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Photographer Mirjam Bleeker and stylist and designer Frank Visser have known each other for more than 18 years. During this time they have travelled around the world, often without a fixed plan, seeking adventure and beautiful houses. On their travels, they visited the homes and holiday retreats of some fascinating people, built in the most beautiful and unspoiled places. Immortalised in gorgeous full-colour

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In the continuing saga of the bizarre adventures of faithless Texas preacher, Jesse Custer, Jesse, along with his girlfriend Tulip, and their friend Cassidy, the Irish vampire, head west to a party of Babylonian proportions. Then, Jesse heads for France to rescue Cassidy from the clutches of religious fanatics. His search leads him into a no-holds-barred battle against the forces of the mysterious

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\'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.\' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful

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The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy\'s magnificent, well-loved \"Forsyte Chronicles\", which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional disaster. \"The Forsyte Saga\" begins as the nineteenth century is drawing to a close, and the upper middle classes, with their property and propriety, are becoming a dying section

From the first moving pictures (the Lumiere brothers\' 1895 L\'arrivé d\'un train), early westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons all the way through the golden age of silent film in the 1920s, this book covers the first three decades of the movi ng picture around the world. In America, we witness the birth of Hollywood, circa 1910, where film quickly became a powerful industry and D. W. Griffith

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From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women\'s Prize for Fiction 2017 Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit\'s father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish

Doone Penny is a child with a gift - he was born to dance. But though others recognise his talent, there is little encouragement from his family. His mother preens over his pretty sister, Crystal, also a dancer, but fiercely competitive and vain. Doone\'s father would never allow a son of his to have ballet lessons, and his brothers think he\'s a sissy. But Doone has passion and ambition beyond his

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New in paperback. As cities have grown, housing has had to be provided to accommodate the increasing population. Driven primarily by the need to provide housing as cheaply and efficiently as possible, the ideas developed by the early Modernists have informed housing schemes worldwide. Today, in the context of a very different urban landscape, architects optimistic about high- density living are revisiting

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ick Grayson. Former Sidekick. Former Superhero. Former dead man. Agent of Spyral?! This is a thrilling new chapter of Dick Grayson\'s life begins here. It is a super-spy espionage thriller that will shock you and prove one thing: you might think you know Nightwing - but you don\'t know Dick. It collects Grayson number 1-7.