Richard Burton Diaries
£25.00This volume publishes in their entirety the surviving diaries of Richard Burton. They were written between 1939 and 1983 – throughout his career and the years of his celebrated marriages to Elizabeth Taylor.
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Is It Just Me
£20.00In ‘Is it Just Me?’, Britain’s best loved comedienne, Miranda Hart, laments on the horrors of growing up and offers her younger self some essential advice on grappling with life’s unexpected perils and blunders.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor An Adventure
£25.00Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe.
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Vanished Years
£20.00This memoir is filled with stories from Rupert Everett’s childhood to the present: astonishing encounters; tragedy and comedy; vivid portraits of friends and rivals; razor-sharp observations of the celebrity circuit from LA to London and beyond.
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Country Girl
£20.00In ‘Country Girl’ we come face to face with literary life of high drama and contemplation. And along the way there are encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans – all of whom lend this life, so gorgeously, sometimes painfully remembered here, a terrible poignancy.
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Eminent Elizabethans
£18.99Modelled on Lytton Strachey’s classic work about the Victorians, these irreverent and insightful miniatures, set in vivid historical context, shed new light on the age of Elizabeth II.
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One On One
£9.99101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain’s funniest writer.
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Freddie Mercury
£12.99Meticulously researched, sympathetic and unsensational, this book focuses on the period in the 1980s when Queen began to fragment, before their Live Aid performance put them back in the frame.
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What The Grownups Were Doing
£14.99Ahilarious memoir of growing up in 1950s suburbia by one of the UK’s best-loved columnists.
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French Children Don’t Throw Food
£15.00What British parent hasn’t noticed, on visiting France, how well-behaved French children are compared to our own? Pamela Druckerman, who lives in Paris with three young children, has had years of observing her French friends and neighbours, and with wit and style, is ideally placed to teach us the basics of French parenting.
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Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview
£12.99The posthumous success of novelist, poet and essayist Roberto Bolaño is one of the most stunning triumphs in the history of Latin American literature. Shortly before his death, he was interviewed by Monica Maristain to discuss his work, life and passions in an expansive, brutally frank interview.