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Contains the interview between Dennis Potter and Melvyn Bragg conducted on 5 April 1994 on Channel 4 television. Potter knew he had only a few weeks to live so the discussion is of great poignancy and power. Their conversation records Potter's honest dissection of his life and work.

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The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of 'a life that comes out of chaos.'

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From the prize-winning author of Peacemakers, comes the remarkable story of Nixon, Mao and the week that changed the world

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Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit.

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Offers an extensive selection of author's letters, arranged by subject so that you can choose from themes including social life, the Court, politics, literature, and the evolution of his Gothic castle and art and book collections at Strawberry Hill.

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A classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from one of the greatest minds of 19th-century America, now in a beautiful new package. Revised reissue.

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The award-winning rags-to-riches story of how one woman overcame all odds to build a beauty business empire and become one of the first African-American self-made millionaires - the book behind the Netflix series SELF MADE, starring Octavia Spencer

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A memoir that tells how the author dated women, joined a bowling league, visited strip bars, retreated to a monastery, got a job in sales and even infiltrated a men's therapy group. It provides an account of what it is to be a man - and a woman - in the modern world.

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Murder, human-rights abuse, drugs, blackmail, extortion, extreme violence, medical maltreatment and unjustifiable death penalties feature as everyday occurrences in the living hells that are Bangkwang and Klong Prem jails. The author has graphically revealed this shocking reality through the eyes of a long-term inmate from the West.

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Iconic actress Kathleen Turner gives a true masterclass in taking the lead in life in this inspiring memoir

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As the great rivals raced to victory, their relationship deteriorated badly, beginning with the breaking of a gentleman's agreement, and public spats followed, culminating in Prost accusing Senna of deliberately trying to ride him off the circuit, and fearful that the Brazilian would get someone killed with his daring overtaking feats.

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Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries 1907-1914: Prodigious Youthis an inexhaustibly rich portrait of one of the most vibrantperiods in the whole of Western Art,indispensable for all lovers of Prokofiev.

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A fascinating chronicle covering momentous events in Russia, Western Europe and America.

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Servant of Beauty: Landmarks, Love, and the Unimagined Life of an Unsung New York Hero is
the true story of the interplay between the two all-consuming passions of this unheralded civic
champion: his love of beauty in the public realm that would forever change New York City, and
his love for a younger man that would forever change Bard.

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During the sixty-odd years of her reign, Queen Victoria gathered around her a household dedicated to her service. Sitting squarely at its centre is Victoria, and through the eyes of her household, this title reveals a Queen who is more vulnerable, more emotional, more selfish and more comical than is generally supposed.

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Translation of: Sixty miles of border: an American lawman battles drugs on the Mexican border / Terry Kirkpatrick.

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Now the subject of a major film.

Once or twice a generation, an athlete transcends his sport - at last, here's Seve Ballesteros in his own words

There are golfers, and there are golfers.

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In Seven More Men, the sequel to the acclaimed Seven Men, #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas offers more captivating stories of influential heroes. Profoundly inspiring, Metaxas reveals a gallery of historic figures who faced insurmountable challenges with extraordinary resolve.

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Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. This title presents the epic events.

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In this highly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of historys greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following Gods call upon their lives---now in paperback.

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For the first time since his death in 1987, it reveals the extraordinary truth behind the legend, the man and the cyclist.

His list of 'firsts' alone makes him worthy of a place in the cycling pantheon: the first man to win the Tour de France five times;

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The classic, award-winning adventure story of Ernest Shackleton - now the subject of a major new Wolfgang (Das Boot) Peterson film.

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