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Brand: George Mula
EAN: 9781035829330
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: Brian Bond
EAN: 9781912390403
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This is the story of how a boy from a poor background benefited from the new opportunities available in the post-1945 era to attend a very good grammar school, gain entry to Oxford University and eventually became a professor at a top grade university, King's College, London.\n\nEarly chapters show how hard it was to get a foothold on the lowest rungs of the academic ladder, particularly in a subject, military history, where there were virtually no established positions. No matter how talented and industrious, good fortune played a crucial role, as in so many careers, in helping Brian Bond at a critical stage. By a remarkable coincidence, since Brian was reading some of his books at Oxford, Basil (later Sir Basil) Liddell Hart came to live in the village and promptly gave him tremendous encouragements and support. Liddell Hart, at that time probably the best known military writer in the world, provided wonderful references which, after numerous setbacks, led to junior academic appointment at Exeter and Liverpool universities. Equally important Liddell Hart introduced Brian to Michael Howard (now Sir Michael Howard OM) who was just beginning to pioneer the study of military history-war studies at King's College, London. Michael had a difficult time in persuading the academic establishment that this was a respectable and very important new field of study, but in 1965 he succeeded in setting up a Department of War Studies, and in the following year recruited Brian as a Lecturer in Military History. Promotion was necessarily slow in a tiny department, but Brian was eventually elevated to Reader and then Professor.\n\nThe central chapters in this personal memoir provide a frank account of what it was like to teach military history at all levels (but especially to MA and PhD candidates) in the late 20th century. From the outset the students were drawn from virtually every country in the free world and competition for entry was tough. Numbers of staff and students increased steadily through the 1970s and 1980s, but then there was a sudden dramatic expansion as the Department admitted undergraduates for the first time. The range of subjects taught also widened impressively with more emphasis placed on contemporary Strategic Studies. But the `philosophy' inculcated by Michael Howard; namely the disinterested study of warfare in a broad social and political context continued to provide the Departments teaching.\n\nOn the personal level Brian Bond contrasts successes and achievements with `bad days' in the office and the lecture hall which will strike a chord with all fellow teachers. He also pens a lively account of some of his overseas travels, particularly in Canada, the United States, Pakistan and Japan as well as attending numerous conferences in Europe. In the penultimate chapter `Books do Furnish a Room' he describes how and why his own books came to be written, and how they were received.\n\nThe extra theme or dimension which raises this account...

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Brand: Nina Raine
EAN: 9781848421363
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Do you know what it's like to be the person who's actually sticking the knife in here? Or here? You stick a knife in close to an artery, boy do you know it. Then you're in tiger country.'\n\n\n\nNina Raine's Tiger Country is a hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital.\n\n\n\nProfessionalism and prejudice, turbulent staff romances, ambition and failure collide in this swirling, action-packed drama about an overburdened health service that we all depend on and the dedicated individuals that keep it going.\n\n\n\n'Tiger country' is where animal instinct stirs and an irrefutable eye opens. Where we make eye contact with the unknown.\n\n\n\nTiger Country was premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 2011 and, following its sell-out run, was revived there in 2014.

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Brand: Irvine Welsh
EAN: 9781784704735
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of Trainspotting\n\nYears on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realise his ambitions within the Adult industries, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton. Still scheming, still scamming, Sick Boy and Renton soon find out that they have unresolved issues to address concerning the unhinged Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other.\n\nT2 Trainspotting was previously published as Porno.

