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Yet this woman, who at the age of 33, after 17 years of unhappy marriage, placed her deposed and murdered husband's crown on her own head, had begun life as an insignificant German princess.

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Coco Chanel continues to beguile more than two decades after her death. The author describes Chanel's carefully crafted persona and then gradually elucidates each layer of intrigue that surrounded the great fashion designer to reveal the woman behind the enigma. She also includes photographs and new documents from the wartime period.

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Russian playwright Anton Chekhov is transported to modern day Britain and a new society. What will Chekhov make of it This play explores modern British culture in all of its glory.

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'Tis the season to be jolly! One of Australia's favourite storytellers is back with a collection of stories about everyone's favourite family holiday.

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A charming autobiography from the president of the Cannes Film Festival.

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Spike Milligan's retellings of classic stories are among his best-loved works. In this commemorative edition, his final five "According to..." books are collected as a lasting reminder of Spike's unique comic genius.

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The great Jewish physicist Richard Feynman makes a wrong turn out of Albuquerque and finds himself entangled in an unlikely tale of espionage.

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After more than thirty years, Alan is returning to Mumbai on business. He finds the bustling city is moving on and up. Between meetings and expense account dinners, he visits the auntie and cousin he used to spend his holidays with, and makes an unexpected discovery about his late father.

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This is the story of two Welsh names bruised, but not beaten, by media speculation; Gareth "Alfie" Thomas, 105 caps for Wales, once its captain, now the world's most prominent gay sportsman; and his hometown, Bridgend.

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What drives a man to kill another person, and another, then another until he can no longer stop This work offers an insight into the lives of these individuals and explores the homicidal manifestations of a number of mental afflictions.

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"Dickens' unforgettable characters are exuberantly made flesh." London Times

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Frank and funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the author of those immortal classics, The Hundred and One Dalmations and I Capture the Castle.

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A fascinating theatrical journey into Dickens' life and work inspired by Dickens' many letters and speeches.

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'Tired of walking in the dream I have returned to the country where I was born half a century ago' - The Higgins family is now dispersed; ' he finds this problematical peace, sharing a bungalow near Brittas in Co Wicklow in an awkward two year tenancy with a school mistress with back back trouble.

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In Game Change / Race of a Lifetime, the authors captured the full drama of Barack Obama's improbable, dazzling victory over the Clintons, John McCain and Sarah Palin. This book picks up the story in the Oval Office, where the president is beset by crises both inherited and unforeseen.

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An unprecedented exploration of contemporary Tibet, one of the worlds most inaccessible places, geographically and politically, and one of its most misunderstood.

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From working-class Broadmeadows to the Collingwood boardroom - the fascinating biography of one of Australia's best-known businessmen, media personalities and footy club presidents.

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In 1881, the famed and enigmatic impresario Mr Edward Gant presented his renowned travelling show creating a spectacle of grotesquery, black comedy, and mystery. Anthony Neilson has reconstructed this historical event in a play that offers a strange and beautiful exploration of sadness and mortality, probing even the nature of theatre itself.

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A new play about family and lies by renowned playwrightGurpreet Kaur Bhatti.

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First collection of plays from the author of the bestselling novels Room and Frog Music, previously nominated for the Booker Prize and Orange Prize. Contains the plays Kissing the Witch, Don't Die Wondering, Trespasses, Ladies and Gentlemen, and I Know My Own Heart.

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