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The Picture of Hassan Alshabab

With all the time in the world, would he waste this priceless gift?

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Hassan is a street musician and hustler in Algiers. In 1895, he enjoys the company of French writer André and his scandalous gay friend Oscar, who gives him a mysterious portrait that changes his life. By its power he traverses the next 125 years, encountering (in every sense and in graphic detail) a variety of notable men – musicians, photographers, soldiers, sailors, poets, playwrights, ... Read more

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Hassan is a street musician and hustler in Algiers. In 1895, he enjoys the company of French writer André and his scandalous gay friend Oscar, who gives him a mysterious portrait that changes his life. By its power he traverses the next 125 years, encountering (in every sense and in graphic detail) a variety of notable men – musicians, photographers, soldiers, sailors, poets, playwrights,
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The Picture of Hassan Alshabab

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Hassan is a street musician and hustler in Algiers. In 1895, he enjoys the company of French writer André and his scandalous gay friend Oscar, who gives him a mysterious portrait that changes his life. By its power he traverses the next 125 years, encountering (in every sense and in graphic detail) a variety of notable men – musicians, photographers, soldiers, sailors, poets, playwrights, ... Read more

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Hassan is a street musician and hustler in Algiers. In 1895, he enjoys the company of French writer André and his scandalous gay friend Oscar, who gives him a mysterious portrait that changes his life. By its power he traverses the next 125 years, encountering (in every sense and in graphic detail) a variety of notable men – musicians, photographers, soldiers, sailors, poets, playwrights,
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What do the rich and famous really get up to behind closed doors? When does sexual passion become sordid perversion? Who are history's most shocking deviants and what are their sex secrets? The pages of this book reveal 45 shocking, scandalous - and often disturbing - stories of promiscuity and sexual perversion throughout the ages. Uncovered here are the orgies of Cleopatra and the incest of the ... Read more

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What do the rich and famous really get up to behind closed doors? When does sexual passion become sordid perversion? Who are history's most shocking deviants and what are their sex secrets? The pages of this book reveal 45 shocking, scandalous - and often disturbing - stories of promiscuity and sexual perversion throughout the ages. Uncovered here are the orgies of Cleopatra and the incest of the
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Will She Do?

Act One of a Life on Stage

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'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finestactor appearing in the world right now' A. A. GillWill She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to an electric-meter reader and a seamstress, who was determined to be an actress.Candid and witty, this memoir takes her from her awkward ... Read more

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'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finestactor appearing in the world right now' A. A. GillWill She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to an electric-meter reader and a seamstress, who was determined to be an actress.Candid and witty, this memoir takes her from her awkward
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How to be Well Read

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'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer**'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very pers... ... Read more

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'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer**'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very pers...
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Secret Lives of Royal Women

Fascinating Biographies of Queens, Princesses, Duchesses, and other Regal Women (Biographies of Royalty)

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Fascinating Portraits of the Secret Lives of Royals“...offers deep insight into those who were power players in the world’s past. I’m even adding some of them to my personal list of sheroes and anti-sheroes…!” —Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome WomenEnjoy this engaging collection of biographical vignettes highlighting the secret lives of royal women like Queen Noor, Queen Anne Boleyn, ... Read more

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Fascinating Portraits of the Secret Lives of Royals“...offers deep insight into those who were power players in the world’s past. I’m even adding some of them to my personal list of sheroes and anti-sheroes…!” —Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome WomenEnjoy this engaging collection of biographical vignettes highlighting the secret lives of royal women like Queen Noor, Queen Anne Boleyn,
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Solid Ivory

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The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James IvoryIn Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View, Howards End, Maurice, and The Remains of the Day, tells stories from his remarkable life and career ... Read more

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The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James IvoryIn Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View, Howards End, Maurice, and The Remains of the Day, tells stories from his remarkable life and career
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What Am I Still Doing Here?

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This is Roger Lewis at his best: more cantankerous and curmudgeonly wit and musings about the pointlessness of life. Dark, witty and hilarious, Roger Lewis has a real way with words. ... Read more

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This is Roger Lewis at his best: more cantankerous and curmudgeonly wit and musings about the pointlessness of life. Dark, witty and hilarious, Roger Lewis has a real way with words.
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My Life in Pieces

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An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through the multifarious performers, writers, productions and events which have left their indelible mark on him.The story begins with Peter Pan – his first ever visit to the theatre – before transporting us to ... Read more

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An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through the multifarious performers, writers, productions and events which have left their indelible mark on him.The story begins with Peter Pan – his first ever visit to the theatre – before transporting us to
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A Factotum in the Book Trade

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The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the ... Read more

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The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the
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Sister Agatha

The World's Oldest Serial Killer

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She's 118 years old, four steps from glory and now she's done playing nice.Sister Agatha has lived a long, saintly life across three centuries—only to be told, during a routine check-up, that she's got just one week left to live. It's a bit of an inconvenience, really. You see, Sister Agatha once made a vow: to be the oldest person in the world. At last count, she was in fifth place. So close…But ... Read more

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She's 118 years old, four steps from glory and now she's done playing nice.Sister Agatha has lived a long, saintly life across three centuries—only to be told, during a routine check-up, that she's got just one week left to live. It's a bit of an inconvenience, really. You see, Sister Agatha once made a vow: to be the oldest person in the world. At last count, she was in fifth place. So close…But
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