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  • Rooms of One's Own

    50 Places That Made Literary History

    by Adrian Mourby ...
    Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Misérables in an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English of plays, Blithe Spirit, in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion.Award-winning BBC drama producer ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rooms with a View

    The Secret Life of Grand Hotels

    by Adrian Mourby ...
    Salvador Dalí once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira, and the details of India's independence were worked out in the ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Delhi.The world's grandest hotels have provided ... Read more

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    Whatever Happened to….? Popeye, Dorothy, The Ugly Sisters and more

    A BBC Radio Comedy of Ultimate Sequels

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    Twelve make-believe spoof comedy documentaries charting the lives of celebrated fictional characters‘Gorgeously silly’ The IndependentHave you ever wondered what became of the protagonists from your favourite childhood stories? Well, wonder no more: in these hilarious mockumentaries, the astonishing afterlives of some of the most famous figures in fiction are revealed...The scourge of smugglers ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Doctor Who: The BBC Radio Episodes Collection

    3rd, 4th & 6th Doctor Audio Dramas

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    A new edition of the collection featuring each of the Doctor's full-cast BBC radio adventures - and more.In The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space, the Third Doctor reunites with Sarah Jane Smith and UNIT for adventures on Earth and beyond, first broadcast on BBC Radio in the 1990s.In Doctor Who and the Pescatons, made for LP release in 1976, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah fight alien ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    The Legend and the Life

    Filled with fresh new research and never-before-seen photos, this updated edition of the definitive fashion biography of Coco Chanel deepens our understanding of the history and legacy of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture.Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor, conjuring up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Coco Chanel

    by Linda Simon ...
    Series Book 36 - RB-Critical Lives
    The name Chanel brings immediately to mind the signature scent of No. 5 and the understated but sophisticated glamour of a simple black dress and pearls. But to consider Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971) as simply a fashion designer fails to capture her social and cultural significance. As Linda Simon reveals in this biography, Chanel was an iconoclastic entrepreneur who rebelled against and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Riviera

    The Rise and Rise of the Côte d'Azur

    by Jim Ring ...
    The Riviera has inspired countless novelists and artists, attracted as much by its visitors as by its location (Somerset Maugham called it 'a sunny place for shady people'). But for the majority of the English, the Riviera was made famous by rumour and report: it was the scene of the romance of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson; and, post-war, became the vacation spot of Hollywood starlets.But the ... Read more

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  • Life After Victoria, 1900–1909

    Series series The Decade Series
    An all-encompassing account of the dawn of the Edwardian era from the international bestselling author of The Mums' Book and Life Below Stairs.A heavily illustrated journey through the first decade of the twentieth century, the first in a series of ten books outlining the key events of the century by bestselling author Alison Maloney. Focusing on the aftereffects of Victoria's death, the riots ... Read more

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  • Sleeping with the Enemy

    Coco Chanel's Secret War

    by Hal Vaughan ...
    “From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.” –André MalrauxCoco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture.She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair. She used ordinary jersey as couture fabric, elevated ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Hotel on Place Vendôme

    Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris

    A captivating history of Paris's famous Hôtel Ritz, set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of WWII, from the New York Times –bestselling author.When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, the legendary Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme—an icon of Paris frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American heiresses and risqué flappers, playboys, and princes—was the only luxury hotel ... Read more

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  • Confessions of an Art Addict

    A candid, intimate self-portrait by the legendary collector, patron of the arts, and globe-trotting socialite.In this colorful memoir, Peggy Guggenheim provides an insider's view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her personal and professional relationships, and often surprising portrayals of the artists themselves.Guggenheim was born into ... Read more

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