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The penultimate novel in the Palliser series. As Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium, supported by Lady Glencora, presides over the coalition government, Trollope reaches into the highest echelons of the English establishment, depicting political realities rather than ideology.

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Explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on unparalleled access to many of the leading figures, as well as the key civil servants and journalists of each period, the author has built up a picture of the hidden nexus of influence and patronage surrounding the office.

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Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So when she decides to transform a group of 'special girls' into the creme de la creme at Marcia Blaine School they are soon known, perhaps suspiciously, as the Brodie set.

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Today The Prince is still seen as the Bible of realpolitik, read by strategists, businessmen and political animals everywhere as the ultimate guide to gaining and maintaining power in a dangerous world.

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The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism.

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This translation of the novel "La Princesse de Cleves", originally written in 1678, tells of life at Court in 17th-century France.

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London, 1841. Mr Jeremiah Blake and Captain William Avery, recently returned from India, are invited by Viscount Allington to examine the particulars of a grisly pair of murders. Two printers from the seditious gutter presses have been brutally dispatched in distinct but similar circumstances.

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When the prophetic writings of sixteenth-century visionary Nostradamus begin to ring alarmingly true, Jonathon Payne and David Jones find themselves in a life-or-death race across the world to stop those who would use the French seer's predictions for their own dark purposes.

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A brand new transaction of the "Psychopathology of Everyday Life" - one of 15 volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for the Penguin classics. This edition aims to reach beyond the institiutional/clinical market.

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Covers everything from hosepipe bans to Spanish restaurants, from writer's block to slug warfare, from slob holidays to the banning of beige. This book reveals the author, ourselves and the nation in a new light.

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A collection of favourite nursery rhymes, lullabies, poems and stories, featuring well-loved characters such as Eric Hill's Spot, Raymond Briggs' The Snowman and Beatrix Potter's Tom Kitten.

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With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods.

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When Megan and Ian got married, they wanted to start a family. And into their home one day came Emma, a puppy with whom they fell in love. However, Emma was given to someone in need. To get over their broken hearts, Megan and Ian took in another pup: Freddy ...only for Freddy to move on too. But then, one Christmas, little Traffy came along...

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Tells the story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth.

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Brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon.

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Explaining the extraordinary course of Italian history, this book traces the history of the Italian peninsula and gives a clear-eyed view of the Risorgimento, the pivotal event in modern Italian history, debunking the influential myths which have grown up around it.

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Horatio Nelson was a shrewd political operator who charmed and impressed political leaders. He was a difficult subordinate, only happy when completely in command, and capable of great ruthlessness. This biography takes a look at Nelson's status as a hero, explaining how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success.

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The Pyramid Diet is a rewarding diet which has lifetime sustainability. It is also the most balanced diet: you can eat carbs and you can eat fruit. This title provides dieters with the structure they need and allows them to eat the food they love.