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Tony Benn

A Biography

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Tony Benn has been portrayed as both hero and villain, as a creative and as a destructive force. This comprehensively revised edition of Jad Adams's classic biography, is written with unparalleled access to Benn's private records, and describes the long and turbulent career of one of the most charismatic politicians of the last hundred years. The first biography to have been written with full ... Read more

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Tony Benn has been portrayed as both hero and villain, as a creative and as a destructive force. This comprehensively revised edition of Jad Adams's classic biography, is written with unparalleled access to Benn's private records, and describes the long and turbulent career of one of the most charismatic politicians of the last hundred years. The first biography to have been written with full
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Choice of Darkness

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Choice of Darkness is a tale of blighted love and mass murder based on the hunt for the biggest serial killer in nineteenth-century America.Jad Adams tells the story of Henry Holmes from the point of view of the detective who tracked him down, burdened by a love betrayed.Frank Geyer is a detective in Philadelphia who in 1894 is called to investigate the death of Ben Pitezel.He encounters Dr Henry ... Read more

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Choice of Darkness is a tale of blighted love and mass murder based on the hunt for the biggest serial killer in nineteenth-century America.Jad Adams tells the story of Henry Holmes from the point of view of the detective who tracked him down, burdened by a love betrayed.Frank Geyer is a detective in Philadelphia who in 1894 is called to investigate the death of Ben Pitezel.He encounters Dr Henry
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Decadent Women

Yellow Book Lives

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During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal The Yellow Book.For the first time, based on original research, Jad Adams describes the lives and work of these vibrant and passionate women, from ... Read more

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During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal The Yellow Book.For the first time, based on original research, Jad Adams describes the lives and work of these vibrant and passionate women, from
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Gandhi

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“Provocative. Adams strips away Gandhi’s saintly aura and explores the duality of India’s most famous leader.” —Financial TimesJad Adams traces the course of Gandhi’s multi-faceted life and the development of his religious, political, and social thinking over seven tumultuous decades: from his comfortable upbringing in a princely state in Gujarat; his early civil rights campaigns; his leadership ... Read more

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“Provocative. Adams strips away Gandhi’s saintly aura and explores the duality of India’s most famous leader.” —Financial TimesJad Adams traces the course of Gandhi’s multi-faceted life and the development of his religious, political, and social thinking over seven tumultuous decades: from his comfortable upbringing in a princely state in Gujarat; his early civil rights campaigns; his leadership
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Cafe Europa

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Sarah, Sven, Anton and Anne go to work on a Greek island looking for sun, sea and romance. They find those, but they also find the island has a hidden side as crime and corrupt politics reveal nothing is what it seems.Café Europa sees the coming together on the island of three tribes: north Europeans, Greeks and refugees, in a novel about deceit and defiance on the edge of Europe. ... Read more

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Sarah, Sven, Anton and Anne go to work on a Greek island looking for sun, sea and romance. They find those, but they also find the island has a hidden side as crime and corrupt politics reveal nothing is what it seems.Café Europa sees the coming together on the island of three tribes: north Europeans, Greeks and refugees, in a novel about deceit and defiance on the edge of Europe.
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Women and the Vote

A World History

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Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of women and the vote, it takes the story of women in politics from the earliest times to the present ... Read more

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Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of women and the vote, it takes the story of women in politics from the earliest times to the present
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Tony Benn

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by Jad Adams ...

Jad Adams has worked as a television producer and a Fleet Street newspaper journalist. He knew Tony Benn well for the last twenty-five years of his life. He was the last researcher to have full access to the extensive Benn Archive in Benn's basement office, prior to its being given to the British Library.Jad's political books include Women and the Vote: A World History, Gandhi: Naked Ambition and ... Read more

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Jad Adams has worked as a television producer and a Fleet Street newspaper journalist. He knew Tony Benn well for the last twenty-five years of his life. He was the last researcher to have full access to the extensive Benn Archive in Benn's basement office, prior to its being given to the British Library.Jad's political books include Women and the Vote: A World History, Gandhi: Naked Ambition and
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The Great Gatsby (Illustrated)

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Contains 10 illustrations.The Great Gatsby is a timeless American classic that transports readers to the glitzy and decadent world of the Roaring Twenties. Set against the backdrop of Long Island, New York, during the summer of 1922, the novel follows the enigmatic and mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire known for his extravagant parties and elusive persona.Narrated by Nick Carraway, a ... Read more

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Contains 10 illustrations.The Great Gatsby is a timeless American classic that transports readers to the glitzy and decadent world of the Roaring Twenties. Set against the backdrop of Long Island, New York, during the summer of 1922, the novel follows the enigmatic and mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire known for his extravagant parties and elusive persona.Narrated by Nick Carraway, a
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The Prime Ministers

The Parliamentary Book Award-winning account of Britain's leaders - a must-read for anyone interested in British politics and history

by Iain Dale ...

The ultimate guide to every Prime Minister there's ever been: 55 profiles by 55 different politicians, journalists and academics compiled by leading political commentator Iain DaleWinner of the 2020 Parliamentary Awards for Best Political Book by a Non-ParliamentarianA Times Political Book of the Year 2020*Featuring a foreword by Boris Johnson*-----It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert ... Read more

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The ultimate guide to every Prime Minister there's ever been: 55 profiles by 55 different politicians, journalists and academics compiled by leading political commentator Iain DaleWinner of the 2020 Parliamentary Awards for Best Political Book by a Non-ParliamentarianA Times Political Book of the Year 2020*Featuring a foreword by Boris Johnson*-----It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert
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Nehru

The Invention of India

by Shashi Tharoor ...

Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist who-alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi-led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule and become India’s first prime minister started out as a surprisingly unremarkable student. Born into a ... Read more

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Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist who-alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi-led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule and become India’s first prime minister started out as a surprisingly unremarkable student. Born into a
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Locked Rooms

A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

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Series Book 8 - Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
“A truly bravura performance [with] all the magnetic appeal of the best of the original Conan Doyle novels.”—The Strand MagazineEn route to San Francisco to settle her family’s estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams—and even more troubling behavior. In 1906, when Mary was six, the city was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake. For years ... Read more

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“A truly bravura performance [with] all the magnetic appeal of the best of the original Conan Doyle novels.”—The Strand MagazineEn route to San Francisco to settle her family’s estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams—and even more troubling behavior. In 1906, when Mary was six, the city was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake. For years
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Great Soul

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**A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor.“A ... Read more

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**A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor.“A
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