Beautiful, headstrong Imogen Waterstone has recruited the darkly infamous Earl of Colchester to help her seek revenge for the murder of her best friend. As they set a trap for the villain, Imogen and Colchester fearlessly encounter the...
Great Britain
- Author:Quick, AmandaSummary:
- Author:Waltman, JeroldSummary:
In a thorough and well-documented study of the American and British experience with minimum wage legislation, Prof. Jerold Waltman describes and analyzes the operation of current minimum wage policies and politics in both countries....
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society.
- Author:Holt, VictoriaSummary:
A young Englishwoman entertains doubts regarding her husband's fidelity when he brings a former sweetheart into their home to act as governess.
- Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
St. Martha’s College, Cambridge, had been staggering along on a shoestring for decades. Then alumna Alice Toon leaves her old school a huge fortune. The dons immediately fall to fighting over the spoils. The Virgins, led by Dame Maud...
- Author:Gordon, GrahamSummary:
Biography of Jem Mace the father of modern boxing and the first worldwide sports star.
- Author:Thomas, Peter, Tracy, NicholasSummary:
Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. Despite the coming social reforms undertaken at home, the world of the Georgian British Empire was nothing if not class-conscious and leery of outsiders. But Anthony...
- Author:Driver, MinnieSummary:
A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn't.
- Author:Maddox, BrendaSummary:
"Who is Margaret Thatcher? Her influence on politics is well documented - not least by Lady Thatcher herself. What kind of person was she that she could overcome her background, the snobbery of Oxford University and then of the...
- Author:Barr, DamianSummary:
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... - Author:Barnett, MacSummary:
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?...
- Author:Shearing, GeorgeSummary:
"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...
- Author:Bailey, DavidSummary:
'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...
- Author:Fleming, IanSummary:
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...
- Author:Springer, NancySummary:
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.
- Author:Ebert, LilySummary:
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.
- Author:Laurence, Patricia OndekSummary:
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...
- Author:Spufford, FrancisSummary:
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...
- Author:Blackwood, JessieSummary:
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,...
- Author:Richards, Keith, Fox, James, Hurley, JoeSummary:
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...