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Daisy Jones & the Six rose from the 1970s LA music scene to become one of the biggest bands in the world. They sold out arenas from coast to coast. Their music defined an era and every girl in America idolised Daisy. But, in 1979, on the night of the final concert of their tour, they split. Nobody ever knew why. Until now. This is the whole story, right from the beginning: the sun-bleached streets, the grimy bars on the Sunset Strip, knowing Daisy’s moment was coming. Relive the euphoria of success and experience the terror that nothing will ever be as good again.
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Aunts, engagements, misunderstandings and hangover cures – this delightful collection from ‘the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness’ brings together a baker’s dozen of P.G. Wodehouse’s finest short stories.
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There was a time when Cicero held Caesar’s life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero’s life is in ruins. Exiled, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, his life constantly in danger, Cicero is tormented by the knowledge that he has sacrificed power for the sake of his principles. His comeback requires wit, skill and courage – and for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator is once more the supreme senator in Rome. But politics is never static and no statesman, however cunning, can safeguard against the ambition and corruption of others.
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When an old man’s body is discovered drowned, a Berlin policeman begins a routine investigation which rapidly becomes anything but routine. Ordered off the case by the Gestapo, his curiosity leads him through a maze of unexplained happenings.
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Ancient Rome teems with ambitious and ruthless men. None is more brilliant than Marcus Cicero. A rising young lawyer, backed by a shrewd wife, he decides to gamble everything on one of the most dramatic courtroom battles of all time. Win it, and he could win control of Rome itself. Lose it, and he is finished for ever.
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Harris recreates in spellbinding detail one of the most famous natural disasters of all time. And by focusing on the characters of an engineer and a scientist, he offers an entirely original perspective on the Roman world.
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Taking place in the years 1958-59, the opening scenes of this book are at a cultural conference in Venice, which Nicholas Jenkins is attending. The intrigues of Widmerpool, now a life peer come to something of a climax.
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It is the mid 1960s and many of the characters who have taken part in this vast panorama of modern life are either old or dead. Obseved by Nicholas Jenkins, several of those who remain have begun to hear secret harmonies.
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After the war Nicholas Jenkins began work on a biography of the 17th century writer Robert Burton. A job on the side brings about contact with persons both known and unknown.
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Nicholas Jenkins has been posted to a War Office liaison section to work with the Allied armies. Absurdities coincide with horrors for the characters of ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’, especially in the shadowy secret services.
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Taking place during the period between the occupation of Paris by the Germans in June 1940, and their invasion of Russia in the same month a year later, ‘The Soldier’s Art’ further traces the lives of those in ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’.
