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HarperCollins Publishers Little Drifters Kathleens Story
Book SynopsisThe harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by their carers in a cruel convent in Ireland.
£9.37
HarperCollins Publishers Dogs in Heaven and Other Animals and Other Animals Extraordinary stories of animals reaching out from the other side HarperTrue Fate A Short Read
Book SynopsisOur pets are our family. They love us, comfort us and make us laugh – so it’s no wonder that letting them go is so hard. But amazing and inspirational true stories from Jacky Newcomb show that we will be reunited with them again.
£8.67
HarperCollins Publishers Torn A terrified girl. A shocking secret. A
Book SynopsisExperienced foster carer Rosie Lewis faces a battle to uncover the dark family secret that is tearing a family apart.Rosie is used to looking after children from difficult home situations, but she finds herself struggling when she agrees to take in Taylor and her younger brother, Reece, for a short while. Taylor tries desperately not to fit in, to be the tough young teen that she has had to become, making it clear that she cares about nothing and no-one, while Reece is just desperate for someone to love him. Rosie finds herself battling an unknown monster in their past, as social media and the Internet become a means to control and manipulate the siblings while in her care. And then a more sinister turn of events causes Rosie to dig into their past, desperate to discover the truth before her time with them is over and they must be returned to their family.
£9.99
HarperCollins Publishers Fire and Brimstone The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
Book SynopsisFrom the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant – the book that inspired the award-winning movie – comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history.Trade Review‘Compelling if horrifying account of the fire and the trapped men is the heart of this yarn, its soul is Punke’s historical contextualization’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
£8.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Boys in the Bunkhouse
Book SynopsisNominated for the 2017 Hillman Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights AwardWith this Dickensian tale from America?s heartland, New York Timeswriter and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives.In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disability and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than thirty years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse?until state social workers, local journalists, and one tenacious labor lawyer helped these men achieve freedom.Drawing on exhaustive interviews, Dan Barry dives deeply into the lives of the men, recording their memories of suffering, loneliness and fleeting joy, as well as the undying hope they maintained despite their traumatic circumstances. Barry explores how a small Iowa town remained oblivious to the plight of these men, analyzes the many causes for such profound and chronic negligence, and lays out the impact of the men?s dramatic court case, which has spurred advocates?including President Obama?to push for just pay and improved working conditions for people living with disabilities.A luminous work of social justice, told with compassion and compelling detail,The Boys in the Bunkhouseis more than just inspired storytelling. It is a clarion call for a vigilance that ensures inclusion and dignity for all.
£16.14
Crown The Company We Keep
Book SynopsisRobert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice. Bob had few enduring non-work friendships, only contacts and acquaintances. His prolonged absences destroyed his marriage, and he felt intense guilt at spending so little time with his children. Sworn to secrecy and constantly driven by ulterior motives, he was a man apart wherever he went. Dayna Williamson thought of herself as just an ordinary California girl -- admittedly one born into a comfortable lifestyle. But she was always looking to get closer to the edge. When she joined the CIA, she was initially tasked with Agency background checks
£17.09
Picador USA Out of Egypt A Memoir
Book SynopsisA memoir that chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later.Trade Review"It Is Mr. Aciman's great achievement that he has re-created a world gone forever now, and given us an ironical and affectionate portrait of those who were exiled from it." The New York Times Book Review"
£15.55
LITTLE BROWN & CO Bounty Trilogy The Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea and Pitcairns Island
Book SynopsisTo celebrate the 200th anniversary of the mutiny on the Bounty, this is a reissue of Nordhoff's and Hall's classic Bounty Trilogy in one volume. It is a story of drunkenness, betrayal, murder and vengeance - a saga that will be remembered as long as men sail the sea.
£19.93
Random House USA Inc The EightyDollar Champion Snowman the Horse That
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The dramatic and inspiring story of a man and his horse, an unlikely duo whose rise to stardom in the sport of show jumping captivated the nation Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry’s modest farm on Long Island, he ultimately taught Snowman how to fly. Here is the dramatic and inspiring rise to stardom of an unlikely duo. One show at a time, against extraordinary odds and some of the most expensive thoroughbreds alive, the pair climbed to the very top of the sport of show jumping. Their story captured the heart of Cold War–era America—a story of unstoppable hope, inconceivable dreams, and the chance to have it all. They were the longest of all longshots—and their win was the stuff of legend.
