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Cape
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
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This portrait follows the career of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann from his arrival in Vietnam in 1962, to his death in 1972. It deals centrally with his outspoken disillusionment with the war and his role as a civilian in the pacification programme afterwards where he rose to become the first American civilian to wield a general's command in the war.;Neil Sheehan was a Vietnam war correspondent for "United Press International" and the "New York...
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Headline
Pub. Date
2022
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Dan Walker is back, determined to keep shining a light on the kindness, compassion and selflessness which continue to characterise so many people and their actions right across the country. As one of the UK's leading journalists, Dan has made it his life work to focus on people who often act as the catalysts for change: the unheralded champions who frequently go without getting the recognition they deserve. This book contains a totally fresh batch...
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Sphere
Pub. Date
1982.
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The true story of the 20-year correspondence between Helene Hanff, an American writer living in New York, and Frank Doel, the Manager of Messrs Marks and Co., a bookshop in London's Charing Cross Road. The story is told in the couple's letters.
4) We go high
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Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2022
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Follow the life lessons of 30 remarkable women of colour - past and present - who have made their mark on society and culture. From activists to scientists, artists to sporting icons, each woman's story is different - but all have in common a deep-seated resilience to fight against the prejudices and barriers to success that women of colour face on a daily basis.
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'My mother is not a foodie. But for as long as I can remember, once a year, she becomes possessed of a profound and desperate need to serve up a perfect roast turkey. Faced with a walk into the village though, she might think 'oh, f*** it' and decide to get a frozen one from Bejams on the 23rd and leave it to defrost in the downstairs toilet for not quite 48 hours.' From perennially dry turkeys to Christmas pudding fires, from the round robin code...
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Charnwood
Pub. Date
2019
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For more than half a century, a shared love of canals and narrowboats has been inseparable from the marriage of Timothy West and Prunella Scales. The two iconic actors have spent many of the happiest days of their life together enjoying the calming pleasures of watching land and nature unfold before them at four miles an hour. In 2014, Tim and Pru took to the canals of Britain and beyond with a television crew and a brief to record their best-loved...
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Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
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The most torrid post-war period in politics has arguably been from 2010 to today. No one is better placed to give an insider's view than Rt Hon Dame Andrea Leadsom MP, who came into Parliament in the wake of both the financial crisis and the expenses scandal to experience at first hand the incredible highs and lows of the events that would follow.
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Robinson
Pub. Date
2021
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Patrick Vernon's landmark '100 Great Black Britons' campaign of 2003 was one of the most successful movements to focus on the role of people of African and Caribbean descent in British history. Frustrated by the widespread and continuing exclusion of the black British community from the mainstream popular conception of 'Britishness', despite black people having lived in Britain for over a thousand years, Vernon set up a public poll in which anyone...
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Ebury
Pub. Date
2004
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In 1936 the Mass Observation Project was set up. The idea was that ordinary people would record, in diary form, what happened in their everyday lives. Simon Garfield has woven a tapestry of diary entries, focusing mainly on six characters, in the period from 1945 to 1950. The result is moving, intriguing, funny and at times heart-breaking.
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Corsair
Pub. Date
2024
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When acclaimed journalist Jake Adelstein hires a former Yakuza boss, known as the 'Tsunami', to be his driver and bodyguard, he soon finds himself swept into the violent heart of Tokyo's organised crime syndicates. From gambling rackets and ritualised killings, to the forbidden pleasures of 'soapland', Adelstein's unlikely friendship with the 'Tsunami' gains him unprecedented access to the Yakuza - now under threat after years of tacit acceptance...
11) Educated
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Pub. Date
2018
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Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father...
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Constable
Pub. Date
2022
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Femme fatale. Evil stepmother. Astute businesswomen. Just some of the many labels thrown at the conspicuous Raine Spencer: Countess, socialite and stepmother to Princess Diana. But who was the real Raine? What was masked behind the public facade? From middle-class London girl to Countess and wife of Earl Spencer, 'Three Times a Countess' recounts Raine's fascinating - and scandalous - life, demystifying her scathing tabloid reputation and uncovering...
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Bantam
Pub. Date
2007
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Chris Hunter joined the British Army in 1989 at 16. He was commissioned from Sandhurst at 21 and later qualified as a counter terrorist bomb disposal operator. His job today is to make safe the British sector in Iraq against some of the most hardened and technically advanced terrorists in the world.
14) Secret spirit
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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No one knows more about the secrets of the spirit world and the hidden energy that it holds than Britain's favourite psychic Sally Morgan. And now, for the first time, she shares her knowledge with you. Secret Spirit is Sally's ground-breaking guide to the power of spirit and how to harness it to improve life, love, health and happiness. She explores the world of spirit, dabbles with the dead and explains how we are all connected to a higher energy...
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Tim Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's THE ARCHERS since 1982. He is also the Earl of Portland - without an estate or riches - and the voice of 'Mind the Gap' on the Piccadilly Line. Timothy takes the reader behind the scenes of THE ARCHERS, the longest-running drama series in the world. With wry self-deprecating humour, he recounts his enormously varied life - a successful actor in TV, film and theatre; an HGV truck driver;...
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In this full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life is a remarkable story of success against all the odds. Billy found his escape first as an apprentice welder in the shipyards of the River Clyde. Later he became...
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Metro
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Can we fix how we look after children in care? Government cuts, unregulated care homes, inadequate staff training - campaigner and care home manager Chris Wild has seen it all. The low standards and frequent abuse of children in care has long been a focal point of his loud message: we are failing our young people and something needs to change. Just how regulated are semi-independent care homes? How can we class young people as adults at 16? What help...
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As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. She has seen what has been accomplished by the movement in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three marriages, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracing one's sexuality....
19) Diddly Squat
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Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. Since taking the wheel three years ago Jeremy's had his work cut out. And it's now clear from hard-won experience that, when it comes to farming, there's only one golden rule: Whatever you hope will happen, won't. Enthusiastic and inventive schemes to diversify have met with stubborn opposition from the red trouser brigade, defeat at the hands of Council Planning department, and predictable derision from Kaleb - although,...
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Oakhill
Pub. Date
2014
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Barbara and Andy Seed are now settled into their Yorkshire Dales village, but at school trouble arrives for Andy in the form of nine-year-old Sheena. Andy Seed returns to Cragthwaite brimming with confidence and looking forward to a year that is bound to bring its own rewards, as well as its share of mishaps and misadventures.