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Explore the fascinating lives and loves of the greatest novelists, poets, and playwrights.Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of writers’ homes, studies, and personal artifacts—along with pages from original manuscripts, first editions, and their correspondence—Writers Who Changed History introduces the key ideas, themes, and literary techniques of each writer, revealing the imaginations and personalities behind some of the wor...

The third instalment in Naughtie's Cold War spy series about three brothers whose lives are all entwined with the intelligence services. Will is now British ambassador to Washington, but soon finds himself on a dangerous journey into his clandestine past, from conflict in Ireland to the long shadows of the Cold War.

The third instalment in Naughtie's Cold War spy series about three brothers whose lives are all entwined with the intelligence services. Will Flemyng is now British ambassador to Washington, but soon he finds himself on a dangerous journey into his clandestine past, from conflict in Ireland to the long shadows of the Cold War.

The third instalment in Naughtie's Cold War spy series about three brothers whose lives are all entwined with the intelligence services. Will Flemyng is now British ambassador to Washington, but soon he finds himself on a dangerous journey into his clandestine past, from conflict in Ireland to the long shadows of the Cold War.

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The acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster on US politics and the American dream, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.

The acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster on US politics and the American dream, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.

From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, this DK book features more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers.Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured novelist, playwright, or poet, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and influenced their work, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative setti...

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And now, over to Normandy". With those immortal words, so began, on 6th June 1944, the very first live reporting transmitted from the BBC's War Reporting Unit who were attached with the Allied invasion of France on D-Day. War Report continued, without a single break, until the signature of the armistice on 5 May 1945.

The official tie-in to the landmark new series on Radio 4, written and presented by one of the UK's leading commentators on social and political life - Jim Naughtie.

A sophisticated spy thriller set in the endgame of the Cold War, from Radio 4 presenter James Naughtie. Will Flemyng was a spy who turned to politics and is rising to the top in the 1970s. Buffeted by political forces and the powerful women around him, and caught in interlocking mysteries he must disentangle- Flemyng is drawn back into the shadows of the Cold War to dance with danger once more. 'Fast-paced...full of intriguing insights, from a...

A new thriller from the popular BBC Radio 4 "Today" programme presenter, this follows the success of "The Madness Of July". Set in Paris in 1968, it follows Will Flemyng and his brother as they are caught in the thick of the action of revolutionaries and spies. With appeal to fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris.

The debut novel from Radio 4 presenter, most famously of "Today", James Naughtie. It is a sophisticated thriller about loyalty, survival and family rivalry in the endgame of the Cold War, drawing on his experience as a political insider in both Westminster and Washington.

Paris, April 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng - secret servant at the British embassy - the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life. His family is threatened with ruin and he now faces the spy's oldest fear: exposure. Freddy Craven is the hero and mentor Flemyng would trust with his life, but when he is tempted into a dark, Cold War labyrinth, he chooses the danger...

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In this major BBC Radio 4 series, James Naughtie uncovers the roots of our music and reveals the soundtrack to our own history. From the earliest music of the monasteries, to the court and church music of the Renaissance and Reformation and beyond, composers have always changed with the times.

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