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Brand: Katie Flynn
EAN: 9781804942437
Categoria: Libri e riviste

London, 1940\n\nWhen tragedy strikes, Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute, fending for herself on the capital's most dangerous streets.\n\nDesperate times call for desperate measures, and Libby is on the cusp of making a decision that could jeopardise her future when a local boy saves her from ruin.\n\nThe kindness of this stranger sets her on a different path, and Libby heads to Liverpool with a determined mind and hope in her heart.\n\nThere, she reconnects with long lost family - but will she be able to uncover the truth that tore them apart all those years ago?\n\nWHY READERS LOVE KATIE FLYNN:\n\n'Takes you on a journey of heartbreak and joy'\n'Hard to put down'\n'Her characters are like old friends'\n'Heartwarming romance'

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Brand: Barbara Taylor Bradford
EAN: 9780008242497
Categoria: Libri e riviste

From the bestselling author of A Woman of Substance, a page-turning epic Victorian historical family saga.\n \n London 1889: Victorian London is a place of wealth, privilege and poverty, a city of extremes. For James Falconer, who grew up as a barrow boy on a London market, it is a city of opportunity.\n\n\n Working his way up Henry Malvern’s trading company in Piccadilly, James faces fraud and betrayal. A fierce rivalry develops with Henry’s daughter and heir Alexis – but their animosity masks a powerful attraction.\n\n\n Embarking on a love affair with the daughter of Russian émigrés, James’s life begins to transform. But as treachery and danger threaten, a secret comes to light that will change his life forever. James must decide where his future lies – with Henry Malvern or following his own dream…\n\n\n Gripping, dramatic and bringing the England of Queen Victoria and the British Empire vividly to life, In the Lion’s Den is a sweeping historical epic from one of our finest storytellers, creator of A Woman of Substance.

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Brand: Christopher Fowler
EAN: 9780553820096
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets - anything that might reveal a story. \nCaught between an ever-sensible but exhausted mother and a DIY-obsessed father fighting his own demons, Christopher takes refuge in words. His parents try to understand their son's peculiar obsessions, but fast lose patience with him - and each other. The war of nerves escalates to include every member of the Fowler family, and something has to give, but does it mean that a boy must always give up his dreams for the tough lessons of real life? \nBeautifully written, this rich and astute evocation of a time and a place recalls a childhood at once entertainingly eccentric and endearingly ordinary.

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Brand: Taymour Soomro
EAN: 9781529115123
Categoria: Libri e riviste

On the train from Karachi, as dusk begins to fall, Fahad's dreams of his summer in London are fading. He is headed to Abad, the family's feudal estate, where his father intends to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family -- to make him a man. \n\nInstead, over the course of one shimmering, indolent season, Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and by the people he meets: those who revere and revile his father; cousin Mousey, who lives alone with a man he calls his manager; and Ali, a teenager like him, whose presence threatens to unearth all that is hidden.\n\n Other Names for Love is a truly exceptional novel: a luminous tale of memory and desire, inheritance and love, and the search for a sense of home. Written with urgency and unusual beauty, it marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in fiction.

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Brand: Michael Mccarthy
EAN: 9781787387911
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A vivid, richly informative biography of the medieval entrepreneur, social reformer and 'influencer' at court.\n\n\nThe extraordinary story of Richard Whittington, from his arrival in London as a young boy to his death in 1423, against a backdrop of plague, politics and war; turbulence between Crown, City and Commons; and the unrelenting financial demands of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, to whom Whittington was mercer, lender and fixer.\n\n\nA man determined to follow his own path, Whittington was a significant figure in London's ceaseless development. As a banker, Collector of the Wool Custom, King's Council member and four-time mayor, Whittington featured prominently in the rise of the capital's merchant class and powerful livery companies. Civic reformer, enemy of corruption and author of an extraordinary social legacy, he contributed to Henry V's victory at Agincourt and oversaw building works at Westminster Abbey. In London, Whittington found his 'second' family: a mentor, Sir Ivo Fitzwarin, and an inspirational wife in Fitzwarin's daughter Alice.\n\n\nToday's Dick Whittington pantomimes, enjoyed by millions, have a grain of truth in them, but the real story is far more compelling-minus that sadly mythical cat.

