Autobiography: adventurers and explorers Books
Faber & Faber Who am I again
Book SynopsisSir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time.You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think again.'Glorious.' NEIL GAIMAN'Touching and affectionate.' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, SUNDAY TIMES'Heartfelt . . . honest.' OBSERVER'Moving, powerful and very funny.' MAIL ON SUNDAYIn 1975, a gangly black sixteen-year-old apprentice factory worker from Dudley appeared on our TV screens for the first time. He had no idea he would go on to become a national treasure. Here at last, Sir Lenny Henry tells the revealing and very funny story of his rise to fame.Surviving a tough family upbringing, along with the trauma of finding out the truth about his father at a young age, Lenny beat the odds. With a riotous warmth and his trademark energy, in Who Am I, Again?<
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Faber & Faber Black Teacher
Book SynopsisThe rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo (''I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and entertained'')Benjamin Zephaniah: ''A must-read. Her life makes you laugh. Her life makes you cry. Get to know her.''Jacqueline Wilson: ''A superb but shocking memoir ... Imaginative, resilient and inspiring.''Christie Watson: ''A beautiful memoir of one woman''s strength and dignity against the odds.''Steve McQueen: ''Gilroy blazed a path that empowered generations of Black British educators.''David Lammy: ''This empowering tale of courage, resistance, and triumph is a breath of fresh air.''Diana Evans: ''Important, enlightening and very entertaining, full of real-life drama ... Inspirational.''Paul Mendez: ''Written with a novelist's ear and sense of atmo
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Random House USA Inc The Light We Carry
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 • In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.” She details her most valuable practices, like “starting kind,” “going high,” and assembling a “kitchen table” of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness. “When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it,” writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Visible Man
Book SynopsisFrom one of our culture''s most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriers.When Edward Enninful became the first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few in the world of fashion wanted to confront how it failed to represent the world we live in. But Edward, a champion of inclusion throughout his life, rapidly changed that. Now, whether it’s putting first responders, octogenarians or civil rights activists on the cover of Vogue, or championing designers and photographers of colour, Edward Enninful has cemented his status as one of his world’s most important changemakers. A Visible Man traces an astonishing journey into one of the world’s most exclusive industries. Edward candidly shares how as a Black, gay, working-class refugee, he found in fashion not only a home, but the freedom to share with people the world as he saw it. Written with style, grace, and heart, A Visible Man
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Penguin Putnam Inc Hijab Butch Blues
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Hogarth Solito
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller ? Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today ? Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography ? Winner of the American Library Association Alex AwardA young poet tells the inspiring story of hismigration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this?gripping memoir? (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ? One of the New York Public Library?s Ten Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award?I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.??Emma Straub ?A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.??Dave EggersONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago??one day, you?ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.? Javier Zamora?s adventure is athree-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and acrossthe U.S. border.He will leave behindhis beloved aunt and grandparentsto reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling aloneamida group of strangers and a ?coyote? hired to lead them to safety, Javierexpects histriptolast two short weeks.At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents? arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito providesan immediate and intimate accountnot onlyof a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but alsoofthe miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is JavierZamora?sstory, but it?s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.
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Random House Publishing Group Knife
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Random House USA Inc Too Precious to Lose
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Tafelberg Publishers Ltd A Passion for Freedom
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Publishing Print Matters End of the deadline
Book SynopsisHarvey Tyson has followed the dictates of his itch' to write for over 70 years. He is probably best remembered for his byline in many respected newspapers, in SA and abroad, when he was a full-time news journalist for 44 years particularly as editor-in-chief of the Johannesburg Star for 16 years in the days of apartheid South Africa.Table of ContentsPart 1 – The nature of the beast: 1. Setting the scene; 2. Press mogul pisses on the people; 3. Profile of a journalist; 4. Household names in the writing trade; 5. Mischievous misprints; 6. Dangerous misprints; 7. Best writing: fiction or non-fiction?; 8. Reports from a green and pleasant land; Part 2 – Telling it like it is: 9. A fearful spectacle, defying censorship; 10. Journalists’ eyewitness accounts; 11. The Dead Hand; 12. The Berlin Wall; 13. In the fog: Wat ye Tyler and other Stirring Tales; 14. Africa’s greatest war; 15. Master spy and global murders; 16. ‘The bravest editor in the cemetery’; 17. The Times vs. ‘Jack the Ripper’ Part 3 – Past and the future of the press: 18. Pulitzer and the birth of ‘popular’ newspapers; 19. The Press Barons who wanted to be Emperors; 20. US Champions of press freedom; 21. The man who saved South Africa’s ‘black’ press; 22. The price of true and constant independence; 23. Beware the disguised enemy within; 24. Murdoch the mighty media manager ... Mmmm; 25. It depends how you use ‘Independence’; 26. When ‘independence’ becomes a fake; 27. How the Past could affect the world’s Future; 28. Online investigators bring down the President; 29. In search of a place to talk freely; 30. Conflict and the Press; 31. The end of mainstream newspapers; 32. The future of journalism; Index; Acknowledgements.
