Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:22:46 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-childern-of-nature:-the-life-and-legacy-of-ramana-maharshi-66-114537.html THE CHILDERN OF NATURE: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF RAMANA MAHARSHI

Author: SUSAN VISVANATHAN  Publisher: LOTUS]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-raja-of-harsil:-the-legend-of-federick-pahari-wilson--66-114541.html THE RAJA OF HARSIL: THE LEGEND OF FEDERICK "PAHARI WILSON"

Author: ROBERT HUTUCHISON  Publisher: LOTUS]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/om-puri:-un-likely-hero-new--66-114533.html OM PURI: UN LIKELY HERO (NEW)

Author: C NANDITA PURI  Publisher: LOTUS]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/a-home-for-gori-66-114513.html In a deeply personal memoir, Habib Rehman captures the joy and anguish of loving and saying good-bye to Gori, his canine companion of many years. As a pup smuggled into their home by his wife, Rehman refuses to have anything to do with Gori. Not one to give up, she soon worms her way into his affections. For ten years, they are inseparable, going for walks, embarking upon adventures, sharing a pillow, talking on the phone when he travels out of town...As Gori reaches the end of her life, Rehman tenderly nurses her through her last illness. And when she passes away, he resolves to build a home that overlooks her grave, as a memorial to her. A Home for Gori will remind dog-lovers of the canine companions they have loved, and lost. To the rest, it will tell an extraordinary story of a dog and a human being, and a bond that endures, quite literally, beyond the grave.

Author: HABIB REHMAN  Publisher: ROLI BOOKS]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/added-value-:-the-life-stories-of-indian-leaders-66-114514.html BIOGRAPHIES

Author: PETER CHURCH  Publisher: LOTUS]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/catching-up-with-gandhi-66-114324.html In a world in thrall to money, how does one recapture the essence and unveil the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi—this man who espoused poverty but whose face is now, ironically, on every Indian bank note? What better than to follow in his footsteps, to visit the places which meant most to him and to talk with some of the people who knew him best? That is what Graham Turner decided to do, often in company with two of Gandhi’s grandchildren, Rajmohan in India and Ela in South Africa. He went to the childhood homes of both Gandhi and his wife Kastur in Porbandar and visited the former British Residency in Rajkot from which Gandhi was unceremoniously ejected by one of the Raj’s servants. The author stood in the modest court room in Ahmedabad where Gandhi was found guilty of sedition by that same Raj and ventured into the prisons to which Gandhi was so often consigned. Turner walked along the beach at Juhu where the Mahatma went to recuperate, and talked with Rajmohan at Birla House in New Delhi where his grandfather was assassinated. The result is both a fascinating journey and a candid and immensely readable portrait of the man who, with all his well-documented foibles and weaknesses, not only led

Author: GRHAM TURNER  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/subhash-chandra-bose-:-the-great-freedom-fighter-66-114329.html Subhas Chandra Bose opposed Gandhi on several occasions, was at times also a bitter rival of Nehru, and waged war against Mountbatten. This is his story, and that of the alternative, armed struggle for Indian independence that he came to stand for──a story of the freedom struggle that ran in parallel and that left behind many heroes. ‘Give me blood and I will give you freedom.’ Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s words are deeply etched in the minds of millions of Indians. A great political thinker and radical nationalist, Netaji played a very active and prominent role in India’s political life. In the 1930s he was a leader of the Indian National Congress, and later of the Indian National Army (INA), during World War II. Read the mesmerizing account of the life of this charismatic leader whose only dream was to see his beloved motherland free from foreign rule. This compelling biography gives us insightful details about Netaji’s legendary life, and throws light on his mysterious death in 1945. A shining example of leadership, integrity, sacrifice and valour, Netaji continues to inspire young readers even today.

Author: ANU KUMAR  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/to-the-point-:-the-no-holds-barred-autobiography-66-113790.html There's something about Herschelle Gibbs - a certain quality that has endeared him to cricket fans in South Africa and around the world. Despite the frustrating on-field inconsistencies of this towering talent, and the messy and very public personal troubles that have tracked him through the years, Herschelle remains one of South African cricket's best-loved sons. In To the Point, Herschelle talks very frankly about the ups and downs of his personal and professional life. He covers the big cricketing moments - from that dropped catch at the 1999 World Cup to the famous '438' game against Australia and the six sixes at the 2007 World Cup - as well as controversies off the field - the marijuana-smoking incident in the Caribbean, his problems with alcohol and his stint in rehab, his divorce, the multitude of women and the strip-club video. He also deals honestly with the match-fixing controversies ... and their repercussions. Herschelle gives his opinions on his teammates and the best players he has encountered over the years, and describes what it's been like to be part of the Proteas set-up for the past fourteen years, through the controversies of its various captains and coaches. To the Point is, of course, a spicy story of excess - women, alcohol, money ... and plenty of runs - but underlying it all is a warm and generous man who wears his heart on his sleeve.

