Intelligent ambitious & a rising star in the French artillery Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family money & the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies
- many of them aristocratic officers in the armys High Command who resented him because he was middle-class meritocratic & a Jew. In October 1894 the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket of Colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen of the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence pieced the document back together to uncover proof of a spy in their midst Captain Dreyfus on slender evidence was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans found guilty of treason by unanimous verdict & sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devils Isl&. The fight to free the wrongfully convicted Dreyfus
- over twelve long years through many trials
- is a story rife with heroes & villains courage & cowardice dissimulation & deceit. One of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history the Dreyfus affair divided France stunned the world & unleashed violent hatreds & anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long bloody twentieth century to come. Today amid charged debates over national & religious identity across the globe its lessons throw into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. In the hands of historian biographer & prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read this masterful epic of the struggle between a minority seeking justice & a military establishment determined to save face comes dramatically alive for a new generation.


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Intelligent ambitious & a rising star in the French artillery Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family money & the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies
- many of them aristocratic officers in the armys High Command who resented him because he was middle-class meritocratic & a Jew. In October 1894 the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket of Colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen of the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence discovered they harboured a spy in their midst Captain Dreyfus on slender evidence was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans found guilty of treason by unanimous verdict & sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devils Isl&. The fight to free the wrongfully convicted Dreyfus
- over twelve long years through many trials
- is a story rife with heroes & villains courage & cowardice dissimulation & deceit. One of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history the Dreyfus affair divided France stunned the world & unleashed violent hatreds & anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long bloody twentieth century to come. Today amid charged debates over national & religious identity across the globe its lessons throw into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. In the hands of historian biographer & prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read this masterful epic of the struggle between a minority seeking justice & a military establishment determined to save face comes dramatically alive for a new generation.


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Ten years in the making Dribble! is an A-Z of credulity-twanging facts & stories about what Pele once memorably dubbed my bloody job. It

Includes:: definitive explanations of everyday phrases such as the magic of the cup & low centre of gravity; a complete guide to becoming a terrace character & an in-depth account of how Roy Keanes pyjamas got him a smack on the nose.. . It also addresses hitherto ignored aspects of the beautiful game including its longstanding relationship with Country & Western. Johnny Cash dubbed himself The Man in Black in homage to his idol referee Arthur Ellis & wrote what is arguably the greatest song ever written about the life of an assistant referee
- I Walk the Line.


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Artist & filmmaker Philippe Parreno who created the documentary Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait takes us in Drift on a unique voyage through London
- a journey without the typical purposes of a journey an artistic psychogeographical path
- part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. Authors include the masterly John Lanchester the children of Kids Company comic John OFarrell & social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical the personal to the societal they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon & notice its nature & its people. Read individually theyre delightful small reads pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city". (Evening Standard). " Exquisitely diverse". (The Times). " Eclectic & broad-minded.. .beautifully designed". (Tom Cox Observer). "A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles & themes. The design qualities are excellent as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look & feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books". (A Common Reader blog). " The contrasts & transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves...A multidimensional literary jigsaw". (Londonist). "A series of short sharp city-based vignettes
- some personal some political & some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected full of wit & just the right amount of grit". (Fabric Magazine). "A collection of beautiful books". (Grazia). Praise for Philippe Parrenos work: " Exceptional.. .a small masterpiece". (Laura Cumming Guardian). " One of Frances hottest commodities. An artist with an almost chameleon-like approach to his medium he can switch from film-maker to sculptor to storyteller to producer with the kind of dexterity that defies categorisation". (Guardian). Philippe Parreno is an Algerian artist & filmmaker who has had shows in major art galleries around the world & is considered the finest writer among artists by curators such as Hans Ulrich Obrist. Based in Paris his documentary film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait was released in 2006. He has exhibited in Mo MA Tate Modern & the Guggenheim among others."


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Hannah & Joey have been best friends for ever. Joeys parents love rescuing things & making them beautiful
- their house is full
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Ten years ago a fortune in gold bullion was stolen only to disappear beneath the Irish Sea. Now its been found & Sean Dillon must face ghosts from his past in the race to get to it first. A fortune in stolen British gold brutally hijacked by Irish Protestant paramilitaries in the 1980s lies shipwrecked at the bottom of the Irish Sea. Now the Irish Rose & her precious cargo have been found. The race is on to recover the bullion. Irish militant Michael Ryan wants to finance war in his homeland
- & a sinister pact with the New York Mafia will make his dreams a savage reality. To stop him the British & American authorities must call in the best: Sean Dillon once the most feared IRA enforcer now working for British Intelligence. His mission: to retrieve the gold & stop Ryan by any means necessary. With millions of pounds & countless innocent lives hanging in the balance the two men become locked in a furious race. Pursued by ghosts from his past Dillon must fight for his own survival in this brutally thrilling game of cat & mouse.
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Shes known for her rivalries on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills her dramatic divorce her flawless physique--and her inability to keep her mouth shut. & now Brandi Glanville is ready to tell all in her hilarious no-holds barred memoir. Fans have been waiting for Brandis scoop on one of the biggest divorces of the decade since Brandis husband of seven years abandoned her & their two sons in 2009 to marry country singer Le Ann Rimes. Now not only will fans get Brandis side of the split theyll also get the full story of the lovable housewifes wild ride from the ghetto to Hollywoods most elite circles. For the first time Brandi will share how she escaped a rough childhood on the outskirts of Sacramento with a drug-dealer father & stumbled into a successful modeling career that swept her into a world of Italian fashion shows private jets & plastic surgery. Before she knew it Brandi was the perfect Hollywood trophy wife--at least until her marriage exploded. Today Brandi is a recent divorcee mother of two & the newest member of Bravos juggernaut franchise The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Known for being the refreshingly filter-free housewife & unapologetic mom she refuses to be the scorned ex-wife to be bullied to keep her mouth shut & on occasion to wear a bra. ...

Finally
- coasters worthy of a glass! What's more fun than playing games? Playing drinking games of course! Not your average set
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Water is something we take for granted; whether from tap or bottle we rarely think about its source. But its journey to our glasses is more complicated than we realise. With a booming worldwide population where will our water come from in the future? & is it safe to drink tap water? Is bottled water wasteful? Drinking Water explains the overlooked & surprising history of drinking water
- from Biblical conflicts to overpriced mineral water. You will never look at your glass in the same way again.
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Kevin Drinkell has always put himself in the firing line. Now he lifts the lid on his rollercoaster life in football
- as a striker
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