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Her mother, Lesley, a photographer, was told that Molly would probably never leave hospital and that she might not survive more than a few weeks. The Time of Her Life opens with the first picture of Molly as a baby and ends with the last picture of her on her deathbed.

The fascinating story of the press barons of London's Fleet Street. Hugh Cudlipp, the journalistic genius, and Cecil Harmsworth King, the formidable intellect, met in 1935 and became, in Cudlipp's words, the "Barnum and Bailey" of Fleet Street, together, on the foundation of the populist "Daily Mirror, " they created the biggest publishing empire in the world. "From the Hardcover edition.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men.

Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, is the author of several books of poetry, including I Would Steal Horses, Old Shirts & New Skins, First Indian on the Moon and The Summer of Black Widows, and a volume of poetry and prose called The Business of Fancydancing.

A Frenchman of Russian origins, Jacques Tati worked as a picture-framer and a music-hall mime before being drawn into the world of the French cinema and making the films that rank him with the most popular comedy actor/directors in any country. He brought to his films--"Jour de Fete, Monsieur Hulot's Holidays, Mon Oncle, Playtime" and others--a healthy openness to new technology in movie-making and a rigorous precision, the hallmark of many gr...

The famous tale by the trailblazing subject of major new film ColetteGIGI TRANSLATED BY ROGER SENHOUSE, THE CAT TRANSLATED BY ANTONIA WHITEGigi's days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and superstitions: the education of a future courtesan.

This is Posy Simmonds' reworking of "Madame Bovary", Gemma is an adulterous wife and step-mother, who soon becomes bored with country life in Normandy. "The most original book of the year... beady, cunning, and terribly funny" Deborah Moggach.

At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's basic theme: the individual's experience of acquiring an immortal soul.

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under, biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock, and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Aw...

Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl, leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to. But then Catherine finds a box addressed to her, filled with objects seemingly without meaning - three feathers, an exotic seashell, a painting, a mirror, two prints, an address book, a map, a hat, a rucksack and a necklace.

A selection of classic spooky stories from the master of the genre, published in time for Christmas. 'An original and powerful storyteller...' "Daily Telegraph

John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. poems that tell of an obsessive lover coming to grief in a sequence that echoes the old murder ballads, or of a hunter losing himself in the woods while pursuing an unknown and possibly unknowable quarry.

But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise.

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maxino Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a chain of events that he cannot control.