BAFTA-winning actor, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story
- & it's well worth the wait. Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had & why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had. From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave to being told to be quiet by the Queen, this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious stories. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streis&, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm & honest, as full of life & surprises, as its inimitable author. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529379907 • Author: Miriam Margolyes • Publisher: John Murray • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dime...
...

The Darby-Jones boarding house in Ruby Falls, New York, is home to Mona Jones & her daughter, Oneida, two loners & self-declared outcasts who have formed a perfectly insular family unit. But their small, quiet life is upended when Arthur Rook shows up. ...

A certain politician has his own private security group. In that group is someone special. That man is, Aoi, who's extremely capable at his job, handling even dirty work with ease. But in that heart lies not only cold reason, but passion. Can love survive in such circumstances, & light a path out of the darkness? ...

We're a nation obsessed with cheap, disposable clothing
- but the author & her team of vintage style experts are here to show
...

Heddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that. Heddy Partridge was never my friend because I was pretty, popular, clever & blonde & my friends were pretty, popular, clever & generally blonde, too. Heddy Partridge was none of these things. Laura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving & successful husb&, two beautiful children, an expensive home & a set of equally fortunate friends. But Lauras perfect world is suddenly threatened when she receives an unwelcome phone call from Mrs Partridge, mother of Heddy ? the girl Laura & her friends bullied mercilessly at school. Heddy has been hospitalized following a mental breakdown, & Mrs Partridge wants Laura's help to get her released. As Laura reluctantly gets drawn back into the past, she is forced to face the terrible consequences of her cruelty. But, as her secrets are revealed, so too is another even more devastating truth, & the perfect world Laura has so carefully constructed for herself begins to fall apart. This Perfect World is the debut novel from a brilliant dark new voice. ...

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual & intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world. ...

Yorkshire miner turned rugby player Frank Machin (Richard Harris) has a number of women chasing after him, but only has eyes for his widowed landlady, Mrs Hammond (Rachel Roberts). However, she remains resolutely unresponsive to his advances. Meanwhile, Frank's rebelliousness at the club is tolerated as long as he is successful on the pitch, but as he comes to appreciate the emptiness of his existence his frustration begins to mount. ...

Young widow Lessie Hamilton is shocked & upset to realise she is sharing her tenement landing with a prostitute. But when Anna Mc Cauley begs Lessie to help disguise the fact that one of her clients has passed away in her bed, she agrees. Soft-hearted & desperate to buy medicine for her sick toddler, she accepts the twenty shillings Anna gives her, promising one day to repay the money. But keeping her promise is not easy, & from that day forward the fates of Lessie & her younger brother, Davie, are inextricably intertwined with Anna's & the family of her deceased client... ...

Quinn & Minnie are born on New Year's Eve, in the same hospital, one minute apart.

Their lives may begin together,

...

Discover the brand new, inspirational autobiography from the Only Fools & Horses star & national treasure. ' This time next year, we'll be millionaires' So said Sir David’s iconic Only Fools character, Derek Trotter. But such a dream was almost unimaginable for David growing up in a working-class family in North Finchley in the rubble of the Blitz. Throughout his remarkable career, David's north star for navigating life's challenges has been his positive outlook & his resilience. From a trainee electrician to national treasure, David’s bumpy journey to success has overcome obstacle after obstacle. Candidly revealing the ups, the downs, & the roundabout turns, David’s latest volume of memoirs, This Time Next Year, is an uplifting, entertaining, & inspirational book offering an essential & unvarnished primer to leading a good life. Told with his characteristic warmth & humour, David reveals the hard-won wisdom of a life doggedly led getting through one day, looking to... ...