Author: HERSCHELLE GIBBS  Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE STRUIK PUBLISHERS]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/kahil-gibran-the-prophet--66-114502.html Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), the Middle Eastern-born poet and artist, acquired cult status in the 1960s as the author of a mystical illustrated psalter called The Prophet, which has sold more than 9 million copies in America since its initial publication in 1923. It has never been out of print and has been translated into over 20 languages. His texts and paintings explore the individual's quest for enlightenment and inner peace outside of the constraints of organized religious institutions. Quasi-mystical but touching the souls of millions, much of his verse has become common parlance, popularly quoted at weddings, christenings and funerals. With insightful commentary from Dr Ayman El-Desouky, the life of this much-loved poet, artist and philosopher is revealed through his works, paintings and personal letters. Drawing from the full body of Kahlil Gibran's work, this sumptuous annotated anthology provides a key to the man behind those writings that have touched the hearts of millions of readers around the world

Author: LUARD, ELISABETH  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/time-mother-teresa-66-114481.html Ninety-nine years ago a girl nicknamed The Little Bud was born in what is now Moldavia. In celebration of her centenary, TIME Magazine will release this unique bookazine celebrating Mother Teresa, featuring original journalism and the most striking photographs of Teresa in existence. Written by prize-winning TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema, this product includes new interviews with people who knew Mother Teresa and with those whose lives she changed forever. Also included is an essay by the priest in charge of her road to sainthood as well as the most compelling voice her own as it emerges from dozens of intimately personal notes and letters which she wrote throughout her life. This bookazine will trace Teresa s astonishing transformation from girlhood to her one-woman mission to help the poor and sick in Calcutta, India; following her progress to a globally beloved icon for people of all creeds and classes

Author: TIHE BOOKAZINES  Publisher: HACHETTE GROUP]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/coco-chanel:-the-legend-and-the-life-66-114362.html Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this beautifully illustrated, impeccably written full-scale biography we finally discover the history of the incredible woman who created the way we look now. Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor - she conjured up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, bestselling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time - but she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture. While Chanel was supreme innovator and vendor of all things elegant and beautiful, what lies beneath her own glossy myth is far darker. Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at how Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation.

Author: JUSTINE PICARDIE  Publisher: COLLINS]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-autobiography-of-a-sex-worker-reissue--66-114417.html ‘Sex workers are free in four respects: we don’t have to cook for a husband; we don’t have to wash his dirty clothes; we don’t have to ask for his permission to raise our kids as we deem fit; we don’t have to run after a husband claiming rights to his property.’ Fiery, outspoken and often wickedly funny, this candid account of one woman’s life as a sex worker in Kerala became a bestseller when it was first published in Malayalam. Nalini Jameela, who takes her name from both Hindu and Muslim traditions, worked as a child in the clay mines. She has been a wife, mother, successful business woman and social activist – as well as a sex worker – at different stages of her life. This is Nalini Jameela’s story, told in her inimitably honest and downto- earth style, of her search for dignity, empowerment and freedom on her own terms.

Author: NALINI JAMEELA  Publisher: WESTLAND]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/empire-of-the-stars-reissue--66-114483.html In August 1930, on a boat trip from Bombay to England, the young Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated that certain stars could end their lives by collapsing indefinitely to a point - to nowhere. This idea brought Chandra into conflict with Sir Arthur Eddington, the grand old man of British astrophysics, who publicly ridiculed the idea. Empire of the Stars teases out the major implications of this infamous event, setting it against the backdrop of the turbulent growth of astrophysics, and provides a unique window on our unfolding view of the cosmos. In its clash of personalities, epochs and cultures, the story reveals the deep-seated psychological and philosophical prejudices at work in the acceptance and rejection of new scientific ideas. Beautifully written, artfully constructed, Empire Of The Stars is a serious book but one which also deals with classic themes a lone man struggling against the establishment, intellectual rivalry and the highs and lows of great individuals set against the broader sweep of history.

Author: MILLER, ARTHUR I.  Publisher: HACHETTE GROUP]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/man-who-recorded-the-world-the-66-86355.html First biography of the ultimate unsung hero in the history of popular music, Alan Lomax *Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. nn*Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, particularly the south, recording its heritage of music and song for posterity, bringing to light the talents of performers ranging from Jelly Roll Morton to Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, and crucially influencing generations of musicians from Pete Seeger to the Stones, from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan. nnHis influence continues: recordings made by Lomax are the core of the sound-tracks of Oh Brother, Where art Thou? and Gangs of New York, and even featured, remixed, on Moby's Play. nnJohn Szwed's biography is the first ever of this remarkable and contradictory man (whom he both knew and worked with for ten years); through it Szwed will tell the story of a musical and political era, as he did so successfully in his previous book on Miles Davis.

