Salman-Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown
|  Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown.
The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. |
| Sharon Osbourne - Survivor
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Sharon Osbourne’s life has always been full of drama, heartbreak and passion. When she completed her bestselling first book, Extreme, she had hoped to find some peace and stability after her rollercoaster years. It was not to be. |
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Rolf Harris "Can you tell what it is yet?"
|  Rolf Harris "My Autobiography"
"Can you tell what it is yet?"
In 1952, a young Australian stepped off a ferry in Dover with dreams of being a famous portrait painter like his grandfather. |
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Jimmy Greaves - The Heart of the Game
|  'It Is football's power to so readily and regularly corrupt emotions and senses that is the addictive and enduring appeal of the game - the heart of the game.' So said Spurs skipper Danny Blanchflower.
In THE HEART OF THE CAME, Jimmy Greaves examines our undying passion for football and its development over the fifty years he has been associated with the sport. He takes us into the world of players, managers, agents and fans to make sense of our lasting obsession with the beautiful game.
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| Alan Ball - Playing Extra Time
|  Alan Ball always wanted to be the best. Small in stature, red-haired and fiery, Alan was one of the most easily recognized players of his generation. Fans on the terraces and teammates immediately took to his wholehearted enthusiasm and never-say-die attitude. Alan is a fighter - from overcoming his diminutive size to become a professional player and the youngest member of the 1966 England squad, to the rejection he repeatedly faced as a club manager. |
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Shape Your Self - Martina Navratilova
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One of the greatest tennis players of all time, Martina Navratilova is still playing at the top levels of the sport as she nears her fiftieth birthday. She easily outruns many women who are half her age, and engages in all the other sports she loves: basketball, hockey, skiing and more. Everywhere she goes, people ask her: why can you still move the way you do? How do you stay in such good shape? What's your secret?
In SHAPE YOUR SELF, this amazing athlete shares - through personal anecdotes from her life and tennis career - the simple strategies, tips, and small lifestyle changes that will enable anyone to tune up their body, mind and spirit.
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| Lee Sharp - My Idea of Fun
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When 17-year-old Lee Sharpe joined Manchester United in 1988, he was a boy among men, lining up alongside iconic figures such as Bryan Robson. His exuberant skills on the left wing gave the club's fans something they'd long been missing: hope for the future, and the beginning of a new production line of young talent. |
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The Sait - Ian St John
|  The fascinating inside story of one of Liverpool and Scotland's greatest ever footballers, from his playing days to his role as a TV pundit on ITV's legendary 'Saint and Greavsie'
This is the life story of the legendary Liverpool and Scotland 1960s footballer known as 'The Saint'. Bought by Bill Shankly from Motherwell in 1961, Ian St John was widely thought of as one of the most significant signings ever made by Liverpool FC, and was a key component in Shankly's first successful team. |
| Fighting Back - Frank Bruno
|  At the age of eleven Frank Bruno was sent to reform school.
At thirty-three he was crowned undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
At forty-one he was committed to Goodmayes psychiatric hospital.
Now, for the first time, Frank Bruno tells his real story: how the tearaway kid became one of Britain's best-loved sports stars; how he was written off, but came back to win the world championship - at the fourth attempt; his descent into mental illness; and his painful journey back to health. |
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Nasser Hussain "Playing with Fire"
|  When Nasser Hussain first met Duncan Fletcher in 1999, it marked the beginning of a partnership that was to transform the English cricket team.
They injected steel into the team; they gave it back-bone. No longer it seemed, did the fall of the first wicket herald an inevitable batting collapse. England became a hard team to beat - and they started to win test matches, at home and abroad. |
| The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
|  FRANKIE DETTORI is that rare thing in horse racing - a genuine superstar. The Italian-born jockey's ability in the saddle, cheeky good humour, immaculate dress sense and spectacular flying dismounts have made him a household name around the world. |
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Keeping the World Away - Margaret Forster
|  Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over, a picture makes its way from Paris to Hampstead, pops up on a London market stall after the Great War, finds its way to the Cornish coast and back to London after the Second World War, eventually making a brief and risky trip to Scotland, before events take another unexpected turn at the beginning of a new century. |
| Whitethorn Woods - Maeve Binchy
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Full of Maeve Binchy's warmth, humour and compassion, Whitethorn Woods tells of the people of Rossmore, each with their own story, as they wait for the great road of progress . . . |
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Brothers in War - E.V. Thompson
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CORNWALL 1915. In Britain, men and women are still reeling from the outbreak of the Great War. For Ben Retallick, owner of the great Ruddlemoor clay works in Cornwall, the conflict will affect all that he has ever known as his life becomes entwined in a saga of suspicion, secrecy and troubles - in love as well as war . . .
