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9780733624001
Handling Edna: The unauthorised biography
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Author:
Barry Humphries
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In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries takes a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at an icon of our times - Dame Edna Everage. Superstar, swami, confidante and advisor to royalty, Hollywood stars and international political leaders, Dame Edna's life has catapulted her far from her humble Moonee Ponds beginnings as a suburban housewife to the most elite social and artistic circles in the world. Barry knows everything about Dame Edna - the who, the why and the where - and, in this much-anticipated work, he will, for the first time, reveal all - whether Edna likes it or not! Essential reading for scholars, female achievers, fans of Dame Edna, and those who feel that behind the fairy tale career lies a darker and more sinister story.
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9780670073481
Mao's Last Dancer (revised edition 2009) (Film Tie-in cover)
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Author:
Li Cunxin
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In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, interested more in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his school - Madame Mao's cultural delegates. They are looking for young peasants to mould into faithful guards of Mao's great vision for China. This is the true story of how that one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of a chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond description. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to a president and first lady, movie stars and the most influential people in America. One day he would become a star: Mao's last dancer, and the darling of the West.
First published 2003; this edition with three new chapters 2009.
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9781844086856
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
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Author:
Lyndall Gordon
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Though in her lifetime only ten of Emily Dickinson's poems were published, her death revealed 1,789 poems, many of them in hand-sewn booklets, secreted in a locked chest. She is now regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come down to us as a woman disappointed in love, an odd and pathetic woman who dressed in white and shut herself away.
Lyndall Gordon sees instead her volcanic character -
'a soul at White Heat'
- a mystic and lover whose family harboured a hothouse drama of sex, scandal and devastating betrayal.
Emily Dickinson was a woman beyond her time who found love, spiritual quickening and immortality all on her own terms: she wrote
'My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun'
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Here is an explosive genius.
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9780340925034
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
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Author:
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
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Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes' personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through the twists and turns of history. From Charlemagne -- himself a direct ancestor of the author -- to the count who very nearly persuaded William the Conqueror to retreat at Hastings, many members of this unique clan have lived close to the nerve centre of the ruler of their day. They number in their ranks a murderer, a wife poisoner, a poacher, England's greatest female traveller of the 17th century, and an extortionist Lord High Treasurer, teen cousins who eloped, a noble lord hanged for manslaughter, another hanged for adultery with the King's wife, and many who, as admirals or major-generals, won famous battles. The Fiennes' behind Cromwell provided the castle in which the Parliamentarians made their first secret moves, the same building in which twenty-one successive generations of the family have lived for 600 unbroken ...
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A Passion for Living
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Author:
Alexander Stobbs
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Our lives are precious. Never more so than for nineteen-year-old Alexander Stobbs who has been a cystic fibrosis sufferer from birth. For him, each day could be his last. But as he says in the BAFTA-nominated documentary -- A Boy Called Alex -- 'you can't do stuff if you're afraid'.A truly inspiring story of a young musician determined to live his dreams, Alex takes us on his journey to survive a daily round of drugs and treatments as he also prepares for his yearning ambition to conduct Bach's three-hour-long St Matthew Passion. Everything we take for granted is a struggle for Alex -- eating, sleeping, even breathing. His determination to live life to the full, constantly striving for perfection in his musical performance, is set against the exhausting every day rigours of medication and treatment simply to keep him alive. Yet he has already achieved some extraordinary goals. An Eton scholar, he has now won a further music scholarship ...
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9780099519478
Dear Fatty
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Author:
Dawn French
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Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades, encompassing a vast and brilliant array of characters. Loved for her irreverent humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here she describes the journey that would eventually establish her as a perhaps unlikely, but nevertheless genuine, national treasure. Dawn began her career as part of the groundbreaking alternative comedy group, the Comic Strip, marking a radical departure from the more traditional comedy acts of the time. Later came the all-female Girls On Top, which teamed Dawn with Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax and Tracy Ullman and firmly established women in British comedy. As part of the wildly successful and much loved duo French and Saunders, Dawn helped create a repertoire of brilliantly observed characters, parodying popular culture and ...
