The Desert Vet: How a City Boy Became a Bedouin Nomad and Spent Thirty Years Caring for a Menagerie of Camels and Other Exotic Creatures by Alex Tinson
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Category: Biography
Alex Tinson is a St Ives-born vet who was literally plucked from the Australian outback to become chief vet in charge of the United Arab Emirates President's racing camels. He was given one mission: to make the President's camels the best in the UAE and, indeed, all of Arabia. Along the way he also care ...Show more
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
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Category: Biography | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser.
Fascinating biography of the iconoclastic English woman who in Baghdad in 1921 drew the boundaries of the country that became Iraq. Gertrude Bell was one of Oxford University's early female students, an archaelogist, a linguist, photographer, inveterate writer of letters and the greatest woman mountaine ...Show more
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
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Category: Biography
"Desert Flower is the compelling autobiography of supermodel Waris Dirie, born into a traditional Somali family of nomads who believed in such archaic customs as female genital mutilation and arranged marriages between prepubescent girls and elderly men, for a dowry of a few goats and camels." "The youn ...Show more
Deranged Marriage by Sushi Das
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Category: Biography
An affectionate, often hilarious, memoir of growing up in London in the 1970s in an Indian household, and avoiding an arranged marriage. 'From the age of fourteen, I was aware my parents expected me to have an arranged marriage, a big Bollywood wedding. There was just one hitch: nobody asked me.' Sushi ...Show more
Decision Points by George W. Bush
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Category: Biography
"Decision Points" is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the ...Show more
Deceived by Kate Snell
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Category: Biography
In 1993 Sarah Smith was a happy and successful student. At her local pub, she met barman Robert Freegard. Peace was shattered when an IRA bomb went off close to her college and in the aftermath of this terrorist attack Freegard revealed his 'true' identity to Sarah and two of her friends - he was a MI5 ...Show more
Death Of A Soldier by Margaret Evison
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Category: Biography
On 12 May 2009 Margaret Evison's son Lieutenant Mark Evison of 1st Battalion, The Welsh Guards, died of wounds sustained whilst leading a patrol in Helmand Province. Hailed a hero, Mark's death was a national sacrifice, his grave to be one of many in the identical, ordered rows in a military cemetery. ...Show more
Death by Dim Sim by Sarah Vincent
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Category: Biography
Sarah Vincent once tipped the scales at 122 kilos. She worked at the back of a hospital making calls and answering emails, but at three o'clock every afternoon she would answer a very special call - the call of the dim sim. Running the gauntlet of smokers in the hospital car park one day for her daily d ...Show more
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read by Dawn French
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Category: Biography
Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here she describes the journey that would eve ...Show more
Dear Leader: North Korea's Senior Propagandist Exposes Shocking Truths Behind the Regime by Jang Jin-Sung
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Category: Biography
'The General will now enter the room.' Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear. As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions, a travel pass, access to strictl ...Show more