Ben is asked to help with an incredible secret mission - to wrest control of Lake Tanganyika from the Germans. Two gunboats are to be transported to the other side of the world, then hauled three thousand miles overland. Meanwhile, Ben's own priorities lie elsewhere, in Switzerland, where his wife Lily is awaiting his arrival to bring her home.
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Simon Hopkinson Lindsey Bareham
A few years ago, after a long day's session with Roast Chicken and Other Stories, we sat at the kitchen table and cracked open a nice bottle of Alsace. About halfway through we fell to talking about dishes we had loved and lost, those dishes that we had grown up with and memories of early restaurant outings. Before long, our giggles turned to nostalgia and we started to scribble down a list of those fondly remembered dishes. They just came pouring out: Coquilles St-Jacques, Sole Veronique, Beef Stroganoff, Mixed Grill, Swedish Meatballs, Wiener Schnitzel, Chicken Maryland, Crepes Suzette, Peach Melba and Profiteroles. And, of course, Prawn Cocktail. |
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The complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
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THE COMPLETE POLYSYLLABIC SPREE
is a full collection of Nick Hornby's 'Stuff I've Been Reading' essays, first published in the Believer magazine in the US, and now assembled in this bumper volume for the delectation and edification of book lovers everywhere.
Through twenty-eight monthly accounts of books bought and books read, Nick Hornby explores the how and when and why and what of reading. From classic midlife crisis ('OK, I should have read David Copperfieldhefore, and therefore deserve to be punished ...') to the realization that his lovely, highbrow friends rarely recommend books that have him bumping into lamp-posts, Hornby does battle with the big literary biography (613 pages long - 'Have mercy!'), pursues newly discovered writers to the outermost reaches of their oeuvres, instructs the young Flaubert to get a life, forgets every book he's ever read, and explains the theory behind literary family trees - the way great books give birth to one another. |
| Alex James - Bit of a Blur
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'Dad opened the piano lid and raised his eyebrows. There was a slight but deliberate dramatic pause. Then he slammed into the keys and rattled out some rock and roll. It was amazing. I'd never heard him play. I had no idea that he could. I hugged him, pushed my sister out of the way and demanded to be shown how to make a noise like that.' |
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A History of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr
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A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions, and rival idealisms, of a new Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan age came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. |
| Sea of Lost Love
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Epic romance and dark mystery, exotic places and glamorous epochs - such are Santa Montefiore's unique trademarks. Allow yourself to be swept away by her superlative storytelling as you enter a world of love and lies. |
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The Quest - Wilbur Smith
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A spectacular epic adventure set in ancient Egypt from one of the world's most celebrated novelists. |
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The Steep Approach to Garbadale - Iain Banks
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The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been living wild and evading the family tentacles for years, is run to ground and persuaded to attend the forthcoming gathering - part birthday celebration, part Extraordinary General Meeting - convened by Win, the Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board. |
| Burning Bright - Tracy Chevalier
|  The last decade of the eighteenth century brought huge political upheaval to Britain. The execution of the King of France, the scenes of the jubilant revolutionaries dancing around the guillotine, the seizure of property, brought hope to some and fear to others. |
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Tordy
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Dr Alfred Jones has many reasons to be content with life. His latest paper 'Effects of Increased Water o the Caddis Fly Larva' looks set to cause a stir on the pages of Trout & Salmon, his job as a fisheries scientist is satisfactory, and he and his wife, Mary, have just celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary - for which she gave him a replacement electric toothbrush. |
| The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
|  Presents a story about, among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, a Jewish fist fighter, and thievery. This book also tells the story of the citizens of Molching. It is a tale of the cruel twists of fate and the
coincidences on which all our lives hinge. |
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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - G.W.Dahlquist
|  What is there was a book made of blue glass that contained your whole life?
If your desires and wants were dragged from you in a fearful process and preserved for others to savour and revel in?
If your every secret and every dream were open to all and yet you had forgotten that you ever had them? |
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Howard Marks - Senor Nice
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Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana, in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career. So he wrote two bestselling books, became a sports writer and travel writer, stood as a parliamentary candidate in Norwich North, Norwich South, Southampton Test and Neath, applied to become the country's Drug Czar, and embarked on a long-running, sellout series of one-man shows. |
| Queen Camilla - Sue Townsend
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England is an unhappy and fearful land. In a desperate attempt I over crime and social disorder, Jack Barker, the Prime T. has created Exclusion Zones for all society's misfits, including the criminal, the feckless, the stupid, the morbidly obese - and the Royal Family.