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Brand: Jeffrey Weeks
EAN: 9781912681884
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A man's own story from the Rhondda.\nJeffrey Weeks was born in the Rhondda in 1945, of\nmining stock. As he grew-up he increasingly felt an\noutsider in the intensely community minded valleys, a\nfeeling intensified as he became aware of his gayness.\nEscape came through education. He left for London, to\nuniversity, and to realise his sexuality. From the early\n1970s he was actively involved in the new gay liberation\nmovement and became its pioneering historian. This\nwas the beginning of a long career as a researcher\nand writer on sexuality, with widespread national and\ninternational recognition. He has been described as\nthe 'most significant British intellectual working on\nsexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements\nof the 1970s'.\nHis seminal book, Coming Out, a history of LGBT\nmovements and identities since the 19th century, has\nbeen in print for forty years. He was awarded the OBE in\nthe Queen's Jubilee Honours in 2012 for his contribution\nto the social sciences.

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Brand: Sarah Wise
EAN: 9781844133307
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier. After a long investigation, three bodysnatchers were put on trial for supplying the anatomy schools of London with suspiciously fresh bodies for dissection.They later became known as The London Burkers, and their story was dubbed 'The Italian Boy' case. The furore which led directly to the passing of controversial legislation which marked the beginning of the end of body snatching in Britain.\n\nIn The Italian Boy, Sarah Wise not only investigates the case of the London Burkers but also, by making use of an incredibly rich archival store, the lives of ordinary lower-class Londoners. Here is a window on the lives of the poor - a window that is opaque in places, shattered in others but which provides an unprecedented view of low-life London in the 1830s.

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Brand: Ben Aaronovitch
EAN: 9781785865862
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Ben Aaronovitch's 'Rivers of London' Set For Adaptation By See-Saw, Pure Fiction Television\n\nDetective Inspector Peter Grant is back in an all-new comic miniseries from author Ben Aaronovitch! Trouble never lies far from the race track. When a flash car belonging to a young boy racer from England washes up in the Netherlands with a bagload of unusual cargo, it's evident there is more than meets the eye happening at street races held in an Essex car park.\n\nEnter Detective Inspector Peter Grant. Fresh from suspension, he takes to the track in his orange 'asbo' Ford Focus to try and infiltrate the big leagues. But Peter soon finds himself sucked back into an Otherworld - a real-life fairyland!

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Brand: Jonathan London
EAN: 9780152009441
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Silently, a tiny yellow spider spins her fragile web.As a young boy stops to watch, she crawls along the delicate silken threads, sometimes hanging, sometimes spinning, sometimes staring back.Before the boy knows it, the spider's world has become his own....

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Brand: Paul Howard
EAN: 9781509800049
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics regard as The Beatles' finest. But who was John Lennon's lucky man who made the grade and then blew his mind out in a car?\n\nAuthor Paul Howard has pieced together the extraordinary story of a young Irishman who epitomized the spirit of the times: racing car driver, Vogue model, friend of The Rolling Stones, style icon, son of a peer, heir to a Guinness fortune and the man who turned Paul McCartney on to LSD.\n\nI Read the News Today, Oh Boy is the story of a child born into Ireland's dwindling aristocracy, who spent his early years in an ancient castle in County Mayo, and who arrived in London just as it was becoming the most exciting city on the planet. \n\nThe Beatles and the Stones were about to conquer America, Carnaby Street was setting the style template for the world and rich and poor were rubbing shoulders in the West End in a new spirit of classlessness. Among young people, there was a growing sense that they could change the world. And no one embodied the ephemeral promise of London's sixties better than Tara Browne.\n\nIncludes a sixteen-page plate section of stunning colour photographs.

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Brand: Penny Chrimes
EAN: 9781510107120
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Never has gutter-life been more appealing. Penny Chrimes' blisteringly descriptive writing draws the heat from the cobbles and the steam from the nostrils. A larruping good adventure' - Zeb Soanes\n\nA story of a the very last living dragon, stuck living in a tunnel under London, and the boy who unintentionally finds himself as her protector, perfect for fans of The Girl of Ink & Stars.\n\nWhen Stick discovers there is a dragon living underneath the streets of London, he finds himself unintentionally drawn into an epic adventure and a quest -- but how can he find a place for a dragon to live in London when dragons aren't supposed to exist? And with foes at every corner who want to exploit the dragon for themselves, it's going to take a daring plan for Stick to find a safe place for his dragon -- and for himself.

