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A Spectacle of Dust
Pete Postlethwaite
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN : 9780297864936
After training as a teacher, Pete Postlethwaite started his acting career at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where his colleagues included Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher and Julie Walters.After routine early appearances in small parts for ......
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Farangi Girl
Ashley Dartnell
Two Roads
ISBN : 9781444714692
Ashley Dartnell's mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts,Ashley is eight years old and living in Tehran ......
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Mary Tudor
Linda Porter
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9780749909826
A striking and sympathetic portrait of England's first Queen, Mary I - whose character has been vilified for over 400 years. Instead of the bloodthirsty bigot of Protestant mythology, Mary Tudor emerges from the pages of this deeply-researched ...
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The Mighty Queens of Freeville
Amy Dickinson
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN : 9780340962619
Amy Dickinson's advice column, 'Ask Amy', appears daily in more than 150 newspapers across the USA, read by more than 22 million readers. Her motto is 'I make the mistakes so you don't have to'. In The Mighty Queens of Freeville ,Amy Dickinson ......
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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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The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
Siri Hustvedt
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340998762
A revealing and unusal memoir by the bestselling author of What I Loved, an account of her search for the source of her mysterious nervous disorder which offers a fascinating exploration of the mind and its connection with the body – 'provocative ...
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Until Tuesday
Luis Carlos Montalván
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Bret Witter
Review
ISBN : 9780755361885
UNTIL TUESDAY is the story of how Tuesday, a service dog, helps to heal a shattered soldier. Luis Carlos Montalván is a 17-year veteran and retired captain of the US Army. Even after suffering stab wounds, a traumatic brain injury and three broken ...
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Wife, Interrupted
Amy Molloy
Headline
ISBN : 9780755319541
My story begins where most women hope theirs will end – with a big, white wedding. After all, isn’t that how every good fairy tale finishes?
I thought so. And at 23 it seemed my ‘happy ever after’ was secure.
I’d met the man of my dreams whilst ...
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Living With Evil
Cynthia Owen
Headline
ISBN : 9780755319046
Cynthia Owen grew up in Ireland, went to the local convent school, said her prayers and took her first communion with all the other girls in her class. But behind the façade of respectability lurked a hideous reality.
Cynthia was just eight years ...
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