Prince Charles and the love of his life, Camilla, live on the Flowers Exclusion Zone with the rest of the Royal Family and their many dogs. He enjoys poultry keeping and tending his vegetable patch. Camilla spends her days doing as little as possible aside from having her roots retouched by her neighbour Beverley Threadgold. But life is about to change...
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Jeremy Paxman - On Royalty
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What is the point of Kings and Queens?
What do they do all day?
And what does it mean to be one of them?
The days are long gone when monarchs claimed that god had given them the right to rule. And yet they are still here. Why?
The intellectual argument for the abolition of the Monarchy is strong and many claim that royalty is irrelevant in a modern British democracy. Yet royal jubilees, weddings and funerals bring hundreds of thousands on to the streets. How have these remote and privileged people come to have such a hold over the public imagination?
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Recuperating in Switzerland after a job that cost the life of one of his closest friends, ex-special forces soldier and deniable operator Nick Stone has only one thing on his mind: the girl who left his bed this morning without saying goodbye. And when she fails to reappear, Nick knows the honeymoon is over before it has even begun. |
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HEAT - George Monbiot
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We know that climate change is happening. We know that it could, if the worst predictions come true, destroy the conditions that make human life possible. Only one question is now worth asking: can it be stopped?
In HEAT, George Monbiot shows that it can. By revealing how we can save the planet without losing our comfort and security, Monbiot exposes the cowardice of our politicians and sweeps away their perpetual excuse for doing nothing: that it would be too painful and expensive to sustain life on earth.
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| The Fish Store - Lindsey Bareham
|  When her sons inherited their father's childhood home, once a commercial building for storing and packing pilchards, in a Cornish fishing village, Lindsey Bareham thought it would be a helpful idea to record some of the recipes and memories of this extraordinary place. It started as a notebook for her sons' eyes only, with lists of favourite ways of cooking mackerel, monkfish and sole and how to make mayonnaise to go with the gift of a handsome crab or crayfish, but then it took on its own momentum and became this very special book, full of recollections and anecdotes and fabulous holiday food. |
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Kerry - Too Much, Too Young
|  By the age of 11 Kerry Katona had countless different homes and attended 8 different schools. By the age of 13 she could beat grown men at pool and knew how to look after her mother during a breakdown. By the age of 15 she had lived in women's refuges, the heart of London's East End gangster-land and several different foster homes. By the age of 18 she was a pop star...
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| Confessions of a Showman - Gerry Cottle
|  The sensational memoir of Britain's greatest circus impresario.
Gerry Cottle, a stockbroker's son, ran away to join the circus when he was just fifteen. He started learning his trade by cleaning up after the elephants in small family-run shows and, when he wasn't chasing girls, he progressed to erecting tents and being a very bad clown.
Within a few years he had married into one of the oldest circus dynasties and started his very own circus, moving towards his ambition of owning Britain's biggest circus.
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John Le Carre - Mission Song
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Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary. |
| Robert Harris - Imperium
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When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. |
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My Take - Gary Barlow
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Take That: the original, the biggest British boy band ever. Their records sold millions, their concerts sold out in less time than it took to play one of their singles. When they split in 1996 a Samaritans helpline was set up specially for their devastated fans.
Gary Barlow, the band's front man, was the voice and talent behind many of their eight No. 1 hits. His songs, including 'Back for Good', 'Pray' and 'A Million Love Songs', were the sound of the early nineties. Tipped as the next Elton John, a glittering solo career was predicted. So how come, less than two years later, he had been dropped by his label, written off as a has-been and consigned to pop oblivion?
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| The Two Minute Rule - Robert Crais
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Two minutes can be a lifetime.
Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule, and they'll tell you that's as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up and spoil the party. Break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. But not everyone plays by the rules. ..
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A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - LIMITED EDITION
|  SORRY SOLD OUT
A Thousand Splendid Suns is an unforgettable portrait of a wounded country and a deeply moving story of family and friendship. It is a beautiful, heart-wrenching story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond and an indestructible love.
From the Author of The Kite Runner |
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| Race to Dakar - Charley Boorman
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In 2004 Charley Boorman completed his astonishing round-the-world bike trip with his friend, Ewan McGregor. The journey left him exhausted, exhilarated and hungry for a new challenge.
