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Author
Publisher
Aurum
Pub. Date
2008
Description
This biography is a meticulously researched portrait of the inventer and pioneer of Gonzo journalism. A serious writer, revolutionary stylist, and an artist who broke down barriers between fact and fiction, Hunter S. Thompson changed the way we think about journalism.
2) River marked
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Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Mercy Thompson is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. And she's never known any others of her kind. Until now. As Mercy comes to terms with this new information, an evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River. Something deadly is coming, facts are thin on the ground and Mercy feels ill at ease.
Author
Publisher
Yellow Kite
Pub. Date
2018
Description
After six years in the limelight starring on hit E4 reality show 'Made in Chelsea', Louise Thompson shares the story of her last 12 months where she has transformed from anxiety-ridden party girl with a destructive relationship with food and little concern for her health and happiness to someone who has found peace, direction and self-love through nurturing herself. This book will take you through her favourite home workouts, tips for self-care and...
Author
Publisher
Sport Media
Pub. Date
2005
Description
The story of one of the world's most famous clubs told by Liverpool skipper Phil Thompson. A football figure who has inspired both emotion and controversy, Thompson talks in detail about the highs and lows of life as Liverpool and England captain.
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Description
In 1973, Brian Thompson kissed the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth North for the first time, in a busy supermarket car park along the Leeds ring road. This is the story of the unexpectedly joyous consequences - ones to baffle many, not least themselves - until her death, aged 78. Both were writers, though very different in ambition and achievement. They came from opposite ends of the social register - she an Admiral's daughter, he the descendant of...
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018
Description
On the night of October 3rd 1922, as Edith and her husband Percy were walking home from the theatre, a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was Frederick Bywaters. When the police learnt of his relationship with Thompson, Edith - who had denied knowledge of her husband's assailant - was arrested as his accomplice. Her love letters to Bywaters, read out at the ensuing trial, sealed her fate. Edith and Frederick were...
Author
Publisher
Ebury Spotlight
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Louise was like any other excited mother-to-be during her first pregnancy, but no one could have predicted what happened when she gave birth. During an emergency c-section, she had severe complications and fought for her life over a number of days, whilst her son was taken into NICU. This terrifying experience impacted on Louise's mental health in a way that completely changed her life, as she has battled to come to terms with what happened to her,...
Author
Publisher
Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2014
Description
While the 'Lark Rise to Candleford' trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself. In this book, bestselling biographer and nature writer Richard Mabey sympathetically retraces her life and her transformation from a post-office clerk who left school at 14 to a sophisticated professional writer.
11) Soul taken
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Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The vampire Wulfe is missing. Since he's deadly, possibly insane, and his current idea of "fun" is stalking Mercy, some may see it as no great loss. But when he disappears, the Tri-Cities pack is blamed. The mistress of the vampire seethe informs Mercy that the pack must produce Wulfe to prove their innocence, or the loose alliance between the local vampires and werewolves is over. So Mercy goes out to find her stalker - but discovers that Wulfe's...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Thompson groped his way to being a grown up. He excelled at school and met a girl - the girl of the title - who recognised his ambition to escape the miserable lives his parents had made for each other. After a disastrous childhood, he set himself the task of discovering the healing waters of pure ordinariness.
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Publisher
Atlantic
Pub. Date
2006
Description
What's it like to be the man of the house when you're still only a boy? In 'Keeping Mum', Brian Thompson describes such a story. Whilst other children were evacuated out of the big cities, Brian found himself travelling into London, and spent much of the war with an eccentric crowd of ribald relations.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Gentle, modest and handsome, a fine poet, proficient in nine languages, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. The elder of two sons of a formidable family of writers, lover of Iris Murdoch, he was an intellectual idealist. This book tells his story.
17) Lark rise
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Series
Publisher
Chivers
Pub. Date
2008
Description
The Oxfordshire hamlet of Lark Rise bustles with activity. The tightly-knit farming community includes the gossip, the midwife, the pedlars, the borrowers and the gypsies, as well as the clerics and the old folks who hate to see the traditions fade.
Author
Publisher
Unbound
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Laura Thompson's grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican's license in her own name and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed to embody their essence. Laura spent part of her childhood in her grandmother's Home Counties establishment, mesmerised by the landlady's gift for creating the mix of the everyday and the theatrical that defined the pub's atmosphere, making...
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Series
Appears on list
Description
In 2003, England won the Rugby World Cup. Steve Thompson was there, in England's front row, at the heart of the match, and at the heart of the scrum - one of sport's most destructive, repetitive impacts. But the triumphs came at a cost. When rugby union turned professional, Steve was plunged into a game where raw power meant everything. Today, he remembers nothing about playing in that final. In his words, watching the tape back is like watching a...
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2007
Description
On 3rd December 2005, 13-year-old Charlotte Thompson and her school friend were killed by a train at Elsenham station in Essex. They were crossing the tracks to catch a train to Cambridge, there was no footbridge at the station. Charlie's father began writing letters to his lost daughter, this volume contains some of them.