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by Gregoire Delacourt
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Imagine you are a young mechanic living in a small community in France. You own your own home, and lead a simple life. Then, one evening, you open your front door to find a distraught Hollywood starlet standing in front of you. This is what happens to Arthur Dreyfuss in the village of Long, population...
Salvage Rites: And Other Stories
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Ian Watson's latest collection shows the same range and apparently inexhaustible fund of ideas that have characterized all his previous books. No other contemporary figure in SF is so prolific or inventive a writer of short stories. In the title story we immediately encounter a phantasmagoric vision...
Arthur Hugh Clough
Everyman's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Poems of religious doubt and closely-observed uncertainties, expressing the wants and feelings of man and women everywhere.
That's Another Story
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
The number-one Sunday Times bestseller
Her mum wanted her to be a nurse so that is what Julie did.
But in her heart she had always wanted to be an actress and soon she was on stage at the local theatre in Liverpool. Her career snowballed with highlights that include Educating Rita, Billy...
Welcome to Hell?
In Search of the Real Turkish Football
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe scenes of camaraderie, hospitality and humour. They are more likely to mention banners proclaiming 'Welcome to hell'. Or Leeds United supporters stabbed to death on an Istanbul street.
Frustrated...
Your Call
What My Listeners Say and Why We Should Take Note
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
'Full of glorious examples of caller wisdom [with] laugh-out-loud anecdotes' Allison Pearson
Having taken over 25,000 listener calls on his BBC Radio 2 lunchtime show, Jeremy Vine decided it was time to take stock of the wisdom his listeners have imparted over the airwaves. And it is clearer...
Going on the Turn
Being the Extraordinary Stories of My Life and Dodging Deaths Door
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In this book my father dies. I almost die.*** My showbiz career winds down. And yet everyone keeps telling me it's the funniest book I've ever written. If I'd known that's what the public wanted, I'd have cancelled Pets Win Prizes and just got sick sooner.
Along the way this time we encounter,...
A Spectacle of Dust
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Vibrant and candid memoirs of the late, great British character actor, Pete Postlethwaite.
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...
Some Fantastic Place
My Life In and Out of Squeeze
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize
Over the course of a thirteen-album and multi-award-winning career with Squeeze, it was clear from the very beginning that Chris Difford has few peers when it comes to smart, pithy lyricism. In Some Fantastic Place, he charts his life from his childhood...
A Desperate Cry for Help
Rejected by her family, Meg is lashing out. And now Maggie and her other foster children are in danger
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Twelve-year-old Meg arrives at Maggie's after a fire destroys the children's home she's been living in. Terrified and having lost most of her possessions, Maggie must work hard to make the vulnerable young girl feel at home.
But traumatised by the fire, and angry and vulnerable, having been...
A Family For Christmas
When a tragic accident scars a family, will it take a miracle to heal them?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
When foster carer Maggie Hartley meets Sean and Sheila, they're facing every parent's worst nightmare. A split-second decision to leave toddler Edward alone for a few short minutes results in a tragic accident, and Edward is left fighting for his life. He survives, but is tragically left severely...
Too Young to be a Mum
Can Jess learn to be a good mummy, when she is only a child herself?
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
When sixteen-year-old Jess arrives on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep with her newborn son Jimmy, she has nowhere else to go.
Arriving straight from the hospital having just given birth, Jess is like a rabbit caught in the headlights. Scared, alone, and practically a child herself, she...
Emily Dickinson
Everyman's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The best of Emily Dickinson's poems
Emily Dickinson (1830-86) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of a lawyer and politician. Despite receiving a good education she returned home to Amherst, where she spent the rest of her life, writing more than a poem a day until her death. Her...
Fathomless Riches
Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The memoir of popular BBC Radio 4 SATURDAY LIVE presenter and former member of the Communards, the Reverend Richard Coles.
'I love @RevRichardColes SO MUCH' Caitlin Moran
FATHOMLESS RICHES is the Reverend Richard Coles's warm, witty and wise memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty...