Half an Arch
Publisher: Timewell Press
Half an Arch
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Mae West
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Simon Louvish, biographer of several celebrities, brings Mae West to vibrant life, charting her amazing seven decades in show business. This work makes use of Mae's recently uncovered personal papers, with different script versions of both her known works and hitherto unknown drafts and plays.
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The Nelson Companion
Publisher: NPI Media Group
There are few figures in British history more famous and more influential than Vice-Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, KB. This book offers a comprehensive overview by the world's leading Nelson scholars of all aspects of the Nelson story. It has become the standard reference work for 'The Nelson Legend' and is ideal for […]
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Oi Jimmy Knacker
Publisher: Silver Link Publishing Ltd
Presents over 40 incidents that are illustrated by detailed watercolours that draw the reader into the childhood world. Accompanying each picture is a pen portrait recounting the story behind it. This book captures the character, life and colour of the old East End.
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A Labour of Love
Publisher: Andrews McMeel
A Labour of Love
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Days from a Different World
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
In this new volume of memoirs, John Simpson turns his sights on his own childhood, through which he paints a picture of Britain in the 1940s.This is not a mere exercise in nostalgia, rather it is a journey through the England of the late 1940s in all its shabby wonder, which will also […]
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The Life of Graham Greene (v.3)
Publisher: Vintage
Follows the wanderings of Graham Greene, the writer's final forays into the fulminating trouble spots of the world. This work retraces Greene's footsteps, criss-crossing the globe to visit the places that inspired Greene's novels, and meeting the people who provided the models for some of literature's most memorable characters.
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How Starbucks Saved My Life
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks.
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E.M.Forster
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
A short account of E. M. Forster's life and career, followed by discussion of his major writings. A final chapter considers his posthumous novel Maurice and the short stories.
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Bess of Hardwick
Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd
Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, better known as Bess of Hardwick, was one of the most remarkable personalities of Elizabethan England. Born the daughter of an obscure and impoverished Derbyshire squire, her advantageous marriages to four prosperous but short-lived husbands took her to the Royal Court and made her the Countess of Shrewsbury, […]
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