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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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Captain Scott
Ranulph Fiennes
Hodder
ISBN : 9780340826997
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through; he has ...
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Making Waves
David Hasselhoff
Hodder
ISBN : 9780340909300
Making Waves follows Hasselhoff’s acting career from his early childhood role in Peter Pan to his highly acclaimed performance in Chicago in London’s West End, and his new TV triumph in Simon Cowell’s America’s Got Talent.
The wealth of inside ...
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Born on a Blue Day
Daniel Tammet
Hodder
ISBN : 9780340899755
I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday.I know it was a Wednesday, because the date is blue in my mind and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number nine or the sound of loud voices arguing.' Like the character Hoffman portrayed, he can ......
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Hope Street
Pamela Young
Coronet
ISBN : 9781444714234
This is the story of a family which has always lived in the heart of one of the traditional working class communities of the North. Originally immigrants from Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, their saga, their triumphs and tragedies unfolded ...
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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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Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq
Jo Tatchell
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340897041
NABEEL'S SONG is an epic true story of one family's experience of life before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein. Nabeel Yasin had an ordinary childhood, in a middle-class neighbourhood in 1950s Baghdad. He showed an early gift for ...
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