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Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance
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The dramatic and suspenseful story of the greatest hero of the French resistance during World War II--Jean Moulin--is penned by the award-winning biographer of Diego Rivera and Georges Simenon.
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The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon
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Georges Simenon was, during his lifetime, the bestselling writer alive. He created Chief Inspector Maigret, one of the most-loved and sanest characters in modern fiction, but was himself an alcoholic, a fantasist, a man possessed by the demon of sexual jealousy, a crime writer whose own life was haunted by the possibility of crime. His stated ...
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Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera
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A biography of one of the great muralists of the 20th century, which brings the art, the politics and the complexity of Rivera into focus. The book demonstrates that just as Rivera mythologized himself, the artist also endowed the Mexican people with a national myth, melding a troubled revolutionary history and an Indian culture.
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Wild Mary: A Life of Mary Wesley
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Mary Wesley published her first novel when she was 70 - and went on to write 9 more bestsellers before her death in 2002 at the age of 89. Wesley was a pen-name, derived from the family name of Wellesley. She was born Mary Farmar, descended from the Duke of Wellington, and grew up a rebel who believed that she was her mother's least-favourite ...
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Road to Katmandu
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In the 1960s and '70s, the overland route from Europe to Asia became popular with disillusioned Westerners seeking what they saw as the paradise of the East. Their journeys are now the stuff of travel legend. Road to Katmandu is the story of Patrick Marnham's own pilgrimage from Turkey to Nepal in 1968. He travelled over three thousand miles, ...
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Trail of Havoc: 2in the Steps of Lord Lucan
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A Man Escaped
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A Man Escaped is one of the most extraordinary escape stories to come out of World War II, a record of ingenuity and endurance that rivals the best of the genre.
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So Far from God: A Journey to Central America
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Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley
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Mary Wesley famously began writing at the age of 70. Her ten best-selling novels won her thousands of fans, and described a world that she had known in her youth - the world of war-time London, with its fear and high-spirits and casual sex. They created an image of Mary that her fans took to their hearts, but it was an image that was carefully ...
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The Private Eye Story: The First 21 Years
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So Far from God
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Dispatches from Africa
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Crime and the Académie Française : dispatches from Paris
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A collection of pieces, many of which were originally published in "The Independent", which form a commentary on the dark side of France. The author wrote "The Man Who Wasn't Maigret", "Trail of Havoc: in the Steps of Lord Lucan" and "Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa".
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Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa
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The Man Who Wasn't Maigret
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Night thoughts : the Spectator bedside book
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Fantastic invasion : dispatches from contemporary Africa
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The death of Jean Moulin : biography of a ghost
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Who was Jean Moulin? According to the official version, he was the exiled General de Gaulle's emissary to the French Resistance movements during World War II and became the political head of the Resistance in 1943. He was captured in Lyons and tortured by the Gestapo, and is believed to have died a few days later without talking. After the war his ...
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Lourdes: A Modern Pilgrimage
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Sonar Con Los Ojos Abiertos - Una Vida de Di
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Collection of pieces : France and the French
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This is a collection of pieces by a British journalist writing about French society. Some are specially written for the book, others are from the author's independent work.
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Trails of Havoc
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Sonar Con Los Ojos Abiertos: Una Vida De Diego Rivera
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Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan
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Fantastic Invasion: Notes on Contemporary Africa
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