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It was Felix who named it The Birdcage: the tall house in Bristol where Miss Pidgeon lived with her tenant, the beautiful and talented actress Angel, and Angel's daughter, Lizzie.
_______________________"Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues .
But Britannia is where Valerius cut his military teeth and whetted his sword - and he will soon discover that the ghosts of his past are never far away and are more dangerous perhaps than Domitian.
Ringside is a bountiful collection of the most memorable boxing stories by legendary fight-game writer Budd Schulberg. Throughout this book, Schulberg provides the perfect blend of great writing on great fighters, laced with a realistic sense of boxing's wrongs as well as its rights.
____________As well as being an incredible stage performer, a brilliant writer and a talented painter, Derren Brown is also a fantastic street photographer.
Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession. In doing so, the amazing, tender and touching, techni-colour lives of six eccentric personalities unravel before our eyes.
A polemical history of the British ruling class and how they ended up owning our nation.
In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017The secret history of the invention that changed everything and became the most profitable product in the world.
When Laura Page returns to the remote Holderness village of Welwick, it is to try and discover the mystery of her mother Susannah's early life. Now a prosperous businesswoman in Hull, Susannah never speaks of her childhood, when she was brought up with the terrible stigma of bastardy - of being nobody's child.
What do you drink when you're not drinking?Seedlip - the first distilled non-alcoholic spirit - was created to solve this problem and launched to huge excitement.
Turn on your computer.Your task: break into a Russian criminal's laptop and find proof that he's concealing five deep-cover agents - seemingly normal people living in plain sight. You're in.
Over the following months, she has to sort through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures, in search of a woman she'd never really known or understood in life.
After much hard graft and some close encounters of the violent gangster kind, AWT's flamboyant style as a restaurateur soon bought him to the attention of cookery's cognoscenti and today Antony is to the culinary establishment what a bull is to a china shop.
The only child of an electrical engineer and a mother who resented the fact that she'd never been to university, the broadcaster Jenni Murray grew up in a traditional household in the 1950s.
'The greatest Gaelic footballer of all time.' Pat SpillaneWhen Colm Cooper retired from inter-county football in 2017, he left behind a remarkable legacy. But the man known nationally as 'Gooch' is also an intensely private figure who has never courted publicity and his personal story remains largely untold.
The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling Trisha Ashley will more than satisfy romantic comedy fans. But the house has a secret at its heart: an old legend concerning one of the famous windows. Or can Carey and Angel find a way to make this house a home?
The gorgeous, summery new novel from Marcia Willett - perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley, Lucy Diamond and Carole Matthews. Praise for Marcia Willett: 'A genuine voice of our times' The Times 'Riveting, moving and utterly feel-good' Daily Mail
"This does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder" Radio Times"A knockabout, well-researched take on the working and domestic life of Shakespeare."
BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK' The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution unlike any other, and its story during the Second World War is also our story.
Chosen as President Roosevelt's fourth term Vice President, Harry S Truman was the prototypical ordinary man from small-town America. That is, until he was thrust in over his head following the sudden death of Roosevelt. This book takes readers into the situation room with Truman during these tumultuous, history-making few months.
When George Washington, first President of the United States, laid the foundation stone of the Capitol Building of the city that was to bear his name, he did so wearing full Masonic regalia.
When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic home, little does he expect to come across such a web of secrets and lies.
There's a split second between having it all, and losing everything. But when his son dies at birth, a deep anger emerges, robbing Hayden of everything. But just as Hayden's rage rises again, a young figure from the past emerges, forcing him to re-visit his long-buried childhood...
An innocent little girlA phenomenal fortuneA mother like no otherTen-year old Bettina and her mother, Babs, are heiresses to one of America's biggest fortunes. Can Bettina ever break free to forge her own identity - or is she simply doomed to being her mother's daughter forever?
His mission should have been straightforward: to keep one man alive for one week. His mission is to keep Reaper alive for a week until he can be brought to trial.ONE WEEK TO STAY ALIVEBut Lock soon realises that he faces the toughest assignment of his career - just to survive ...
Terry Walton has kept an allotment in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales for over fifty years. Then, in 2006, after half a decade of happy gardening, Terry's allotment was adopted by the Jeremy Vine Show and he became an unlikely media star.
Together they must piece together the jigsaw that is Jane's identity. To solve the murders, Fox must discard his black and white preconceptions, look beyond the spectrum of normal human experience and confront the dark truth of her past...and his own.
Even the approach to Christmas fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of the sweet and tobacconist shops owned by her feckless father.
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