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Brand: Peter Owen;james Nye
EAN: 9781781558485
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In this wry, candid and sometimes poignant memoir, Peter Owen recalls his lonely Jewish boyhood in Nazi Germany and migration to England where he survived the London Blitz, a teenage dalliance with aspiring actress Fenella Fielding, and working with a motley variety of book publishers. He founded his eponymous publishing firm in 1951, becoming one of the youngest publishers in Britain. A pioneer of books on social themes, gay and lesbian writing and literature in translation, Owen’s authors included ten Nobel laureates and brought Hermann Hesse, Ezra Pound and Anaïs Nin to a wider audience. Enjoying their success, he and his wife Wendy were memorably stylish and eccentric figures at the literary parties of the 1960s and 1970s. Owen describes his often hilarious encounters with many of those he published, including John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Salvador Dalí, his adventures in Japan with Yukio Mishima and Shusaku Endo, and in Morocco with Tennessee Williams and Paul and Jane Bowles. As one of the last of the great émigré publishers, his death in 2016 aged 89 signalled the end of a literary era.

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Brand: Kate Ellis
EAN: 9780349418353
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Haunting' Independent\n\n'A powerful story of loss, malice and deception' Ann Cleeves\n\n'A splendidly macabre thriller' Andrew Taylor\n\n1920. Scotland Yard detective DI Albert Lincoln is still reeling from the disturbing events of the previous year when he's called away from London to a new case in the North West of England. \n\nBefore the War he led the unsuccessful investigation into the murder of little Jimmy Rudyard in the village of Mabley Ridge. Now a woman has been murdered there and another child is missing, the sole witness being a traumatised boy who lives in a cemetery lodge. Albert is determined that this time him he will find the truth . . . and the missing child.\n\nWhen Albert delves into the lives of the village residents he uncovers shocking secrets and obsessions. Then, as more bodies are discovered, he realises that his young witness from the cemetery lodge is in grave danger, from somebody he calls 'the Shadow Man'.\n\nAs Albert discovers more about the victims he finds information that might bring him a step closer not only to Jimmy's killer but to solving a mystery of his own: the whereabouts of his lost son.\n\nThe second historical thriller in the Albert Lincoln series by award-winning crime writer Kate Ellis. An atmospheric, spellbinding mystery set in the aftermath of the Great War.\n\nWhat readers are saying about The Boy Who Lived with the Dead:\n\n'Outstanding' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars\n\n'A fantastic read which kept me guessing right until the last few pages' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars\n\n'Superb!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars\n\n'Compulsive reading . . . very cleverly constructed with plenty of twists' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars\n\n'Hard to put the book down' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars\n\n'[Kate Ellis] must be a genius' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars\n\n'Excellent' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

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Brand: Len Goodman
EAN: 9780091928032
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Better Late Than Never is the extraordinary true story of how a man born into poverty in London's East End went on to find stardom late in life when he was chosen to be head judge on BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. Len Goodman tells all about his new-found fame, his experiences on Strictly Come Dancing, and also on the no.1 US show Dancing with the Stars and his encounters with the likes of Heather Mills-McCartney and John Sergeant. \n\nBut the real story is in his East End roots. And Len's early life couldn't be more East End. The son of a Bethnal Green costermonger he spent his formative years running the fruit and veg barrow and being bathed at night in the same water Nan used to cook the beetroot. There are echoes of Billy Elliot too. Though Len was a welder in the London Docks, he dreamt of being a professional footballer, and came close to making the grade had he not broken his foot on Hackney Marshes. The doctor recommended ballroom dancing as a light aid to his recovery. And Len, it turned out, was a natural. At first his family and work mates mocked, but soon he had made the final of a national competition and the welders descended en masse to the Albert Hall to cheer him on. With his dance partner, and then wife Cheryl, Len won the British Championships in his late twenties and ballroom dancing became his life. \n\nFunny and heart-warming, Len Goodman's autobiography has all the honest East End charm of Tommy Steele, Mike Read or Roberta Taylor.

