Everybody Matters: A Memoir
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Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards 2013 Political Book of the Year The first woman President...
Mummy's Little Helper: The Heartrending True Story of a Young Girl Secretly Caring for Her Severely Disabled Mother
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The fifth book from bestselling author and specialist foster carer Casey Watson. A recent census...
Mastering Technical Communication Skills: A Student's Handbook
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To live is to communicate, and to communicate with confidence is a craft that one will do well to...
Motivated Cognition in Relationships: The Pursuit of Belonging
Sandra L. Murray and John G. Holmes
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How can newlyweds believe they will be together forever, while knowing that the majority of...
The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John
Michael Holroyd and Rebecca John
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Captivatingly fresh and intimate letters from Augustus John's first wife, Ida, reveal the untold...
The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919-1948: Facing the Temple Mount
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Since the construction of the first Holy Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem in 957 BCE, the site...
Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment
Rahul Telang and Michael D. Smith
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"[The authors explain] gently yet firmly exactly how the internet threatens established ways and...
Private Education in China: Achievement and Challenge
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This book takes an in-depth look at the development of the private education sector in modern China....
Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis: Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation: Volume 2: Commentary and Indexes
James Morwood and Christopher Collard
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'Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis' comprises two volumes (Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation;...
18th century Paris was a place of great uncertainty - and this book has echoes of Dickensian London. It’s so much more than that though. Not only do we get some wonderful descriptions of the sights, sounds and smells of Paris at the time, we also get to look at Edward Carey’s beautiful pictures. I say beautiful, they’re pictures that portray people in their sometimes beautiful ugliness (that’s a thing, right?).
The life that Little lives! I hadn’t known any of the background of Madame Tussaud, and to be honest, with the way her formative years went, I’m astonished that she survived to old age. The Paris of the French Revolution was a dangerous place, and Little had come to know some dangerous people.
I don’t want to say anything else. It would be a shame for me to reveal any of the (what were to me) big surprises. This is a startling, moving, frustrating, emotional, bizarre, glorious journey through the French years of Madame Tussaud’s life. It was recommended to me by book blogger @yearsofreading, and I’m so glad I listened to her. Now I recommend that if you haven’t read this book, and you’ve read my review this far, go out and read it. You won’t regret it!