously occurred.
1968 encompasses the
worlds of youth and
music, politics, war,
economics,
assassinations, riots,
demonstrations and the
media, and shows us how
we got to where we are
today.
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This book offers a
positive and practical
psychological approach to
children's intellectual
development. At least one
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How to Raise a
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Dr Joan Freeman
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pre-school age children
and how to encourage
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well as providing
specific help on subjects
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Between 1943 and 2003
nine people have been
stabbed to death with a
most unusual weapon: a
trident. In each case,
arrests were made,
suspects confessed their
crimes and were sentenced
to life in prison. One
slightly worrying detail:
each presumed murderer
lost consciousness during
the night of the crime
and has no recollection
of it.
Commissaire
Adamsberg is convinced
all the murders are the
work of one person, the
terrifying Judge
Fulgence. Years before,
Adamsberg
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Damian Drooth has already
solved three cases to
great acclaim (and
uproarious chaos!), and
now he is passing on his
skills to eager pupils.
He has decided to help a
friendly old man who
thinks that his precious
and hard-won inventions
are being ripped off by
an unscrupulous
neighbour. Naturally the
meeting of Young
Inventors is a good place
to start - and using all
his old skill, he does
uncover the bad guy...
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Though firmly rooted in
the domestic, natural
world, Jean Sprackland's
poems are thrilling
excursions into the lives
that we live alongside
our everyday ones: the
lives we are aware of in
dreams, in grief, in
love. She shows us the
vertigo and vulnerability
of human experience with
great clarity and
precision, tenderness
and care.
These
are vivid poems full of
light and weather and
water - awash with water:
a flooded forest, acid
rain, an inland tidal
wave, an ocean of broken
glass; jellyfish washed
up on the beach that 'lay
like saints/ unharvested,
luminous'. There is an
arresting imagination at
work here, one as
relaxed and at home in an
alternative world of
babies in filing
cabinets, light
collectors or the
visiting dead, as it is
in the world we think we
know: supermarkets,
empty flats, the A580
from Liverpool to
Manchester. In the title
poem, Sprackland sets
out her store: 'I tried
the soft stuff on holiday
in Wales, a mania of
teadrinking and
hairwashing, excitable
soap which never rinsed
away, but I loved coming
home to this. Flat.
Straight. Like the
vowels, Like the
straight talk: hey up me
duck - the blunt taste of
don't get mardy, of too
bloody deep for me,
fierce lovely water that
marked me for life as
belonging,
regardless.'
Lucid,
sensuous and informed by
an unusually tactile
curiosity, the poems in
Hard Water mark
the assured arrival of an
important
poet.
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How To Practise is a
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to practice meditation,
and how to practise
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simultaneously delving
deeper into His Holiness'
more general teachings,
his spirit, wisdom and
sense of humour. The
book, meant to be used
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with anecdotes. It
includes guidance on
peace of mind,
generosity, compassion,
and much more besides.
Beautifully packaged,
this is the ultimate gift
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a wonderful gift to give
to anyone interested in
having a richer, more
fulfilled life.
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On the day Lizzie came
back from the dead, the
police and her family and
neighbours had already
begun to search for her
body. She had been
missing for three days. A
short while later,
another young woman
disappears, just as a
convicted paedophile is
released back into the
community. The residents
of the Muriel Campden
Estate are up in arms,
and even prepared to take
the law into their own
hands.... .
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On the day Lizzie came
back from the dead, the
police and her family and
neighbours had already
begun to search for her
body. She had been
missing for three days. A
short while later,
another young woman
disappears, just as a
convicted paedophile is
released back into the
community. The residents
of the Muriel Campden
Estate are up in arms,
and even prepared to take
the law into their own
hands...
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Two young girls
disappear, but return
home unharmed some days
later. Around the same
time, a convicted
paedophile is released
back into the community.
The residents of an
estate in Kingsmarkham
are up in arms, and even
prepared to take the law
into their own hands...
Chief Inspector Wexford
is not only concerned
very personally with the
effects of violence and
prejudice, but is also
involved with a new
programme called
Hurt-Watch, to help the
victims of domestic
violence. His daughter,
Sylvia, the social
worker and never his
favourite, has come to
work nearby in a refuge
for battered women,
called The Hide. Her
marriage is in
difficulties, although
her husband has never
raised a hand to her.
