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  • Dead Famous

    An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

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  • The Kappillan of Malta

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  • Mary Queen Of Scots

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  • Past Imperfect

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    FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY and THE GILDED AGEA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A gloriously funny ride through modern times' Evening StandardDamian Baxter is very, very rich. But he has but one concern, which is becoming more urgent at the weeks go by: who should inherit his fortune.A letter from an ex-girlfriend suggests that, as a young man, Damian may have fathered a child, but the letter... ... Read more

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  • Desiree

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    The bestselling novel about Napoleon's first loveOne of the most successful historical romances since GONE WITH THE WINDOver 20 million copies sold worldwideTo be young, in France, and in love: fourteen year old Desiree can't believe her good fortune. Her fiance, a dashing and ambitious Napoleon Bonaparte, is poised for battlefield success, and no longer will she be just a French merchant's ... Read more

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  • The Ancestor's Tale

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  • The African Queen

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  • After the Ice

    A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC

    A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of ... Read more

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  • Judi: Behind the Scenes

    With an Introduction by John Miller

    'National treasure? I hate that. Too dusty, too in a cupboard, too behind glass, too staid ... What I love is being part of a company. On stage I am not trying to be myself, I'm trying to be someone else, the more unlike me the better.'From her first theatrical roles as a teenager in York to her scene-stealing performances as 'M' in the James Bond films, Dame Judi Dench's professional life has ... Read more

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  • Daughter of Empire

    Life as a Mountbatten

    A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's HousePamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was brought up by nannies and governesses as she was often parted from her parents as they dutifully carried out their public roles. A solitary child, she learned to occupy ... Read more

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