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I who have never known men
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The mirror & the light
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Nine lives
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The storyteller, tales of life and music
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Widowland
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The couple at the table
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P000204647 
Paperback 
Year: 2004
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Resource type: Physical
P000204641 
Hardback
Year: 1991
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Resource type: Physical
P000204640 
Paperback
Year: 2007
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Resource type: Physical
1474608736 
Paperback
Year: 2018
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: London: Orion, 2006 The plane in which the members of a top Uruguayan rugby team were flying crashed into a mountain and was stranded 11,000 feet up on a glacier. With the prospect only of a slow death, and no rescue likely, Nando and one of his friends set off on an impossible journey, walking and climbing for ten days in search of help.
288 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
1474610773 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
Note: Includes bibliographical references and index The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped millions of children with their homework. But now these huge books gather dust, and sell for almost nothing on eBay, and we derive our information from our phones and computers, apparently for free. What have we lost in this transition? And how did we tell the progress of our lives in the past? This book presents a history and celebration of those who created the most ground-breaking and remarkable publishing phenomenon of any age. It tracks the story from Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, from modest single-volumes to the 11,000-volume Chinese manuscript that was too big to print.
390 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm (hbk)
1526641534 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: I set out to bring the 'othered' to the table. We're here to inspire and give people something to dream about as well as a sense of the possible here and now. 'A Visible Man' traces an astonishing journey into one of the world's most exclusive industries. Edward Enninful candidly shares how as a Black, gay, working-class refugee, he found in fashion not only a home, but the freedom to share with people the world as he saw it. Written with style, grace and heart, this is the story of a visionary who changed not only an industry, but how we understand beauty.
xv, 265 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm (hbk)
1526767902 
Hardback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation
Resource type: Physical
Note: The Battle of Britain from July to September 1940 is one of the finest moments in our Nation's history. While credit rightly goes to 'The Few', victory could never have happened without the inspirational command and leadership of New Zealander Keith Park. He and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding ensured that Fighter Command was prepared for the Nazi onslaught. Promoted to Air Vice Marshal, Park took over No 11 Group, responsible for the defence of London and South East England in April 1940. A shrewd tactician and hands-on commander, Park husbanded his limited resources and famously wore down Goering's Luftwaffe, thus forcing Hitler to abandon his invasion plans. This balanced and well overdue account hopefully ensures that Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park receives the credit for victory that he so richly deserves.
208 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
1526795264 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Air World
Resource type: Physical
Note: Adolph Gysbert Malan was born in Wellington, South Africa. A natural leader and driven individual with a totally positive outlook, aged 14 Malan became an officer cadet in the South African Merchant Navy, before being commissioned into the Royal Navy Reserve. In March 1941, Malan was promoted and became the first Wing Commander (Flying) at Biggin Hill. He went on to command a succession of fighter training units, passing on his tactical genius and experience, and producing his famous 'Ten Rules of Air Fighting' which are still cited today. By the war's end, Group Captain Malan was the RAF's tenth top-scoring fighter pilot. Leaving the RAF in 1945 and returning to South Africa, he was disgusted by Apartheid and founded the 'Torch Commando'. Tragically, in 1963, he died, prematurely, aged just 53, of Parkinson's. This biography is written with the support of the Malan family.
264 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
152914857X 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Ebury Spotlight
Resource type: Physical
Note: Translated from the German From competing in tournaments round the world to being crowned Latin dance champion, becoming a beloved Judge on Strictly Come Dancing and starting her own dance school, Motsi Mabuse has never let anything hold her back from fulfilling her dreams. In this book, Motsi opens up about the determination, hard work and resilience it took to get to where she is today from the moment she fell in love with the glitterball world as a young child watching a dance tournament whilst on holiday. She takes us back to growing up in apartheid South Africa where she experienced exclusion and discrimination, raising money to compete in cut-throat international competitions and the huge leap of faith she took giving up her law degree, moving to Germany to be with her dance partner and throwing everything in to becoming the best dancer she could be.
vii, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm (hbk)
0571368778 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Rising to the Surface' traces Lenny Henry's career through the 80s and 90s. The 16-year-old who won a talent competition, now has to navigate his way through the seas of professional comedy, learning his craft through sheer graft and hard work. We follow Lenny through a period of great creativity - prize-winning tv programs, summer seasons across Britain, the starring role in a Hollywood film, stand-up gigs in New York and a gala wedding to Dawn French. But with each rise there is a fall, the most traumatic being the death of his mother. But by the end of the book he has been able to rise through a sea of troubles and breaks out to the surface to accept the Golden Rose of Montreaux for his work in television.
vii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm (hbk)