They are merely
incompatible. Other women
in Kingsmarkham are not
so lucky, and, after
those early
disappearances, two far
more serious crimes are
committed which will
affect the lives and
attitudes of police and
public alike.
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Two young girls
disappear, but return
home unharmed some days
later. Around the same
time, a convicted
paedophile is released
back into the community.
The residents of an
estate in Kingsmarkham
are up in arms, and even
prepared to take the law
into their own hands...
Chief Inspector Wexford
is not only concerned
very personally with the
effects of violence and
prejudice, but is also
involved with a new
programme called
Hurt-Watch, to help the
victims of domestic
violence. His daughter,
Sylvia, the social
worker and never his
favourite, has come to
work nearby in a refuge
for battered women,
called The Hide. Her
marriage is in
difficulties, although
her husband has never
raised a hand to her.
They are merely
incompatible. Other women
in Kingsmarkham are not
so lucky, and, after
those early
disappearances, two far
more serious crimes are
committed which will
affect the lives and
attitudes of police and
public alike.
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In the years 1916-1918,
the Wolf, an ordinary
freighter fitted-out with
a hidden arsenal of
weapons, was sent by
Germany on one of the
most daring clandestine
naval missions of modern
times. Under the command
of Kapitan Karl Nerger,
the ship undertook a
continuous fifteen-month
cruise in which she
traversed three of the
world
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From one of the world's
truly great writers,
Fury is a wickedly
brilliant and pitch-black
comedy about a
middle-aged professor who
finds himself in New York
City in the summer of
2000. Not since the
Bombay of Midnight's
Children have a time and
place been so intensely
and accurately captured
in a novel. Fury opens on
a New York living at
breakneck speed in an age
of unprecedented
decadence. Malik Solanka,
, a Cambridge-educated
self-made millionaire
originally from Bombay,
arrives looking,
perversely, for escape.
This former philosophy
professor is the inventor
of the hugely popular
doll, Little Brain,
whose multiform ubiquity
- as puppet, cartoon and
masked woman - now
rankles with him. He
becomes frustratingly
estranged from his own
creation. At the same
time, his marriage is
disintegrating: it
escalates into a
rage-filled battle, and
Solanka very nearly
commits an unforgivable
act. Horrified by the
fury within him, he
flees home and family and
becomes a sort of
spiritual mendicant -
except that he has a
credit card and a duplex
on the Upper West Side.
Solanka discovers that he
has come to a city
Roiling with anger,
where cab drivers spout
invective and a serial
killer is murdering women
with a lump of concrete,
a metropolis whose
population is united by
petty spats and bone-deep
resentments. His own
thoughts, emotions and
desires, meanwhile, are
also running wild.
Solanka's navigation of
his new world makes for a
hugely entertaining and
compulsively readable
novel. Fury is a pitiless
comedy that lays bare the
darkest side of human
nature with spectacular
insight and much glee.
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Debra has just passed her
GCSEs in grand style,
and goes out to celebrate
with her mates. But
someone is so jealous of
her perfect family that
they spike her drink,
and abduct her from the
party 'just to show
them'. In the race to
find her, and her
abductor, the police
find plenty of suspects.
There's her would-be
boyfriend, and her
sister's ex.: she has had
a row with both of them.
And as her father is the
Deputy Head at school,
and her mother is the
editor of the local
newspaper, there are
many other people with
grudges against the
family. The local
community starts to fall
apart as fear and
distrust taint every
relationship. When at
last she is returned to
her family, she is
suffering from such bad
shock that she cannot
identify her abductor,
and her well-wishers
realise that they must
find and expose the
person before any of them
can begin to recover from
the trauma.
Sandra Glover has
written another gripping
story of mystery and
suspense that will keep
her readers guessing
until the very last page.
She can write with
enormous conviction and
power about teenage life,
weaving a story with
such subtle shifts and
sudden turnings that it
is impossible to second
guess.
