Chalcot Crescent
It's 2013 and eighty-year-old Frances is listening to the debt collectors pounding on the front door of Number 3, Chalcot Crescent. While she waits for the bailiffs to give up and leave, Frances writes. She writes about family secrets... The problem is that fact and fiction are blurring in Frances' mind.
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8th Confession
When a rock star, a fashion designer, a software tycoon and a millionaire heiress are all murdered in mysterious circumstances, Detective Lindsay Boxer is quickly assigned to the high-profile investigation.
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The Shape of the Beast
A collection of interviews, conducted between January 2001 and March 2008, examines the nature of state and corporate power as it has emerged during this period, and the shape that resistance movements are taking. It talks about the dilemma of guarding the private space necessary for writing in a world that demands unequivocal intervention.
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The Hellfire Clubs
The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. This book explores the social and economic context in which the clubs emerged and flourished; their various phases, which first involved violence as an assertion of masculinity, then religious blasphemy, and later sexual indulgence.
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Why Vote?
In the lead-up to a General Election which will be dominated by the issue of trust, this unique guide is the first political book targeted at people who say they aren't interested in politics because they no longer believe in politicians.
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The Story of English
The extraordinary story of the development and spread of the English language, from Dark Age Britain to the age of the Internet.
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was an extraordinary reign. He proved himself a great leader. This is his biography.
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Jane's Fame
Part biography and part cultural history, this splendid book not only tells the captivating story of Jane Austen's life, but also her literary legacy. The slow growth of Austen's fame, the changing status of her work, and what it has stood for in English culture is a story of personal struggle and family dynamics as well as a history of critical practices and changing public tastes.
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Gardening SOS
From ridding yourself of Spanish bluebells and sourcing climbers which cover your neighbours' unsightly fence, to encouraging bees and the right kind of bugs and deterring unwanted pests and diseases; week by week and season by season, this title answers the various gardening questions you can think of, and quite a few more besides.
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