Author: Szwed, John  Publisher: William Heinemann]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/stars-from-another-sky-66-114333.html STARS FROM ANOTHER SKY

Author: SADAT HASAN MANTO  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/on-top-of-the-world-:-my-everest-adventure-66-114287.html There was a statue of the Buddha at the summit, placed there by the Sherpas. I knelt down and bowed in front of it. I felt complete. When I looked around I felt I ruled the world, with the Himalayas stretching out below me and nothing to obstruct my view. A month after he had set out, sixteen-year-old Arjun Vajpai stood on top of the world, having conquered Mount Everest. At that time he was the youngest non-Sherpa person in the world to do so. He remains the youngest Indian to have climbed the peak. It had indeed been a long journey. Arjun s fascination with mountains began at the age of ten, nurtured and encouraged by his parents, teachers, and close friends. As a trekker and an athlete, he had trained and worked hard to achieve this amazing feat of endurance. This is Arjun s story in his own words. Accompany him on an adventure of a lifetime; read about his incredible ascent; and learn what it takes to be a mountaineer. On Top of the World is an unforgettable story of inspiration, fortitude and courage; of having a seemingly impossible dream and daring to chase it. About the Author Arjun Vajpai became at the age of sixteeen, the youngest Indian to scale Mount Everest. Always an excellent athlete and a champion sportsperson, Arjun has represented his school, Ryan International in Noida, in various events such as roller-skating, taekwondo, basketball, football and volleyball and won laurels for his impressive performances. He is now in Class XII and dreams of even bigger adventures: of conquering the two ends of the earth, the North and the South Poles, of climbing the other thirteen peaks that stand above 8,000 metres and then of ascending all the highest peaks located on all continents. He also dreams of becoming an army man like his father. When not climbing or participating in competitive sports, he likes reading stories about adventurers and explorers. Anu Kumar s most recent novel is The Dollmakers Island (Gyaana Books, 2010). Her latest book for children, Atisa and his Time Machine: Adventures with Hiuen Tsang has also been published by Puffin India. Most of her exploring has been of the armchair variety.

Author: ARJUN VAJPAI, ANU KUMAR  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-fabric-ofour-lives-:-the-story-of-fabindia-66-99152.html ‘It seems contradictory that we pursue both profit and a social goal, but I believe that is the only way to do it.’—William Bissell The year 2010 marks Fabindia’s fiftieth anniversary. In 1960 a young American, John Bissell, set up a firm exporting handloom products armed only with his unswerving belief in India’s weaves and prints and his readiness to work with weavers and craftsmen in their own settings. Today Fabindia’s garments, furnishings and fabrics have transformed urban tastes and fashions and it has set standards for retailing hand-crafted quality products that are being emulated by other brands in the market. The creation of community-owned companies to secure the supply chain for the vast quantities of products required by Fabindia is cited in management schools as a dynamic new model of social entrepreneurship. The company has given thousands of rural weavers their livelihoods. Its bottom line has continued to grow as have share values in the artisan companies, creating wealth for both buyer and producer and generating a pace of growth that has no precedence in the retail industry in India. Over the last fifty years Fabindia has grown into India’s most famous ethnic brand with over a hundred outlets all over the country. This is the story of that remarkable journey.

Author: RADHIKA SINGH  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/decision-points-66-113780.html Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor’s Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America’s most devastating attack since Pearl Harbour; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; and behind the Oval Office desk for his historic and controversial decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, Iran, and other issues that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century. President Bush writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments reforming education, treating HIV/AIDS in Africa, and safeguarding the country amid chilling warnings of additional terrorist attacks. He also offers intimate new details on his decision to quit drinking, discovery of faith, and relationship with his family. A groundbreaking new brand of memoir, Decision Points will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on one of the most consequential eras in American history – and the man at the centre of events.

Author: Bush, George W.  Publisher: Virgin Books]]> Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/jawaharlal-nehru-:-civilizing-a-savage-world-66-113827.html An intimate view of the influences, encounters and defining historical moments that forged the vision of India’s first prime minister Written by Nayantara Sahgal, prize-winning novelist and political commentator, Jawaharlal Nehru presents an intimate view of the influences, encounters and defining historical moments that forged the vision of India’s first prime minister. Drawing from the Nehru and the Vijayalakshmi Pandit Papers, and from Nehru’s letters to Sahgal, his niece, this book combines history with personal recollections to show how Nehru helped navigate India’s transition from a colony to an influential, modern nation. Discussing the significant issue of independent India’s foreign policy— characterized by the non-alignment principle and the establishment of relations with the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China— Sahgal reveals much about Nehru’s political astuteness, realism and aversion to rigid economic doctrines, as well as the profound impact India’s non-aligned policy had on the world of the time. Perceptive, original and stimulating, Jawaharlal Nehru draws much-needed attention back to the man and his unmatched ability to engineer a consensus among seemingly irreconcilable sides.

Author: NAYANTARA SAHGAL]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/paus-my-family-other-animals-popular-66-1222.html Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals is a charming and comic autobiographical novel. Fleeing the gloomy British climate, the Durrell clan move to Corfu carrying the bare essentials of life acne cures for Margo; revolvers for Leslie; books for Larry and a jam jar full of caterpillars for Gerry. Recounted with warmth and humour, it is a heartwarming portrait of an eccentric family surrounded by a wonderful cast of friends and fauna.

Author: Durrell, Gerald  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/darwin-s-sacred-cause-race-slavery-t-66-1238.html Offers an explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution, which traced life to an ancient common ancestor. This title argues that only by understanding Darwin's Christian abolitionist inheritance can we shed light on the perplexing mix of personal drive, public hesitancy and scientific radicalism.

