GORDON - Libros y biografía

Family, food, music and mourning.Gloria is gravely sick. When her time comes, the celebration begins; the traditional Jamaican Nine Night wake. But for Gloria's children and grandchildren, marking her...

The Knights Templar, a mysterious fraternity of warrior monks, pledged their swords to defend pilgrims to the Holy Land from the bandits and marauders of the roads. Patronised by the aristocracy, the...

On 8 March, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the south central coast of South Vietnam, marking the beginning of a conflict...

Having conquered the world's taste buds and established itself as a staple in our daily lives, coffee has mirrored the moods and movements of society for centuries - yet, how much do we know about its...

On the morning of 14 January 1975, Mrs Dorothy Whittle wakes to be faced with every mother's worst nightmare: finding her daughter has been abducted from her room. A note has been left downstairs, demanding...

Including many conversations with Southendians, this title aims to recall life in their town, during the 1950s and '60s. It focuses on social change, as well as school days, work and play, transport,...

Following the 1985 final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis, Britain found itself in the grip of a new sporting obsession. Snooker, or 'Coronation Street with balls', was suddenly big business and...

This book provides a convenient reference to the history and characteristics of the self-loading pistols that were adopted by the military forces of the nations involved in the two World Wars. It presents...

Spring 2001, and the countryside of the North East of England resembles Fitzgerald's 'valley of ashes': the air is choked with the stench and smoke of the pyres which are burning in an attempt to contain...

Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. Floods. Foot and mouth. The disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine McCann. The arrival of Gordon Brown. Terror attacks in Glasgow. And Gordon...

'The hero is the creature other people would like to be. Edwards was such a man, and he enabled people to respect themselves more.' By the mid-fifties Manchester United had caught the imagination of the...

How does it feel to be never allowed to die? In his classic début novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling vocalist of the 1950s and turns her story into an equation of celebrity and murder....

How do you start a new life when the person you love is about to die?At the age of thirty-six, Gordon Darroch's wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a devastating blow just as he, and their two...

The modern history of London's East End has been well-documented – but what of its ancient roots? From embryonic beginnings in the Stone Age, through Roman rule and civil wars, all the way to its jam-packed...

It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the early 1980s Gordon Burn spent three years living in...

An account of two people - Fred and Rose West - who lived together, raised (and killed) children, provided sexual services for anyone interested, and pretended to provide social services for single women....

The Italian Alps,1944. The Resistance is fighting a bitter battle against German forces on the treacherous mountains of the Valtellina. Eighteen-year-old Sandro Bellini falls in love with the wife of...

Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift for the sensational story, the shouting tabloid lead. But as he reports on a series of brutal...

This carefully crafted ebook: "A Mysterious Disappearance" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Claude Bruce is a barrister and an amateur detective who is caught...

When attractive, young newspaper reporter Polly Jordan knocks on the door of an old woman who has inspiring stories of World War Ⅱ to tell, she has no idea it will lead to a life full of intrigue, lust,...

In a world fueled by ambition and driven by relentless pursuit, there are those who possess an unwavering determination and an insatiable hunger for success. They are the hustlers, the ones who go above...

Get More Customers Without AdvertisingHow would you like to:• Have your friends regularly send referrals to you.• Have business contacts send new clients your way.• Meet people once and have them pick...

Not Hemingway; way too short like bird songs performed for a fish. Not Gabriel Garcia Marquez; too fanciful, too much Cuban cigar. An American in self-exile, writing from his backyard view, considers...

The sovereign purpose of God has always been to build the Kingdom of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and populate the planet with New Humanity - the Church.  The plan of this book is to draw attention...

You are born a leader, but you must become the leader you are born to be.Everyone has the capacity to be a leader. Despite this innate power that exists in everyone, relatively few people are aware of...

Leggere Cuori Sani e Felici è il modo giusto per iniziare una conversazione col tuo bambino sul cibo e su come fare le scelte più sane per lui. Tante belle illustrazioni e messaggi positivi accompagnano...

Small talkers of the world, unite! Gordon Carrega has given us our manifesto. Arm yourself with this book and forget about words of wisdom.

This exhilarating tale of modern espionage and breathtaking flying action introduces a major new thriller-writing talent. With its striking authenticity and remarkable psychological depth, NIGHT TRAP...

Create chef-quality food without spending hours in the kitchen.With unlimited access to recipes, why does anyone need another cookbook? Because not all recipes are born equal. Not all of them have been...

With amazing low-light capabilities, incredible definition, intelligent autofocus and a host of other features, digital cameras have now become so powerful that they have left their users behind. Most...