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Worlds Apart
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
The writer David Plante has kept a diary of his life among the artistic elite for over half a century. It is an extraordinary document, both deeply personal and a rare window onto disappearing worlds. This extracted memoir spans the 1980s, a period of exploration and growth for Plante and his lover...
The Pleasures of Structure
Learning Screenwriting Through Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The Pleasures of Structure starts from the premise that the ability to develop a well understood and articulated story structure is the most important skill a screenwriter can develop. For example, good structure requires a great premise and rigorous character development. Without clear character...
by Paul Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Paul Hollywood is Britain's favourite master baker. His new book is all about bread - how to make it and how to use it. But while it's all very well making a lovely loaf of bread, can you guarantee that it won't be wasted? You know those times when you have a lovely crusty loaf, fresh from the oven,...
Luck
What It Means and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Like his childhood hero, Geoff Boycott, the tough, flinty Yorkshireman, the young Ed knew that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But...
Goodbye Sarajevo
A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
May, 1992. Hana is twelve years old when her older sister Atka puts her on a UN evacuation bus fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo. Thinking they will be apart for a short time, they make a promise to each other to be brave. But as the Bosnian war escalates and months go by without contact, their...
Marooned
Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth.
We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims...
An Impeccable Spy
Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
'The most formidable spy in history' Ian Fleming
'A superb biography ... More than a hundred books have been written about him and this is undoubtedly the best' Ben Macintyre
Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he...
by David Park
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
A seventeen-year-old boy visits his estranged mother on Boxing Day in a grey seaside town; a University lecturer falls in with a group of older men who inhabit a very different world while trying to learn how to swim; a detective breaks into his former home to spy on his estranged family; a couple...
by Peter Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
As the King's young cousin, an admired scholar living in Italy, it
falls to Reginald Pole to make the case for Henry's divorce from
Katherine of Aragon. And it falls to the hapless Michael Throckmorton -
the younger son of an impecunious titled family - to become Thomas
Cromwell's messenger to Pole...
Lion and the Eagle
The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783–1972
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance
Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests. In this book Kathleen...
Oxford Classics
Teaching and Learning 1800-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In this pioneering...
Analyze Anything
A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
How well can you decode the signs that permeate our daily lives? All of us, consciously or not, constantly engage in the acts of reading and interpreting the signs in the world around us. But how do we sharpen these skills, deepen our awareness of meaning in a complex world, and ultimately reach our...
Creative Writing in the Digital Age
Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Creative Writing in the Digital Age explores the vast array of opportunities that technology provides the Creative Writing teacher, ranging from effective online workshop models to methods that blur the boundaries of genre. From social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to more advanced software...
by Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Following the success of Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives a brand new old collection of advice for couples from courtship to the honeymoon.
On looking for a partner in life:
"Don't single out a girl if you do not intend to propose to her, for the way in which your conduct is regarded...