| My Life So Far - Jane Fonda
|  An account of an extraordinary woman - Oscar winner, controversial political activist, groundbreaking fitness guru, wife, mother, lover, philanthropist. |
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| Senor Nice - Howard Marks
|  Howard Marks was released after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career. |
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| The Mitfords - Charlotte Mosley
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The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely
gifted family.
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Jason Donovan - Between the Lines
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Jason Donovan burst onto our TVs in the 80s as Scott Robinson from Neighbours, one half of TV couple Scott and Charlene with Kylie Minogue. Kylie and Jason became the celebrity couple of the eighties and released the number one Stock, Aitken and Waterman hit Especially For You in 1988. |
| Johnson Beharry VC - Barefoot Soldier
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On 18 March 2005, Johnson Beharry, a private with the 1st Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, received Britain's highest award for gallantry. He became the first living recipient of the Victoria Cross for nearly forty years.
Born a world away, in an isolated village on the Caribbean island of Grenada, Johnson forged his instincts for survival against a backdrop of grinding poverty. One of eight children, with a volatile, alcoholic father, he grew up in a tiny wooden shack, never knowing what challenges the next day would bring.
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Lynne Truss - Talk to the Hand
|  From the author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves
For hundreds of years, we have had books on manners. The subject preoccupies us. What is acceptable behavior? After how long should you write your thank-you note? What sort of wedding gift is appropriate for the second marriage of a widowed ex-hermit, twelfth in line to the throne, whose fiancée is set to inherit all of Wiltshire south of Devizes?
Talk to the Hand is not a book about manners or etiquette. It is about the rudeness of the modern world, and the sense of outrage that infects us everyday as we discover that other people are - generally speaking - crass, selfish, and inconsiderate. That man just dropped a cigarette packet on the floor. Should you do anything? You say to the shop assistant, "Can you tell me the price of this? There doesn't appear to be a label", and she says, "What do you think I am, psychic!' In her follow-up to Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss asks why rudeness is a universal flashpoint and examines specific sources of affront.
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Alan Bennett - Untold Stories
|  Untold Stories is Alan Bennett s first collection of prose since Writing Home and takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret.
Also included are his much-celebrated diaries for the years 1996 to 2004, as well as essays, reviews, lectures and reminiscences ranging from childhood trips to the local cinema and a tour around Leeds City Art Gallery to reflections on writing, honors and his Westminster Abbey eulogy for Thora Hird. At times heartrending and at others extremely funny, Untold Stories is a matchless and unforgettable anthology. |
| "Cornwall" by Richard Strong
|  'Cornwall' photographs by Richard Strong with a Foreword by Tim Smit
A stunning collection of over 200 colour images evoking the essence of this beautiful county
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Toyah Wilcox Diary of a Facelift
|  Like many women in her mid-forties, Toyah Willcox felt an increasing distance between the lively, energetic person she knew herself to be, and the tired, lined face that stared back at her in the mirror. And working in an industry which places such a high value on the marketability of `youth', she knew that at some point she would have to confront her options. After a few years' experimenting with diet and Botox, she vowed to take the plunge. She would have a facelift.
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| Joanna Lumley "No Room for Secrets"
|  PATSY STONE in "Absolutely Fabulous"
Purdey in "The New Avengers"
Bond Girl in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
Sapphire in "Sapphire and Steel"
A Castaway in "Girl Friday"
Actress, Model,Writer, Campaigner, Inventor,TV Presenter and Journalist:
Joanna Lumley has played many roles in her lifetime, but rarely had the opportunity to reveal her true self |
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Brian Keenan "Four Quarters of Light"
|  Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began when he was a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school. The book was Jack London's wondrous Call o f the Wild. And Alaska's mesmeric wilderness has permeated Keenan's life ever since. |
| SOLO by: Pen Hadow
|  Pen Hadow is an authentic British hero, one of the most highly acclaimed polar explorers of his generation. His most recent and remarkable Arctic endeavour earned him a reputation as 'The Human Icebreaker'.
In spring 2003, fulfilling a deathbed vow to his father, Pen Hadow became the first man ever to complete a solo trek, without resupply, to the North Pole from the more arduous North American sside, surviving a fall through thin ice into the freezing Arctic waters that almost cost him his life. |
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Supreme Courage - General Sir Peter de la Billiere
|  Since the 1850s the Victoria Cross has been the highest award for gallantry in the British armed forces. It bears the simple legend `For Valour', but behind it lie legends of a different kind: humbling tales of almost unimaginable bravery.
Supreme Courage tells some of those stories, bringing the history of the medal alive with blowby-blow accounts of courage in action. |
| Lord Charles Brocket
|  HIS TITLE IS LORD BROCKET OF BROCKET HALL.
He seemed like the token toff when he signed up for the hit ITV show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! But within days he was bonding with Johnny Rotten, fondling Jordan, and taking to the Australian jungle as if to the manner born.
Charlie Brocket's irrepressible sense of fun endeared him to millions. But the Brocket we saw then is only one side of his larger-than-life personality. Now, in this searingly candid autobiography, he tells his incredible tale in full. Often shocking, frequently hilarious, and always surprising, it lifts the lid on the extraordinary history of his family and shows how wrong our assumptions about the aristocracy can be. |
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Roger Penrose
|  The Road to Reality is the most important
and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader, so that, for example, the early chapters give us the vital mathematical background to the physical theories explored later in the book. |
| David Starkey "Six Wives"
|  From the Author of Elizabeth
Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.
The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth... one of the most zestful pieces of narrative history |
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"Slipstream" by Elizabeth Howard
|  In this candid and remarkable memoir, Elizabeth Jane Howard tells the story of her eventful life, using her skills as a novelist to reveal the friends, family and times that she knew and loved. |
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