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  • The Red Ripper

    Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer

    by Peter Conradi ...
    The shocking true story of the Russian serial killer who brutally murdered more than fifty victims—and evaded capture for over a decade.By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing them and leaving their bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Although he was initially arrested in 1984, the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Who Lost Russia?

    From the Collapse of the USSR to Putin's War on Ukraine

    by Peter Conradi ...
    ‘A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.’ Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last EmpireAn essential insight into Russia’s relations with Ukraine, the US and beyondWhy did Vladimir Putin launch his devastating attack on Ukraine in February 2022? And is Western policy towards Russia to blame for the bloodiest war on European soil since 1945? Peter Conradi, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Great Survivors

    How Monarchy Made it into the Twenty-First Century

    by Peter Conradi ...
    In this riveting and extensively researched account, Peter Conradi the celebrated author of The Kings Speech, on which the Oscar award-winning film of the same name was based offers an uncompromising portrayal of Europes royals and reveals the scandals, excesses, conflicts and interests hidden behind the pomp of the ceremonial garb and the grandeur of official functions.At a time when Western ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The King's War

    by Peter Conradi ...
    The broadcast that George VI made to the British nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939—which formed the climax of the multi-Oscar-winning film The King's Speech—was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic, Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: in the years that followed, Logue was to play ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The King's Speech

    Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue

    by Mark Logue, Peter Conradi ...
    Lionel Logue was a self-taught and almost unknown Australian speech therapist. Yet it was this outgoing, amiable man who almost single-handedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britain's greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 over his love for Mrs Simpson.The King's Speech is the previously untold story of the remarkable relationship between Logue ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $0.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • John Fowles

    by Peter Conradi ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction
    John Fowles had gained great popularity as a contemporary novelist on both sides of the Atlantic. In this comprehensive study of his work, originally published in 1982, Peter Conradi relates his work to his life, his ideas and his place in contemporary English fiction at the time. Conradi sees him as both realist and experimental, and in detailed analyses of The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • On Grief

    Voices through the ages on how to manage death and loss

    by Peter J. Conradi ...
    How do you 'prepare' for bereavement? Religious faith can help, as can ritualised codes of dress and behaviour that recognise different stages of mourning. But many of us feel singularly unprepared when we lose someone. No one 'theory' can sooth the bereaved, precisely because grief so strips us naked and profoundly wounds us. Nothing pre-cooked helps. No quick fix, no one-shot deal.In this ... Read more

    Was $3.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • A Very English Hero

    The Making of Frank Thompson

    by Peter J. Conradi ...
    An untold story of love, idealism and courage in the Second World War**'**A very moving account of the all-too-brief life of a warrior-poet' Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad***'***An elegy for a lost generation, and a fascinating social and political history of a peculiar period in our recent past ... it's impossible to put down Conradi's impressive and moving account of Thompson's life without ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Family Business

    A Memoir

    by Peter J. Conradi ...
    Peter J. Conradi's memoir Family Business includes a cast of characters ranging from his European Jewish forebears who came to Britain in the Victorian era to influential novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, whose biography Conradi himself wrote. The arc of Conradi's story travels, unusually, from the relative integration of his ancestors to his rebellion against this and his long association ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Red Ripper

    Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer

    by Peter Conradi ...
    Narrated by Michael Page ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing them and leaving their bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Although he was initially arrested in 1984, the police lacked enough evidence to pin the unsolved murders on him and he was able to torture and kill dozens more before his eventual ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The King's Speech

    How One Man Saved the British Monarchy

    by Peter Conradi, Mark Logue ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    The King's Speech was written by London Sunday Times journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue—grandson of Lionel Logue, whose recently discovered diaries and correspondence contain fascinating details about these true events.At the urging of his wife, Elizabeth, the Duke of York (known to the royal family as "Bertie") began to see speech therapist Lionel Logue in a desperate bid to cure his ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War

    Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945

    Edited by Peter J. Conradi ...
    These never before published writings comprise Iris Murdoch's passionate wartime correspondence with two early intimates: the poet Frank Thompson, brother of the historian E.P. Thompson, who was killed in 1944, and David Hicks, with whom she had a dramatic affair, engagement, and breakup. It also includes the journal that Murdoch kept as a touring actress during August of 1939. The selection sheds ... Read more

    $35.99 USD