Burt Lancaster is perhaps most widely remembered as the tough, iron-jawed star of films such as Gunfight at the OK Corral & Airport. This biography demonstrates that he was an actor with much broader ambitions
- realised in Visconti's The Leopard
- as well as the founder of the first actor-led production company in Hollywood.

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Recalling his life & career spanning over 50 glorious years, the legendary actor gives special attention to the two great loves of his life, Dinah Shore & Sally Field, his son, Quinton, as well as to the countless people who got in his way on his journey to Hollywood domination.

With chapters on his early childhood, how he discovered acting, played poker with Frank Sinatra, received directing advice from Orson Welles, his golden years in Hollywood, his comeback in the late 1990s, & how his life & art led him to found the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre.

An excellent read for all fans of Burt Reynolds.

This hardback book has 288 pages & measures 24.1 x 3.6 x 16.5cm





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Burton Upon Trent is a place-name that makes many people think of beer. Brewing played a hugely influential part in Burton's past & made the town famous, but it is far from the whole story. Burton properly began over a thousand years ago with the foundation of an abbey by the Mercian noble, Wulfric Spot, at 'the holy place of St Modwen'. But, as this compelling new book explains, archaeological evidence takes us much further back to signs of human habitation in the Trent Valley 250, 000 years ago. From these faltering first hunter-gathering footsteps along the marshy banks, this new book continues the historical journey through life in the more settled Celtic period then, after some Roman discipline, centuries of struggle to make a living on a lawless Dark-Age border. A powerful Benedictine monastery brought five centuries of modest medieval prosperity
- & peace
- though not with-out tales of sleaze & corruption at the abbey, nor of mixed fortunes experienced by generations of the Paget lords of the manor. Then, as industry began to transform Britain into the workshop of the world, Burton enjoyed the energy, virtue & vision of such men as Michael Thomas Bass. From this period onwards the author brilliantly combines documentary & visual sources to illuminate the rapid growth of the town over the past two centuries, & to describe, where possible with carefully chosen pictures, many lives & events that will fascinate all who live in Burton today or have an interest in its historic past.

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As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter, its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the strangest case of his celebrated career. A man has been brutally murdered in one of the city's oldest buildings
- a library where the English citizens of Quebec safeguard their history. & the death opens a door into the past, exposing a mystery that has lain dormant for centuries... a mystery Gamache must solve if he's to catch a present-day killer. Steeped in luscious atmosphere, brimming with the suspense & wit that have earned Louise Penny a massive global following, Bury Your Dead is the most ingenious suspense novel of the year.
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As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter, its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the strangest case of his celebrated career. A man has been brutallybmurdered in one of the city's oldest buildings
- a library where the English citizens of quebec safeguard their history. & the death opens a door into the past, exposing a mystery tthat has lain dormant for centuries, a mystery Gamache must solve if he's to catch a present-day killer.
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Matt Busby revolutionised English football by bending the rules & pushing the limits. At Manchester United, he created a team of 'boy wonders', the ' Busby Babes', a group of players who became the game's first superstars, heroes to millions of people. But, just as they were on the verge of world acclaim, disaster struck. ...

From Shimmer Mountain to the Crystal Caves there is loads of fun to be had with Bush Babies. 

You can Wiggle their

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From Shimmer Mountain to the Crystal Caves there is loads of fun to be had with Bush Babies. 

You can Wiggle their

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From Shimmer Mountain to the Crystal Caves there is loads of fun to be had with Bush Babies. 

You can Wiggle their

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From Shimmer Mountain to the Crystal Caves there is loads of fun to be had with Bush Babies.

You can Wiggle their

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