Michael Palins diaries begin when he was newly married & struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner.. . Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA & Canada. As their popularity grew so Palin relates how the group went their separate ways later to re-form for stage shows & the celebrated films THE HOLY GRAIL & LIFE OF BRIAN. Living through the three-day week & the miners strike & all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these perceptive & funny diaries. ...

Charles Bronson is without a doubt the UK's no.1 ' Birdman'. This book

Includes:: his poems illustrations &

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This is a collected edition of bestselling author Nella Lasts diaries including substantial never-before published material from the war years. I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person...can possibly have value. So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on tens of thousands of people have read & enjoyed three volumes of her vivid & moving diaries written during the Second World War an its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project
- & the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood. The Diaries of Nella Last" brings together into a single volume the best of Nellas prolific outpourings including a great deal of new unpublished material from the war years. Capturing the everyday trials & horrors of wartime Britain & the nations transition into peacetime & beyond Nellas touching & often humorous narrative provides an invaluable historical portrait of what daily life was like for ordinary people in the 1940s & 1950s. Outwardly Nellas life was commonplace; but behind this mask were a penetrating mind & a lively pen. As David Kynaston said on Radio 4 she will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth century English diarists."
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As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years it was always his intention to publish the full version covering his time as spokesman & chief strategist to Tony Blair. Prelude to Power" is the first of four volumes & covers the early days of New Labour culminating in their victory at the polls in 1997. Volume 1 details the extraordinary tensions between Tony Blair & Gordon Brown as they resolved the question as to which one should stand to become Labour leader. It shows that right from the start relations at the top were prone to enormous strain suspicions & accusations of betrayal. Yet it also shows the political & personal bonds that tied them together & which made them one of the most feared & respected electoral machines anywhere in the world. A story of politics in the raw " Prelude to Power" is above all an intimate detailed portrait of the people who have done so much to shape modern history." ...

POWER & RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbells unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo & ends on September 11 2001 a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books changing the course of both the Bush presidency & the Blair premiership. In this volume we see that New Labours honeymoon is well & truly over. In addition to detailing the continuing tensions at the top here we find graphic accounts of a variety of domestic crises: foot-&-mouth disease & protests over fuel prices which almost brought Britain to a halt. Volume Three

Includes:: Peter Mandelsons second resignation the agonies of the Millennium Dome & the most unexpected slow-handclapping in memory when the Womens Institute turned against Tony Blair. Yet despite all the problems
- not least the most accident-prone manifesto launch in history complete with deputy prime minister John Prescott punching a voter
- Labour won a second successive landslide election victory. That triumph is intimately recorded here alongside the high points of this period such as devolution to Northern Ireland & the fall of Milosevic.



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Power & the People" covers the first two years of the New Labour government beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second volume of Campbells unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to power & settle into running the country. It covers an astonishing array of events & personalities progress & setbacks crises & scandals as Blair & his party make the transition from opposition to office." ...

An eminent ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him troubled by Australias complicity in the wars in the Middle East it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their states involvement in an immoral war on terror a war that involves the use of torture? Then in the laundry room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman. He offers her work typing up his manuscript. Anya is not interested in politics but the job will be a welcome distraction as will the writers evident attraction towards her. Her boyfriend Alan is an investment consultant who understands the world in harsh economic terms. Suspicious of his trophy girlfriends new pastime Alan begins to formulate a plan... ...

This diary charts the ups & downs of a CFD trader
- taking you on a thrilling trading journey & showing how with some hard work
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' If you are accompanied by a dog you can talk to anyone & anyone can talk to you
- about anything'. & they do. Edward Stourton's
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If Adrian Mole had grown up to be a grumpy old git who had to cope with failed marriage & a life-sucking job & worse whose colleagues actually thought he was a miserable old git he might be a bit like Dave Cross. Diary of a Grumpy Old Git" is the laugh-out-loud diary of Dave Cross a man who thought he was reasonably cheerful until someone from his office bought him a Grumpy Old Man diary for Christmas. Determined to prove them wrong he resolves to be positive for an entire year. But its not easy when your wife has run off with an estate agent called Brad & youve got a young ambitious new boss who is determined to make you actually do some work. Add to this the everyday horrors of public transport shopping technology popular culture & dating & a sunny outlook is too much to ask. But with his fiftieth birthday fast approaching Dave is determined to make his life less shambolic. Fantastically witty & painfully accurate " Diary of a Grumpy Old Git" will appeal to anyone grumpy old git or otherwise..." ...