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1000 Places to See Before You Die - Patricia Schultz

1000 Places to See Before You Die
Patricia Schultz

Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2012
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February 2012 Travel Book of the Month. Presents the 1,000 most astonishing destinations in the world and brings them to life in lively, evocative prose that reveals why the place is so wonderful. This title offers a greater variety of hotel and restaurant choices, including more budget-conscious options. Click here to read a Q & A with Patricia Schultz about this book.

Planet Ponzi - Mitch Feierstein

Planet Ponzi
Mitch Feierstein

Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
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February 2012 Non-Fiction Book of the Month. Even though this book has a US focus the blunt uncomfortable economic and political truths of the current global debt crisis and its inevitable painful conclusion are equally relevant for anyone living in the western world. Mitch Feierstein’s scathing appraisal of politicians and money men is backed up with unsettling statistic after statistic but the book is also a rallying cry for us all to become more aware and involved – and even has investing tips to reduce the impact of the impending financial super storm. Click here to visit the planetponzi website

The Favored Daughter : One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future - Fawzia Koofi, Nadene Gourhi

The Favored Daughter : One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
Fawzia Koofi, Nadene Gourhi

Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
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February 2012 Non-Fiction Book of the Month. This is an extraordinarily moving autobiography of the first lady of Afghani politics. Left to die in the sun as a the unwanted 19th daughter of an influential village leader Fawzia Koofi, through an enormous amount of perseverance good luck and capitalising on her family’s political background, rose to become an advocate for women’s rights and stand against the corruption and infighting that bedevils Afghanistan.Like for Like ReadingDear Zari: Hidden Stories from the Women of Afghanistan, Zharghuna KargarThe Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years, Christina Lamb

The Diamond Queen : Elizabeth II and Her People - Andrew Marr

The Diamond Queen : Elizabeth II and Her People
Andrew Marr

Format: Hardback - Released: 27/10/2011
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With the flair for narrative and the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch and to the monarchy, chronicling the Queen's pivotal role at the centre of the state, which is largely hidden from the public gaze, and making a strong case for the institution itself. A TV series based on this book begins on BBC1 on Monday 6th February 2012.

Keeping Up with the Germans A History of Anglo-German Encounters - Philip Oltermann

Keeping Up with the Germans A History of Anglo-German Encounters
Philip Oltermann

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. A number of worrying questions arise. How would English schoolboys take to a lanky 16-year-old German? How did they think and do things differently? What was the secret of the famed British humour? And were there values that English and German people shared? In search of answers, Oltermann interweaves memoir and history, taking ten key Anglo-German encounters from the last 200 years as his starting point. What emerges is nothing less than an alternative national story for the two countries: not one marked by military conflict and diplomatic hostility, but one shaped by dialogue, interaction and genuine fondness.

Death in the City of Light The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised Wartime Paris - David King

Death in the City of Light The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised Wartime Paris
David King

Format: Paperback - Released: 19/01/2012
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Occupied Paris, 1944. The swastika flies from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Nazi officers patrol the elegant boulevards and the once-vibrant city is shrouded in suspicion and fear. At a chic Right Bank address, a ghastly pile of dismembered bodies is discovered. Even in these sinister times, the crime scene is amongst the most harrowing veteran detective Georges Massu has ever seen. The property's owner, well-to-do Dr Marcel Petiot, immediately becomes the number-one suspect, but he has vanished without a trace. As the police delve into the doctor's past, they uncover a disturbing history of violence and corruption. Drugs, theft, links to the criminal underworld and a string of missing women: for Massu, it seems like a cut-and-dry case. But as the manhunt intensifies and all of Paris clamours for the latest news, the investigation leads the police to Gestapo files detailing Petiot's involvement in the city's secret escape network. Is Massu pursuing a sadistic serial killer or a hero of the Resistance? Who are Petiot's victims? In this fascinating true account of a case that gripped wartime Paris, David King draws extensively on new sources, including previously classified French files, to paint a chilling portrait of a murderer whose crimes devastated a city already in the grip of evil.

Dig WWII BBCTV Tie-in to the Series Presented by Dan Snow - Jean Hood

Dig WWII BBCTV Tie-in to the Series Presented by Dan Snow
Jean Hood

Format: Hardback - Released: 27/02/2012
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Military archaeology is amongst the newest academic disciplines and is also one of the fastest growing. The BBC TV series Dig WWII will be using this discipline to examine some of the most compelling stories of the Battle of the Atlantic, the Battle of Britain and the Battle for Europe to provide fresh insights and understanding into our dramatic fight for survival. There will be perilous dives onto a tank graveyard and a sunken U-boat; the recovery of a crashed Spitfire from a Northern Irish bog; and an exploration of the tunnels and bunkers on a D-Day beach. Each story has personal testimony from veterans who were there. The series is made by the same team who made Dig 1940 for BBC1, which achieved nearly 5 million viewers for its opening episode. Author Jean Hood looks into all these stories, revealing the scientific breakthroughs, such as DNA profiling that has allowed families to identify loved ones, as well as the dangers inherent in diving to 130 metres and digging in a peat bog, while providing broader discussion on the themes in the programmes within a wider framework of the war in Europe.

India A Portrait - Patrick French

India A Portrait
Patrick French

Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2012
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One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. What is the real nature of this rapid change, and where are its roots? India takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, geographically from the remote Buddhist north to the tropical far south and socially from the new multi-millionaires to the many Indians still crushed by caste and poverty.