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Brand: Boy George
EAN: 9781785120367
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Karma is the definitive autobiography from music icon, Boy George - the fabulous Grammy, Brit andIvor Novello award-winning lead singer of 80s pop/reggae band, Culture Club.\n\nTold in his inimitable style, Karma will reflect on Boy George's life as a kid growing up insixties London, through the hedonism of the seventies and the glam rock and punk rock revolutionthat birthed Culture Club, and the heydays of the nineties meeting musical legends like DavidBowie, Madonna and Prince - as well as addressing all those rumours. The book will reveal the highsand lows of love, loss, addiction, recovery, prison, and celebrity on Boy George's journey throughfame to finally embracing the man and artist that he is today: 'I went to a lot of trouble tocreate Boy George and then I went through a whole battle for years about not wanting to be him. Butnow I enjoy and embrace it in a way that I wasn't able to as a young person.... I'm learning to beGeorge Alan O'Dowd from Eltham who it turns out is quitean interesting person.'\n\n\nWith all the humour, honesty, sarcasm (and hats!) that you'd expect, Karma gives us a uniqueinsight into Boy George's incredible story and the true evolution of a music icon.\n\n\n'Culture Club is always going to be one of those lovers I go back to. I've railed against it andthat Boy George character I created. For years I convinced myself I was a creature of habit,unchangeable, immovable. But eventually you have to look in the mirror. Not looking for spots, looking for something deeper. Whythe hell am I here? I would say lifeis the point of life.'

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Brand: Andrew Taylor
EAN: 9780008300753
Categoria: Libri e riviste

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND AWARD-WINNING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK\n \n\n\n \n Murder, lies and betrayal in Regency England\n \n\n\n England 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Shield becomes entwined in their family’s affairs.\n\n\n When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, all clues lead to the Frant family, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart.\n\n\n Soon, it emerges that at the heart of these macabre events lies the strange American boy. What secrets is the young Edgar Allan Poe hiding?

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Brand: Christopher Isherwood
EAN: 9780099561224
Categoria: Libri e riviste

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON\n\nSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London’s Bohemia. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Isherwood’s contemporaries Auden, Upward, and Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion shaped the literary identity of England in the 1930s. Witty and outrageous, Isherwood pokes fun at the stars of his generation, above all himself, even as he testifies to their unique early gifts.

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Brand: Amen Alonge
EAN: 9781529415254
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'A powerful new voice in thriller writing' ADAM HAMDY\n\nBorn and raised in London, Pretty Boy has spent the last ten years in exile after being forced out of his hometown. He's learned patience, and how to disappear. Now Pretty Boy is ready to get his revenge on those who need to pay for his lost years. \n\nMeanwhile, back in the city, things have moved on. People still talk about Pretty Boy, of course. He's a legend, more myth than man, and rumours run wild about his deadly legacy. But most think they've seen the last of him. He's finished.\n\nSomeone who never gave up on Pretty Boy is Alan Pierce. The former policeman turned corrupt businessman has always lived by his own rules: stay focussed, stay one step ahead of the enemy, stay alive. Alan and Pretty Boy have history - Pretty Boy owes him everything - so when Alan finds himself fighting a drug-fuelled war on all fronts, there's only one man he wants to turn to. But where is Pretty Boy?\n\nSharp, fast-paced and gripping and with a cast of unforgettable characters, A Good Night to Kill is a heart-pounding tale of justice, loyalty, and of what happens when two men turn to face the fight they've been trying to outrun. \n\n\nPraise for Amen Alonge and A Good Day to Die\n\n'Action-packed, gripping, and wildly entertaining' ADAM HAMDY\n\n'One of those books that you hate to put down' 5* READER REVIEW\n\n'A smart, gritty, action-packed' WILLIAM SHAW\n\n'[An] ultra violent and propulsive London thriller' 5* READER REVIEW\n\n'Powerful' LITERARY REVIEW\n\n'A great non-stop action thriller with an explosive ending' 5* READER REVIEW\n\n'A cracker of a debut' TREVOR WOOD\n\n'Enthralling' 5* READER REVIEW