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9781847443472
I am Ozzy
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Ozzy Osbourne
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Has there ever been a more extraordinary rock-star story than Ozzy Osbourne's? Born into a life so poor that the whole family slept in one room, Ozzy endured a tough upbringing. Music was his salvation and his band Black Sabbath went on to change the music scene forever. But along with the rock and roll came the inevitable sex and drugs and Ozzy fell into a long relationship with addictive substances. The stories of Ozzy's days on the road are legendary - biting the head off a live bat, losing his best friend and writing partner Randy Rhoades in a tragic plane crash - but few know of the real heartbreak he suffered during those days of excess. In the end it was love that saved him: the love of his wife Sharon and kids Kelly, Jack and Aimee. In his highly anticipated autobiography, Ozzy comes clean: in all senses.
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9780747598503
Just Me
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Author:
Sheila Hancock
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'Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, "Put your money where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.' In The Two of Us Sheila relived her life with John Thaw - years packed with love and family, delight and despair. And then she looked ahead. What next? Gardening, grannying and grumbling, while they all had their pleasures, weren't going to fill the aching void that John had left. 'Live adventurously', a Quaker advice, was hovering around her brain. Putting her and John's much loved house in France on the market she embarked on a series of journeys. She tried holidaying alone, contending with invisibility and budget flights. She tried travelling in a group, but the questions she wanted to ask were never the ones the guide wanted to answer. She tried relaxing - harder than you might think. Finally, heading out of her comfort zone, she found her travels, and the things ...
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9780007338832
Life Stories
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Author:
Sir David Attenborough
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A personal view of the natural world "I daresay my mind would wander over a range of animals remarkable for the extravagance of their reproductive techniques" - Sir David Attenborough, when asked which animal he would like to be if he returned to Earth This fantasy reincarnation was reserved only when in "racy" company, said the distinguished wildlife broadcaster. But in more sober company, he would go for a sloth, which hangs upside-down all day. The sloth is Sir David's first essay in this collection of his own personal insight into the natural world around us. He also talks about his first ever pet, a salamander, and his favourite animal - the bird of paradise, as well as living fossils, flying dinosaurs, dragons and the strange antics of the duck-billed platypus. This is Sir David looking at the wildlife that has captured his imagination and enthusiasm over his distinguished career in TV, then wildlife TV. It is a fscinating ...
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9781741966718
Ordinary Courage
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Author:
Donna Mulhearn
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Donna Mulhearn s world as she knew it had fallen apart. By the age of 34, her marriage was over; she was disillusioned by her career & despaired at the person she was becoming. Then one day she heard something radical, a call to action that would change her life .A man on the radio was appealing for human shields in Iraq.
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9780670918720
Stones into Schools
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Author:
Mortenson Greg
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From the author of the phenomenal No.1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through education
In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords and surviving an eight-day armed abduction by the Taliban. He shares for the first time his broader vision to promote peace through education and literacy, as well as touching on military matters, Islam, and women – all woven together with the many rich personal stories of the people who have been involved in ...
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9780719569869
About Time: Growing Old Disgracefully
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Author:
Irma Kurtz
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Something in our world is changing. In ten years time 60% of us will be over 55. The retirement age is likely to move up to 70; modern medicine ensures that most of us will live well in to our 80s and most of us will choose to do some work, paid or voluntary, while we are still physically able. Yet older people have, as yet, no role in modern society. Old age is regarded as an invonvenience, something to be shunned and set apart from our daily lives. In this frank, often funny and always compelling disquisition on ageing, Irma Kurtz sets out to chart the territory through her own and others' experiences. Along the way she meets a diverse group of people whose insights into their own lives have much to offer a younger generation - from a 90-year-old weekly columnist and a vicar still working in his mid-70s to The Good Granny Guide's Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall and 'London's Rudest Landlord', Normal Balon of the celebrated Coach and ...
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9780752837505
A Child Called 'It'
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Author:
Dave Pelzer
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The life-enhancing true story of a young boy's struggle to free himself from his abusive mother and find a family to love him
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly, and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dog's bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting an inspirational book of the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive.
First published 1998.
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9780330424905
A Wolf at the Table : A Memoir
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Author:
Augusten Burroughs
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From the author of
Running with Scissors
comes a blackly comic, frightening and compulsively readable new memoir.
A Wolf at the Table
tells the story of Augusten's early childhood when he lived with his crazy father, John Robison Sr, his spaced-out poet mother, and his delinquent older brother, John Robison Jr (author of
Look Me in the Eye
). Told with brutal honesty and psychologically penetrating insight, it chronicles the young Augusten's increasing paranoia as he navigates a household that is by turns very funny, and very sinister. He wants his big brother to like him and his mother to understand him, but most of all he wants his father's love and acceptance, yet can't be sure he isn't a ticking time bomb...
