From Norman Davies the acclaimed author of Europe A History comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times Daily Telegraph New Statesman Independent Guardian & Financial Times Europe's history is littered with kingdoms duchies empires & republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age What happened to the once-great Mediterranean ' Empire of Aragon'? Where did the half-forgotten kingdoms of Burgundy go? Which current nations will one day become a distant memory too? This original & enthralling book peers through the cracks of history to discover the stories of lost realms across the centuries' Dazzling provocative & brilliant' Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times Books of the Year 'A luminous account there are few better ways of understanding the multilayered splendours & horrors of Europe's past than through the pages of this wise humane & unfailingly engaging book' John Adamson Sunday Telegraph' Vanished Kingdoms is great history & also great art It is written with verve passion & profound empathy' David Marquand New Statesman Books of the Year'A magnificent achievement Brocaded with scholarship the book is unlikely ever to be equalled' Ian Thomson Independent ...

He got on the train He didn't get off So where did he go? For millions of Londoners the morning of 17 December is just like any other But not for Sam Wren An hour after leaving home he gets onto a tube train
- & never gets off again No eyewitnesses No trace of him on security cameras Six months later he's still missing Out of options & desperate for answers Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down Raker has made a career out of finding the lost He knows how they think & in missing person cases the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined For as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him someone is watching Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day & with Raker in his sights he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself From the bestselling author behind the chart-topping podcast Missing this mystery is perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh's I See You & Jo Nesbo's The Thirst' Weaver's books get better each time
- tense complex written with flair as well as care' Guardian'A fluent & assured piece of crime fiction Tim Weaver ties in the apparently divergent events with convincing ease' Crime Fiction Lover

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' There was a smell in the air of tar & rope & rusted chain a smell of tidal water Down harbour around the point was the open sea Here was the freedom I desired long sought-for not yet known Freedom to write to walk to wander freedom to climb hills to pull a boat to be alone I for this & this for me' Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall for most of her life Its rugged coastline wild terrain & tumultuous weather inspired her imagination & many of her works are set there including Rebecca Jamaica Inn & Frenchman's Creek In Vanishing Cornwall she celebrates the land she loved exploring its legends its history & its people eloquently making a powerful plea for Cornwall's preservation ...

Dara & Nick used to be inseparable but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred & the two sisters totally estranged When Dara vanishes on her birthday Nick thinks Dara is just playing around But another girl nine-year-old Madeline Snow has vanished too & Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked Now Nick has to find her sister before it's too late In this edgy & compelling novel Lauren Oliver creates a world of intrigue loss & suspicion as two sisters search to find themselves & each other ...

Vanishing Ireland is a unique collection of portrait interviews looking at the dying ways & traditions of Irish life & taking us back to an Ireland virtually unrecognisable to today&s post-boom generation Illustrated with over a hundred evocative & stunning photographs we meet the people & customs that shaped the cultural identity of the Irish nation Through their own words & memories sixty-four men & women transport us back to a time when people lived off the land & the sea when music & storytelling were essential parts of life when a person was defined by their trade Divided into five parts
- Children of the Field Children of the Music Children of the Horse Children of the Trade & Children of the Water
- Vanishing Ireland brings together the stories of those who lived through Ireland&s formative years We hear of children harassed by the Black & Tans of ceilis in kitchens & the rigours of working in the fields of the wonder of electricity & the devastation of emigration From coalminers to saddlers farmers to fishermen along with horse dealers publicans housemaids & musicians
- these remarkably poignant interviews & photographs in their simplicity & honesty will make you laugh & cry but above all will provide a valuable chronicle that connects twenty-first century Ireland to a rapidly disappearing world


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Follows the fortunes of Becky Sharp as she climbs the social ladder Determined to reach the top Becky schemes & seduces those who get in her way Her progress is threatened however when she encounters real love Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Eve Matheson & Rebecca Saire lead the cast in this 16-part adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray s classic filmed entirely at the Pebble Mill Studios Set in the Napoleonic Wars Vanity Fair is a rich & resplendent satire of English society in which according to Thackeray there is great quantity of eating & drinking making love & jilting laughing & the contrary smoking cheating fighting dancing & fiddling Becky (Eve Matheson) the penniless orphaned daughter of an artist & a French opera dancer & Amelia Sedley (Rebecca Saire) the sheltered child of a rich City Merchant are unlikely but firm friends From the drawing rooms of Regency London to the fields of Waterloo Vanity Fair tells their story Becky an irrepressible schemer one of the most seductive social climbers of all time who will stop at nothing to get what she wants While her friend the meek & mild Amelia pursues the opposite course In the end both girls get what they want but not quite in the way they planned ...

Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality & power art & commerce crisis & culture--both highbrow & low In the sumptuous 384-page coffee table book the editors of Vanity Fair have created the definitive history of the most talked-about magazine of our day From its inception in 1913 through the Jazz Age & the Depression to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years (after a 47-year hiatus) to the image-saturated Information Age Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded--using wit imagination peerless literary narrative & bold groundbreaking imagery The most innovative voices in popular culture are all compiled within these pages (from Robert Benchley Jacques Cocteau & Dorothy Parker to William Styron Christopher Hitchens & Dominick Dunne) along with the greatest magazine illustrators artists & photographers of all time--most notably Edward Steichen & Annie Leibovitz who through Vanity Fair virtually invented the modern celebrity portrait Writers Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger contribute an essay on the incomparable Frank Crowninshield & the birth of the Jazz Age Vanity Fair Jim Windolf chronicles the magazine's rebirth in 1983 & Frank Di Giacomo gives the history of the glamorous Vanity Fair Oscar Party ...