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A Spoonful of Sugar
Brenda Ashford
Hodder
ISBN : 9781444739824
'They say you can never truly love a child that is not your own, but that goes against every instinct that runs through me. For I have loved children born to other women all my life and every child that I have ever cared for, I've adored with all ...
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On Two Feet and Wings
Abbas Kazerounian
Hachette India
ISBN : 9789350092682
He is in a foreign city, he is alone, and he is just a boy...Close to his tenth birthday, Abbas has to leave his parents and friends, and flee Tehran. The Iran-Iraq war is at its bloodiest. The Ayatollahs, the rulers in Iran, have reduced the age ...
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Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Hodder
ISBN : 9780340839966
From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most ...
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Ancient Wisdom; Modern World
Dalai Lama
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9780349112541
At a time and in a culture where science and technology have taken over from religious belief, when ethics are understood primarily in terms of aesthetic choice or legality, how are we to formulate moral principles to guide us in our daily lives? ...
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The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781844081820
This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist’s journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with ...
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Somewhere to Lay My Head
Robert Douglas
Hodder
ISBN : 9780340898444
We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down the pit. Once more, Robert's fantastic memory for ...
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Night Song of the Last Tram: A Glasgow Childhood
Robert Douglas
Hodder
ISBN : 9780340962541
This is a wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if ...
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At Her Majesty's Pleasure
Robert Douglas
Hodder
ISBN : 9780340935309
In the final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his career, as an electricity chargehand driving around the ...
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Statues Without Shadows
Anna Swan
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340835395
Anna grew up accepting that her parents were glamorous but mysterious figures, who had both died by the time she was seven. It was only when she was in her thirties that she discovered they had both committed suicide. As she began to search for the ...
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Marley & Me
John Grogan
Hodder
ISBN : 9780340922101
The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback about everyone's favourite dog.
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