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Rula
My Colourful Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Rula Lenska's is an extraordinary life. Born in Britain to Polish aristocrats, refugees from the Nazis and then the Soviets, Rula found fame in the 1970s as 'Q' in the TV series Rock Follies. Shortly afterwards, she accidentally conquered America with the infamous VO5 hair advert, prompting Johnny...
The Porn Identity
Spoof Porn Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Feeling blue? Indulge yourself with this fabulous line-up of some of the friskiest films of all time. Some of them real, some of them imagined, these titillating titles are accompanied by anatomically unimaginable illustrations. This book of sexy spoof movies will have you hooting with disbelief,...
Mrs Hudson's Diaries
A View from the Landing at 221b
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
One frosty winter morning, deep in the vaults of Cox & Co. at Charing Cross, a battered biscuit tin is discovered... Inside are the diaries of that longsuffering resident of 221b Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes' landlady, the unflappable Mrs Hudson. She presents her portrait of life with the great...
Is That Mic Off?
More Things Politicians Wish They Hadn't Said
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
If you want to hear something stupid, just listen to the nearest politician. From the authors of Read My Lips and Mission Accomplished!, this completely new collection of politicians' gaffes, slips and brain freezes brings the verbal misstep into the present era of coalition government in Britain,...
Music, Sense and Nonsense
Collected Essays and Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having merely one string to his bow, however,...
Sex Academy
Essential Lessons in Seduction and Spectacular Sex
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Throwing open the doors to her Sex Academy, sex writer, relationship expert and bestselling author Dr Pam Spurr ignites your desire to learn with probably the most comprehensive sex guide available! This must-have guide for everyone - couples and singles - includes accessible, lively and no-holds-barred...
by Ken Hom
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
As a boy, Ken Hom lived hand-to-mouth in the slums of Chicago's Chinatown. Today, he is one of the most celebrated TV chefs of all time, the man who showed the British how to cook Asian food and introduced the nation to the wok.
This is the story of that remarkable journey.
Aged just...
Orient Express
A Personal Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
When the fabled Orient-Express train, which had carried the rich and the famous (as well as some highly suspicious characters) across Europe in superb style for nearly a century, was taken out of service in 1977, James B. Sherwood bought two of its 1920s luxury sleeping cars at auction. He then spent...
Dave and Nick
The Year of the Honeymoon...and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
You will not read this story of Dave and Nick anywhere else. Ann Treneman, the sketchwriter for The Times, chronicles all the highlights (and even more of the lowlights) of their extraordinary relationship in a love story that not even Mills & Boon could imagine. Two posh boys who found each other,...
All in This Together
My Five Years as a Political Stalker
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
n this uproarious collection, Ann Treneman, the caustic and witty parliamentary sketch-writer for The Times, tells the true, unvarnished story of Britain’s first coalition government since the Second World War. As well as the headline acts - David Cameron and his Flashman alter ego, Nick Clegg’s...
On the Run
Deserters Through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
There have been many books written about valour in battle. This is not one of them. On the contrary, On the Run deals entirely with those men and women who have departed from life in the armed forces. For as long as there have been wars there have been those who have fled from the cannon's roar. In...
Life on the Wing
A Bird Chronicle from the pages of The Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From dainty avocets prancing along the seashore to panic-stricken waxwings frenziedly gobbling berries, from barking barnacle geese to soaring skylarks, Derwent May writes about birds in a very special way. As he goes in search of birdlife in a variety of places - the English lanes and rolling corn...
by Hilly Janes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Dylan Thomas was one of the most extraordinary poetic talents of the twentieth century. Poems such as 'Do not go gentle into that good night' regularly top polls of the nation's favourites and his much-loved play Under Milk Wood has never been out of print. Thomas lived a life that was rarely without...
A Very Private Celebrity
The Nine Lives of John Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
John Freeman was one of Britain's most extraordinary public figures for over half a century: a renaissance man who constantly reinvented himself; a household name who sought complete anonymity. From advertising executive to war hero to MP tipped to be Prime Minister, Freeman then changed direction...