£12.99
Little, Brown Book Group Alexander At The Worlds End
Book Synopsis''Wry and droll, fascinating and funny, by bringing us Alexander''s nether parts this novel gives momentous matters unforgettable life'' - Ross Leckie''Witty, ironic ... and achieves a deeply felt authenticity'' - NEW YORK TIMESWhen his father dies, and he is reduced at a stroke from prosperity to penury, Euxenus decides to leave Athens and seek his fortune elsewhere. As a philosopher and intellectual of some note, he has no difficulty getting a job as tutor to a young prince in the wealthy but utterly provincial court of King Philip of Macedon. The young prince is called Alexander, and the rest is history. Or is it? Alexander conquered Greece, Egypt and the Persian Empire in the course of eight years, amassing a huge army along the way, and leaving behind him the foundations of countless new cities named after him. He proclaimed himself a deity, and died at the age of 33. In ALEXANDER AT THE WORLD''S END, Tom Holt tells thTrade ReviewWitty, ironic ... and achieves a deeply felt authenticity * NEW YORK TIMES *A fascinating, gripping, moving story * THE TIMES *Wry and droll, fascinating and funny, by bringing us Alexander's nether parts this novel gives momentous matters unforgettable life * ROSS LECKIE *Read The Walled Orchard, so you can tell your descendants, "I was there when the historical novel started holding its head up with the rest of literature" * The Washington Post *
£25.50
Little, Brown Book Group BIG DEAL One Year as a Professional Poker Player
Book SynopsisBIG DEAL is the mesmerising story of a year spent by bestselling biographer Anthony Holden in the tough world of the professional poker player. He spent days and nights in the poker paradise of Las Vegas, in Malta and Morocco, even shipboard, mingling with the legendary greats, sharpening his game, perfecting his repartee, and learning a great deal about himself in the process.Poker, Holden would insist, is not gambling. Like chess it is a paradigm of life at its most intense, a gladiatorial contest that brings out the best as well as the worst in people. Its heroes, its eccentrics and is comedians stalk the pages of this remarkable book, along with all the hair-raising, nail-biting excitement of the games themselves.A classic of the genre, BIG DEAL is here reissued with a new introduction by the author.Trade ReviewA very good book and an important addition to the literature of gambling * David Mamet *A remarkable odyssey - part Damon Runyon, part Dostoevsky * VANITY FAIR *The best book about poker I've ever read * Walter Matthau *BIG DEAL is the classic book on big stakes poker. Praised from high and low, all players love this book, and all those wannabes, dreaming of raking in that monster pot, will eat it up * IRISH TIMES *
£22.52
Penguin Putnam Inc Sesenta Millas de Frontera
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Silverbird Publishing Hedge of Thorns Knockaloe Camp
£17.00
ABC Books Great Australian Shearing Stories
£14.99
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Little, Brown Book Group TheGreatest Knight The Story of William Marshal by Chadwick Elizabeth Author ON Jul032006 Paperback
Book SynopsisA spellbinding story about forgotten hero William Marshal, from acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Chadwick.