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Random House USA Inc Schoolteacher In Old Alaska Story of Hannah
Book SynopsisWhen Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling in the narrative gaps, but always allowing the original words to ring clearly. It is more than an adventure story: it is a powerful work of women's history that provides important--and, at times, unsettling--insights into the unexamined assumptions and attitudes that governed white settler's behavior toward native communities at the turn of the century. 'An unforgettable...story of a remarkable woman who lived a heroic life.'--The New York Times
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International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S. My Life as a Political Prisoner The Rebel Girl
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John Murray Press Sleeping Around Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress
Book SynopsisThreesomes, sorbet sex, drunk dialling, multiple orgasms, girly gossip-swaps, buying silk underwear - welcome to dating the modern girl's way.Trade Review'Sexy, confident and brimming with attitude' * Cosmopolitan *'Sexy ... laugh-out-loud funny ... very Carrie Bradshaw: witty,bracing, packed with handy advice' * Observer Woman *'She's frank. She's funny. And she doesn't mind admitting she's filthy too.' * Independent *'A no-holds-barred account of Catherine's erotic adventures ... Lots of fun and very Sex and the City' * Closer *'Phew!' * News of the World *
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John Murray Press Belonging
Book SynopsisAbandoned by her parents, Sameem Ali spent six and a half years growing up in a children''s home. When she was told that her family wanted to take her back she couldn''t wait to start her new life with them. Instead, she returned to a dirty house where she was subjected to endless chores. Her mother began to beat her and her unhappiness drove her to self-harm. So Sameem was excited when she boarded a plane with her mother to visit Pakistan for the first time. It was only after they arrived in her family''s village that she realised she wasn''t there on holiday. Aged just thirteen, Sameem was forced to marry a complete stranger. When pregnant, two months later, she was made to return to Glasgow where she suffered further abuse from her family.After finding true love, Sameem fled the violence at home and escaped to Manchester with her young son. She believed she had put her horrific experiences behind her, but was unprepared for the consequences of violating her familyTrade Review'The very real threat of an honour killing. Misery rating 4 stars' * Eve *'In Belonging, Sameem Ali describes her experience of forced marriage, a subject that is rarely written about by those who have been involved in it. It is a powerful and courageous account and offers a unique perspective on this important issue' * Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, Co-Chairman of the HM Government's working group on forced marriage 2001 *'Sam Ali's story is a moving, human one which puts a real person into the often sensationalised media story of forced marriage. Sam has told her own life story in a way which will evoke variously, sympathy and sadness from people from all backgrounds.' * Tony Lloyd MP, Manchester Central *
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Hachette Australia Bumper
Book SynopsisThe sprawling saga of legendary Australian cop, Bumper Farrell, the most feared and revered policeman in Australia''s history.Frank ''Bumper'' Farrell was the roughest, toughest street cop and vice-squad leader Australia has ever seen. Strong as a bull, with cauliflowered ears and fists like hams, Bumper''s beat from 1938 to 1976 was the most lawless in the land - the mean streets of Kings Cross and inner Sydney. His adversaries were such notorious criminals as Abe Saffron, Lennie McPherson, Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh and their gangs as well as the hooligans, sly groggers, SP bookies, pimps and spivs.Criminals knew just where they stood: he would catch them, he would hurt them, and then he would lock them away. He was a legendary Rugby League player for Newtown, and represented Australia against England and New Zealand.Here''s Bumper Farrell in brutal, passionate and hilarious action . . . saving Ita Buttrose from a stalker; sparking a national scandaTrade Reviewchockers with anecdotes about his life and times on and off the field. - Peter FitzSimons fascinating ... [a] fine biography - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD a tough cop, in a tough place, in a tough time ... a fascinating but but flawed man ... Bumper Farrell made his own rules and enforced them. - HERALD SUN
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Hachette Australia Songs of a War Boy
