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Looking back, I think I knew I was in trouble the first time I met him. rather your typical, overworked teacher who has no time for games, certainly not the wicked games he leads her into.

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In this compelling memoir, Thomas Paul Burgess recounts his time as a member of Ruefrex, one of Northern Irelands most successful punk rock bands. Through a series of revealing vignettes, he traverses strife-torn Belfast and bohemian London, revealing another side of the punk rock story.

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In June 1975, Australian couple Annette and Win Henderson find themselves stranded in Libreville, Gabon, after travelling halfway across Africa. They are saved by a chance meeting with a local expat, who offers them jobs in a remote mining camp in the mountains. The intensely moving story of a young woman suddenly immersed in a frontier world.

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Everybody in the unlicensed fight game knows that only one man has the honour of being titled 'Guv'nor' - and that man is Lew 'Wild Thing' Yates.

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For millennia the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic quests. This book traces the lives of five women who fought against prejudice for their right to work in, enjoy and help save the earth's wild places.

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Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poet

Wilfred Owen tragically died in battle just a few days before the Armistice.

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Tells the definitive biography of Wilkie Collins: the Victorian novelist, playwright, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, who lived a life of sensation.

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This book offers the life story of the actor and musician who is perhaps the most bankable star in Hollywood today.

How did Will Smith rise to the top of the Hollywood A-list

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Iconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher and elder statesman to the Beats: William Burroughs remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the twentieth century. This title presents an unconventional biography of this legendary provocateur and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment.

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The definitive biography of William Carlos Williams, one of the twentieth century's foremost poets

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An explorer, a master political manipulator, a barrister, a newspaper proprietor and a physical giant of a man who was afraid of nothing and no one, William Charles Wentworth was in every sense Australia's founding father. His story is the story of colonial Australia.

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William Penn is justly famous for his part in the political development of colonial America. Yet he was also one of the leading Quaker theologians of the seventeenth century and the most important translator of Quaker religious thought into social and political reality, and his life and works cannot be fully understood without a knowledge of his re

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This is a concise, fluently presented examination of the relation between William Penn's religious convictions and his political behavior, from his years as an active young convert to the Quaker cause to his later years as governor of Pennsylvania. Although not a full biographical treatment of William Penn, the study presents new insights into Penn

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Characterized as the wittiest and most religious man in England, William Wilberforce, a prominent Member of Parliament, was also a convert to Evangelical Christianity in the Church of England.

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Here is the true story of how British statesman and reformer William Wilberforce overcame great obstacles to help end the slave trade in England two centuries ago. The movie Amazing Grace brings this story to life, and this book is the inspiring, definitive biography of Wilberforce, written by the lead historical consultant for the film.

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William Wykeham was an extraordinary figure whose rapid ascent from peasant to chancellor bucked contemporary trends. This book offers biography of one of the figures of late 14th century England, an acquaintance of Chaucer and a man who wielded immense political power. It covers his fall from political power in 1376-77 and his rehabilitation.