Author: Desmond, Adrian (Author), Moore, James (  Publisher: ALLEN LANE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/living-to-tell-the-tale-66-1239.html Gabriel Garcia Marquez was twentythree, emerging as a young man and experimenting as a writer, when his mother asked him to come with her, back to the village of Aracataca, back to his grandparents' house and the memories of his Colombian childhood. This memoir describes the atmosphere and influences that shaped his imagination.

Author: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/paus-surgeon-of-crowthorne-the-popula-66-1252.html PAUS Surgeon of Crowthorne, The Popula

Author: Winchester, Simon  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ambani-sons-66-98046.html "Ambani & Sons is the riveting story of one of the wealthiest families in the world. Dhirubhai Ambani was a rags-to-riches tycoon whose company Reliance, is now one of India’s major corporations. His sons Anil and Mukesh took over after his death in 2002 and their respective arms of the company are bigger than the parent ever was. However, a family feud of colossal proportions, that has had political reverberations, ensued. The Ambani tale contains a bigger story about modern India, not only as an economic powerhouse, but about the complicated links between government and big business."

Author: Hamish McDonald  Publisher: ROLI BOOKS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/alexander-66-102571.html Inspired in his leadership, fearless in battle, and boundless in his ambition, Alexander the Great inherited his father's empire at the age of 20 and resolved to expand it. By the time of his death at 32, his empire covered most of the known world from Greece to India and comprised 2 million square miles.

Author: Plutarch Et Al  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/alexander-the-great-66-102572.html Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirtytwo, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. Robin Lane Fox's superb account searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, it brings this colossal figure vividly to life.

Author: Fox Lane, Robin  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/alistair-cooke-s-american-journey-life-66-102573.html Alistair Cooke's American Journey Life

Author: Cooke, Alistair  Publisher: ALLEN LANE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/english-prisoner-the-66-102574.html Presents a story of endurance, as one man plucked from his normal, everyday life is forced to reach deep inside himself to survive life in one of the bleakest outposts in the world Russia s vast and unforgiving forgotten zone .

Author: Hague, Tig  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/english-the-penguin-celebrations--66-102575.html English, The (Penguin Celebrations)

Author: Paxman, Jeremy  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/farm-the-story-of-one-family-the-eng-66-102576.html While growing up, the author felt like the village idiot with O levels . He left Yorkshire to work as a journalist in London, but returned when his dad called with the news that they were going to have to sell the family farm, and, in so doing, leave the home and livelihood. This book presents his personal account.

Author: Benson, Richard  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/father-joe-66-102577.html This book is Tony Hendra's inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decadeslong influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow.

Author: Hendra, Tony  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/florence-nightingale-the-woman-and-her-66-102578.html The common soldier's savior, the standardbearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of historical characters who are instantly recognizable. Homeschooled, bound for the life of an educated Victorian lady, Nightingale scandalized her family when she found her calling as a nurse, a thoroughly unsuitable profession for a woman of her class. As the Lady with the Lamp, ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean War, she offers an enduring image of sentimental appeal. Few individuals in their own lifetime have reached the level of fame and adulation attained by Nightingale as a result of her efforts. Fewer still have the power of continuing to inspire controversy in the way she does almost a century after her death. In this remarkable book, the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in more than fifty years, Mark Bostridge draws on a wealth of unpublished material, including previously unseen family papers, to throw new light on this extraordinary woman's life and character. Disentangling elements of myth from the reality, Bostridge has written a vivid and immensely readable account of one of the most iconic figures in modern history.

Author: Bostridge, Mark  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/frank-hurley-a-photographer-s-life-66-102579.html Frank Hurley A Photographer's Life

Author: McGregor, Alasdair  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hashish-a-smuggler-s-tale-66-102580.html Henri de Monfried is inextricably linked to the Red Sea and the raffish ports between Suez and Aden in the early years of the twentieth century. This book is an account of how de Monfried becomes a collector and merchant of the fabled Gulf pearls, and is drawn into the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery, smuggling and drugs.

Author: Monfreid, Henry De  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hitler-66-102581.html Covers Hitler's life, from his obscure beginnings through his advance to supreme absolute power and then his final decline and suicide in the bunker as Russian shells fell around him. This title is divided into three main sections, dealing with Hitler's early life, how he consolidated his position, and his actions in the Second World War.

Author: Bullock, A  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hitler-18891936-66-102582.html Drawing on a range of sources, this work recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured the young Hitler. As his seemingly pitiful fantasy of being Germany's saviour attracted more and more support, it conveys why so many Germans adored Hitler, connived with him or felt powerless to resist him.

Author: Kershaw, Ian  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hitler-19361945-66-102583.html A biography of Adolf Hitler that begins with European successes in the aftermath of the Rhineland occupation and ending nine years later with the suicide in the Berlin bunker. It addresses the questions about the nature of Nazi radicalism, about the Holocaust and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.

Author: Kershaw, Ian  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/horse-boy-the-66-102584.html Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken when they learned that their twoyearold son Rowan was autistic. And with each passing day, Rowan's growing isolation, his uncontrollable fits, each failed treatment, filled them with despair. Then one day Rowan escaped and ran into a field of horses. Rupert watched in horror but saw a miracle occur.

