Gilbert: The Last Years of W. G. Grace
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There are few more instantly recognisable figures, from any era, from any walk of life, than W.G....
A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between
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Award-winning songwriter Linda Thompson breaks her silence, sharing the extraordinary story of her...
Sarah Thompson (2 KP) rated The Heart's Invisible Furies in Books
Feb 1, 2018
A tale beginning in Ireland in the 1940s and spanning several countries and decades, it encompasses so many different aspects of life, love and death with the main focus being relationships, bigotry and sexual intolerance.
Beautifully written and somewhat Dickensian in essence, I fell in love with the characters and some of the experiences they had saddened me while others were just utterly hilarious. Cyril and his wry humour was just wonderful.
Just to add from John Boyne's note on The Heart's Invisible Furies "The desire to love and to share one's life with someone is neither a homosexual nor a heterosexual conceit. It's human".
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
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Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Some thought Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, should be...
The Jane Austen Files: A Complete Anthology of Letters & Family Recollections
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Jane Austen is one of England's greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read...
Isabella De'Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess
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Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and...
Peacework: Prayer Resistance Community
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Henri Nouwen wrote this book as his personal response in a time of heightening Cold War tensions....
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John Berger, Mahmoud Darwish and Rema Hammami
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Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last...
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Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches #5)
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I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people...
An Autobiography: Volume One
Agatha Christie and Judith Boyd
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Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' - her own autobiography. Over the three decades since her...