She was described as the most dangerous woman in Europe by Adolf Hitler; Noel Coward said people who spent any time with her were always reduced to `gibbering worshippers`; she adored Margaret Thatcher & disliked Germans; she found the French comical & hankered for the old days of Empire & Commonwealth. Above all, though, she was loved by the nation & in this affectionate & often hilarious inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, her former equerry Major Colin Burgess reveals what life was like living with the most private of all the Royals. ” Behind Palace Doors” is a unique & warmly remembered historic insight into one of our longest-surviving institutions. Constantly fascinating & packed with previously untold stories, this is also a celebration of a life gone
- & a way of life fast disappearing.
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At the perimeter of Mumbai`s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport stands the Annawadi slum. Here, next to one of Asia`s busiest transport hubs & the city`s gleaming glass towers, lives rubbish collectors, builders & migrants from rural India. Boo spent the best part of four years in Annawadi. Her time there was spent primarily with three families, & her experiences with them are beautifully documented in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist`s first book. Her writing documents the November 2008 terrorist attacks, the knock-on effects of the global recession & a serious crime in the slums, which has major repercussions for those who live there. Buy your copy now! ...

At the perimeter of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport stands the Annawadi slum. Here, next to one of Asia's busiest transport hubs & the city's gleaming glass towers, lives rubbish collectors, builders & migrants from rural India. Boo spent the best part of four years in Annawadi. Her time there was spent primarily with three families, & her experiences with them are beautifully documented in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's first book. Her writing documents the November 2008 terrorist attacks, the knock-on effects of the global recession & a serious crime in the slums, which has major repercussions for those who live there. Buy your copy now! ...

Advance Praise for Behind the Burqa ” Whenever & wherever adults make war, children die & women are subjected to fear & humiliation. This is true of Afghanistan too. Read this harrowing book. The tragic yet heroic tale of two women is told with great simplicity. They will haunt you.” -Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate ” The stories of Sulima & Hala achingly articulate the twin & enduring legacies of misogyny & violence. A critical historical document, Behind the Burqa ultimately reveals the unbreakable strength of Afghan women.” -Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues Founder & Artistic Director, V-Day ” Behind the Burqa provides important information about conditions in Afghanistan, as well as the plight of asylum-seekers in the United States. I highly recommend this book to all people who are concerned about human rights, both at home & abroad.” -Senator Sam Brownback, (R. Kansas) ranking member, Immigration Subcommittee, Committee on the Judiciary ” This book is a gripping reading experience, & it also offers important suggestions for those who would like to participate in making our asylum politics more humane.”-Eleanor Acer, Director, Asylum Program, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights ” This book shows the injustices suffered by innocent women seeking asylum in the U. S. & the power of religious faith to provide hope & courage even in prison.” -Fauziya Kassindja, author of Do They Hear You When You Cry ” Sulima & Hala epitomize the worldwide struggle of women for equality & justice. Their story is gripping & illuminating.” -Jessica Neuwirth, President of Equality Now ...

In several nations across the globe, the Communist Party has managed to hold on, mutate & adapt to the 21st century. Whether due to unaddressed class inequality, nostalgia or the steel fist of totalitarianism, these places continue to resist against the tides of history. Over the course of seven years, award-winning documentary photographer Tomas Van Houtryve secured unprecedented access to North Korea, Cuba, China, Nepal, Vietnam, Laos & Moldova. He discovered a secretive world of revolutionaries, spies, opposition fighters & ordinary workers. His photographs explore the gulf between the high ideals of communism & its complex present day reality. With a Foreword by philosopher Tzvetan Todorov. ...

`I never saw the man again, alive or dead. One will say that I saw him only for a moment, that it was misty at the time, & that even I did not recognise the features, covered as they were with grime & stubble. Yet I am sure that the taller of the two ragged civilians I saw in the chalk quarry that misty March morning of 1918 was that Lieutenant Peter Rawley, R. F.A., who the official records stated was killed near Arras the previous autumn.` Behind the Lines is a thriller that follows on from the success of W. F. Morris`s first novel, Bretherton: Khaki or Field-Grey? Morris is again concerned with questions of identity, allegiance, chance, concealment & self-discovery. A subaltern is forced to flee when he accidentally kills an overbearing, taunting fellow officer: appearances are all against him & he does not trust to trench justice. He becomes a fugitive & has to join forces with other deserters, lost soldiers & outlaws in a h&-to-mouth existence in the no man`s land between opposing forces. A series of adventures & disasters ensue, including capture by the Germans & near death by firing squad. Only his own bravery & the devotion of his fiance can rescue him from his plight. A contemporary commentator noted that `in spite of the flood of war books`, Morris was able to achieve `a quite different viewpoint from all the others`, & his book was `an outstanding success`. ...

Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ` Rose Queen`, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast
- Vita Sackville-West was many
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Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ` Rose Queen`, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast
- Vita Sackville-West was many
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` National treasure? I hate that. Too dusty, too in a cupboard, too behind glass, too staid.. . What I love is being part of a company. On stage I am not trying to be myself, I`m trying to be someone else, the more unlike me the better.` From her first theatrical roles as a teenager in York to her commanding performances as `M` in the James Bond films, Dame Judi Dench`s professional life has consisted of non-stop acting, leading to numerous accolades, including an Academy Award. BEHIND THE SCENES is a fully updated & expanded edition of Dame Judi`s first photograph album SCENES FROM MY LIFE, published in 2005. It is a uniquely personal take on her life & brilliant career, showing her off stage as well as on: in the wings, off sets, in dressing rooms & happily larking about. Beautifully illustrated with photographs from her own collections, here are reflections & reminiscences on those who have mattered to her most
- her family, fellow actors, directors & writers
- communicated with the truth & insight of her acting.

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Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty & born while her father, George, was in the Dog & Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress & a D-cup that he wasn`t married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible & sardonic Patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, & Ruby... Ruby tells the story of The Family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice & her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, & memorable events of Ruby`s own life. ...