Author: Isaacson, Rupert  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/i-dreamed-of-africa-66-102585.html At the age of 25, Kuki Gallmann moved to Kenya with her future husband, where they established a vast ranch. But Africa's beauty does't come without a price, and when tragedy struck, Kuki found herself pregnant and alone with her young son and 90,000 acres of Africa to oversee. 32 pages of photos, half in full color. 

Author: Gallmann, Kuki  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/john-f-kennedy-66-102586.html Drawing upon firsthand sources and neverbeforeopened archives, historian Robert Dallek provides a revealing portrait of John F. Kennedy, which should alter the way we think about his life, his presidency and his legacy.

Author: Dallek, Robert  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/kingdom-of-fear-66-102587.html In his memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of course, bikes. He also takes on his dissolute youth in Louisville; his adventures in pornography; campaigning for local office in Aspen; and what it's like to accidentally be accused of trying to kill Jack Nicholson. Alongside this depraved and terrifying adventure, Hunter S. Thompson explores the darkness at the heart of America today.

Author: Thompson, S Hunter  Publisher: ALLEN LANE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/life-decoded-a-my-genome-my-life-66-102588.html Life Decoded, A My Genome, My Life

Author: Venter, Craig  Publisher: ALLEN LANE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lodger-the-shakespeare-on-silver-stre-66-102589.html In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine a dispute over an unpaid marriagedowry but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure lifestory. This book focuses on this episode in Shakespeare's life.

Author: Nicholl, Charles  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mao-s-last-dancer-66-102590.html Tells the true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, turned the situation to his advantage to become one of the world's greatest ballet stars.

Author: Cunxin, Li  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/margot-fonteyn-a-life-66-102591.html Daneman, a novelist and a former dancer, shares the fascinating story of Peggy Hookham, a little girl from suburban England who grew up to become a dame of the British Empire and the most famous ballerina in the world. The legend of Margot Fonteyn has touched every ballerina who has come after her, and her genius endures in the memory of anyone who saw her dance. Yet until now, the complete story of her life has remained untold. Meredith Daneman, a novelist and former dancer, reveals the story of the little girl from suburban England who grew up to become a Dame of the British Empire and the most famous ballerina in the world. More than ten years of interviews and research, including exclusive access to Fonteynas and her motheras diaries and letters, come together to create this definitive work. From the rumored affair and successful partnership between Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev to her final years in Panama, Daneman has created a compelling account that balletomanes and lovers of biography will cherish.

Author: Daneman, Meredith  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mary-barton-a-tale-of-manchester-life-66-102592.html Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She rashly decides to reject her lover Jem, a struggling engineer, in the hope of marrying the rich millowner s son Henry Carson and securing a safe future.

Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/matisse-the-master-a-life-of-henri-66-102593.html Offers an exploration of Matisse s world, uncovering the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for modern art. This volume tells the story of Matisse s growing artistic maturity and the relationship between his life and art from 1909 to 1954, his glory years.

Author: Spurling, Hilary  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mellon-an-american-life-66-102594.html Mellon An American Life

Author: Cannadine, David  Publisher: ALLEN LANE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mozart-his-operas-66-102595.html Mozart s unusual childhood as a musical prodigy touring Europe as a performer from an early age is well known. This book presents a narrative that puts Mozart s operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole.

Author: Cairns, David  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/my-father-s-daughter-66-102596.html In 1974 Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea and brought to England by her white adoptive father. She grew up unable to imagine what it must be like to look into the eyes of a blood relative until one day a letter arrived from a brother she never knew she had. Not knowing what to do with the letter, Hannah hid it away.

Author: Pool, Hannah  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/my-psychic-life-66-102597.html Sally Morgan is an ordinary woman with an extraordinary gift she can communicate with the dead. Her first psychic experience was when she heard voices when she was just nine months old. She has done thousands of readings for people who have experienced a personal tragedy and suffered a great loss. This book tells her story.

Author: Morgan, Sally  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/next-to-you-caron-s-courage-remembere-66-102598.html Gloria Hunniford s daughter, TV presenter Caron Keating, was 34 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died aged 41. This is Gloria s account of Caron s life. It is about the difficult bond between mothers and daughters, and about what happens to a family when one of its members gets taken over by a disease.

Author: Hunniford, Gloria  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/olga-s-story-66-102599.html At seventeen, Olga Yunter joined her brothers in their fight against the Bolsheviks. She was forced to flee to China, with rubies sewn into her petticoats. Twice more, Olga would be forced to leave everything behind. From the comfort of her family to the terror of revolution, war and exile, this is a tale of the author s grandmother.

Author: Williams, Stephanie  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/out-of-my-comfort-zone-the-autobiograph-66-102600.html Rarely does a truly great player reveal as much of himself and his sport as does Steve Waugh in his longawaited autobiography. Out of My Comfort Zone is a thoughtprovoking study of a unique life in cricket, a journey into the heart and soul of not just the game, but also one of its most respected players, finest leaders, and greatest teams.

Author: Waugh, Steve  Publisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/paris-biography-of-a-city-66-102601.html Recreating the ups and downs in the history of Paris and its inhabitants, this book seeks to give a sense of the city as it was lived in and experienced over time. It is intended for habitual Paris obsessives, for firsttime visitors, and for those who know the city only by repute.