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Debra's drink is spiked
at a party, and she is
abducted. In the race to
find her, the police
find plenty of suspects.
There's her would-be
boyfriend, and her
sister's ex.: she has had
a row with both of them.
And as her parents are
prominent in the
community, there are
plenty of people with
grudges against the
family. Fear and distrust
taint every relationship.
When at last she is
returned to her family,
Debra cannot identify her
abductor, and her
well-wishers realise that
they must find and expose
the person before any of
them can begin to recover
from the trauma.
Sandra Glover has
written another gripping
story of mystery and
suspense that will keep
her readers guessing
until the very last page.
She can write with
enormous conviction and
power about teenage life,
weaving a story with
such subtle shifts and
sudden turnings that it
is impossible to second
guess.
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Debra's drink is spiked
at a party, and she is
abducted. In the race to
find her, the police
find plenty of suspects.
There's her would-be
boyfriend, and her
sister's ex.: she has had
a row with both of them.
And as her parents are
prominent in the
community, there are
plenty of people with
grudges against the
family. Fear and distrust
taint every relationship.
When at last she is
returned to her family,
Debra cannot identify her
abductor, and her
well-wishers realise that
they must find and expose
the person before any of
them can begin to recover
from the trauma.
Sandra Glover has
written another gripping
story of mystery and
suspense that will keep
her readers guessing
until the very last page.
She can write with
enormous conviction and
power about teenage life,
weaving a story with
such subtle shifts and
sudden turnings that it
is impossible to second
guess.
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Shy, dreamy, and
incurably romantic,
Harriet Poole was
shattered when her brief
affair with Simon
Villiers, Oxford's
leading playboy
undergraduate, ended
abruptly, leaving her
penniless, alone and
pregnant. Still
hopelessly in love with
Simon, she took baby
William and buried
herself in deepest
Yorkshire as nanny to the
children of Cory Erskine,
a somewhat eccentric
scriptwriter.
Local
tongues were just
beginning to wag when a
whole host of visitors
began to arrive to
disrupt Harriet's
peaceful routine: first
Cory's estranged wife
Noel, hellbent on
winning Cory back, then
Cory's glamorous brother
Kit, whose old affair
with Noel didn't stop him
making passes at Harriet,
and finally, of all
people,
Simon...
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It was the worst winter
in a decade, the winter
of foot-and-mouth, when
island power cuts ran for
up to 72 hours - and two
days before Peter
Mortimer's planned
departure, his father
died.100 DAYS ON HOLY
ISLAND is a quirky and
often moving account of
one man's self-imposed
exile to a remote island
off the coast of
North-east England.
Eschewing the usual
historical or religious
portrayal, Mortimer
gives a vivid, humourous
and often dramatic
account of a confirmed
urbanite in a small,
tight-knit community cut
off twice daily by the
tides. Throwing himself
into island life, he
explores the landscape,
people and myths that
surround this remote
`cradle of Chrisianity'.
All of Mortimer's
experiences within this
unique island community
are depicted with warmth
and humour. The bleak
winter scenery and
idiosyncrasies of the
island's inhabitants are
described with an insight
and understanding that
could only have been
achieved from personal
experience. He helped in
the local school, worked
on the land, was the
first person to be
voluntarily cut off in
the island refuge box and
spent three tides
isolated on the exposed
outcrop, St Cuthbert's
Island. The 100 days
changed him - and
probably changed the
island. 100 DAYS ON HOLY
ISLAND is a personal
homage to the island and
a remarkable account of a
micro-society unique in
modern Britain.
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Shy, dreamy, and
incurably romantic,
Harriet Poole was
shattered when her brief
affair with Simon
Villiers, Oxford's
leading playboy
undergraduate, ended
abruptly, leaving her
penniless, alone and
pregnant. Still
hopelessly in love with
Simon, she took baby
William and buried
herself in deepest
Yorkshire as nanny to the
children of Cory Erskine,
a somewhat eccentric
scriptwriter.
Local
tongues were just
beginning to wag when a
whole host of visitors
began to arrive to
disrupt Harriet's
peaceful routine: first
Cory's estranged wife
Noel, hellbent on
winning Cory back, then
Cory's glamorous brother
Kit, whose old affair
with Noel didn't stop him
making passes at Harriet,
and finally, of all
people,
Simon...