£27.48
Lulu Press LAUREL and HARDY The British Tours Part 1
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£23.27
Lulu Press LAUREL and HARDY The British Tours part 2
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Muddler Books Tales from The Anglers Retreat Fly Fishing Stories from a Legendary Guesthouse on the Scottish Island of South Uist
£15.57
Camden Miniature Steam Services I Worked with Traction Engines
£11.61
New Age Publishers UK Three Thousand Miles for a Wish
£13.74
New Haven Publishing Ltd A Vicious Love Story Remembering the Real Sid Vicious
Book SynopsisThe book tells the true inside story of the romance between 16 year old Teddie, and Sid Vicious, on the 1977 Sex Pistols Scandinavian Tour.Trade ReviewAn good read. Something a little bit different Once I started reading this book I couldn't stop. There is just something so touching about Teddie's account of young teenage love. Makes you remember what it was like to be that age and falling in love in the way only a teenage girl can! Then of course there is the fact that the young lad she falls in love with is Sid Vicious. It's refreshing to read such a different account of this well known character and I found the book very well written and also very funny in places. It really left me thinking and I will be going back to read again sometime soon.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1 TEDDIE 7 Chapter 2 SUMMER 1977 15 Chapter 3 AND SO THEY CAME - 33 Chapter 4 DINNER AND A CONCERT 78 Chapter 5 THE HAWK CLUB AFTER-PARTY 114 Chapter 6 THE HOTEL AFTER-PARTY 128 Chapter 7 SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL 161 Chapter 8 REVELATIONS 174 Chapter 9 FRIDAY THE DAY OFF 196 Chapter 10 THE LAST EVENING IN TRONDHEIM 225 Chapter 11 THE LAST GOODBYE 260 Chapter 12 DESPERATION 269 Chapter 13 NEW YORK 292
£19.99
Wider Vision Publishing A Life Sold What Ever Happened to That Guy Who Sold His Whole Life on Ebay
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Fiona Curnow Dan Knew
£12.99
Tulip Publishing Ultimate Catastrophe
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Tulip Publishing Ultimate Catastrophe
£18.44
Shakspeare Editorial Blood of the Lamb
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AuthorHouse Danvers State Memoirs Of A Nurse In The Asylum
£11.97
Pan Macmillan One L
Book SynopsisAn account of the bestselling author''s first year at Harvard law school
£13.29
Pan Macmillan The Last Foundling
Book SynopsisA deeply moving memoir from one of the last children to be taken in by the Foundling Hospital, London.
£16.14
Author Solutions (US) The Only Lesson
£9.49
Pam Skelton FIRST TO GO: The True Story of Bridget Frisby
£12.97
mindfulvanlife Let Go Fly Free
£16.59
The Perseus Books Group Banker To The Poor
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£14.51
Adams Media Corporation Horse Crazy: Women and the Horses They Love
Book SynopsisMany women become Horse Crazy as girls and never lose their admiration for the beauty and dignity and the wisdom and whimsicality of these remarkable creatures. Here, fifty women offer their stories of the path of equine wisdom and the benefits of a good relationship with a loving horse, from improved confidence (and yes, even firmer thighs) to reconnecting with the world after a period of grief. Includes such stories as: A wheelchair-bound woman overcomes her physical limitations, not only learning to ride but to compete - and win! - in dressage Pregnant for the first time, a mother to be watches a brood mare deliver a colt and gains the confidence to face the arrival of her own child A stresses out executive learns that a bored cow pony can teach her a thing or two One lovelorn woman finds she can learn a lot about men from watching horses
£12.89
Marc Ensign International, LLC Be a Dick: How One Person Can Change the World in the Most Unexpected Way
£10.44
Shakspeare Editorial A Child of the Air
£13.62
Shakspeare Editorial East End to South West: A life story
£22.52
Sebastian Wocker T/A HAVIVO Publishing THE JOY OF ADDICTION: Confessions of a teenage wastrel
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UWA Publishing The Canon of Ancona
£23.74
Little, Brown Book Group Sellafield Stories: Life In Britain's First Nuclear Plant
Book SynopsisSellafield Stories is the largest Oral History Project conducted in the UK. It was started by Jenni Lister, of Cumbria Record Office & Local Studies Library, and was funded by the BNFL.Through the personal life stories of 30 people who lived, worked and built the complex SELLAFIELDS STORIES tells the true story of the Sellafields Nuclear Plant that has been at the heart of the Nation's story for the last 60 years. First set up in the aftermath of World War II to develop Britain's nuclear weapons, it was not until 1957 that it was given over to nuclear power, kick starting a revolution in post war energy. Since then it has been the site of protests, controversy and debate. Today it is still the country's biggest single industrial site employing 13,500 people.
