GRAIN - Biography & Memoir 1

« Marguerite Duras, je m'en étais fait depuis longtemps une idée presque définitive. Ses tics et ses poses, son minimalisme maniéré. Un jour, on m'a annoncé qu'elle était morte ou quasi. Un an après……続きを見る

Much has been written about the events of 69AD, the famous 'Year of Four Emperors', but this book offers a new perspective on the Roman Empire as the shift of power between Senate and Emperor turned……続きを見る

Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish American writer Mary Lavin had sixteen stories published in The New Yorker, after J. D. Salinger introduced her to the magazine. It was a prolific time for Lavin, he……続きを見る

A biography of the renowned Roman general, senator, and civil engineer. Sextus Iulius Frontinus is best known as author of the military handbook Strategems but, in addition to writing this and other……続きを見る

The Voyage of The Aegre is a dramatic true account of how a plan to sail a little fishing boat from the Highlands of Scotland down the coast to England turned into a trans-oceanic odyssey for Nick a……続きを見る

" A compelling review of Antipater and his family . . . A gripping story of a real game of thrones" from the author of the Seleukid Empire trilogy ( Firetrench). Antipater was a key figure in the r……続きを見る

At a crossroads in her life, Gráinne Lyons set out to travel Ireland's west coast on foot. She set a simple intention: to walk in the footsteps of eleven pioneering Irish women deeply rooted in this……続きを見る

When anyone is so fortunate to practice veterinary medicine as their calling, their memories are the journals of their lives. This book has excerpts of the journal from a veterinary general praction……続きを見る

The Abbé H.R. Casgrain (1831-1904) was an important French-Canadian historian, biographer, and literary figure. He edited the papers of Maréchal de Lévis, and was the biographer of Mère Marie de l'I……続きを見る

After the success of Steve’s (aka GRANGE) first book 70’s GLAM, GRIME & PETTY CRIME he takes us on another roller-coaster ride not only through the 70’s but also the 80’s & 90’s. In the 45 years Gra……続きを見る

Charlie Grainger has lived through eight decades of positive change in his favorite place---the American South. Born on an unpaved Alabama country road during the Great Depression, he nearly died tw……続きを見る

The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult poet……続きを見る

The book describes two experiences of life within a large English psychiatric hospitalthe first as a patient and the second as a member of staff; the first in the 1950s, before these hospitals opene……続きを見る

Known as 'The Singing Winger' for his ability both out wide on a football field and centre stage at a concert hall, Colin Grainger had the privilege of sharing a changing room with Duncan Edwards an……続きを見る

Face the Music & Dance By: G. Raine FACE THE MUSIC & DANCE IS A STIRRING ACCOUNT OF DIVORCE FOLLOWING WHAT WAS WIDELY BELIEVED TO BE AN ENDURING LOVE STORY. THE AUTHOR CAPTURES THE LIGHT OF HER UNIQ……続きを見る

The 'ideal type' is Max Weber's hypothetical leading democratic politician, whom the author finds realized in Tony Blair. He is a politician emerging from no obvious mould, treading no well-beaten p……続きを見る

Sa vie est un roman. L'itinéraire sentimental d'une beauté américaine éprise de politique, Susan Mary Alsop. Elle était belle, subtile et nostalgique. De 1945 à 2004, cette héroïne qui aurait pu sor……続きを見る