Book SynopsisDeng Adut was six years old when war came to his village in South Sudan. Taken from his mother, he was conscripted into the Sudan People''s Liberation Army. He was taught to use an AK-47 then sent into battle.Shot in the back, dealing with illness and the relentless brutality of war, Deng''s future was bleak. A child soldier must kill or be killed. But, after five years, he was rescued by his brother John and smuggled into a Kenyan refugee camp. With the support of the UN and help from an Australian couple, Deng and John became the third Sudanese family resettled in Australia.Despite physical injuries and ongoing mental trauma, Deng seized the chance he''d been given. Deng taught himself to read and, in 2005, he enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws at Western Sydney University.Songs of a War Boy is the inspirational story of a young man who has overcome unthinkable adversity to become a lawyer, refugee advocate and NSW Australian of the Year. Deng''s memoir is an important reminder of the power of compassion and the benefit to us all when we open our doors and our hearts to those fleeing war, persecution and pain.Trade ReviewWhether or not Australia deserves the praise and faith vested in us by Adut, he certainly makes one want to strive to live up to his vision of the nation he now so proudly calls home. * ArtsHub *In our oft overheated conversation about migrants, Songs of a War Boy seriously challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian. It's much less about genetic heritage than the fact that we are welcoming and free and live by the rule of law. Here, there's an immense pride in a citizenship that most of us take for granted. * Sydney Morning Herald *
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Hachette Australia Back on Track
Book SynopsisAs a kid, Bernie Shakeshaft''s mischievous and reckless behaviour led him to became known as the wild one of his devout Catholic family. It isn''t surprising that his path led him to the Northern Territory, a place where people often go to either lose themselves or find themselves. Bernie, a searcher for his purpose in life, found himself.He had many jobs, firstly as a ringer on a cattle station owned by the Packer family, and later as a dingo trapper for the Parks and Wildlife Service. Throughout it all, he drank, he swore, he fought, and took chances with his own well-being. But, crucially, he also developed deep connections with the Indigenous people, and it was these connections that helped lay the foundations for what was to come. He worked for youth welfare organisations, and all the while he built up his knowledge about helping wayward youths, particularly those from Indigenous communities.Years later, Bernie was living in Armidale. He''d been visiting Trade ReviewThis fella Bernie, he's a good fella, a bit of a genius really. What a great story. * Russell Crowe about the documentary, BackTrack Boys *
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Hachette Australia Shine It Up
Book SynopsisSassy and adventurous, Jackie Gillies devours life with style and a smile - and lives it to the shiny brim. Well known to Australian audiences from The Real Housewives of Melbourne and I''m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Jackie has another surprising side: she also works as a psychic medium, booked out months in advance.Jackie was aware of her psychic gift from a very young age, but her career began in banking, where she developed her business skills and entrepreneurial flair. A series of events in 2004 encouraged her to follow her intuition to her true life''s purpose. Jackie believes your thoughts create your reality - and her positive energy and inspiring spiritual guidance have earned her the reputation as one of Australia''s most sought-after psychic mediums.This is the story of a young woman from Newcastle who was on the corporate path, doing all the conventional things, but who found the courage to fo
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Hachette Australia Rock and Tempest
Book SynopsisWhen Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the city with the Women''s Royal Australian Naval Service, Patricia Collins not only lived through Tracy but was part of the massive clean-up effort. This is her extraordinary story.The experience of living through a terrifying natural disaster is chillingly told by Collins as she recounts her own dark hours that Christmas, along with those of her contemporaries. They sat huddled in doorways and bathtubs as the winds raged, lifting off roofs, picking up cars and sinking ships. Most of the city was destroyed. Seventy-one people died.The Navy suffered terrible losses. A patrol boat was sunk with the loss of two crewmen and another was driven onto rocks. A sailor lost his wife and two children, and another lost his young son.In the days after Tracy, the majority of Darwin''s population was evacuated interstate as the Navy''s Task Force arrived to clean up and rebuild. Collins was there as a survivor of Tracy and now an integral part of the recovery.Rock and Tempest contains astonishing first-person accounts of terror and uncertainty as well as courage and survival. It is fascinating and moving, and absolutely essential reading.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Know My Name
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKnow My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful.--Washington PostUniversally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller''s breathtaking memoir gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter. (The Wrap). Her story of trauma and transcendence illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life.Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic.