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The poems in this, Alan
Jenkin's third
collection, speak of the
harm done and suffered -
most frequently in the
name of love - in the
course of lives gone
adrift among lost causes,
chance meetings and
missed chances. A new
directness and
simplicity, and
throughout, a raw
urgency of personal
feeling, inform a voice
that is as resourceful as
in Jenkin's earlier
volumes, and continues
to salvage a 'fugitive
lyricism' (as one
reviewer put it) from
harsh and dissonant
realities. 'By turns
jocular, disquieting,
sexy and inventive'-PETER
READING, SUNDAY TIMES
'Jenkins' poetry is
exhilarating... It is
charged with erotic
energy, rage, sorrow
and confusion'-TLS
'Stylish, Savage,
unforgiving'-HUGO
WILLIAMS, SUNDAY
TELEGRAPH 'Jenkins has a
restless mind: following
his poetry gives his
readers a rocky ride,
but also a rewarding one.
'-PETER PORTER,
OBSERVER.
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Saturday afternoon:
you're with the kids in
the garden when the phone
rings.
It's
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Jo Bell is a feisty
journalist with just one
weakness - her boss,
Jerome. When he sends her
on a features assignment
to a stately English
home, she finds herself
sucked into an erotic
battle of wills with the
owners of the mansion -
who have their own
weaknesses. Young, posh
and decadent Alicia will
go to any lengths to
prove her sexual
superiority, and her
seemingly shy brother is
keeping his own
proclivities too quiet
for Jo's liking. As the
estate is used as a film
location for an
historical drama, all
manner of boundaries are
pushed to the limit.
Soon, even Jerome is
brought into the
siblings' games of
degradation and
punishment - acted out in
private and in front of
the cameras.
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In this remarkable book,
Jane Miller writes about
the experience of being a
daughter and a sister,
about the intensities of
family life and the
illuminations that come
from the last days and
death of parents.
Relations offers a
portrait of a
record-keeping,
middle-class kinship,
beginning with her
parents' long marriage,
its mysteries and
incompatibilities. Here
are the tensions of
belonging and yet not
belonging to an English
middle-class at once
hospitable to difference
and internally divided.
More than two hundred
years of English history
are present in these
portraits, which show
the gradual emancipation
of women, the effects of
empire on family life and
the importance to it of
religion, education and
money. It is the story of
an evolution, of a move
out of trade towards
public service and the
professions, and towards
the dramas and family
romance of recent times.
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MotoGP is enjoying a
period of unprecedented
popularity and Ring of
Fire details the
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THE RETURN TO THE
CHATEAU
Story
of O is widely
acknowledged to be one of
the
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Shane Williams has spent
almost a decade thrilling
the rugby world with his
evasive running skills
and a box of tricks that
has left the best
defences grasping thin
air, disproving the
notion that size matters
in modern professional
rugby. He's been called
the little wizard, the
artful dodger and a whole
host of other
superlatives, but
wherever Williams has
played, the crowd have
been on the edge of their
seats.
When he
entered his 20s,
Williams looked set for a
life of relative
obscurity playing scrum
half for his local side,
Amman United. All that
was to change, however,
when he was plucked from
nowhere by then Neath
coach Lyn Jones, and his
rise to become Wales's
most dangerous strike
runner was meteoric.
Following his
international debut aged
21, Williams lit up
Wales
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In the 1970s, an age
long before World Cups,
rugby union to the
British public meant Bill
McLaren, rude songs and,
most of all, Wales.
Between 1969 and 1979,
the men in red shirts won
or shared eight Five
Nations Championships,
including three Grand
Slams and six Triple
Crowns. But the mere
facts resonate less than
the enduring images of
the precision of Gareth
Edwards, the sublime
touch of Barry John, the
sidesteps of Gerald
Davies and Phil Bennett,
the courage of J.P.R.
