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Pub. Date
2022
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Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to each role continue to captivate new audiences today. But Rickman's artistry wasn't confined to just his performances. Fans of memoirs at large will delight in the...
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Tom Gates volume 8
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Tom has to come up with a plan to save his belongings when his mum decides to have a mega-clean of the house.
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Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and 'This Is Going to Hurt' intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is a first-hand account of life as a junior doctor in all its joy, pain, sacrifice and maddening bureaucracy, and a love letter to those who might at any...
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John Blake
Pub. Date
2020
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When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969, to halt the threat of a new rising force - the Provisional Irish Republican Army - they could not have known that the longest campaign in the British Army's history was beginning. While patrols, vehicle bombs and incendiary speeches are the defining memories of the Troubles, the real war was fought out of sight and out of mind. For thirty years, Britain's Special Forces waged a ferocious,...
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Double Dork Diaries volume 13
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Nikki and her friends have to come up with a plan to save the day when her mum tells her that her birthday party plans are too expensive.
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Taking its cue from 'Diary of a Provincial Lady', E.M. Delafield's dry-witted classic of domesticity and other vexations, 'Are we having fun yet?' is a comic novel about the vicissitudes of domestic life chez frantic narrator Liz Dashwood. Like Bridget Jones (the third) without the death. Like Fleabag without the glamour or the priest and in a book. Like Nina Stibbe before she thinks of it. From the deep rage of knowing where to find every single...
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2016
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Alan Bennett's third collection of prose 'Keeping On Keeping On' follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successfully 'Writing Home' and 'Untold Stories', each published ten years apart. The latest collection contains Bennett's peerless diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre, a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of 'The History Boys' and 'The Lady in the Van'.
18) Dear Martin
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Simon & S
Pub. Date
2018
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A black honour student starts keeping a journal in which he writes to Martin Luther King Jr.
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2014
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You know what she says out loud. Can you imagine what she writes in her diary? Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making smash hit 'I Hate Everyone ... Starting With Me', the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified - who the hell does Melissa think she is? That fat pig, Bridget Jones? But as Joan, being both beautiful and introspective, begins to...