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Prentice Hall Press Black Boys Like Me
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Headline Publishing Group Till the Sun Grows Cold A Mothers Compelling
Book SynopsisMaggie McCune was born in India during the last vestiges of the British Raj. Her daughter, Emma, whose passion for Africa led her to aid work in Sudan where she fell in love with and married a guerrilla commander of the Sudan People''s Liberation Army, died in a car accident when only 29 and expecting her first baby. TILL THE SUN GROWS COLD weaves together their stories: the bereaved mother trying to make sense of her daughter''s brief, colourful existence through Emma''s writing and diaries, and discovering much about herself as she revisits their shared and separate pasts.Trade Review'McCune intereaves the story of her own upbringing in Assam and disastrous marriage with that of her magnetic and vivacious daughter, meditating poignantly on what it means for a mother to ''outlive her children, to bury them in the earth and walk away.''' Daily Telegraph
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Edinburgh University Press The General Correspondence of James Boswell
Book SynopsisThis is the first of two volumes containing Boswell's correspondence with more than 200 people, including Pitt, Rousseau, Paoli, John Wilkes, Sir Alexander Dick, Baretti and numerous women friends.Trade ReviewThese letters are the stuff of real life and you are left with a feeling of immersion in the 18th century. These letters are the stuff of real life and you are left with a feeling of immersion in the 18th century.
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Edinburgh University Press The General Correspondence of James Boswell
Book SynopsisThe General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769
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The History Press Ltd The London Cabbie
Book SynopsisForty years ago Alf Townsend passed The Knowledge - after 14,000 miles on a moped round central London. Since then he has covered millions of miles in his taxi. This book includes a selection of his extraordinary and hilarious tales of everyday life as a cabbie, in which we meet Mr Whippy and Violent Pete, Bread Roll Mick and the Motorway Mouse, Claude the Bastard and the mysterious Mr X. Alf also examines the history of cab-driving in the capital - including the variety of taxis that have been used - and even tries to shed some light on the most ancient and obscure Hackney Carriage laws that are still on the statute book. (Do you know why a taxi is so tall? So a passenger can get on board wearing a top hat: it''s true...) Concluding with a look at the seamy side of night work, the rise and rise of the mini-cab, and what the future may hold for the London cabbie, Alf Townsend''s book will be entertaining reading for all Londoners, and anyone else who has tr
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The History Press Ltd War Classics
Book SynopsisChristina Keith came from the small town of Thurso on the far north coast of Scotland. Towards the end of the First World War she left behind the sheltered world of academia to live and work among soldiers of all social backgrounds as a lecturer with the Army’s education scheme in France.
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The History Press Ltd Dangerous Work
Book SynopsisBritish military labour during the First World War developed from an ad hoc arrangement in 1914 into a corps some 400,000 strong, supported by as many as a million dominion and foreign workers by 1918. Records of this contribution to victory are extremely rare. George Weeks wrote down his experience on squares of wallpaper always a practical man. And what a record it is. The Somme, Passchendaele and the Messines Ridge all feature in George's calm description of his extraordinary experiences. He camped in the vast graveyard of Cambrai', he cut down an entire forest for duckboards, and he mended the aircraft of Captain Ball VC with dope and linen! With the corps working on the front lines and often under fire, this truly was dangerous work'.