And what greater challenge than the Dakar Rally? Beginning in Lisbon and ending in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, the rally takes competitors through 15,000 kilometres of treacherous terrain, and is widely regarded as the most dangerous race on earth.
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A darkling Plain - Philip Reeve
|  As Wren eased the steering levers back and the Jenny rose and the rounded thing slid by beneath her Tom saw that the other man was right; it was buckled, corroding, shaggy with weeds, but unmistakably one of London's wheels... |
| Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception
|  Evil pixie, Opal Koboi is back and she's more dangerous than ever. This time she doesn't just want power over the fairy People, this time she wants the lot. Everyone is under threat - humans and fairies alike. Captain Holly Short is the only fairy with a hope of stopping her, but as Holly knows, it takes one genius criminal mastermind to fight another. And the 14-year-old genius Holly is thinking of can't even remember that fairies exist. |
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The Magicians Guild - Trudi Canavan
|  BOOK ONE OF THE BLACK MAGICIAN TRILOGY
Each year the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city streets of beggars, urchins and miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can oppose them. But their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe.
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| Andy McNab - Payback
|  The headlines scream outrage following an attack at the heart of the British
Parliament. As the emergency services try to help the wounded and the
dying, there is only one question: who did this terrible thing?
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Andy McNab - Boy Soldier
|  For Danny Watts, 17, whose life-time ambition is to be a soldier, this news
story is the beginning of the end.
The grandfather he's never met, SAS hero I Fergus Watts, betrayed his country, his regiment and his comrades for money from the Colombian drug cartels. He was supposed to have died, rotting in jail.
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| Jacqueline Wilson - Love Lessons
|  For one mad, magical moment I thought he was going to kiss me. . .
Fifteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, ultra-strict father almost all their lives. When Dad is suddenly rushed to hospital, unable to move or speak, Prue at last discovers what it's like to have a little freedom.
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Philip Pullman "The Scarecrow and his Servant"
|  One night there was a thunderstorm. A tattered scarecrow stood in the wind and rain, taking no notice ... until a bolt of lightning struck his turnip head. The scarecrow blinked with surprise and came to life.
So begins the story of the Scarecrow, a courteous but pea-brained fellow with grand ideas. He meets a boy, Jack, who becomes his faithful servant. |
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| "Elmer and Butterfly" by: David McKee
|  Elmer is going for a walk when he hears a cry for help. Butterfly is trapped in a hole by a fallen branch but it's an easy matter for Elmer to free her. |
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"Lucky Mucky Pup" by: Ken Brown
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The adorable and mischievous puppy introduced in Muck Pup is back in a new adventure with his friend, Pig. This time he provokes and encounter with a swarm of bees, creates havoc and manages to get away with it! |
| "It was You, Blue Kangaroo" by: Emma C Clark
|  Lily and Blue Kangaroo are inseparable. Whatever Lily does, Blue Kangaroo is there too. But Lily is not always fair, and when she is naughty it is Blue Kangaroo who gets the blame. |
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"Comic Adventures or Boots" by: Satoshi Kitamura
|  Let's play a guessing game!
When is a cat not a cat? When it's a penguin? When it's a squirrel? When it's a.... pencil sharpener?
What can a duck teach a cat? can a cat teach a duck anything?
What is a fish-biscuit? And whose wall is it anyway? |
| Tiger - Nick Butterworth
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An adorable new toddler character from the creator of "Percy, the Park Keeper", Tiger isn't a real tiger.
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| Joanna Trollope - Second Honeymoon
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Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back, after decades of family life. His brother, Matthew, is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. His sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair.
Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style.
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Ned Sherrin - The Autobiography
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I was born between the villages of High Ham and Low Ham in the county of Somerset. For a long time I thought how neat it would be to go to the House of Lords as Lord Sherrin of High and Low Ham - the perfect theatrical title. No call came...
In this hilarious, frank and affecting autobiography, Ned Sherrin looks back on his life and career with inimitable wit and a good deal of wisdom. An innovative satirist, novelist, anthologist, film producer and celebrated theatre director, he has been at the heart of British broadcasting and the arts for more than fifty years.
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| Soul Eater - Michelle Paver
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The ice bear twisted its head on its long neck and snarled: a deep reverberating thunder that shook the ice.
It locked eyes with Torak - and the world fell away.
It's winter, and Wolf, Torak's beloved pack-brother, has been captured by an unknown foe. In a desperate bid to rescue him, Torak and Renn must brave the frozen wilderness of the Far North.
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Celebrities My Arse! - Ricky Tomlinson
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A riotous collection of side-splitting celebrity anecdotes.