Williams, and the
forward power of the
Pontypool Front Row and
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Never mind Gavin Henson;
Mark Ring was the first
glamour boy of Welsh
rugby. A misunderstood
maverick or a pure
genius, call him what
you like, but Ringo
always got people
talking. From the moment
he won the first of his
32 Welsh caps against
England in 1983,
wherever Mark Ring went,
innovation, sparks and
controversy were never
far behind.
In
his glory days with
Cardiff, Pontypool and
Wales in the mid-to-late
'80s, Ring appeared to
have the rugby world at
his feet. But his
adventure, which spans
more than two decades and
takes in the sport's
amateur and professional
eras, is riddled with
thrilling highs and
heartbreaking lows, from
helping Wales to a
magical Triple Crown
alongside Jonathan Davies
in 1988 to the death of
his four-day-old baby
daughter following
complications at birth.
Ring's odyssey has seen a
court appearance for
theft, as well as
accusations that he
ripped off the great
Pontypool RFC.
In this revealing
autobiography, Ring
reveals how he was once
offered thousands of
pounds to throw a Five
Nations match. He talks
of how he risked being
banished from rugby for
accepting a big-money
incentive to join a World
XV 'rebel' tour of South
Africa in 1989 while the
sport was still strictly
amateur, and how he
nearly blew a substantial
proportion of his hefty
fee in one visit to a
Cardiff casino. Ring also
recounts how he
experienced European
success against all the
odds as coach of minnows
Caerphilly and of his
disappointment at blocked
opportunities by figures
within the Welsh Rugby
Union and Cardiff RFC.
There have been
more successful careers
than that of Mark Ring
but very few have been as
colourful, and this
highly entertaining
account documents it
superbly.
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How to get on well with
people, how to deal with
violence, how to adjust
to losing someone you
love? How to live?
This question
obsessed Renaissance
nobleman Michel Eyquem de
Montaigne (1533-92), who
wrote free-roaming
explorations of his
thought and experience,
unlike anything written
before. Into these essays
he put whatever was in
his head: his tastes in
wine and food, his
childhood memories, the
way his dog
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Turned down by all the
major film companies,
The Quiet Man
brought together John
Wayne
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Turned down by all the
major film companies,
The Quiet Man brought
together John Wayne and
Maureen O'Hara for only
the second time on
screen, won two Oscars
and was showered with
both critical and popular
praise on both sides of
the Atlantic. Even today,
its worldwide video and
DVD sales are quite
outstanding. The Quiet
Man is rightly hailed as
a Hollywood classic. Set
in the 1920s and shot in
the 1950s, the timeless,
fairy-tale character of
director John Ford's
Ireland is as captivating
now as it ever was.Gerry
McNee first saw the movie
when he was very young
and it has intrigued him
ever since. In the
Footsteps of the Quiet
Man is a tribute to the
film and all those
involved in its making,
for the story behind the
story, the off-screen
drama, is a fascinating
tale in itself. McNee has
researched his subject
thoroughly and conducted
countless interviews to
produce a stimulating and
compulsive homage to what
critic and author Andrew
Sarris called 'a retreat
into the pastoral and
horse-driven past [but]
very much ahead of its
time'. In the Footsteps
of the Quiet Man is a
revealing and touching
account of when Hollywood
came to beautiful
Connemara in the West of
Ireland.
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'The rollicking
adventures of an English
garden designer in
Provence' Independent
'Escapist reading-magic'
The TimesAlex
Dingwall-Main left London
with his wife and dog
nine years ago for the
Luberon region of the
South of France. A
landscape gardener of
international renown he
was in search of a
challenge - a new
climate, a new way of
gardening and a new way
of life. This is his
account of gardening his
way round Provence, and
in particular, of
attempting to restore the
secret garden of
M-nerbes. Situated high
on the plains of the
Luberon region, M-nerbes
is a famously beautiful
village - but this garden
had long been forgotten.
It trailed down over
seven levels, thick with
brambles and hornets'
nests, almond blossom
and ancient fig trees. It
was an archetypal
Proven-al garden and for
one whole year it
dominated Alex
Dingwall-Main's life.
