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Charles Wheeler, the BBC’s longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain’s greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio & television from most of the world’s trouble spots. Present at many of the key episodes of the 20th century, he had a knack of being in the right place at the right time. It was typical of Charles that he ran towards the sound of the gunshot while the crowd was running in the opposite direction. Wheeler’s skill & sense of judgement made him one of the most authoritative reporters of his generation. But what was it like to have been witness to the events that shaped our modern world? In this book – part memoir, part history, part reflection – his daughter, Shirin Wheeler, examines her father’s journalistic legacy & brings her personal knowledge to bear on the project.
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A fascinating and entertaining collection of facts, quotes and stories, celebrating Sir David Attenborough’s wicked sense of humour and astute wisdom.
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An account of a truly remarkable life. When Jan Morris passed away in 2020, she was considered one of Britain’s best-loved writers. The author of Venice, Pax Britannica, Conundrum, and more than fifty other books, her work was known for its observational genius, lyricism, and humour, and had earned her a passionate readership around the world. Morris’s life was no less fascinating than her oeuvre. Born in 1926, she spent her childhood amidst Oxford’s Gothic beauty and later participated in military service in Italy and the Middle East, before embarking on a career as an internationally fêted foreign correspondent.
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How to Be Perfect meets The Daily Stoic in this witty, entertaining, highly giftable compendium of quotidian wisdom
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An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigourous interrogation and beautiful style.
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A captivating biography of two famous women whose sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, would change the course of the 20th century by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.
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SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL.
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After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as ‘Lolita’, ‘Double Helix’, ‘The Group’ and ‘The Hedgehog and the Fox’, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Golda Meir and Edna O’Brien to Henry Miller, Harold Wilson, Saul Bellow and Henry Kissinger. In this biography, Thomas Harding provides a full, unvarnished and at times difficult history of this complex and fascinating character.
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Femme fatale. Evil stepmother. Astute businesswomen. Just some of the many labels thrown at the conspicuous Raine Spencer: Countess, socialite and stepmother to Princess Diana. But who was the real Raine? What was masked behind the public facade? From middle-class London girl to Countess and wife of Earl Spencer, ‘Three Times a Countess’ recounts Raine’s fascinating – and scandalous – life, demystifying her scathing tabloid reputation and uncovering how, after a tumultuous relationship with the Princess, she became one of Diana’s closest confidantes.
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Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography.
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‘All the ingredients of a Le Carré novel, only it’s real’ – Matthew Hall, crimewriter and screenwriter (Keeping Faith)
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