Celebrities would have us believe they lead a charmed life and never make mistakes like us mere mortals. Charmed life, my arse! With his wicked trademark wit, Ricky Tomlinson reveals the truth: they're just as likely to suffer from bloopers, |
| Inside Little Britain - Matt Lucas David Walliams
|  SIGNED BY BOTH MATT LUCAS AND DAVID WALLIAMS
Matt: I remember when I first swapped phone numbers with David and i was just so thrilled because I knew I'd become friends with this guy who was going to be the biggest comedian in the country.
David: Before I met him, I'd noticed Matt because of his bald head. Then someone said to me, 'Oh, you've got to meet Matt. He's really funny, with his impressions and stuff', and I thought, 'I bet he's not that funny, I bet he's just bald and you've mistaken that for funniness.
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Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
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Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake . . .
And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it
with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit... cool.
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| Ultimate Weapon - Chris Ryan
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Nick Scott fought in the SAS during the first Gulf War. Captured and tortured, he was left a broken man.
His daughter Sarah Scott is a beautiful young scientist who has cracked one of the scientific secrets of the age. Now she has vanished. Her lover Jed Bradley is one of the SAS's toughest young agents, dropped behind enemy lines in the build up to the Iraq War to find the truth about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
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| Gordon Ramsay - Humble Pie
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Everyone thinks they know the Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his real story...
For the first time Gordon tells the full inside story of how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction, his failed first career as a footballer his fanatical pursuit of gastronomic perfection and his TV persona - all of the things that have made him the celebrated culinary talent and media powerhouse that he is today.
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Small Hardback Edition
Over the last few years Jack Vettriano has risen to fame meteorically. Emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, he has become Scotland's most successful and controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters and cards, mugs and umbrellas, prints of his work outsell van Gogh,. Dali and Monet and his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. |
| Ronnie Corbett - And its a Goodnigh From Him
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"And It's Goodnight From Him ..." is Ronnie Corbett's story of a partnership and friendship so close that throughout all the years that The Two Ronnies worked together, there was rarely a cross word between them. Their chemistry both on and offscreen allowed them to become one of our best-loved comedy double acts.
On 1 April 1971, The Two Ronnies aired for the first time on the BBC. It quickly became one of the most successful and long-running television comedy shows ever on British television, and its stars - Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett - became national treasures. For millions of people, during the seventies and eighties. The Two Ronnies WERE Saturday night.
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The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth
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When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major AI-Qaeda operation in the works, they are primed for action - but what can they do? They know nothing about the attack: the what, where or when. They have no sources in AI-Qaeda, and it's impossible to plant someone. Impossible, unless...
The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year veteran of war zones around the world, a dark, lean man born and raised in Iraq. In an attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has ever done before - pass off a Westerner as an Arab among Arabs - pass off Martin as the trusted Khan.
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| Semi-Detached - Griff Rhys Jones
|  When do we learn to grow up? Do we ever?
Warm, impulsive, funny; Griff Rhys Jones takes a trip through his golden age - back to a childhood in the sixties and seventies - by car, by bus, by bicycle, but mostly on foot.
Semi-detached Griff relives freezing bus journeys to school and the spontaneous theft of that half-a-crown from Charlie Hume's money box; sitting outside Butlins at Clacton (longing to be inside and on the Waltzer instead of stranded on the pebbles with his dad); hazy summer afternoons spent with feral gangs in the woods, or storming the mudflats while singing extracts from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. The memories are like Miwis, frozen and fuzzy at the edges, but a sweet jam of pure recollected goo at the centre.
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Adam Ant - Stand and Deliver
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One of the most successful pop stars of the 1980s, Adam Ant's face adorned posters on teenagers' walls from Acton to Akron. His wholly original look, based on a mixture of warrior, dandy, eighteenth-century cavalry officer and punk marked him out as a true pop icon. |
| Vikram Seth - Two Lives
|  Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth century; he died two years before its close. He was brought up in India in the late years of the Raj, and was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin - though he could not speak a word of German - to study medicine and dentistry. It was here, before he migrated to Britain, that Shanti's path first crossed that of his future wife. |
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Tracy Beaker is back and she's just desperate for a role in her school play. They're performing A Christmas Carol and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast in the main role. Can she manage to act grumpy, difficult and sulky enough to play Ebenezer Scrooge9 Well, she does have a bit of help on that front from Justine Pain-In-The-Bum Littlewood. |
| Michael Palin - Diaries 1969-1979 The Python Years
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Michael Palin's Diaries begin in the bee 1960s when, newly married and struggling to make a name far himself in the world of television comedy, he began wrong for hugely popular programmes, such as The Frost Report and the Two Ronnies . But Monty Python was just round the corner...