£22.52
Christyplays Publications Traveller's Tale: The Making Of A Fairground Showman
£14.24
Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd Luigi
Book SynopsisIn 1943, following the Armistice in Italy, many Prisoners of War were released by their guards but found themselves fugitives in a country over-run by the Germans. One such prisoner was known in Italy as Luigi. Realising that the Allies were not yet in his part of the country, he decided to walk from Padua in the north to reach the front-line in the south. During the course of his arduous journey through the backwaters of Italy he was hidden and given sanctuary by two Italian farming families. In 1949 he took his fiancée to meet them. Sadly, having survived the war he died in 1959 leaving his Italian friends unaware of his tragic death.
£13.70
Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd Tales of a Gravedigger
Book SynopsisIan Shipley has now been traditionally hand-digging graves for 40 years. He was taught to dig the old-fashioned way and four decades on, averaging 114 graves per year, Ian can still be found habitually toiling away in one of any number of locations across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. In Tales of a Gravedigger, the author's first book, he recalls true tales from his early years whilst working at Newark's London Road Cemetery in Nottinghamshire. It is a light-hearted and occasionally amusing look into the life of a gravedigger. From coffins getting stuck to stomach-churning exhumations. From unexpected cave-ins to practical jokes and various other ghostly goings-on. It's an interesting glimpse into a profession that most of us know very little about. Ian has always believed that a grave should be hand-dug. It's more personal that way. For years he has declined to use mechanical digging, preferring instead to keep alive the old ways. In Newark-on-Trent and throughout the surrounding villages of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, Ian will possibly be the last of the traditional gravediggers.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Newark Cemetery 1 Chapter 2 In at the Deep End 8 Chapter 3 The Knowledge 10 Chapter 4 Initiation 14 Chapter 5 Moonlighting 16 Chapter 6 Phantom Digs 20 Chapter 7 The Notorious Mr X 22 Chapter 8 Machine Digging 24 Chapter 9 Class C's 27 Chapter 10 A Practical Joke 30 Chapter 11 Restless Spirit 31 Chapter 12 When the Coffin Gets Stuck 34 Chapter 13 The Old Gravedigger's Cottage 37 Chapter 14 There's Always One 39 Chapter 15 A Strange Occurrence 42 Chapter 16 Three Nuns 45 Chapter 17 Collapsed Graves 47 Chapter 18 Sikorski Goes Home 51 Chapter 19 A Lucky Escape for All 55 Chapter 20 Ignoring the Obvious 58 Chapter 21 The Man who was Buried Twice 61 Chapter 22 Exhumation 62 Chapter 23 Unmarked Graves 66 Chapter 24 We Do the Work; They Take the Credit 68 Chapter 25 Stumped 72 Chapter 26 Blood, Sweat and Toil 74 Chapter 27 Ashes? What Ashes? 78 Chapter 28 Can You Dig Us Another? 80 Chapter 29 An Unpleasant Smell 83 Chapter 30 All's Well That Ends Well 85 Chapter 31 Artic Conditions on New Year's Eve 88 Chapter 32 Peace of Mind 91 Chapter 33 Easily Spooked 94 Chapter 34 Strange People 97 Chapter 35 Cemetery Wildlife 99
£12.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia
Book SynopsisWhat do 'Abu Sindi', 'Timothy Sean McCormack', 'Saro', and 'Commander Avo' all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and eating snow cones. Europe denounced him as an international terrorist. His adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4000 men to victory in the Armenian enclave of Mountainous Karabagh in Azerbaijan. Why Armenia? Why adopt the cause of a remote corner of the Caucasus whose peoples had scattered throughout the world after the early twentieth century Ottoman genocides? Markar Melkonian spent seven years unravelling the mystery of his brother's road: a journey which began in his ancestors' town in Turkey and leading to a blood-splattered square in Tehran, the Kurdish mountains, the bomb-pocked streets of Beirut, and finally, to the windswept heights of Mountainous Karabagh. Monte's life embodied the agony and the follies bedevelling the end of the Cold War and the unravelling of the Soviet Union. Yet, who really was this man? A terrorist or a hero? "My Brother's Road" is not just the story of a long journey and a short life, it is an attempt to understand what happens when one man decides that terrible actions speak louder than words.
£28.46
