Details: Fantastic in car tablet & iPad holder, manufactured from ABS. Ideal for mounting on front head rest bars, this
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Intends to reconstruct the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife & children. This title explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime & the effect it had on those involved. It focuses on the amoral young killers Perry Smith & Dick Hickcock, who are shown to be reprehensible, yet entirely & frighteningly human. ...

The chilling true crime non-fiction novel that made Truman Capotes name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill & powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Controversial & compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife & both their children. Truman Capotes comprehensive study of the killings & subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime & the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith & Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely & frighteningly human.

Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen & subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first
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- regular job. He wrote both fiction & non-fiction
- short stories, novels & novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays & films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) & Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics.






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Forces us to reconsider much received wisdom about the war & illuminates an unjustly neglected period of his life the Second Wilderness Years of 1945-51, when Churchill, now over seventy, wrote himself into history, politicked himself back into Downing Street & delivered some of the most important speeches of his career. ...

A pack that contains the Student's Book & webcode access to online components. It allows students to practise language online & on the move & see their progress. It also gives access to additional material such as audio, video, answer key, glossary, phrase banks & worksheets. ...

Inviting you to junk the science, ditch the diet & instead rediscover the joys of eating well, this title features a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table
- a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!) that means that you can enrich your life & your palate, & enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy & happy.
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In this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of his craft. At a time of deep scepticism about our ability to learn anything from the past, even to recapture any serious sense of past cultures & ways of life, Evans shows us why history is possible & necessary. ...

Suitable for the Drake scholar & the armchair traveller alike, this pictorial, topographical text is laced with research techniques, discoveries & adventures in reaching all the Drake places. It is written on location by an intrepid adventurer with a Drake's-eye view. ...

The author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent. This book offers an account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports & memoirs, & the voices of prominent figures & unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno in Pol&, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau. ...

** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **` It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, & that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.' Marie Colvin, 2001 Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled & rackety personal life. ...