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The History Press Ltd The Secret Premier League Diary of a Cardiff City
Book SynopsisWell, how was it for you? This was Cardiff City's first season in the top flight for more than fifty years, and we kept a diary every step of theway, recording all the highs and lows. We enjoyed victory over the champions, success in the first ever All Wales Premier League derby, and visits to the finest stadiums in the country. But there were oh so many off-the- field misadventures, weren't there? We were led by a chairman who looked like a Bond villain, running a club torn apart by Redv.Blue. We spent more time on the front pages than the back pages as CCFC became Car Crash Football Club. And we wrote it all down. This is our version of a crazy season.
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The History Press Ltd Chasing Black Gold
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The History Press Ltd A Clear Case of Genius
Book SynopsisWith supporting text and images by Philip Vickers, this is a unique insight into the thinking of one of Britain’s pioneering intelligence leaders.
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The History Press Ltd One of the Few
Book SynopsisWritten by 303 squadron leader Johnny Kent, One of the Few is a superb memoir and surprisingly one of only a handful ever written by a Battle of Britain pilot.
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The History Press Ltd The Solitary Spy
Book SynopsisThe Solitary Spy is a unique account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd eventually escaped one step ahead of the KGB.
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The History Press Ltd Honour Restored
Book SynopsisThe Battle of Britain was won in 1940 by the squadrons of Fighter Command under the leadership of Air Chief Marshal Dowding who was given no public honour or recognition for this great achievement in saving Britain from Nazi invasion and occupation - here now is a searching and advanced review which justifies Dowding''s place of honour in British history.This book is written by a Spitfire pilot who served at readiness and in combat throughout the Battle of Britain in day fighter squadrons. His personal observations of the war during 1939 and 1940 combined with many years of research has produced a penetrating review of the Battle with many of the old myths dispelled.The author tells of the sacrifices of the people of Britain, the great courage and tenacity of our young fighter pilots, always outnumbered by the Liftwaffe bombers and fighters. He courageously exposes and shames the appalling behaviour of the Air Ministry cabal of senior officers who attacked and dishonoured Dowding at this time of great crisis in our history.Questions such as: who controlled the Battle? was it Reichsmarschall Goering or the weather? was there really a Big Wing Philosophy or was it just a Big Wing myth? why were WWI night fighting tactics for slow flying biplanes introduced by the Air Ministry in 1940 as a defence over London against fast flying modern Luftwaffe bombers? why was there a cabal and who were the members, plus many more, are discussed?This is a book telling of honour restored to the people of Britain, our fighter pilots, and Air Chief Marshal Dowding - sadly it also tells of dishonour.
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The History Press Ltd The Weinsteins War
Book SynopsisA moving and unique exchange of letters between a Jewish soldier and his wife at home
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Little, Brown Book Group Mommies Who Drink Sex Drugs and Other Distant
Book SynopsisMOMMIES WHO DRINK is a collection of true stories that track Paesel''s experience of motherhood - the common bond that either unites women in friendship or polarizes them to different camps. Wickedly funny and painfully honest, these stories explore what it''s like to be a modern mother. Is it possible to be a mother and a woman at the same time? Can a mother successfully reclaim her carefree past and, if she can, should she? With integrity and candour, Paesel speaks to all women who are braving the frightening new world of motherhood. And of course that most important of questions: ''What time of the day is too early to start drinking?Trade ReviewIt's not Mommy Lit, nor your standard-shelf 'This is my Sex Life * memoir. It's Brett Paesel - a poet, a spy, an artist, a comedienne - who happens to be a mommy with a sex life. I love Brett's laugh-out-loud writing and skewed perspective that always resonates with deep, complex, hilarious truth. She thinks like no othe *Jill Soloway, writer and co-executive producer, SIX FEET UNDER * ‘Darkly funny, totally irreverent and surprisingly touching’ *The Gloss
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Little, Brown Book Group Trawlerman Life at the Helm of the Toughest Job
Book SynopsisTRAWLERMAN is the memoir of Jimmy Buchan - skipper of the Amity II, a fishing vessel based in Peterhead, Europe''s largest fishing port. Jimmy''s story is one of incredible highs and lows. It''s a life that has been lived on the very crest of danger and despair, a career of thirty years that has seen other skippers fall by the wayside, undone by a declining industry, or worse, lost to the unforgiving North Sea. By turns gripping, comic and nostalgic, this tale of Britain''s most dangerous job, carried out by Britain''s most famous skipper, is guaranteed to mesmerize.