In this first volume of his diaries he tells how Python emerged and triumphed. Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the group then proceeded to tour in the United States and Canada, appearing, like pop stars, at sold-out stadiums coast to coast and on national chat shows. They even stayed in hotels newly trashed by Led Zeppelin, later investors in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Chart Throb - Ben Elton
|  Chart Throb. The ultimate pop quest.
Ninety-five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner.
And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show.
Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits in judgement upon the Mingers, Clingers and Blingers whom he has pre-selected in his carefully scripted 'search' for a star, he has no idea that the rules are changing. The 'real' is about to be put back into 'reality' television and Calvin and his fellow judges are about to become ex-factors themselves.
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| Derren Brown - Tricks of the Mind
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Derren Brown's television and stage performances have entranced and dumbfounded millions. His baffling illusions and stunning set pieces - such as the Seance. Russian Roulette and the Heist - have set new standards of what's possible, as well as causing more than their fair share of controversy. Now, for the first time, he reveals the secrets behind his craft, what makes him tick and just why he grew that beard. |
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Billy Bragg - The Progressive Patriot
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What does it mean to be English? What does it mean to be British? Does the rise in popularity of the St George's flag represent a new beginning or symbolize the return of the far right? Is the Union Jack too soaked in the blood of empire to be the emblem of a modern multicultural state? In a country in which all of us are born under two flags, what does it mean to be a patriot?
In May 2006, Billy Bragg saw his home town become the front line in the debate over who does and does not belong in twenty-first-century Britain. The anti-immigrant British National Party won a dozen seats on Barking and Dagenham council, placing a question mark over Londons claim to be the most multicultural city in Europe. Their victory was, in part, a reaction to the terror attacks on London of 7 July 2005, when four British citizens from the immigrant community killed fifty-two innocent people and injured many more.
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| Nick Mason - into the red
|  Tested to the limit. Pushed to the edge.
This book is about the contents of one man's garage. Some garage, some contents.
Nick Mason of Pink Floyd has been acquiring and racing cars for over thirty-five years. With test driver Mark Hales, he gives the pick of his cars a no-holds-barred workout at Silverstone, to find out how they compare under pressure. |
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Raymond Baxter - Tales of My Life
|  Raymond Baxter, WW2 fighter pilot, post-war radio and tv commentator at major events from motor races to great State occasions, was later the famous presenter of television's Tomorrow's World. Here he tells his action-packed life story in a wry, witty and amusing way.
From such disparate experiences as hair-raising escapes at the controls of a Spitfire over Sicily and occupied Holland to speaking to the nation while suspended in a box near the roof of Westminster Abbey, Baxter has endless tales to tell. A renowned commentator, he also competed in and reported on fourteen consecutive Monte Carlo Rallies and thirty Farnborough Air Shows where, as a veteran combat pilot, he flew in a Harrier on two occasions.
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| The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock
|  For millennia, humankind has exploited the Earth without counting the cost. Now, as the world warms and weather patterns dramatically change, the Earth is beginning to fight back. James Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking, argues passionately and poetically that, although global warming is now inevitable, we are not yet too late to save at least part of human civilization. This short book, written at the age of 86 after a lifetime engaged in the science of the earth, is his testament. |
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England,s Ashes - Signed by Marcus Trescothick
|  Signed by Marcus Trescothick
The 2005 Ashes produced some of the finest Test cricket ever seen, culminating in England's glorious recapture of the famous urn. This book brings together the Daily Telegraph's peerless coverage of an unforgettable series and the very best in cricket photography. |
| Shakespheare - Peter Ackroyed
|  Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the world and heart of Shakespeare. He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare afresh on his own ground.
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What Your Clothes Say About You Trinny & Susannah
|  Do you know what your clothes are really saying about you? Trinny and Susannah can tell how you feel about yourself by the way you dress. But are you sending the right message?
Trinny and Susannah have transformed the lives of thousands of women many of whom have confided that they lack the confidence - or courage - to make changes in their lives. Sometimes it's because they can't be bothered, but more often it's age or circumstances that have overtaken their lives, or it has become a habit to put everyone and everything else ahead of themselves.
