Long-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and The Sunday Times' selection for Memoir of the Year.
"This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning...
Great Britain
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Auteur:Barnett, MacSommaire:The precious Crown Jewels have been stolen, and there's only one person who can help the Queen: her newest secret agent, Mac B. To help her, he must travel around the globe in search of the stolen treasure...but will he find it in time?...
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Auteur:Shearing, GeorgeSommaire:"Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the "Shearing sound"―the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique...
- Auteur:Bailey, DavidSommaire:
'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' Daily Mail 'Brilliant' Telegraph Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon...
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Auteur:Fleming, IanSommaire:Mr. Big, master of crime and SMERSH operative, crushes those he cannot possess--like his beautiful prisoner, Solitaire, and her would-be saviors James Bond and Felix Leiter. All three are marked as victims in a trail of terror that...
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Auteur:Springer, NancySommaire:Young Lionel, minstrel in the outlaw band of Rowan Hood, daughter of Robin, tries to find his courage when she is abducted from Sherwood Forest.
- Auteur:Ebert, LilySommaire:
In Auschwitz in 1944, Lily Ebert made a promise to herself. She would survive the hell she was in and tell the world her story, for everyone who couldn't. Now, at ninety-eight, this remarkable woman fulfills that vow.
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Auteur:Laurence, Patricia OndekSommaire:Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously...
- Auteur:Spufford, FrancisSommaire:
November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on - to experience all the unimaginable...
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Auteur:Blackwood, JessieSommaire:Sequel to Per Ardua After months of physiotherapy, Group Captain Jack Ratigan has regained some of the mobility lost in a plane crash at the end of World War II. But six years later, he still requires the care of his cousin’s butler,...
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Auteur:Richards, Keith, Fox, James, Hurley, JoeSommaire:Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He tells his story of life in the crossfire...
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Auteur:Cooper, IsabelSommaire:In Victorian England, gossip is often as precious as gold. But the Highlanders are a more mysterious bunch. And if anyone found out what Stephen MacAlasdair really was, he'd be hunted down, murdered, his clan wiped out. As he's called...
- Auteur:Willig, LaurenSommaire:
L’OEillet rose est «une comédie vraiment exquise». En voici maintenant la suite «terriblement brillante et amusante» mettant en vedette Éloïse Kelly, étudiante au doctorat à Harvard, qui est sur le point de démasquer l’espion le plus...
- Auteur:Hutton, CallieSommaire:
Drake, duc de Manchester, a recours à l’agence matrimoniale pour dénicher l’épouse parfaite. Il désire une femme posée, sophistiquée, digne du titre de duchesse. Mais plus que tout, il désire une femme qui ne recherche pas l’inutile...
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Auteur:Royal, PriscillaSommaire:A royal birth, a nobleman's death, and a scarlet woman's murder In March 1279 Edward I takes a break from hammering the Welsh and bearing down on England's Jews to vacation in Gloucestershire. The royal party breaks the...
- Auteur:Saunders, KateSommaire:
In 1851, private-detective Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request for her services. Mrs. Rodd's neighbor Jacob Welland is a reclusive rich gentleman dying of consumption, and he wants Mrs. Rodd...
- Auteur:Byrd, SandraSommaire:
Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father's passing and her uncle's decline into dementia, the family business is...
- Auteur:Orczy, Emmuska OrczySommaire:
This is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. Lady Molly, like her fictional contemporaries, most often succeeded because she recognized domestic clues foreign to male experience...
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Auteur:Glenconner, AnneSommaire:Lady Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, as...
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Auteur:Lawrence, D. H.Sommaire:
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