Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne
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Bonnie & Clyde, they thought. & whats-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, & chips on their shoulders, & guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on the killers cell phones & sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run them down. But even he doesn?t realise whats about to happen next. ...

A terrifically engaging & original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, & the glamorous, eccentric, debauched & ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life & inspired his masterpiece, ' Brideshead Revisited'. ...

Madagascar is a land where lizards scream & monkey-like lemurs sing songs of inexpressible beauty. KKnown as the Great Red Isl&, it is a place where fossa & tenrecs, vangas & aye ayes thrive in a true Lost World alongside bizarre plants like the octopus tree & the three-cornered palm. & where the ancestors of the Malagasy, as the islands 18 tribes are collectively known, come alive in rollicking ceremonies known as "turning the bones." This natural & cultural history of Madagascar is an exploration of what makes the island so extraordinary. It is the only book that combines cutting-edge science & conservation with adventure travel & historical narrative. Perfect for those about to travel to Madagascar for the first time or just want to learn more, much of the historical material will be new to those familiar with Madagascar, even researchers who have worked there for years. ...

Details: Brilliant Madagascar-themed 26cm x 23cm jigsaw puzzle made up of 100 colour pieces for you to complete! Ideal
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Features a celebration of the island's flora & fauna, 90 per cent of which is endemic. Containing over 280 colour photographs, updated information on 22 of the country's top parks & reserves, & lively species descriptions, this book is suitable for natural history enthusiasts & travellers alike. ...

American women have been astronauts, members of Congress, CEOs, & are dying in record numbers on the battlefields of Iraq. But does America really like ambitious women? Hillary Clinton has been half of America's power couple for 15 years. A Senator, her role as a supporting player in that partnership has been decisively cast aside. ...

Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction. Flaubert's protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate. Romantic heroine or middle-class neurotic, flawed wife & mother or passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society, simultaneously the subject of Flaubert's admiration & the butt of his irony
- Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of fictional creations. Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of fiction, his portrayal of contemporary reality, his representation of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of the major landmarks of modern fiction.
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Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury & passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country ...

Jeanne du Barry, courtesan & Louis XV's official mistress was the last of the French royal favourites. In this biography, Haslip portrays du Barry as an ordinary woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances in the royal court of 18th century France, victim of her own beauty. ...