A Wolf at the Table
is Augusten's best book in ten years. Less controversial than
Running with Scissors
but no less funny and heartrending, it will delight his fans as well as general ...
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9781408800799
Hurry Down Sunshine : A Father's memoir of love and madness
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Author:
Michael Greenberg
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One summer evening Michael Greenberg's daughter Sally was brought home by the police after rushing into a busy road in Greenwich Village, convinced she could halt the oncoming traffic. The mania had come over her abruptly: her habit of poring obsessively over poems late into the night or listening to music on her battered walkman for hours could be considered 'normal' teenage behaviour, and yet it was a clue to the internal tumult that was about to overwhelm her. Now her behaviour had moved from the realm of the adolescent and eccentric to the acutely unstable, and she needed professional help. And so just a few days later Michael found himself in the surreal world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most sweltering months. Confused, anxious, looking for answers, he asked himself whether he was to blame. Perhaps this illness had been Sally's genetic inheritance. Perhaps, as a writer, he hadn't been able to provide the ...
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9781409101963
In the Blink of an Eye: An Inspiring And True Story Of Enduring Love
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Hasso & Catherine von Bredow
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On 1 May 2000 Hasso von Bredow's life was forever changed. The young and active father of three suffered a massive stroke at the base of his brainstem, leaving him totally paralysed and unable to speak. With his mind as cognitive and as active as it had always been, his body became his painful prison. IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE is Hasso's moving and life-affirming memoir. At 42 Hasso had to come to terms with a life 'locked in', being dependent on others for every breath, but worst of all, losing his most precious of possessions: his voice. The only way Hasso could communicate with the world was by blinking his eyes. And using coded blinking and state of the art technology, he wrote this incredibly moving memoir letter by letter, helped only by his wife and carer, Catherine. Far from being a self-pitying and depressing read, IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE is a small miracle. It opens a world of human imagination, courage and most importantly, ...
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9781416593669
Invisible
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Author:
Hugues De Montalembert
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9780732291785
Living Oprah: My One-year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk
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Robyn Okrant
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In 2008, Robyn Okrant kicked off a year-long experiment to find out what would happen if an average 35-year-old woman put her life in the hands of television's most influential personality, Oprah Winfrey. From her wardrobe to her marriage, diet, spiritual life, finances and more, the author redesigned her life according to Oprah.
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9780091910532
Love Affair : The Memoir of a Forbidden Father-Daughter Relationship
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Author:
Kenton Leslie
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Love Affair
is a unique story of a love affair between child and father, set in the occult world of jazz clubs, dance halls and one-nighters, where lives are lived on a razor's edge.
The father: legendary jazz giant Stan Kenton. The daughter: health and beauty guru Leslie Kenton.
This story takes off where other incest experiences end. You'll find no victims, no whining and no need for forgiveness here. A true tale of obsession, betrayal, disintegration and triumph, it plumbs the depth of a forbidden union. It reveals how lives are ripped asunder, as well as how the lives of a few can be transformed in powerfully positive ways.
Love Affair
reveals the deepest truths of incest, what it empowers and what it destroys - its gifts and its horrors. It also takes you into esoteric worlds, peopled by power-hungry self-appointed gurus who, in the name of setting people free, feed minds on seductive lies, fragment psyches ...
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9780732288785
Lunch in Paris : A love story with recipes
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Author:
Elizabeth Bard
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' The chocolate centre flows like dark lava onto the whiteness of the plate. The last ounce of stress drains from my body ...I have discovered the French version of Death by Chocolate. ' Part love story, part wine-splattered cookbook, Lunch in Paris is a deliciously tart, forthright and funny story of falling in love with a Frenchman and moving to the world's most romantic city - not the Hollywood version, but the real Paris, a heady mix of blood sausage and irregular verbs. From gutting her first fish (with a little help from Jane Austen) and battling bad-tempered butchers to discovering heavenly chocolate shops, Elizabeth Bard finds that learning to cook and building a new life as a stranger in an even stranger land have a lot in common. Along the way she learns the true meaning of home - and the real reason French women don't get fat ...
Part love story, part wine splattered cook book, a delicious fish out of water story for any ...
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