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Little, Brown Book Group Five Minutes of Amazing
Book SynopsisThis story poses a profound question - do we accept the hand that fate deals us, or do we battle to make the most of the life we have and help others in the process? Chris Graham, just 38 years old but already facing the advanced stages of Alzheimer''s disease, has emphatically chosen the latter.Having lived through a troubled childhood, Chris joined the British Army at a young age and found that the life of a soldier provided him with a much-needed sense of stability. However, his world was turned upside down when, at just 34 years of age, he was diagnosed with a form of early onset dementia. This brutal disease had already claimed the life of his father at 42, along with several other members of his family, and tragically had already confined his brother to a nursing home at the age of 43. In his brother''s life, Chris could see a terrifying window into his own near future.Chris, though, is an extraordinary human being. Having been handed nothing less than a death sentence
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Little, Brown Book Group The Secret to Happy
Book SynopsisTHE IMMEDIATE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe debut self-help book from Vicky Pattison, on how to quash your inner doubts, overcome fear and live a happier life.If there''s any woman out there who is feeling like they''re going through things on their own, or they''re worried that they''re not achieving what they should be, or feeling or looking how they should, I want this book to let you know you''re not alone.In over a decade on television, Vicky Pattison has had her fair share of ups and downs, from her rise to fame on Geordie Shore to her public break-up with her fiancé, her body confidence issues and debilitating anxiety. In The Secret to Happy, Vicky opens up about her darkest moments and shares the pearls of wisdom and hard-won lessons she''s picked up along the way - to overcoming heartbreak, ending toxic relationships and managing her mental health - to help you fi
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Little, Brown Book Group An American Family
Book Synopsis''Khan''s aspirational memoir reminds us all why Americans should welcome newcomers from all lands'' Kirkus ReviewsIn fewer than three hundred words, Khizr Khan electrified viewers around the world when he took the stage at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. And when he offered to lend Donald Trump his own much-read and dog-eared pocket Constitution, his gesture perfectly encapsulated the feelings of millions. But who was that man, standing beside his wife, extolling the promises and virtues of the U.S. Constitution?In this urgent and timeless immigrant story, we learn that Khizr Khan has been many things. He was the oldest of ten children born to farmers in Pakistan, and a curious and thoughtful boy who listened rapt as his grandfather recited Rumi beneath the moonlight. He was a university student who read the Declaration of Independence and was awestruck by what might be possible in life. He was a hopeful suitor, trying to win the heart of a wo
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Little, Brown Book Group The Wedding Heard Round the World Americas First
Book SynopsisFifty years after their marriage, Jack and Michael''s story is one of the milestone events in the fight for equal rights, and this memoir the unmissable account a remarkable couple.On September 3, 1971, at the dawn of the modern gay movement, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United States. But the battle to get there - legal and emotional - was only the start of their incredible lives together.Jack enrolled in law school, keeping his promise to Michael that he would figure out a way to marry. He did, but the repercussions would echo not only through their lives, but through those of everyo gay person in the US who ever wanted what this one pioneering couple did: a happy family life. This is the story of how they met, how they married, and what came after. And one wedding heard ''round the world.''A beautiful, well-written love story that is heartrending and ultimately heartwarming''<Trade ReviewA beautiful, well-written love story that is heartrending and ultimately heartwarming * New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen Boy *A fascinating story of love and struggle that reads like a novel * Washington Book Review *A wonderfully compelling told-to story of triumph in the extraordinary lives of Michael McConnell and Jack Baker. A great and memorable read * Terry Kay, author of To Dance with the White Dog *Definitely something to put on your must-read list * The Spectrum *A sweet story wrapped inside a righteous fight, told with charm and grace * Georgia Voice *Their appeal is how ordinary people can do extraordinary things * Library Journal *A beautiful love story, fit for admission amongst history's great classics * EDGE Media Network *Serves as a gentle reminder that there were couples plotting this victory long, long before a consensus formed around marriage equality * The New Republic *
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The History Press Ltd The Major
Book SynopsisHaving learnt the skills of man management, tactics and innovation, Frank Buckley''s was an extremely tough regime. His radical approach included injecting his players with monkey gland serum and sending them off to a psychologist to revive confidence. This is a biography of one of the most fascinating characters in the history of football.