Author: Jones, Colin  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/peguin-special-life-times-of-allen-66-102602.html Talks about the era in which the masses were given access to what had previously been the preserve of a wealthy few books. This title recounts how Allen Lane came to launch his Penguins for the price of a packet of cigarettes; how they became enormously influential in alerting the public to the threat of Nazi Germany; and more.

Author: Lewis, Jeremy  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/perfectionist-the-life-and-death-in-h-66-102603.html Perfectionist, The Life and Death in H

Author: Chelminski, Rudolph  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/privilege-of-youth-66-102604.html Dave Pelzer s bestselling autobiographical trilogy are an international phenomenon. Distressing, heartbreaking and yet inspirational, the fourth in the series guarantees the same level of success.

Author: Pelzer, Dave  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/pursuit-of-victory-life-achievement-66-102605.html Horatio Nelson was a shrewd political operator who charmed and impressed political leaders. He was a difficult subordinate, only happy when completely in command, and capable of great ruthlessness. This biography takes a look at Nelson s status as a hero, explaining how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success.

Author: Knight, Roger  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/quicksands-a-memoir-66-102606.html Showing how history imprints itself on private lives, this memoir presents the author's sensuous, harrowing, and altogether remarkable life. It moves from Berlin during the Great War to the artists' set on the Cote d'Azur, through lovers, mentors, seducers and friends, and from genteel yet shabby poverty to relative comfort in London's Chelsea.

Author: Bedford, Sybille  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/semidetached-66-102607.html SemiDetached

Author: Jones, Griff Rhys  Publisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/slowing-down-66-102608.html George Melly is 79 nudging 80. George is still swinging and singing, flyfishing, flirting, and just playing at senility. He walks very slowly nowadays. He s been seriously ill once, and not quite well often. And he s being probed and tinkered with at the hospital. This is an account about how it feels to be growing old and slowing down.

Author: Melly, George  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/story-of-a-life-66-102609.html Aharon Appelfeld was the child of middleclass Jewish parents living in Romania at the outbreak of World War II. He witnessed the murder of his mother, lost his father, endured the ghetto and a twomonth forced march to a camp, before he escaped. This is an account of a boy coming of age in a hostile world.

Author: Applefeld, Aharon  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/twelve-caesars-the-66-102610.html Written during the reign of Hadrian, by Hadrian personal secretary, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars was the most popular and longest of Suetonius's surviving works. Beginning with the life of Julius Caesar and continuing with the first eleven emperors of Rome who followed him, The Twelve Caesars is one of the most important historical bibliographical works of the Roman Empire and discusses the critical period in Roman history known as the Principate, from the end of the Republic to the reign of Domitian.

Author: Suetonius & Graves, Robert  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/white-cargo-66-102611.html White Cargo

Author: Kendal, Felicity  Publisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/wife-in-the-north-66-102612.html Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else did Judith s husband persuade her to give up her career and move from her beloved London to Northumberland with two toddlers in tow? Pregnant with number 3, Judith is about to discover that there are one or two things about life in the country that no one told her about.

Author: O'Reilly, Judith  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/will-mummy-be-coming-back-for-me--66-102613.html When childcare worker Shane Dunphy meets Jason in 1991, he is a tiny, frightened fiveyearold who has stopped speaking and terrorizes even the older children in the care home with his angry, violent behaviour. Eleven years later, Shane is shocked to find Jason s file on his desk again.

Author: Dunphy, Shane  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/africa-house-66-102614.html It is 1912 in Africa, and a rich young man goes to Northern Rhodesia and creates an idyllic English style of life. But life changes with the political scene in the 1960s and 70s and tragedy hits the family.

Author: Lamb, Christina  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/africa-house-om--66-102615.html Africa House (Om)

Author: Lamb, Christina  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/almost-there-66-102616.html In 'Almost There', Nuala O'Faolain begins her story from the moment her life began to change, in all manners of ways subtle, radical, predictable and unforseen.

Author: OÆFaolain, N  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/an-autobiography-gandhi-66-102617.html Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in India in 1869. He was educated in London. In 1915 he returned to Britishcontrolled India, bringing to a country in the throes of independence his commitment to nonviolent change. Written in the 1920s, this autobiography tells of his struggles and his inspirations; a statement of an extraordinary life.

Author: Gandhi, Mahatma  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/and-it-s-goodnight-from-him-the-aut-66-102618.html Messrs Barker and Corbett kept a nation laughing for two decades, and despite the work that went into writing, rehearsing and broadcasting almost a hundred episodes to millions of viewers each week, the pair never shared a cross word. This work tells the story of their rise from theatre, through The Frost Report and into their own legendary show.

Author: Corbett, Ronnie  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/anne-frank-66-102619.html Excerpts from Anne Frank's original diaries and interviews with the last people to see her alive offer insight into her lifefrom her happy childhood to the concentration camps after her family was captured and separated. 150 photos. In over one hundred photographs, many which have never been published, this poignant memoir brings to life the harrowing story of one young Jewish woman's struggle to survive during a period of history which must never be forgotten.

