The Royals (9780446605786)

They are the most chronicled family on the face of the globe. Their every move attracts headlines. Scores of books have tried and failed to penetrate the royal facade. Now Kitty Kelley has gone behind palace walls to provide the first three-dimensional, comprehensive, and evenhanded portrait of the men and women who make up the British Royal family.

Kelley spent more than four years investigating the royal family. In addition to meticulous research into documented sources, she conducted hundreds of exclusive interviews with past and present employees of the royal household, royal friends and relations, courtiers, members of Parliament, and other intimate observers, raising the curtain on this most secretive family.

Here are lonely royal children brought up without a proper education in isolated and artificial surroundings, twentieth-century adolescents with nineteenth-century touchstones. Here are the sexual ambiguities, the alcoholism, gambling, and womanizing that were common in the House of Windsor long before Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. No one is spared; here are the scandals of the last decades: the doomed marriages, and the husbands, wives, lovers and children caught in their wake and damaged beyond repair.

Illuminating the Windsors' arrogance, naï veté , and lusts as well as hard work, dedication, and ability to survive the most humiliating disclosures, "The Royals" is Kitty Kelley's richest, most iconoclastic, historically significant, and compelling work.

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• Format Paperback | 784 pages
• Dimensions 106.43 x 171.45 x 36.07mm | 381.02g
• Publication date 01 Oct 1998
• Publisher Little, Brown & Company
• Imprint Warner Books
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note Illustrations, unspecified
• ISBN10 0446605786
• ISBN13 9780446605786
• Bestsellers rank 253,124

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Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas : Festive hospital diaries from the author of million-copy hit This is Going to Hurt (9781529018585)

'The perfect surgical stocking-filler' (The Times) from the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller This Is Going To Hurt

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime.

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year.

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• Format Hardback | 160 pages
• Dimensions 118 x 186 x 22mm | 192g
• Publication date 17 Oct 2019
• Publisher Pan MacMillan
• Imprint PICADOR
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Main Market Ed.
• ISBN10 1529018587
• ISBN13 9781529018585
• Bestsellers rank 3

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Telling the Truth about History (9780393312867)

This text examines the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that a model of historical research, based on neutrality and objectivity, served historians well until World War II. After that post-modernism suggested history could not reveal the truth about the past and the rise of social history produced a great amount of statistics which effectively swamped the search for historical truth. Accepting that much of history teaching has been flawed, the authors nevertheless argue for an affirmation of historical knowledge against the doubts of the sceptics and the relativists, guiding the reader through the complex areas of political correctness and multiculturalism.

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• Format Paperback | 336 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 211 x 25mm | 340g
• Publication date 10 May 1995
• Publisher WW Norton & Co
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0393312860
• ISBN13 9780393312867
• Bestsellers rank 371,141

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His Way (9780553386189)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword by the author in honor of Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday

This is the book that Frank Sinatra tried--but failed--to keep from publication, and it's easy to understand why. This unauthorized biography goes behind the iconic myth of Sinatra to expose the well-hidden side of one of the most celebrated--and elusive--public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps, and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatra's life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, friends). The result is a stunning, often shocking exposé of a man as tortured as he was talented, as driven to self-destruction as he was to success. Featuring a new afterword by the author, this fully documented, highly detailed biography--filled with revealing anecdotes--is the penetrating story of the explosively controversial and undeniably multitalented legend who ruled the entertainment industry for fifty years and continues to fascinate to this day. Praise for His Way "The most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time."--The New York Times

"A compelling page-turner . . . Kitty Kelley's book has made all future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant."--Los Angeles Herald Examiner

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• Format Paperback | 643 pages
• Dimensions 135 x 209 x 37mm | 502g
• Publication date 28 Dec 2010
• Publisher Random House USA Inc
• Imprint Bantam Books Inc
• Publication City/Country NY, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0553386182
• ISBN13 9780553386189
• Bestsellers rank 364,703

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The Testaments (9781784742324)

The wait is over

And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her – freedom, prison or death.

With The Testaments, the wait is over.

Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.

'Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in.' Margaret Atwood

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• Format Hardback | 400 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 240 x 39mm | 667g
• Publication date 18 Sep 2019
• Publisher Vintage Publishing
• Imprint CHATTO & WINDUS
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 1784742325
• ISBN13 9781784742324
• Bestsellers rank 1

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Religion and the Decline of Magic : Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England (9780140137446)

Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.

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• Format Paperback | 880 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 37mm | 596g
• Publication date 25 Apr 2012
• Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition New edition
• Edition Statement New
• ISBN10 0140137440
• ISBN13 9780140137446
• Bestsellers rank 34,248

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