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Brand: Jamila Gavin
EAN: 9781405277037
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating work of historical fiction for children.\n\n\n The Coram man takes babies and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely to a Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son, Mish.\n\n\n Mish saves one, Aaron, who grows up happily unaware of his history, proving himself a promising musician. As Aaron's new life takes him closer to his real family, the watchful Mish makes a terrible mistake, delivering Aaron and his best friend Toby back into the hands of the Coram man.\n\n\n It tells the story of a dark time in English history. Fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Goodnight Mr Tom will love this. A great read for children aged 10+.\n\n\n Look out for Jamilla's other titles:\n\n\n The Eye of the Horse\n\n\n The Robber Baron's Daughter\n\n\n The Track of the Wind\n\n\n Wheel of Surya\n\n\n Coram Boy won the 2000 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and has been adapted into a highly acclaimed stage play.\n\n\n Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. With an Indian father and an English mother, she inherited two rich cultures which ran side by side throughout her life, and which always made her feel she belonged to both countries.\n\n\n The family finally settled in England where Jamila completed her schooling, was a music student, worked for the BBC and became a mother of two children. It was then that she began writing children's books, and felt a need to reflect the multi-cultural world in which she and her children now lived.

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Brand: Matt Bishop
EAN: 9781838594879
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Rex, a husband and father, makes an unintentional error. Will Rex get away with his terrible, taboo-busting\nmistake? \n\n\nThis opening premise is the starting gun to a rollicking ride through London of the late 1980s and early\n1990s, in a literary novel that focuses on human frailty, love, marriage, family bonds, gay sex, betrayal,\nalcoholism, illness and death. Although aspects of the novel are richly ironic and even comedic, it also\ndeals with challenging themes, not least HIV/AIDS.\n\n\n\nMatt Bishop wrote The Boy Made the Difference because very few (if any) literary novels are set against\nthe narrative backdrop of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which had a profound\nand lasting impact on the gay community. All of the proceeds from the book sales will be donated to\nhis late mother's charity - the Bernardine Bishop Appeal (part of CLIC Sargent - a charity that helps\nchildren, young people and their families who are suffering the effects of cancer).

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Brand: Amen Alonge
EAN: 9781529415223
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'A powerful new voice in thriller writing' ADAM HAMDY\n\nBorn and raised in London, Pretty Boy has spent the last ten years in exile after being forced out of his hometown. He's learned patience, and how to disappear. Now Pretty Boy is ready to get his revenge on those who need to pay for his lost years. \n\nMeanwhile, back in the city, things have moved on. People still talk about Pretty Boy, of course. He's a legend, more myth than man, and rumours run wild about his deadly legacy. But most think they've seen the last of him. He's finished. \n\nSomeone who never gave up on Pretty Boy is Alan Pierce. The former policeman turned corrupt businessman has always lived by his own rules: stay focused, stay one step ahead of the enemy, stay alive. Alan and Pretty Boy have history - Pretty Boy owes him everything - so when Alan finds himself fighting a drug-fuelled war on all fronts, there's only one man he wants to turn to. But where is Pretty Boy?\n\nSharp, fast-paced and gripping and with a cast of unforgettable characters, A Good Night to Kill is a heart-pounding tale of justice, loyalty, and of what happens when two men turn to face the fight they've been trying to outrun. \n\n\nPraise for Amen Alonge and A Good Day to Die\n\n'Action-packed, gripping, and wildly entertaining' ADAM HAMDY\n\n'One of those books that you hate to put down' 5* READER REVIEW\n\n'A smart, gritty, action-packed' WILLIAM SHAW\n\n'A great non-stop action thriller with an explosive ending' 5* READER REVIEW\n\n'A cracker of a debut' TREVOR WOOD\n\n'Enthralling' 5* READER REVIEW

