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Drink: The Deadly Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
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The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery.This is my story, and it's particular. But I am not alone. Drinking problems challenge a growing number of wom…
The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery.This is my story, and it's particular. But I am not alone. Drinking problems challenge a growing number of wom…
Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke’s beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains.Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edm…
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke’s beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains.Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edm…
Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов. Жизнь и творчество
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Книга П.А. Висковатого принадлежит к классическим трудам ХIХ века. Исследователь опирался на свидетельства людей, лично знавших поэта, и эта работа по праву считается первоисточником для изучения жизни и творчества Лермонтова. Биографией Лермонтова В…
Книга П.А. Висковатого принадлежит к классическим трудам ХIХ века. Исследователь опирался на свидетельства людей, лично знавших поэта, и эта работа по праву считается первоисточником для изучения жизни и творчества Лермонтова. Биографией Лермонтова В…
Вожди комсомола. 100 лет ВЛКСМ в биографиях лидеров
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Сто лет назад, в октябре 1918 года, был создан комсомол, который просуществовал до конца советской власти. Каким комсомол был на самом деле? И кто им руководил? Новая книга Леонида Млечина посвящена судьбам комсомольских вождей. История комсомола – э…
Сто лет назад, в октябре 1918 года, был создан комсомол, который просуществовал до конца советской власти. Каким комсомол был на самом деле? И кто им руководил? Новая книга Леонида Млечина посвящена судьбам комсомольских вождей. История комсомола – э…
Такеси Китано. Детские годы
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Человек играющий. Убийца и жертва, бандит и коп, художник и поэт, режиссер и артист, комик и трагик, самурай и шут, телезвезда и кинематографист. Вечный дилетант и неисправимый ребенок, который отказывается взрослеть. Все это – Такеси Китано, сакраль…
Человек играющий. Убийца и жертва, бандит и коп, художник и поэт, режиссер и артист, комик и трагик, самурай и шут, телезвезда и кинематографист. Вечный дилетант и неисправимый ребенок, который отказывается взрослеть. Все это – Такеси Китано, сакраль…
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British his…
This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British his…
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs b…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs b…
Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney
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The living embodiment of The Beatles, a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is undoubtedly the senior figure in pop music today. In this authoritative biography, journalist and acclaimed author Howard Sounes leaves no stone unturned i…
The living embodiment of The Beatles, a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is undoubtedly the senior figure in pop music today. In this authoritative biography, journalist and acclaimed author Howard Sounes leaves no stone unturned i…
First Man In: Leading from the Front
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NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned ove…
NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned ove…
Game Changers: Inside English Football: From the Boardroom to the Bootroom
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Alan Curbishley has spent a lifetime in football both as a fan, player and manager.In his forty years, he has seen the game he loves change beyond all recognition. The money, the media, the celebrity culture, the agents – when Curbishley began his pl…
Alan Curbishley has spent a lifetime in football both as a fan, player and manager.In his forty years, he has seen the game he loves change beyond all recognition. The money, the media, the celebrity culture, the agents – when Curbishley began his pl…
Girl With Dove: A Life Built By Books
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‘The word “mesmerising” is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove’ Financial Times‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist…’Growing up in a dilapidated house by the sea wher…
‘The word “mesmerising” is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove’ Financial Times‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist…’Growing up in a dilapidated house by the sea wher…
Giving up the Ghost: A memoir
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From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’, a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family.At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her sha…
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’, a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family.At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her sha…
An Autobiography
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Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography.Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least we…
Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography.Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least we…
Groomed: Danger lies closer than you think
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It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
Groomed: Part 1 of 3: Danger lies closer than you think
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It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
Groomed: Part 2 of 3: Danger lies closer than you think
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It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
Hitler: A Short Biography
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Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler offers a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century’s most monstrous and influential figures.In 1923, a thirty-four year old Adolf Hitler was in prison after taking part in an u…
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler offers a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century’s most monstrous and influential figures.In 1923, a thirty-four year old Adolf Hitler was in prison after taking part in an u…
Legacy: The Autobiography of Tim Cahill
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The story of international football star Tim Cahill, one of the most admired Australian sportsmen of all time.Tim Cahill was born in Sydney to a Samoan mother and English father. He grew up in the city's western suburbs playing football with his brot…
The story of international football star Tim Cahill, one of the most admired Australian sportsmen of all time.Tim Cahill was born in Sydney to a Samoan mother and English father. He grew up in the city's western suburbs playing football with his brot…
Булгаков на пороге вечности. Мистико-эзотерическое расследование загадочной гибели Михаила Булгакова
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Автором собран и обработан ценнейший, в том числе и архивный материал, заново открывший и существенно скорректировавший важные вехи трагической биографии Булгакова. Тут и тайные протоколы заседаний Политбюро ЦК ВКП (б), и секретная переписка его член…
Автором собран и обработан ценнейший, в том числе и архивный материал, заново открывший и существенно скорректировавший важные вехи трагической биографии Булгакова. Тут и тайные протоколы заседаний Политбюро ЦК ВКП (б), и секретная переписка его член…
Хроника трех императоров в акварелях М. Зичи. Часть 2. Семья и отдых императоров
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Альбом содержит ряд акварелей Михаила (Михая) Зичи — придворного рисовальщика-хроникера трех российских императоров, которого его современники считали лучшим рисовальщиком, а наши современники вычеркнули из памяти. Тематику выбранных рисунков отличае…
Альбом содержит ряд акварелей Михаила (Михая) Зичи — придворного рисовальщика-хроникера трех российских императоров, которого его современники считали лучшим рисовальщиком, а наши современники вычеркнули из памяти. Тематику выбранных рисунков отличае…

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