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William Collins
Pub. Date
2016
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Filled with views, opinions and stories from 4 decades in front of the camera.Jeremy Paxman is Britain?s bravest, most incisive political interviewer. The no-nonsense star of BBC Newsnight, Paxman is a supreme inquisitor, a master at skewering mammoth egos with his relentless grilling. Few figures in public life have escaped. From John Major to Theresa May, from Tony Blair to Ed Miliband, Paxman had them quaking in their boots. His working life has...
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Picador
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Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships . . . Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay?s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time...
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Harper Element
Pub. Date
2017
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It?s late on Friday night when Casey?s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn?t Riley. It?s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike?s latest fostering challenge - a fifteen-year-old girl called Keeley who?s run away from her long-term foster home 25 miles away. The Jonathan Ross Show has just started when Casey gets the call. She thinks it will be Riley - telling her that her favourite...
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John Blake
Pub. Date
2016
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Back in the day, Carter Langdale?s job could be summed up easily: solve every problem that has anything whatever to do with animals. He had an official RSPCA brass plaque outside his Yorkshire home. He was a local figure, like the doctor or dentist, the village postmistress, the vicar, the vet or the undertaker, and sometimes he had to be bits of all of those. Off duty? No such thing. People would knock on the door and present the Langdales with a...
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Accent Press
Pub. Date
2013
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?Oh, you live on a boat?� That must be really cold in the winter...? Or, ?Oh, you live on a boat? It must be great being so close to nature...?�� Or, ?Oh, you live on a boat?� It must be fantastic to be able to go wherever you like, whenever you like...? Narrow Escape sets out to dispel these commonly held public myths. From how to avoid assassination by ninja stealth ducklings, through definitive proof that kittens are aliens and the best...
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Ebury Digital
Pub. Date
2020
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Unabridged ed.
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to Grow Old by John Bishop. Whether he likes it or not, John is getting older. His hair is greying, it?s getting that much harder to stay fit, and the potential to become something of an embarrassment is ever increasing. But hope is not lost. How to Grow Old is John?s offering to the world. With sage advice on how to avoid the common pitfalls of age, intimate confessions and spit-your-dentures-out hilarious...
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Gill Books
Pub. Date
2020
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It?s a dark, rainy afternoon on Dublin?s jammed M50. The rain is hammering on the windscreen of Daniella Moyles? car. She is 29, a highly successful radio presenter, model and influencer, but she can?t stop the panic building in her head and chest. The internal state that she has been trying to ignore is finally spilling over into something undeniably physical. She is petrified. She looks to her boyfriend and says, ?I don?t know who or where I am.?...
9) VE day
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2020
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Drawing from first-hand interviews, diaries and memoirs of those involved in the VE Day celebrations in 1945, VE Day: The People?s Story paints an enthralling picture of a day that marked the end of the war in Europe and the beginning of a new era. VE Day affected millions of people in countless ways, and the voices in this book - from both Britain and abroad, from civilians and service men and women, from the famous and the not-so-famous - provide...
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The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for12 years a powerful, riveting condemnation of slavery, and a storysoon to be introduced to a new audience through a major filmTricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York state in 1841, Solomon Northup was instead drugged and kidnapped. Threatened with death, Northup was forced to assume a new name and fake past. Taken to Louisiana on...
12) An innocent baby
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HarperElement
Pub. Date
2021
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The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be brought to Cathy with a police escort as it?s vital her extended family don?t know where she is.Abandoned at birth, Cathy and her family quickly bond with little Darcy-May although they have to accept she will eventually leave them to be adopted. But fostering is rarely straight forward, and when Haylea asks to...
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