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Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
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From an idyllic childhood growing up in Cornwall, to working as press officer for two Prime Ministers, Barbara Hosking went from rural obscurity straight to the forefront of British government, and found herself at the centre of power during a testing time in both domestic and world politics. She subsequently went on to become part of the rise and development of breakfast television. 'Exceeding My Brief' is also the very personal story of her struggle...
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Jack McNulty is a temporary gentleman, an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around...
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Pub. Date
2017
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London in 1934. Clever young civil servant Doreen Bates is working in the same office as E, an older married man. In the years just before the war, they develop an irresistible attraction to one another and strike up a passionate affair. Doreen records it all with startling candour in her diary - secret midnight walks, countryside escapades and stolen moments of intimacy. But Doreen starts to long for a child with E. Despite all the taboos of the...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2012
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Using a wealth of personal letters, memoirs, testimonies, interviews and other sources, Mary Fulbrook pieces together the role of a civilian official in the unfolding stigmatization and degradation of the Jews under his authority, as well as the heroic attempts at resistance on the part of some of his victims.
7) Killing ways
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Series
Ren Bryce volume 5
Publisher
Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
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Dark times lie ahead for FBI Special Agent Ren Bryce when she takes on a depraved serial killer fuelled by a warped sense of justice. A master of evasion, each life he takes ramps up Ren's obsession with finding him. Then one victim changes everything, and brings Ren face to face with a detective whose life was destroyed by the same pursuit. Together, can they defeat this monster? Or will he take them both down?
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In this honest and entertaining audiobook, Dickie Arbiter recounts his life's journey from a broadcast journalist to becoming a press spokesman to the Royal family and back again to journalism. He discusses the inner workings of everyday life in Buckingham Palace and what it was really like to work under the media spotlight with the most famous family in the world. Dickie Arbiter gives his personal insights into events that shaped his relationship...
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Pub. Date
2019
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London in the 1950s. Lottie is a reluctant typist at MI5 and the even more reluctant daughter of the organisation's most illustrious spy. Now she has had the bad luck to fall in love with Harry, a handsome if frustrated young actor, who has also been press-ganged into the family business, acting as one of her father's undercover agents in the Communist hotbed of British theatre. Together the two young lovers embark on a star-studded adventure through...
10) Flawless
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MIRA
Pub. Date
2016
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There's a pub in New York City that's been in the Finnegan family for generations. Now Kieran and her three brothers own it. Kieran Finnegan is also, as it happens, a criminal psychologist-a fitting reaction, perhaps, to her less-than-lawful teenage past. Meanwhile, New York?s Diamond District has been hit by a rash of thefts. No one?s been killed-until now. FBI agent Craig Frasier is brought in to investigate; he and Kieran meet at a jewelry store...
11) Invisible
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Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emma has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her nightly recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emma's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison 'Books' Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That...
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2019.
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Tom Marcus spent years of his life undercover, waging a secret war on the streets against those who want to do us harm. Now, for the first time, he tells the full story of what it is like to live your life in the shadows and who you need to become to survive. First published in 2016, 'Soldier Spy' was a series of stories from Tom's years in MI5 and has now sold over 250,000 copies across all editions and was a Sunday Times bestseller for five months....
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Robinson
Pub. Date
2019
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'Voices from the Blue' tells the story of 100 years of service of female police officers within the Metropolitan Police through the voices of the women who fought their way towards equality and won the respect of both their colleagues and the public. The authors have interviewed hundreds of former and serving policewomen and with the co-operation of the Metropolitan Police and the Women's Police Association now have access to the files and stories...
14) Always red
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Publisher
OR Books
Pub. Date
2022
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Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage. In this major autobiography, McCluskey throws back the curtains on life at the top of the Labour movement - with explosive revelations about his dealings with Keir Starmer, the behind-the-scenes battles of the Corbyn era, his secret Brexit negotiations with Theresa May's government,...
15) Daylight
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Atlee Pine volume 3
Pub. Date
2020
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Atlee joins forces with old friend and military investigator, John Puller, in her search for the truth about her sister.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
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When Charlotte Bingham, daughter of an obscure aristocrat, was summoned to her father's office aged 18, she never expected to discover that this aloof, soberly-dressed parent was a spy. Even more ominous than The Facts was his suggestion that she should stop drifting around working for the sort of people her mother could never ask to dinner and get a proper job, something patriotic and worthwhile. So Lottie finds herself outside MI5's Mayfair offices...
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Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2018
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Ed Kennedy-Macfoy has spent over a decade serving in the London Fire Brigade, attending many of the capital's biggest incidents, from the blaze at Grenfell Tower to the Croydon tram derailment and the London floods. In 'Into the Fire', Ed offers an unforgettable insight into the highs and low of the fire service.
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Constable
Pub. Date
2016
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'Portland Place' is the diary of Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, which she recently uncovered whilst clearing out her loft. Working as a secretary for the BBC at the time, Sarah's diary describes the life of a suburban girl who certainly wasn't 'swinging' but who was, ironically, not only working on a cutting edge BBC survey on sex education but also in the throes of an unlikely affair with middle-aged, working-class, Irish lift attendant, Frank....
19) Second honeymoon
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Honeymoon volume 2
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A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite - and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it becomes clear that someone is targeting honeymooners. FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep into the case, trying to figure out who this deranged killer is. At the same time, Special Agent Sarah Brubaker is hunting another ingenious serial killer, whose victims all have one chilling...
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Pub. Date
2011
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1904, London. Lydia Daye adores her husband John, but his government job means he is away for much of the time and she feels as if she is bringing up their son alone. Dolly Ellerway is six months pregnant and about to marry her boyfriend. One day Lydia sends a letter to her husband that will change both women's lives forever.