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Andrew Taylor: Broken Voices
Andrew Taylor is an author of crime fiction whose plaudits include the Diamond Dagger--Britain's top award for sustained excellence in crime writing. His novel The American Boy was a Richard and Judy bestseller, and he is the only author to have won the Crime Writers' Accociation Historical Dagger twice. Taylor's forthcoming novel, The Scent of Death, is set in New York in 1778-80, and will be published in February 2013.
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| Fiction | Page-turning Narratives | ||
A gripping novella of heartbreak and betrayal from the world famous author, Barbara Taylor Bradford. Hayley and Fiona have been inseparable friends since the age of ten. As grownups they run a business together and still share everything--except for one dark secret, which threatens to destroy their friendship, and their lives...
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The British writer Tibor Fischer (the son of Hungarian refugees) looks with a penetrating eye at life in post-Communist Hungary. He explains why this relatively unknown country – "On April 6, 2014, Hungary held an election. You probably didn't care"--and its popular Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could become the fulcrum for the future of Eastern Europe.
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| Memoirs | Reporting | ||
At the age of twenty-five, Katherine Schmidhofer was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had both breasts removed, and underwent chemo and hormone therapy. In this remarkable memoir, she describes the brutal realities of her illness--and her determination to live life to the full despite them. Sometimes funny, always moving, Schmidhofer recounts the challenges of finding love (and sex) while living with cancer.
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Queen Elizabeth the Second has millions of subjects – and over a thousand employees. From explaining how to get hired by Buckingham Palace (and what you'll get paid), to examining the upstairs/downstairs divide among the staff, a leading authority on the Royal Household provides a revealing account of working for Her Majesty.
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| History | Society | ||
Summer 1945. With Germany defeated, the Allies turned their full attention to the remaining enemy, Japan. The United States now had a secret weapon – the Atomic bomb. A committee of American scientists, military brass and civil servants convened to decide how to use this weapon of unprecedented destructive power. A riveting account of the choices made that changed the world.
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Described as 'the best living interviewer', the British writer Duncan Fallowell has conducted interviews with almost everyone of note--from Andy Warhol to Mick Jagger, Sophia Loren to Graham Greene. In an account full of spicy anecdote and penetrating insight, he recalls his contributions to this fascinating journalistic genre
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| Essays & Ideas | Humour | ||
The novelist and essayist Percy Kemp updates Machievelli’s classic with a penetrating argument that is entirely his own. Where his famous predecessor instructed leaders how to outmanoeuvre opponents, Kemp explains that the greatest challenge for any modern ruler comes from the accelerating pace of unforeseen events. An eloquent, erudite, and compelling treatise on the use of power.
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The English may outnumber the Scots by 10:1, but the Scots have always held their own with their neighbours. Susan Morrison traces the long history of a relationship that's sometimes friendly, often hostile, and always competitive. A wonderfully informative and highly entertaining read about one of the world's great rivalries.
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| The World Stage | The Sciences | ||
As the Rwandan genocide of 1994 began, thousands of its Tutsi victims ran for protection to the Catholic Church, only to find no refuge there – just indifference or, appallingly, active collusion with the murdering forces. Chris McGreal reports on the Church’s complicity in one of the worst atrocities of our age.
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E = mc² is the only scientific formula everybody knows. But what exactly does it mean? And how did Einstein discover it--in the years before he became an international icon of genius? Robin Arianrhod describes one of physics' greatest breakthroughs, and links it to the tumultuous life of the young scientist who made it.
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| Arts & Entertainment | Profiles | ||
The Orange Prize-winning novelist Linda Grant has always loved books. But then she moved to smaller quarters and realized something had to go. That 'something' was several thousand volumes, which represented most of Grant's library and much of her life. A wry and highly entertaining account of the mixed emotions engendered by The Battle of the Books.
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Viewed today as the father of Artificial Intelligence, Alan Turing was a legendary computing pioneer, and instrumental in the Bletchley Park decoding efforts that helped the Allies win the War. A shy and private man, he was nonetheless openly homosexual in an age when its practice was illegal--and he paid for this candour with his life. A fascinating portrait of the the man behind the myth.
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