From distant dreams came
growth and disasters,
but ultimately, the
garden is reclaimed. From
truffle dealers to local
mayors, film star
neighbours to JCB drivers
and olive-tree farmers,
Alex takes us on a guided
tour of an extraordinary
area. Published in
hardback with
serialisation in The
Times and major review
and feature coverage,
this is the enticing
paperback edition of a
beautifully written book
on plants, people and
life. Evocative and
inspiring, The Luberon
Garden will take you on
an unforgettable journey.
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In the 1970s, an age
long before World Cups,
rugby union to the
British public meant Bill
McLaren, rude songs and,
most of all, Wales.
Between 1969 and 1979,
the men in red shirts won
or shared eight Five
Nations Championships,
including three Grand
Slams and six Triple
Crowns. But the mere
facts resonate less than
the enduring images of
the precision of Gareth
Edwards, the sublime
touch of Barry John, the
sidesteps of Gerald
Davies and Phil Bennett,
the courage of J.P.R.
Williams, and the
forward power of the
Pontypool Front Row and
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In the 1970s, an age
long before World Cups,
rugby union to the
British public meant Bill
McLaren, rude songs and,
most of all, Wales.
Between 1969 and 1979,
the men in red shirts won
or shared eight Five
Nations Championships,
including three Grand
Slams and six Triple
Crowns. But the mere
facts resonate less than
the enduring images of
the precision of Gareth
Edwards, the sublime
touch of Barry John, the
sidesteps of Gerald
Davies and Phil Bennett,
the courage of J.P.R.
Williams, and the
forward power of the
Pontypool Front Row and
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In The Story of
India, Michael Wood
weaves a spellbinding
narrative out of the 10,
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Rugby is not a game for
those who think that
centres are what you find
in a box of Black Magic
or who confuse Jonah Lomu
with Joanna Lumley. At
the same time, it is not
a game for the bright:
what kind of tortured
mind would invent an oval
ball? Of course, it
helps if you know the
rules and don
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Like all parents, Topsy
Fogg and Janice Fisher
wanted to give their
babies the best possible
start in life. And like
Jamie Oliver before them,
they realised that the
best start begins with
what they give their
children to eat.
Topsy and Janice
are the founders of the
award-winning organic
baby food brand, Truuuly
Scrumptious, a delicious
range of homestyle,
top-quality food for
babies aged six months
through to toddlers. In
this beautifully
illustrated book, Topsy
and Janice share their
scrumptious recipes to
ensure that parents give
their babies all the
essential nutrients that
are vital for healthy
growth and development.
They also explain how to
wean babies; why going
organic is best; and how
to source, prepare and
cook the best-quality
ingredients.
From
vitamin-packed first
stage purées such as
butternut squash and
broccoli through more
substantial meals such as
lamb and apricot
casserole to finger foods
such as carrot,
courgette and cheese
muffins, these recipes
are so tasty parents will
be making extra portions
for themselves
too!
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The official story of
Pixar studios and the
team of pioneering
talents that brought you
Toy
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George Lucas spent nearly
ten years bringing his
dream project to life: a
ground-breaking space
fantasy movie. Its
original title: The
Star Wars. The rest
is history. Yet its
production is a story as
entertaining and exciting
as the movie itself. Now,
recounted in the words
of those who were there,
it is finally being told,
for the first
time.
Between 1975
and 1978, over fifty
interviews were conducted
with key members of cast
and crew
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Star Wars was
released in 1977 and went
on to earn almost $775
million at the worldwide
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In the years 1916-1918,
the Wolf, an ordinary
freighter fitted-out with
a hidden arsenal of
weapons, was sent by
Germany on one of the
most daring clandestine
naval missions of modern
times. Under the command
of Kapitan Karl Nerger,
the ship undertook a
continuous fifteen-month
cruise in which she
traversed three of the
world
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Henri had a passion for
Napoleon and Napoleon had
a passion for chicken.
From Boulogne to Moscow
Henri butchered for his
Emperor and never killed
a single man. Meanwhile,
in Venice, the city of
chance and disguises,
Villanelle was born with
the webbed feet of her
boatman father - but in
the casinos she gambled
her heart and lost. As
the soldier-chef's love
for Napoleon turns to
hate he finds the
Venetian beauty, and
together they flee to the
canals of darkness.
