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No one does glamour, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's best-loved actors. This new biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer. From her days as a West End star of comedy, Dame Maggie's path crossed with those of the greatest actors of the era, including Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier and Ingmar Bergman. Her career is a 'Who's Who' of British theatre in the...
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Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2015
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It's Eddie's birthday and he's looking forward to a birthday party filled with fun, games and ... dragons? Ziggy and Arthur are the unexpected guests, but their idea of a good time involves eating everything in sight and ruining the party magician's tricks. Is Eddie in for the wrong kind of birthday surprise?
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Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith and her family move from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. Tragedy strikes when Emma's father suffers a catastrophic breakdown and, in 1939, war becomes a reality. Determined to make a difference to the war effort, Emma chooses to work on canal boats, where she must learn to deal with hard manual labour, a sinking vessel, and buckets instead of toilets. When the war finally ends,...
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Metro
Pub. Date
2004
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When Ray Smith's wife Grace developed Alzheimer's disease, the couple decided to treat the illness as simply the latest adventure in their long and loving marriage. This book explains the secrets of how the couple learned to control the disease and embarked on a series of glorious adventures.
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017
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Tim Pigott-Smith is one of our most loved contemporary actors whose distinctive face is known the world over. Ever since his rise to fame playing the part of Ronald Merrick in the TV version of 'The Jewel in the Crown' (an adaptation of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet), he has been consistently employed on stage and film in a huge variety of roles. Most recently he completed a long run in the title role of Mike Bartlett's award-winning play 'King Charles...
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2018
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Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. From being attacked by lions to close encounters with deadly reef sharks, from getting lost in the African bush without water to crawling the precarious tunnels of gold mines, from marlin fishing with Lee Marvin to near death from crash-landing a Cessna airplane, from brutal school days to redemption through writing...
11) Wasted?
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Know the Score!
Pub. Date
2007
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'Wasted' tells the story of Paul Smith, the first English cricketer to be banned from playing the sport he loves for taking drugs.
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Orion
Pub. Date
2013
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With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group - Covert-One. It is only activated as a last resort. When Christian Dresner of Dresner Industries unveils a device that will revolutionise the world - the Merge, a personal computer that communicates directly with your brain - army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith is assigned to assess its...
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Pub. Date
2015
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One evening in Washington DC several members of the government are kidnapped. Among them is Nick Rendel, a coding expert in charge of drone programming and strategy. He is the victim with the most dangerous knowledge, including confidential passwords and codes that are used to programme the drones. Jon Smith and the Covert-One team begin a search to recover the officials, but as the first kidnapping victims are rescued, they show signs of brainwashing....
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Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2021
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Over a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original - and defied simple categorisation.Their frontman and lyricist Mark E. Smith spun opaque tales that resisted conventional understanding; the Fall's worldview was an education in its own right. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M.R. James, shipping-dock procedures, contemporary dance, Manchester City and Can?...
15) Adam Smith
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Profile
Pub. Date
2006
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Widely considered to be the father of a neo-conservative ideology of unregulated business and small government, Adam Smith's concepts have been adopted by many politicians in recent years. In this biography, James Buchan proves that Smith fits no modern political categories, and that his theories have been misrepresented by many.
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Orion Books
Pub. Date
2015
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An attack on a Japanese warship brings Japan and China to the brink of war. Meanwhile, top Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is sent on a mission to recover mysterious material from the wreckage of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. When Smith fails to return, CIA agent Randi Russell heads off on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She quickly discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by hawkish military chief of staff Masao...
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Liz Smith is one of Britain's much loved character actresses. This is her life story - from her cosseted yet lonely childhood with her beloved grandparents, through the war, marriage and children, divorce and poverty, long years working in dead-end jobs to her big break at the age of fifty.