£999.99
The History Press Ltd Growing Up in Cambridge From Austerity to
Book SynopsisIt is said that, however long you live, and however far you travel, the streets and fields where you played as a child will always be home to you. So Cambridge is for Alec Forshaw. This is a story of a childhood in Cambridge in the 1950s and ''60s, followed by three undergraduate years and three decades of frequent and regular visits until the ties of the parental home were broken. These are memories set down before they too disappear and they recall a Cambridge which for many will have faded. Those who have read Gwen Raverat''s Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood will have seen in her description of the town and its society a different world. The reminiscences herein may rekindle more recent recollections, or simply entertain and amuse.
£12.34
The History Press Ltd Brummie Kid
Book SynopsisBrummie Kid is a fascinating recollection of the experience of growing up in the slums of Nechells and Aston. All the harshness of daily life is remembered here by local author Graham Twist. Despite hard living conditions and a distinct lack of money, a strong community spirit prevailed and families and neighbourhoods were close-knit. In these tough times you hoped nobody noticed you going to the ''pop shop'' to pawn precious valuables, siphoning petrol from cars under the nose of the local bobby, or sneaking into the flicks without paying though everyone was more or less in the same boat. Here are more funny, heart-warming stories from the backstreets of Birmingham which are sure to rekindle old memories.
£999.99
The History Press Ltd E. J. Rudsdales Journals of Wartime Colchester
Book SynopsisE.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts gathered here provide a remarkable insight into wartime life. Rudsdale's writing is characterised throughout by his wry observations of wartime officialdom and his lack of conformity with the prevailing views of the time. He was a pacifist, which gives his journals an unusual perspective. However, even as a civilian he could not escape the conflict, living in a garrison town threatened by invasion and regular bombing raids. His journals, therefore, record anxious and tragic events, but throughout it all his sense of humour is never diminished. This absorbing collection demonstrates Rudsdale's ability to bring a scene vividly to life and each account highlights the daily pressures that people endured as they valiantly tried to carry on witTrade ReviewCATHERINE PEARSON has a BA in Medieval and Modern History from King's College, London, and an MA in Museum Studies from University College London. She recently completed a PhD at UCL on the history of Britain's museums during the Second World War, which was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She lives in Chelmsford. Now deceased, E.J. Rudsdale was born in 1910 in Colchester. He left the Royal Grammar School in 1928 to become Curator's Assistant at Colchester Castle Museum.
£13.49
The History Press Ltd Skipping to School
Book SynopsisSkipping to School is the true story of a childhood spent in Liverpool before, during and after the Second World War. It recalls the fabric of everyday life on the home front and the impact of war on both family life and the local community.
£12.34
Orion Publishing Co The Same River Twice
Book SynopsisThe real story behind the making of THE COLOR PURPLE in the author's own words
£8.99
Orion Publishing Co The Upgrade
Book SynopsisThe incredible true story of living as a modern-day nomad.
£12.58
Headline Publishing Group A Swimon Part in the Goldfish Bowl
Book SynopsisCarol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world.The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to tell. Her remarkable mixture of bravery, honesty and humour won her a place in the nation''s hearts on ITV''s I''m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here...! when millions of viewers voted her the second ''Queen of the Jungle''.In this candid memoir, she tells us about what it was like to grow up as the ''Milk Snatcher''s'' daughter, sister of the infamous Mark, living a life she describes as a ''swim-on part in the goldfish bowl''.Her tales of behind-the-scenes at Number 10, her extraordinary travels, and dinners with world leaders, are both rivetingly funny and refreshingly revealing.
£10.99
