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In January 1649, the King of England, Charles I, was executed. He had been sentenced to death by a tribunal of 135 men and, of those, 59 signed the death warrant. In a powerful tale of revenge from a dark and little-known corner of English history, Charles Spencer explores what happened when the Restoration arrived and retribution was brought against those who condemned the king. From the men who returned to the monarchist cause and betrayed their fellow regicides to those that fled the country in an attempt to escape their punishment, Spencer tells the incredible story of the men who dared to kill a king.
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In one of the most comprehensive pictures of the poet yet published, James Booth examines the people, the places and the chance encounters that influenced Larkin and shaped his poetry. From Larkin’s early life, his academic studies and his aspirations as a novelist, an image emerges of a reserved and gentle man greatly affected by those close to him. Delving into his fluctuating relationships with Maeve Brennan and Monica Jones, two of the many women in Larkin’s life, and analysing their varied effect on his work, Booth sheds fresh light on one of Britain’s best loved poets.
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A whirlwind romance followed by a picture-perfect marriage, Hannah Reilly seizes her chance at happiness. However, one day her husband fails to come home. The more questions she asks, the fewer answers she finds. But are the secrets that Mark has been keeping designed to protect him or protect her? And can you ever really know what happened before you met?
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Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social embarrassment, is the perfect blend for a celebrity interviewer. Barber takes us through her early career at Penthouse where she started out interviewing foot fetishists, voyeurs, dominatrices and men who liked wearing nappies, through her later more eminent career at the ‘Telegraph’, ‘Sunday Times’, ‘Vanity Fair’, ‘Observer’ and ‘Sunday Times’.
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Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid’s chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists and writers. It is here that six people meet and find their lives changed forever. ‘Hotel Florida’ traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples – and a host of supporting characters from Antoine de Saint-Exupery to John Dos Passos – living as intensely as they had ever done, against the backdrop of a critical moment in history.
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A fascinating memoir of an extraordinary family told through the vast, four-hundred-year-old house, Knole
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‘Overwhelmed’ is a map of the stresses – individual, historical, biological and societal – that have ripped working mothers’ leisure to shreds, and a quest for how it might be possible for them to put the pieces back together.
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Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses – individual, historical, biological and societal – that have ripped working mothers’ leisure to shreds, and a quest for how it might be possible for them to put the pieces back together
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£12.99
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah Shuja on the throne and ushering in a period of conflict over the territory still unresolved today. ‘The Return of a King’ is the definitive analysis of the first Afghan war.
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On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the bodies of five naked and heavily disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the Murder Squad in Copenhagen are called in to investigate this horrific case – the men hanging in a geometric pattern; the scene so closely resembling a public execution.
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On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the bodies of five naked and heavily disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the Murder Squad in Copenhagen are called in to investigate this horrific case – the men hanging in a geometric pattern; the scene so closely resembling a public execution.
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£12.99
After 25 years of sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From lowly dishwasher to executive chef, his tales are as unpredictable as they are funny and shocking.
