Richard Burton: star. The roaring boy from the Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the banks of the old Nile playing great Antony to Elizabeth Taylors Cleopatra. From the West End to Hollywood from Camelot to Shakespeare he drank dazzled & despaired playing out his life on the public stage. But there was another quieter off-stage Richard Burton a face hidden from the multitude. Melvyn Bragg allowed free access to the never-before-revealed Burton private notebooks & with the cooperation of friends who have never spoken about him before has brought together the private & public sides for the first time. Rich is the complete Richard Burton: a revelation. ...

When ambitious exciting Dinah Slade becomes passionately
- & dangerously
- involved in the private & public life of American

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Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck? In the sequel to Rich Dad Poor Dad learn how the role you play in the business world affects your ability to become financially free. There are four types of people who make up the world of business but it's the business owners & the investors (not the employees & the self-employed) who can create great wealth by accelerating their cash flow through those assets. A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant is perfect for individuals interested in finding new ways to generate cash flow; this book delivers tools for great success. ...

Nic Caryn & Tory: three girls who form a friendship that should last a lifetime. Nic is the daughter of a white Zimbabwean business tycoon. Despite a life of jaw-dropping wealth & privilege all she really wants is a bit of attention from daddy. Caryn never met her father
- but growing up on a tough London sink estate she had other things to worry about. Like getting out & moving on. Tory just yearns for some space to be herself. Living in the shadow of your dead sister is tough particularly when she seemed to be everything youre not. Then beautiful ruthless Estelle Mc Kenzie appears on the scene. Estelle has a secret
- & one way or another shes going to make each woman pay a very high price for it.

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Christmas 1860. Polly already living in grinding poverty finds herself alone on the streets of Hull when her mother dies in childbirth. Rosalie brought up in affluence & comfort on the other side of town loses her own mother in similar circumstances & on the same day. Polly takes a job as scullery maid in Rosalie's lonely house & the two girls form an unlikely friendship. Travelling together to the North Yorkshire Moors they discover a new kind of life & find unexpected joy & fulfilment. ...

This is the first ever in-depth biography of Ashcroft the frontman for The Verve & also a highly successful solo artist. As a young singer from Wigan Ashcroft formed The Verve with Nick Mc Cabe & released two critically-acclaimed albums before their third record Urban Hymns" turned them into one of the UKs biggest acts. A legendary apettite for psychedelic drugs & even physical collapses from ecstasy abuse coupled with massive songs such as " Bittersweet Symphony" made Ashcroft one of Britpops biggest names. However The Verve was a deeply volatile band & eventually in 1999 they split acrimoniously following a homecoming gig in front of 40 000 fans in Wigan. Ashcroft had already recorded some aterial on his own & three solo albums duly followed
- with corresponding arena tours that often dwarfed the scale of The Verves own huge venues. Coldplays Chris Martin introduced him at Live 8 as the best singer in the world while Noel Gallagher wrote the song " Cast No shadow" about him. Then in 2006 The Verve announced they were reforming for a late 2007 arena tour
- completely sold out in minutes
- & a brand new album released in the summer of 2008. With Ashcrofts issues with clinical depression suicidal thoughts outspoken political views & celebrity admirers this first-to-the market biography is a tale of rock & roll excess artistic brilliance & a unique starring role in modern British music."


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In his personal diaries Richard Burton is a man quite different from the one we familiarly know" as acclaimed actor international film star & jet-set celebrity. From his private handwritten pages there emerges a different person
- a family man a father a husband a man often troubled & always keenly observing. Understood through his own words day to day & year to year Burton becomes a fully rounded human being who with a wealth of talent & a surprising burden of insecurity confronts the peculiar challenges of a life lived largely in the spotlight. This volume publishes in their entirety the surviving diaries of Richard Burton (born Richard Jenkins 1925-1984). The diaries were written between 1939 & 1983
- throughout his career & the years of his celebrated marriages to Elizabeth Taylor. Diary entries appear in their original sequence with annotations to clarify the people places books & events he mentions. At times Burton struggles to come to terms with the unfulfilled potential of his life & talent. In other entries he crows over achievements & hungers for greater challenges. He may be watching his weight watching his drinking or watching other men watch his Elizabeth. Always he is articulate opinionated & fascinating. His diaries offer a rare & fresh perspective on his own life & career Elizabeth Taylor's & the glamorous world of film theatre & celebrity that they inhabited."

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Fantastic experiments from Richard Hammonds TV series Blast Lab" now in paperback. Get experimental with your kids
- let them
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Banishing his cousin Bolingbroke King Richard II prevents a dispute from turning bloody. But Richard is an arrogant & despotic ruler prone to tyranny & vanity who listens only to his flatterers. As favour turns against him & Bolingbroke returns to reclaim his land Richard is humbled & grieved to see that the throne given to him by God might be taken from him by men. ...

The bitter deformed brother of the King is secretly plotting to seize the throne of Engl&. Charming & duplicitous powerfully eloquent & viciously cruel he is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve his goal & in his skilful manipulation of events & people Richard is a chilling incarnation of the lure of evil & the temptation of power. ...