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by Alexei Sayle
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
'Enlightening … Funny, smart, original and provocative ... It is hard to imagine the stalwarts of Mock the Week recognising the Druze militia leader Walid Jumblatt in a London cinema' New Statesman
What I brought to comedy was an authentic working-class voice plus a threat of genuine violence...
by Lynn Barber
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social...
Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar
Based on the Hilarious BBC Radio 4 Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Alexei Sayle reveals his true vocation: proprietor of an imaginary sandwich shop. Blending politics, comedy, philosophy and memoir, this is the Godfather of Alternative Comedy at his most anarchic and irresistibly entertaining
Alexei Sayle has been telling people he runs a sandwich bar on Gray's...
The Knot Bible
The Complete Guide to Knots and Their Uses
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The complete and definitive bible of knots for seafarers.
Featuring all the knots, hitches, bends, splices, whipping and decorative knotwork that you would find on a boat, this comprehensive bible of knots will help those who go to sea master every knot they will need.
Over 200 knots...
How to Resist
Turn Protest to Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
'This extraordinary book is the roadmap for a new kind of effective activism' - Brian Eno
'This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried about the direction the country is going. Maybe...
Modernity Britain
Book Two: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain, through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s, to the very cusp of the 1960s and the coming of a new Zeitgeist in Modernity...
Till Time's Last Sand
A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The authorised history of the Bank of England by the bestselling David Kynaston, 'the most entertaining historian alive' (Spectator).
'Not an ordinary bank, but a great engine of state,' Adam Smith declared of the Bank of England as long ago as 1776. The Bank is now over 320 years old, and...
by Sheila Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
'Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, "Put your money where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.'
In The Two of Us Sheila Hancock relived her life with John Thaw - years packed with love and family, work and...
Zimbabwe
Years of Hope and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Zimbabwe is a country both blessed and cursed. British diplomat Philip
Barclay witnessed the downfall of what used to be Africa's finest
country, culminating in the tumultuous events of 2008 when Zimbabwe's
people voted against Robert Mugabe. But their desire for change was
denied as vicious squads...
The Two of Us
My Life with John Thaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart.
John Thaw was born...
As Green as Grass
Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. But the dust has hardly settled when tragedy strikes, and Emma's father, a DSO-decorated hero of the Great War, is so frustrated by the hardship of life as a lowly bank...
Wreck of the Carl D.
A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
On the night of November 18, 1958, the Bradley, a 623-foot limestone carrier, was torn apart during one of the most violent storms in Lake Michigan history, sinking in less than five minutes. Only four members of the crew survived the wreck, two of whom died battling thirty-foot-high waves that night,...
Landskipping
Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first...
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan
Histories and Cultures of the Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present, considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary content have treated texts and their authors as cultural resources to be packaged, promoted, and preserved.
As...