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When Hitler announced
that the result of the
war in Europe would be
'the complete
annihilation of the
Jews', he did so in
1942, not only in
public, but before an
enormous crowd in Berlin.
The Allies heard, but,
astonishingly, they did
not listen. In 1944,
Allied reconnaissance
pilots, searching out
industrial targets in the
area, repeatedly
photographed Auschwitz.
The pictures, apparently
overlooked by the Allies,
were routinely filed in
government archives and
not examined until 1979.
First-hand reports on the
horrors of the death
camps came to the West by
1944 in the person of two
escaped Auschwitz
prisoners. Their
testimonies, and those
of subsequent escapees,
were either ignored or
dismissed. Despite the
fact that, the same
year, Churchill himself
had ordered feasibility
studies for air strikes
on Auschwitz, the RAF
not only did nothing,
but eventually passed the
buck to the Americans,
who also did nothing.
This book explains the
reasons why.
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The spellbinding fantasy
that began with The
Fifth Sorceress and
The Gates of Dawn
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Scattering after the
Yuuzhan Vong's invasion
of Coruscant, the
panic-stricken members of
the New Republic Advisory
Council pause just long
enough to set up a mock
defense on nearby
Borleias--an attempt to
buy time that fools no
one, least of all the
Jedi. Leia and Han Solo
travel from world to
world to foment rebellion
against the New
Republic's disastrous
appeasement policies. But
Luke Skywalker has chosen
the most dangerous
assignment of all: to
sneak into the Yuuzhan
Vong's stronghold on
Coruscant. His outrageous
scheme to gain entry is
either brilliant or
suicidal, depending on
the outcome. Bearing down
swiftly on Borleias is a
Yuuzhan Vong invasion
fleet, determined to
destroy the galaxy's
remaining defenders....
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The second of a
mass-market original
trilogy charting the
beginning of the galaxy's
victory over the dreaded
Yuuzhan Vong alien
invaders. Under the
leadership of Luke
Skywalker and a combined
Jedi-government council,
the newly formed Galatic
Federation of Free
Alliances is doggedly
fighting back--and
winning. Luke is on a
quest for a legend, in
hope of bringing back the
ultimate answer to the
war. And a mysterious
prophet has risen among
the Yuuzhan Vong lower
castes to turn Yuuzhan
Vong culture on its ear.
This adventure includes
major storylines for
favorite characters,
both old and new.
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Elizabeth Laurence is
astoundingly beautiful.
So beautiful she has
never known what it is to
have even a plain day.
Used to the admiration of
all, it seems that she
will always be in charge
of her own destiny. A
star from the first
minute she appears on
celluloid, her future is
certain, until she is
cast opposite Jerome
Didier in a hit play. As
staggeringly handsome as
she is beautiful, and
tipped to become the
leading actor of his
generation, Jerome would
appear to be made for
Elizabeth.
But
Jerome has fallen in love
with the tousle-haired
and carefree Pippa
Nicholls, who is neither
conventionally beautiful
nor an actress and, much
to Elizabeth
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Between 1943 and 2003
nine people have been
stabbed to death with a
most unusual weapon: a
trident. In each case,
arrests were made,
suspects confessed their
crimes and were sentenced
to life in prison. One
slightly worrying detail:
each presumed murderer
lost consciousness during
the night of the crime
and has no recollection
of it.
Commissaire
Adamsberg is convinced
all the murders are the
work of one person, the
terrifying Judge
Fulgence. Years before,
Adamsberg
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As the bloodied and weary
galaxy faces battle once
more, the Jedi take on
the formidable task of
bringing the last of the
Empire into the
light-From the ashes of
the New Republic, torn
apart by the Yuuzhan Vong
forces, the newly formed
Galactic Alliance has
risen, determined to
bring peace to the entire
galaxy. But first the
Yuuzhan Vong must be
contained once and for
all. And so Luke
Skywalker seeks a world
long lost to legend:
Zonama Sekot, a sentient
planet believed to have
repelled an invasion by
the Yuuzhan Vong decades
before. Deciphering the
enigmatic secrets of
Zonama Sekot just might
turn the relentless tides
of war-
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