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| Eric Sykes - If I Don't Write it Nobody Will
|  After the death of his mother in childbirth, Eric Sykes was farmed out and left under the o tender eye of a parrot that lived above his cot. Two years later, his father came to collect him. 'Neither he nor anyone else could understand what I was babbling about. Hardly surprising, as I'd never learned English, but spoke fluent parrot.' From this unpromising beginning he became one of Britain's best-loved comedy writers and performers. |
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Stephen Fry - The Ode Less Travelled
|  Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. |
| Kurt Jackson Sketchbooks
|  This book is a selection of about 150 sketches made over the twelve months from spring 2003 to spring 2004. During that period Kurt Jackson filled twenty-five sketchbooks ranging from pocket size to A4, some bought, others hand made.
Here are sketches involving a diverse range of approaches - from the simplest of lines made on railway journeys and in recording domestic scenes to full colour sketches of Cornwall, France, Scotland and Worcester. As Kurt writes in his introduction 'I carry a sketchbook with me at all times... if I forget it I feel I'm missing something.' |
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Richie Benaud - My Spin On Cricket
|  A wide ranging and entertaining celebration of cricket.
My Spin on Cricket tells the story of the great game through the eyes of one of its most popular commentators. Richie Benaud, former Australian cricket captain of distinction, has been a successful and highly respected writer on the sport for many years and is now globally admired for his work with both Australian and British television. Affectionately known as 'The Voice of Cricket', he is uniquely qualified to pass comment on the state of the game, past and present, which he does in his own inimitable style.
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| Jimmy Nail "A Northern Soul"
|  Since Auf Wiedersehen, Pet first captured the public's imagination, actor and musician Jimmy Nail has been a household name. But playing Oz was just the beginning. That groundbreaking first series was followed with further hit TV shows like Spender and Crocodile Shoes, a starring role in the bigscreen adaptation of Evita alongside Madonna and a phenomenally successful recording career which included the No. 1 single 'Ain't No Doubt'. |
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Nick Mason - Inside-out
|  Pink Floyd is one of the most creative, successful and enduring bands of all time. Inside Out marks the first time that a member of Pink Floyd has written his personal take on the band's history.
As the only member of the Floyd to have been part of the band throughout nearly 40 years of existence, Nick has been able to observe every phase of the band from his drum stool, including their time as the darlings of London's late-1960s underground. |
| Richard Holmes "Wellington"
|  Wellington; The Iron Duke tells the exhilerating story - both on and off the battlefield - of Britain's greatest ever soldier.
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John McCarthy "A Ghost upon your path"
|  Ever since he first visited Ireland with his family twenty years ago, John McCarthy has fealt a strong affinity with its people and landscape. Yet in spite of his name, he has never thought of himself as remotely Irish. |
| Sandi Toksvig "The Gladys Society"
|  Sandi Toksvig was eight years old when she landed in America in the summer of 1966. She arrived with her English Mother, Danish Father, and her ten year old brother who had seen too many films and expected to be gunned down in the street. |
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Judith Miller "Collectables"
|  The Best ALL-COLOUR guide to over 5000 Collectables.
Setting new standards in visual reference, this is a must have for anyone interested in buying or selling collectables. |
| "Corsets to Camouflage" by Kate Adie
|  The twentieth century was a period of tumultuous change for women - both in conflict and on the home front. Nowhere are these changes seen more obviously than in the uniforms they wore - from the tight corsets of the nurses in the earl 1900s to the battle-ready camouflage of the present day. |
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"John Wesley" by Roy Hattersley
|  On the evening of 9 February 1709 a fire engulfed Epworth Rectory, the Lincolnshire home of Samuel and Susanna Wesley. At first, the rector believed that he had led all his family to safety. Then he realised that one of his sons was still inside the house. Twice he attempted a rescue, and twice the flames beat him back. |
| "An Accidental MP" by Martin Bell
|  FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED - INCLUDING THE BRENTWOOD AND ONGAR CAMPAIGN.
