Sherman Mc Coy is a WASP, bond trader & self-appointed ' Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment & a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in an accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians & clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. ...

Explores the dread demons & eccentricities of the unhappy republic of Haiti. Part history, part personal travelogue, this work introduces a gallery of eccentrics; a Russian Cossack, a Swiss chess champion who studied Einstein & an ancient voodoo priest. ...

Burgundy is more than a place on the map of France. It is also a place which inspires & provokes the senses, both physical & spiritual... wine, food, light, history, memories, churches, people & much more. This book presents a chronicle of how one place has inspired a variety of writing. ...

Dylan Kwabena Mills, better known as Dizzee Rascal, has evolved from cutting-edge pioneer of grime & hip hop into one of Britain's biggest pop stars. & the East London rapper, songwriter & record producer did it without compromising his startlingly original vision & persona. ...

Rosie set out on a tour of the French Overseas Departments & Territories (the ' Dom- Toms') with her husband & four young children, partly to make a documentary series but also to show the children it is possible to survive fourteen weeks without Hannah Montana. ...

The life of one of Scotland's most romantic & tragic figures. King James II's eldest legitimate grandson, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, known everywhere as ' Bonnie Prince Charlie', achieved international fame at the age of twenty five as the man who by his charisma, daring & energy led the Rising of 1745 against George II which all but succeeded in restoring his exiled royal family
- the Stuarts
- to their thrones of Scotl&, England & Irel&. The romance of this dramatic military episode & the legend of the prince's extraordinary months on the run in the Western Highlands after his defeat at Culloden in 1746, eclipse the deeply human story of a brilliant but flawed man. Vital, magnanimous & sensitive in victory, yet scarred as a youth by the anorexia which killed his mother, his defeat in successive risings led to an alcoholism which destroyed Charles's heroic qualities & all his early promise. Prince Charles Edward's life is often focused on the 1745 Rising. But this new biography charts his early life & reveals the Polish origin of his astonishing dynamism & brittle psyche, inherited from his Polish princess-mother, set against the multi-cultural upbringing of his father's exiled British court in Rome & the international network of his pan-European cousins, friends, freemasons & bankers who throughout his life financed & tried to further his ever-more doomed cause. Pininski's new life of Charles also vividly relates the story of the prince's only child & heir & three hidden grandchildren whose previously untold lives were described by the Daily Mail as 'one of the best-kept secrets in Scottish history'. The size of this book is 23.6cm in height & 16cm wide with 296 pages

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The events of this novel, set on the Northumbrian coast in the 1960s, take place over one day, a period during which everyone involved discovers that the consequences of an innocent meeting between two young people are far more significant than the event itself. ...

What other rock star has the numbers for both Nelson Mandela & George W. Bush on his speed-dial? Who else could have convinced the US to return USD435 million in cancelled Third World debt last year? One of the most unique & inspiring figures in popular music today, not only is Bono the singer of the internationally successful U2, he is also the most overtly politicised rock superstar since John Lennon & a far more effective lobbyist, fundraiser & political buccaneer than even Bob Geldof. Bono is one of the very few major rock artists to open up about his deepest spiritual beliefs & not be despised for it. With a long history of campaigning behind him
- from the movingly rousing ' Sunday Bloody Sunday' to the moment he phoned then US President Bill Clinton live on stage as images of war-ravaged Sarajevo flashed across giant screens behind him
- politics & rock n' roll have always been inextricably linked in Bono's mind. Yet the question remains: why? Why does he do all these things when he could be lying by a pool enjoying the sun? This definitive, in-depth biography of Bono explores this & countless other questions. From his boyhood in Dublin raised by a Protestant mother & Catholic father, to his mother's sudden death whilst he was still a teenager, through to the formation of U2, Bono's is one of the great rock stories.

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Bonsai in the original Chinese & Japanese means plant in a container. In western usage this has come to mean a tree grown in a container, conforming in various respects to a normal tree except for its miniature size. This is a concise, illustrated h ...

Presents an introduction to bonsai trees, with illustrated step-by-step projects to make bonsai for beginners simple & achievable. With an A-Z directory of bonsai tree care, this book helps you learn the key techniques needed to create your own beautiful miniature landscapes. ...