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Brand: A. M. Morgen
EAN: 9780316471534
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Get ready for heart-pounding action, nefarious mysteries, and hijinx galore in the thrilling, clever sequel to The Inventors at No. 8!\n\nAs the one-time unluckiest boy in London, George, the 3rd Lord of Devonshire, knows better than to overlook something as suspicious as a secretive new neighbor. And George was right to be wary--this new neighbor turns out to be Don Nadie, the head of the nefarious Society of Nobodies, and a man just as villainous as he is mysterious.\n\nAlmost overnight, George finds himself framed for attempting to assassinate the king (a crime he most assuredly did not commit) and once again on the run with his best friend Ada Byron, the future Countess of Lovelace. Together, they must navigate the high seas in Ada's latest invention, a submersible mechanical whale, all while trying to stay one step ahead of Don Nadie and the Society. Because even though George may be a gentleman, there's no way he's going to sit idly by while Don Nadie ruins his family name and takes over the world. \n\nIn this charming and brilliant sequel, author A.M. Morgen raises the stakes and expands a humor and heart-filled world sure to appeal to fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Inquisitor's Tale.

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Brand: Charles Dickens
EAN: 9780241331262
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Charles Dickens' classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London.\n\nAfter Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver narrowly avoids prison and finds himself in the care of kind Mr Brownlow. But Fagin and the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan, determined to drag him back . . .\n\nWith an inspirational and light-hearted introduction by Garth Nix.

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Brand: Jacqueline Winspear
EAN: 9780749026684
Categoria: Libri e riviste

London, October 1941. Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Dismissed by the police when reporting the crime, Freddie turns to private investigator Maisie Dobbs for help. \n\nWhile Maisie believes the boy and wants to help, she must exercise caution given her work with a secret government department spearheading covert operations against the Nazis. When she stumbles upon the killer in a place she least expects, Maisie soon realises she's been pulled into the orbit of a man who has his own reasons to kill - reasons that go back to another war.

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Brand: J. M. Barrie
EAN: 9780192847430
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'\n\nPeter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the stories grew older, so too did Peter, reappearing in Neverland, where he was aided in his epic battles with Red Indians and pirates by the motherly and resourceful Wendy Darling.\n\nPeter Pan has become a cultural icon and symbol for escapism and innocence, remaining popular with both children and adults.\n\nIn this collected edition, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst brings together five of the main versions of the Peter Pan story, from Peter Pan's first appearance in The Little White Bird, to his novelisation of the story, the stage version, and unrealised silent film script. \n\nThis edition contains a lively introduction, detailed explanatory notes, original illustrations, and appendices that include Barrie's coda to the play that was only performed once.

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Brand: Edmund Murray
EAN: 9781913491253
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In 1937 aged just 19, Edmund Murray left his family and a comfortable job in London, caught the boat train to France and signed up for the minimum of five years' service with the French Foreign Legion. Armed with little more than school-boy French and a desire for a life of adventure, Murray travelled through France and on to the Legion's headquarters in Algeria where he completed a gruelling three-month basic training programme. He went on to serve in Morocco and Indochina (now Vietnam) where towards the end of the War, his regiment were forced to retreat from invading Japanese forces into China where his service ended after eight years as a Legionnaire. Throughout the Second World War, Murray's overwhelming sense of duty compelled him to try to leave the Legion and join the Allied forces, but he was thwarted at every attempt. He was an Englishman, in a French organisation, by definition a home for 'the men with no names', during a time of global conflict where battle lines and countries' boundaries changed almost daily. He was an anomaly, a diplomatic puzzle. But as such, his was an extraordinary war-time experience. This book, which borrows heavily from Murray's earlier book, Churchill's Bodyguard, includes rare personal insights into Legion life from drills and manoeuvres, to feast-days and festivals as well as accounts of friendships forged in exceptional circumstances and which would last a lifetime. It also documents a unique war-time experience of the man whose sense of duty never faltered and led him, in later life, to become bodyguard to Sir Winston Churchill. Edited by his son Bill Murray, this is the story in his own words of Edmund Murray, Churchill's Legionnaire, and his service in the French Foreign Legion from 1937 to 1945.

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Brand: BOY London
EAN: 8033985133977