` An Accidental MP is not only excellent, but will be a quarry for historians. Unlike most political books, it is not ephemeral' Tam Dalyell, MP
'Martin Bell tells the story of his disillusion with the BBC, his campaign to win Tatton and his life in the Commons with style, a gentle wit and endearing candour. He has taken into Parliament the sense of perspective and the scepticism which mark the best in our trade ... |
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"In Harm's Way" by Martin Bell
|  Martin Bell is one of the most respected names in British broadcasting. Although the veteran of ten earlier wars, he has been most deeply affected by his experiences in Bosnia. In this vivid and compassionate account he not only gives us a complete picture of the life of a war reporter but also examines the role, methods and morality of the media. |
| Dennis Law "The King"
|  In the 1960s, Denis Law was the king of Old Trafford. A goal-scoring genius, Law attacked the game (and the occasional opponent) with a dedication and enthusiasn that held his legions of loyal subjects in devoted awe. The deadly triumvirate of Law, George Best and Bobby Charlton swept opposition from its path, and led Manchester United to win the FA Cup in 1963 and the League in 1965 and 1967. |
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|  Antony Worrall Thompson's passage to culinary stardom has not exactly been smooth. Abandoned by his father, a Shakespearean actor, when he was just three, Antony was sexually abused and maltreated throughout his childhood. His extra-curricular activities at boarding school included pushing cars into the swimming pool and generally getting on the teacher's nerves. |
| Douglas Hurd
|  Few figures in modern British politics can
match the extraordinary career of Douglas Hurd. A mainstay of the Conservative administrations
of the 1980s and 1990s, he was a Cabinet member for eleven years, and admired and respected on both sides of the Commons. His is a reputation that stretches far beyond Westminster and across the international stage. |
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The Human Mind
|  The most complex and mysterious object in the universe is unprepossessing in appearance. It is covered in a dull grey membrane and resembles a gigantic, convoluted fungus. Its inscrutability has captivated scientists, philosophers and artists from the ancient Egyptians to modern times. It is, of course, the human brain. |
| Great tales from English History
|  From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Now, in Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey captures some of the most pivotal moments: the stories and extraordinary characters that helped shape a nation. |
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Ray Mears "Essential Bushcraft"
|  Ray Mears is well known to millions of television viewers through his acclaimed series
Tracks, Ray Mears World of Survival and Ray Mears Extreme Survival.
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| Melvin Bragg "The Adventure of English"
|  English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, everchanging and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. It seems set to go on. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. |
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Ranulph Fiennes "Captain Scott"
|  The real story of one of the greatest explorers who ever lived by the man described by the Guiness Book of Records as `The world's greatest living explorer' |
| Dave Pelzer "The Privelage of Youth"
|  THE INSPIRATIONAL MISSING CHAPTER IN A STORY OF TRIUMPH AND HOPE
Being a teenager can be a traumatic time for anyone. But when you're also being pushed between a series of foster homes, families and schools, it can be nothing short of bewildering. |
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Tony Parsons "One for my baby"
|  Like his runaway best seller, "Man and Boy", Tony Parsons's new novel is full of laughter and tears, biting social comment and over-whelming emotion. |
| Joanne Harris - Holy Fools
|  From the Author of "Chocolat"
Set in seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette..... |
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Patrick Gale "A sweet obscurity"
|  Dido, the nine-year old heroine and emotional centre of Patrick Gale's latest painful comedy, knows that the adults who surround her, the adults who should know better, depend on her for happiness. |
| Chris Ryan "Greed"
|  Five Men, One Robbery. A deadly game of greed, revenge and betrayal is about to begin.
Fresh out of the SAS, Matt Browning is down on his luck. He owes £500,000. If he does'nt get the money soon, he dies. |
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Melvin Burgess "doing it "
|  Melvin Burgess's book Lady: My life as a Bitch stripped all the sensibilities about sex from books for teenagers. He promised us all a `knobby book for boys' and this is it. |
| Frederick Forsyth "Avenger"
|  A young American aid volunteer, Ricky Colenso, is brutally murdered in the former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Ricky's murderer leads Edmond to Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what starts as a personal, domestic tragedy soon explodes into a terrifying drama on the centre stage of world terrorism. |
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Adam Thirwell "Politics"
|  Politics tells the story of a father and daughter. It also tells the story of a menage a trois.
Politics explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette. What should the sleeping arrangements be in a menage a trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you? Is it permissible to be jealous? If you have eczema, may you complain that undinism can be painful? |
| Peter Ackroyd "The Clerkenwell Tales"
|  The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of an apocalypse. The strangest and most interesting king in English history, Richard II, is on the throne; yet the latter part of his reign has been troubled by strange signs and portents. A nun from the convent of Clerkenwell, Sister Clarice, has been vouchsafed visions of the future. Is she a genuine prophet, or the tool of earthly powers? There is a sect of predestined men who believe that they must invoke the last judgement and the day of doom, but there are also sinister forces opposed to them ... |
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| Joseph O'Connor "Star of the Sea"
|  In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York.
On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his family, an aspiring novelist, a maker of revolutionary ballads, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. |
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Minette Waters "Altered Minds"
|  In 1970 Howard Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old, was convicted on disputed evidence of brutally murdering his grandmother in her Dorset home. Less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide by self-hatred and relentless bullying by other prisoners. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he was innocent? |
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