Over 1 million copies sold THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017ONE OF BARACK OBAMA&S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 This novel is astonishing uplifting & wise Don&t miss it& Chris Cleave No historical novel this year was more witty insightful or original than Amor Towles&s A Gentleman in Moscow& Sunday Times Books of the Year Charming shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom & nihilism& The Times Books of the Year &A supremely uplifting novel It&s elegant witty & delightful
- much like the Count himself& Mail on Sunday Books of the Year On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov
- recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew member of the Jockey Club Master of the Hunt
- is escorted out of the Kremlin across Red Square & through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely But instead of his usual suite he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?


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Do you know how to trim your whiskers properly? With beards & moustaches more popular than ever this delightful little book sets out to answer this pressing question & if a trim is not required then it will show you how to wax polish & maintain your face furniture so that it is always in tip-top condition Alongside these manly grooming tips is a guide to famous facial-hair aficionados from Karl Marx to Des Lynam; a breakdown of styles; & a perambulation through hirsute history including an explanation of why the beard was considered sacred by the ancient Greeks & slovenly by ancient Romans So whether it's the Handlebar or the Chevron; the Goatee or the Spade
- peruse this book for hints & tips of how to handle your facial fuzz Chris Martin is the former editor of the publishing industry website Bookends He is the author of Greenwich Mean Time Celebrity Tattoos & the Golf Companion as well as Has Britain Gone Bonkers He has two children two cats & has enjoyed an on-off relationship with the Goatee for over twenty years He lives in London
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Yakuza heir Homura Yasobe has a secret lover the young businessman Touji Karasuma A resourceful man who will do whatever it takes to succeed Touji is in fact the noble son of the rival company competing with Homura If anyone were to find out it would mean war between the groups! But can the two keep their rendezvous secret? ...

' For Christmas I would like all of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir novels' Sam Mendes Guardian' Philip Kerr is the contemporary master of the morally complex thriller' New York Observer The third in Philip Kerr's universally loved ' Berlin Noir' trilogy A German Requiem sees detective Bernie Gunther enter the new & terrifying world of post-war Vienna In the bitter winter of 1947 the Russian Zone is closing ever more tightly around Berlin So when an enigmatic Russian colonel asks Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil Becker faces a murder charge Bernie doesn't hesitate for long Despite an unsavoury past Gunther is convinced that the shooting of an American Nazi-hunter is one crime Becker didn't commit But Vienna is not the peaceful haven Bernie expects it to be Communism is the new enemy & with the Nuremberg trials over some strange alliances are being forged against the Red Menace
- alignments that make many wartime atrocities look lily-white by comparison Vividly evoking the atmosphere of postwar Vienna A Germen Requiem brings all Philip Kerr's pace & mordant wit to the tangle of guilt suspicion & double-dealing that laid the foundations for the Cold War
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Tracklist Intro Creep Hitchhike Love Sleep When Dead Sex &38; Drugs&38; Rock &38; Roll Jizzney Not A Miracle King Queen I'll Come Crashing Birthday Song Seventeen Too Much Makeup Get With You & Get High Failing In Love ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play When 10 year old Amanda loses her mother she spends most of her time at the neighbouring horse ranch owned by a business tycoon The arrival of Misty a spirited white horse creates a new challenge for the ranchers as the tycoon&s spoiled daughter rejects the horse But Amanda doesn&t lose faith & with an inspiring & loving horse trainer they prove that the Misty is a true champion creating new friendships & family bonds in the process ...

' He inspired a generation He changed the course of history' Barack Obama As Martin Luther King Jr prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963 he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love a volume of his best-known lectures King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962 & A Gift of Love

Includes:: these classic sermons along with two new lectures Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith & the non-violent philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi A Gift of Love illustrates King's vision of love & peaceful action as social & political forces for change

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A funny poignant memoir of a teacher's six-year journey with her class which also explores the nature of education & how to retain the element of wonder 240 pages Allsup Kim ...

100 easy & delicious meals on a tight budget with Jack Monroe's A Girl Called Jack Jack is a cash-strapped single mum living in Southend When she found herself with a shopping budget of just GBP10 a week to feed herself & her young son she addressed the situation with immense resourcefulness creativity & by embracing her local supermarket's 'basics' range She created recipe after recipe of delicious simple & upbeat meals that were outrageously cheap Learn with Jack Monroe's A Girl Called Jack how to save money on your weekly shop whilst being less wasteful & creating inexpensive tasty food Recipes include Vegetable Masala Curry for 30p a portion Pasta alla Genovese for 19p a portion Fig Rosemary & Lemon Bread for 26p & a Jam Sponge reminiscent of school days for 23p a portion' Sassy political & cooking amazing food on GBP10 a week We need more like her'
- Xanthe Clay The Telegraph Jack Monroe is a 24-year-old single mother & local newspaper reporter Finding herself with a food budget of just GBP10 a week she began to create nutritious recipes to feed herself & her son Giving the recipes out to a local food bank to help others in her situation she then began to publish them online on her blog A Girl Called Jack which now has thousands of followers Jack was awarded the 2013 Fortnum & Mason Judges' Choice Award for the impact that her blog has had She lives in Essex with her son
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It's bad enough having a mum dippy enough to name you Owl but when you've got a dad you've never met a best friend who needs you more than ever & a new boy at school giving you weird looks there's not a lot of room for much else So when Owl starts seeing strange frost patterns on her skin she's tempted to just burrow down under the duvet & forget all about it Could her strange new powers be linked to her mysterious father? And what will happen when she enters the magical world of winter for the first time? A glittering story of frost & friendship with writing full of magic & heart A Girl Called Owl is a stunning debut about family responsibility & the beauty of the natural world ...