Author: Frank, Anne  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/autobiography-of-malcolm-x-66-102620.html They called him the angriest black man in America ...Malcolm X inspired many people in the United States. This autobiography, tells of a young, disenfranchised man whose descent into drug addition, robbery and prison was only reversed by his belief in the rights struggle for black America, and his conversion to the Nation of Islam.

Author: X, Malcolm  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/autobiography-the-66-102621.html Young Johnnie Walker was obsessed with music and loved to share that passion. So it wasn t long after he d started DJing in dance halls and pubs that he got his big break he talked his way into a slot with newly founded station Radio England and launched his career. This autobiography tells of forty years at the heart of British broadcasting.

Author: Walker, Johnnie  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bard-of-erin-the-life-of-thomas-moore-66-102622.html Bard of Erin The Life of Thomas Moore

Author: Kelly, Ronan  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/beatrix-potter-the-extraordinary-life-66-102623.html A collection of biographies a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tragically short engagement and who, finally was given a second chance of love and happiness.

Author: Lear, Linda  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/beatrix-potter-s-letters-66-102624.html Beatrix Potter achieved considerable prominence as a children's book author in her own lifetime but she always shunned publicity. This book presents over 400 letters that reveal the observant, energetic, affectionate and humorous personality that Beatrix Potter kept hidden from her public.

Author: Potter, Beatrix  Publisher: WARNE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bob-dylan-behind-the-shades-take-two-66-102625.html This paperback edition is published to coincide with Dylan's 60th birthday in May 2001. First published to great acclaim in 1991, this new edition has been completely rewritten to take account of ten years' further research by the author. The result is a definitive account of arguably the greatest figure to have come out of popular culture in the 20th century.

Author: Heylin, Clinton  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/chance-witness-66-102626.html A frank autobiography by The Times columnist and expolitician Matthew Parris. His childhood was spent on a variety of different countries as his engineer father moved jobs; Rhodesia, Cyprus, the Middle East and Jamaica. After Cambridge and Yale, he joined the Conservative central office at roughly the same time (aged 26) he discovered he was gay. He worked for Michael Dobbs, Chris Patten, and Mrs Thatcher (who famously fired him), before entering parliament himself. Part participant, part bystander, Matthew Parris describes what it was like to be so close to the centre and remain an outsider.

Author: Parris, M  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/chinese-cinderella-66-102627.html Jungling's family considers her bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her. They discriminate against her and make her feel unwanted yet she yearns and continuously strives for her parents' love. Her stepmother is vindictive and cruel and her father dismissive. Jungling blossoms in spite of everything.

Author: Yen, Mah Adelin  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/churchill-a-study-in-greatness-66-102628.html Winston Churchill s inspiring leadership in the Second World War once put him above criticism. This book makes sense of this extraordinary man and his controversial and heroic career. It brings out Churchill s strengths and weaknesses, looking at the many received versions of Churchill, and offers a fresh insight into his character.

Author: Best, G  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/constable-in-love-love-landscape-mon-66-102629.html Constable in Love Love, Landscape, Mon

Author: Gayford, Martin  Publisher: FIG TREE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/darwin-66-102630.html This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about God.

Author: Desmond, A  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/diana-66-102631.html Delivers a study of the greatest icon of the 20thcentury Diana. This work exposes the real Diana the blighted childhood, the oldfashioned courtship which saw her capture the Prince of Wales, the damage caused by the spectre of Camilla Parker Bowles, through to the collapse of the royal marriage and Diana s complicated year as single woman.

Author: Bradford, Sarah  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/diary-of-a-young-girl-66-102632.html Anne Frank kept a diary from 12 June 1942 to 1 August 1944. Initially, she wrote it strictly for herself, but one day in 1944, Gerrit Bolkestein, a member of the Dutch government in exile, announced in a radio broadcast from London that after the war he hoped to collect eyewitness accounts of the suffering of the Dutch people under the German occupation, which could be made available to the public. As an example, he specifically mentioned letters and diaries. Anne Frank decided that when the war was over she would publish a book based on her diary

Author: Frank, Anne  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/diary-of-a-young-girl-66-102633.html Anne Frank kept a diary from 1942 to 1944. Initially she wrote it strictly for herself. Then, one day in 1944, a member of the Dutch government in exile announced in a broadcast from London that after the war he hoped to collect accounts of the suffering of the Dutch people under the German occupation, which could be made available to the public.

Author: Frank, Anne  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dog-s-life-66-102634.html In the spring of 1985, the novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog. He saw the puppy in the window of a pet shop and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled. She was given the name Circe by Bailey's dying partner, David, who was also overcome by her charms, though after a good deal of resistance. This memoir tells of the sixteen years Paul Bailey spent in Circe's company, while also offering portraits of friends and acquaintances, living and dead. There are sketches of the various eccentrics encountered during his walks with the dog, and descriptions of the author's trips abroad to Romania, Poland, and Hungary, among other countries.

