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War Stories

Gripping Tales of Courage, Cunning and Compassion

by Peter Snow, Ann MacMillan
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017

***'***Highly readable . . . an intimate and varied account of fascinating stories of people at war' History of War War Stories is a fascinating account of ordinary men and women swept up in the turbulence of war. These are the stories - many untold until now - of thirty-four individuals who...
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The Last Oil Shock

A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man

by David Strahan
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011

This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long. Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more dangerous than international terrorism, and...
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by Lisa McInerney
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017

The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies JOINT WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD 2018 'Fast paced, compelling, and thrilling, Lisa McInerney writes the type of fiction that is both beautifully crafted and immensely enjoyable' Louise O'Neill 'The...
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by Kirsten McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009

Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy. Feeling increasingly...
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Along the Enchanted Way

A Story of Love and Life in Romania

by William Blacker
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010

When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. In...
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by Pete Paphides
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

This short book, taken from Remembered For A While, tells the stories and circumstances that surround every known recording in Nick Drake's canon (as well as a few unrecorded songs). The result is like a detailed, extended series of liner notes, something to read while sitting in your favourite chair,...
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Katherine Howard

The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen

by Josephine Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016

'An impressive revisionist biography' The Times Looming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented with the severed heads of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham; the terrible price they had paid for suspected intimacy with the queen. Katherine...
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Tintin: Hergé and His Creation

Hergé and His Creation

by Harry Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011

The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Herg?©, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Herg?©, of Tintin and his origins, and beyond to when President de Gaulle could call Tintin 'his only rival'.
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by Jane Robins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying...
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by Fabienne Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011

Open this book and you will Communicate creatively Beat the competition Create brilliant strategy Really know your market
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The Reluctant Bride

One Woman's Journey (Kicking and Screaming) Down the Aisle

by Lucy Mangan
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010

Will Lucy make it down the aisle? It's going to be an uphill struggle . . . The bride: A late starter in life, Lucy always swore she'd never get married. But now she has to find a caterer who doesn't charge a fortune for a cupcake, a dressmaker who doesn't make her cry and a way to bring Great-Auntie...
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After Hitler

The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe

by Michael Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Dönitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in the rest of Europe went on for another ten...
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by Jessie Greengrass
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015

WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 'Greengrass is undoubtedly that rare thing, a genuinely new and assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky and heartfelt' A. L. Kennedy The...
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The Longest Winter

Scott's Other Heroes

by Meredith Hooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010

Scott's Northern Party played an integral role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventure and endurance, which has often been overshadowed by the tragedy which befell Scott. Their tents...
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