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Tracy Peacock Tynan, daughter of world-famous theatre critic Kenneth Tynan and author Elaine Dundy, grew up in London and New York during the 1950s and ’60s. Her parents threw lavish parties where style was essential and guests included the biggest Hollywood, theatre and literary legends – among them Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Orson Welles, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams and Maggie Smith. As Tynan describes it, her parents were ‘trying their best to be the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald of the ’50s. Tynan reveals the glamour, secrets and dark side of her parents’ highly stylised world of endless jet-setting and savage fights, the struggles she faced as she tried to take charge of her life, and the happiness she eventually found as a costume designer, writer, wife and mother. She tells her astonishing story through the prism of the clothes which have come to symbolise her turbulent life.
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General Erich Ludendorff was one of the most important military individuals of the last century, yet today, one of the least known. One of the top two German generals of World War I, he dominated not only his superior – General Paul von Hindenburg – but also Germany’s head of state, Kaiser Wilhelm II. For years, Ludendorff was the military dictator of Germany. Not only dictating all aspects of World War I, he refused all opportunities to make peace, he antagonised the Americans until they declared war, he sent Lenin into Russia to forge a revolution in order to shut down the Russian front, and then he pushed for total military victory in 1918, in a rabid slaughter known as the Ludendorff Offensive. This is the true story of the man who lost World War I, blamed the Jews for his follies and then went on to inspire and form an alliance with Hitler.
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One midnight in January in the early 1960s, the Russian freighter Domatova quietly slipped out of Beirut harbour. The ship had sailed with a single passenger on board: an Englishman named Harold Adrian Russell Philby, nicknamed Kim. He had fled the Lebanese capital with little more than the clothes on his back. Would Moscow Centre welcome him as a senior Soviet intelligence officer?
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An intricate and intelligent novel set in the not-too-distant future, by the author of ‘The Miernik Dossier’. The president is still celebrating his victory when it’s discovered that his over-zealous aides may have stolen the election via computer.
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The novel takes place in an election year, close to the turn of the century, in a deeply polarized America. The presidential race matches a tall, lantern-jawed liberal against a far-right former businessman with deep ties to the energy industry. The principal threat to the country comes from Islamic terrorists who are almost impossible to track down, are led by an Arab prince made rich by oil, and are desperate to acquire nuclear bombs to use against Israel or major American cities.
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One midnight in January in the early 1960s, the Russian freighter Domatova quietly slipped out of Beirut harbour. The ship had sailed with a single passenger on board: an Englishman named Harold Adrian Russell Philby, nicknamed Kim. He had fled the Lebanese capital with little more than the clothes on his back. Would Moscow Centre welcome him as a senior Soviet intelligence officer?
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A novel by a renowned }New York Times{ reporter, this gives voice to the glamour and danger of a foreign correspondent’s life. Set in a world where the internet is replacing print media, it focuses on an English language newspaper printed in Paris. ‘Cowell narrates his gripping story in painstaking detail…’ Simon Sebag Montefiore
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The legendary spy-novelist presents a luminous historical novel, chronicling a famous Russian poet’s defiance of Stalin’s regime, his subsequent exile and mysterious death.
