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Home to Roost
Deborah Devonshire
John Murray
ISBN : 9781848541894
My father would not have wasted time reading -- a trait I have inherited from him.' The unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire, the youngest of the Mitford sisters, rings out of this second volume of her occasional writings. As broad and ...
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Racing Through the Dark
David Millar
Orion
ISBN : 9781409114949
By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and signed a professional contract with the Cofidis team, who had ...
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Life
Keith Richards
Orion
ISBN : 9780753826614
Keith Richards' once-in-a-generation memoir recounts one of the most eventful, influential and closely watched lives of modern times. No other major rock band has been creating music and magic together so continuously. They recorded some of the ...
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The Pianist
Wladyslaw Szpilman
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780753808603
You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout the war years in the devastated city of Warsaw than from several volumes of the average encyclopaedia' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY.
The bestselling memoir of a Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.
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Slave
Mende Nazer
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Damien Lewis
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781844081165
Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped the women and abducted the children.Mende was ......
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The Middle Class
Lawrence James
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9780349115436
This is the enthralling story of the great powerhouse of British history - the middle class. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the spread of literacy, the industrial and sexual revolutions, the development of mass media - the ...
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