Author: Bailey, P  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/driving-over-lemons-an-optimist-in-and-66-102635.html Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. At age 17 Chris retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a bigtime rock star he might never have moved with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucia. Nor forged the friendship of a lifetime with his resourceful peasant neighbour Domingo...not watched his baby daughter Chloe grow and thrive there...nor written this book. Fate does sometimes seem to know what it's up to. Driving Over Lemons is that rare thing a funny, insightful book that charms you from the first page to the last...and one that makes running a peasant farm in Spain seem like a distinctly good move. Chris transports us to Las Alpujarras, an oddball region south of Granada, and into a series of misadventures with an engaging mix of peasant farmers and shepherds, New Age travellers and expats. The hero of the piece, however, is the farm that he and Ana bought, El Valero a patch of mountain studded with olive, almond and lemon groves, sited on the wrong side of a river, with no access road, water supply or electricity. Could life offer much better than that?

Author: Stewart, Chris  Publisher: SORT OF BOOKS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/eleven-houses-a-memoir-of-childhood-66-102636.html Christopher FitzSimon was born into an extraordinary Irish family, with Daniel O'Connell on one side and Ulster Protestants on the other, and his childhood coincided with the Second World War or, as it was known in the southern Irish state, the Emergency. Eleven Houses is a crystalline memoir of his family's odd progress through those odd years, an account by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Christopher's father was an officer in the British army, serving in the middle east when war broke out, and the family home in these years was in fact a series of homes, in all four provinces of Ireland.For long periods Christopher and his brother were not enrolled in school, and the commencement of formal education proved a shock after years of the freedom of houses, orchards, lanes and fields. Drawing on his extraordinarily vivid recall of the places and feelings of those years, Christopher FitzSimon tells a story of growing up that is also, in effect, a story of various hidden Irelands during the twilit years of the war. Funny, moving and sharp, it is a childhood memoir like no other.

Author: Simon, Christopher Fitz  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/elizabeth-ii-66-102637.html Unravels Queen Elizabeth's family secrets how she was influenced by her father; her troubled relationships with her children; the story of her difficult marriage; and, how she coped with the pressures of being a mother who is also the most famous woman in the world.

Author: Bradford, Sarah  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/empire-made-me-66-102638.html Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities. Threatened from within by communist workers and governed by desperate Britishdominated administration, Shanghai was mesmerising and terrible. Into this maelstrom stepped a tough and resourceful exveteran Englishman to join the police.

Author: Bickers, R  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/extra-confessions-of-a-working-girl-66-102639.html Having left behind the sauna where she was top girl, Miss S moves to London to start work as a stripper. But after one of the other dancers burns her in the back with a cigarette, she decides to try her hand at something new. It s in an escort agency that Miss S finds her true vocation, and where she encounters a colourful cavalcade of clients.

Author: Miss S  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/falling-leaves-return-to-their-roots-66-102640.html An unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution was blamed for her mother s death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. This is a story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the political events in China and Hong Kong.

Author: Mah, A Y  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fever-pitch-66-102641.html A famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, Fever Pitch has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Author: Hornby, Nick  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/frederick-the-great-66-102642.html In this biography of Frederick the Great, Nancy Mitford carefully unravels the complex character of one of Europe's brilliant rulers. She recreates his unhappy youth; his reforming zeal, which paved the way for a united Germany; and his spectacular wars.

Author: Mitford, N  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/friend-called-anne-66-102643.html This is the true story of two best friends, one of whom was Anne Frank. Since their first meeting at school in Amsterdam in September 1941, Jacqueline van Maarsen and Anne Frank were inseparable. Although the antiJewish laws meant that there were few activities open to them, the girls still had a lot of fun together. They made a pact that if one of them had to go away, then they would write the other a letter of farewell. Then, suddenly, Anne disappeared. Shortly after, Jacqueline's own life changed dramatically. Her father was Jewish, but her mother was not, and Mrs van Maarsen was able to persuade the authorities that they were not really Jewish and so Jacqueline was able to take off the yellow star which all Jews had to wear. Jacqueline van Maarsen gives a fascinating and moving account of her friendship with Anne and the effect of her sudden disappearance. She vividly describes how she and her own family lived through the Nazi occupation and how, at the end of the war, she was finally able to read the promised farewell letter from her very best friend, Anne Frank. Written by Jacqueline van Maarsen and adapted for children by Carol Ann Lee, this will appeal to all the millions of fans of The Diary of Anne Frank.

Author: Van Maarsen, J  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/george-iii-66-102644.html This biography is a reexamination of George III's political beliefs and aspirations, of his relationships with his ministers, and of the reasons why he was so widely loved by the British but reviled by his American subjects, who declared him unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Author: Hibbert, Christopher  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/george-iv-66-102645.html What was it about George IV that made private friends, as well as political adversaries, so quick to see the weaknesses of the man and to ignore his qualities? This biography aims to reveal the clues behind such opinion.

Author: Hibbert, Christopher  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/george-vi-66-102646.html Acceding to the throne upon his brother's abdication, George VI was immediately confronted with the turmoil in European politics leading up to World War II, then the war itself, followed by a period of austerity, social transformation and loss of Empire. George was unprepared for kingship, suffering from a stammer which could make public occasions very painful for him. Morever, he had grown up in the shadow of his brother, a man who has been idolized as no royal prince has been, before or since. However, this biography shows that although George was not born to be king, he died a great one.

Author: Bradford, Sarah  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100