Polish war exile Julia Smollen has escaped the horrors of a Nazi labour camp to forge a new life in California with her daughter, Tasha. Sent to the best school her mother can afford, growing up through the Cold War & the Space Race & coming into contact with the aspiring young Democrat, Jack Kennedy, Tasha is precocious, wilful & politically engaged. As intensely close as Tasha & her mother are, however, she remains unaware of the true identity of her father, the courageous German officer Martin Hamer, who was fatally wounded helping the then-pregnant Julia flee her occupied homel&. But Julia cannot keep the truth hidden from her daughter forever. A sinister figure from the past is about to emerge, with his own dark, vengeful agenda. ...

A Shakespearean Theatre is an invaluable guide to an important period in English history.

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With proven ways to maintain your mind & memories, A Sharp Brain for Life will help you banish forgetfulness, discover powerful brain boosters, enjoy brain-nourishing recipes & challenge your brain with puzzles & exercises to use every day. With breakthrough research showing that not only can you grow new brain cells at any age but you can also 'rewire' your brain to increase capacity, there has never been a better time to sharpen your mind. This informative book explains how your brain works & offers practical exercises to ensure you brain stays fit & active for life. Due to unforseen circumstances this title will not be available for sale in the near future. ...

For many men, middle age arrives too fast & without due warning. One day you are young, free & single; the next you are bald, fat & washed-up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity & respect, but instead everyone makes tired jokes about buying a motorbike. Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked his fiftieth birthday by hiding under the duvet for six weeks, the author of the cricket classics Rain Men & Zimmer Men is now determined to find some light in the all-consuming darkness. Musing over birth, death & all the messy stuff in between, he concludes that however dreadful you look in the mirror today, it will be much worse in ten years' time. His brutally candid despatch from the frontline is not for the faint-hearted, which is to say anyone under thirty-five. ...

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive
- just like murder... This book has 246 pages & is 19.7cm x 12.6cm x 1.6cm
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From the invaders of the dark ages to today's coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a strong narrative with all the most important & interesting dates in a book that characteristically is as stylish as it is authoritative. There have been long synoptic histories of England but until now there has been no standard short work covering all significant events, themes & individuals. Published in association with the National Trust, & beautifully illustrated, this magisterial history will be the standard work for years to come. ...

Which battle was fought For Engl&, Harry & St George? Who demanded to be painted warts & all? What
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On 16 CD's. Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This book is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization
- how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry & particle physics, & see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time & space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive & foolish scientists, like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, & reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before. Read by William Roberts
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As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate

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This invaluable dictionary contains an extensve vocabulary with contemporary interpretations. It also

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