It's Berlin, 1933. William E Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany. Dodd & his family, notably his vivacious daughter, Martha, observe at first-hand the many changes
- some subtle, some disturbing, & some horrifically violent
- that signal Hitler's consolidation of power.

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It was supposed to be a holiday of a lifetime… But when Jen’s boyfriend David suddenly cancels their romantic Paris trip, needing to urgently travel to Athens for work, it’s best friend Bonnie who suggests they surprise him. Having already booked the time off from her events company – Christmas Every Day – Jen decides an impromptu & romantic gesture might be just what their relationship needs. Arriving in Greece & finding David is not there, Jen has a lot of questions. & when she gets her answers she has a choice – should she go home or should she stay awhile? With the help of Astro, the handsome yet Christmas-hating waiter from the local bar, she sets about a little Greek Christmas research. But what starts as a ‘business trip’ soon turns into something more… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836564652 • Author: Mandy Baggot • Publisher: Boldwood Books Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.11 cm ...

The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of the most dramatic sea stories of all time: the twenty sailors who survived the wreck took to three small boats (one of which was again attacked by a whale) & only eight of them survived their subsequent 90-day ordeal, after resorting to cannibalising their mates. Three months after the Essex was broken up, the whaleship Dauphin, cruising off the coast of South America, spotted a small boat in the open ocean. As they pulled alongside they saw piles of bones in the bottom of the boat, at least two skeletons' worth, with two survivors -- almost skeletons themselves -- sucking the marrow from the bones of their dead ship-mates. ...

Art critic Gijs van Hensbergen had long dreamed of mastering Castilian cuisine
- the least known & most delicious in Europe. He
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Ever since he failed to save the life of President John F. Kennedy in the 1963 Dealey Plaza assassination, secret service agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) has had to live with the guilty feeling that maybe things would have been different if he had r ...

As a nurse & ward sister, she came across stories of warmth, humour & humanity as those she nursed shared with her their joy, fear, anxiety & peace. From the dying woman who walked across Northern Europe just to be with her son to the family divided by a decision nobody could bear to make, In the Midst of Life shows how attitudes have changed over the last fifty years. ...

Sweden 1856. Blackasen Mountain: a distant place of rumour, superstition & now
- murder. They say it was the Lapp who killed the
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The true story of the group of Irish men dubbed the Guildford Four, the victims of a miscarriage of justice that saw them convicted of bombing a soldiers' pub in 1974. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Belfast wideboy & petty crook Gerry Conlon, who, along with hi ...

From the moment he exploded onto our screens in 1985 as Nick Cotton, John Altman changed the face of TV villains for good. But there is far more to his story than Eastenders. Here, he tells it as it is, in his own inspiring words: the highs, the desperate lows, & how he conquered his addiction for good. ...

Its almost time for bed in the Night Garden, but first Igglepiggle wants to say goodnight to all his friends. What a good idea!

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