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The Framing of Harry Gleeson by Kieran Fagan
epub |eng | | Author:Kieran Fagan [Fagan, Kieran]

DAY NINE Wednesday, 26 February 1941 James Nolan-Whelan continued his summation of the defence’s case for the first hour. Then, for the prosecution, George Murnaghan said that the evidence of ...
( Category: True Crime January 6,2023 )
The Oldest Gay in the Village--A powerful, moving and very personal account of one man's experience of being gay over the last nine decades by George Montague
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:George Montague [George Montague]

NINE It was now midway through the 1960s. A new era had dawned, an age not just of rock and roll (which had arrived in Britain almost a decade before ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 6,2023 )
Fearne Cotton--The Biography by Nigel Goodall
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Nigel Goodall [Nigel Goodall]

Chapter 7 Fiji Blues ‘I’ve never been on such an exposing show in a primetime slot every night. To step out from under that security blanket of my usual music ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 6,2023 )
Far Pastures by R. M. Patterson
epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:R. M. Patterson

The borderland between fact and dreams was often hard for me, knowing only a few words of Stoney, to determine. The Indian is by nature an orator and an artist. ...
( Category: Canadian January 6,2023 )
The Cruel Mother by Sian Busby
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Sian Busby [Siân Busby]

The house was Cottons, built in the eighteenth century by a wealthy local family. It was a fine Georgian pile, complete with drive and portico, and it stood at the ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 6,2023 )
Victura by James W. Graham
epub |eng | | Author:James W. Graham

“No sir, I do not,” said Webb. “I think it is one of the top-priority programs, but I think it’s very important to recognize here . . .” and he ...
( Category: Rich & Famous January 6,2023 )
Van Gogh's Women by Derek Fell
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Derek Fell

I don’t know whether you can understand that one may make a poem only by arranging colours, in the same way that one can say comforting things with music. In ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers January 6,2023 )
Biting Through by John Ratcliffe
epub |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:John Ratcliffe

CHAPTER TWELVE Changing Seasons Life at the embassy had gone on as normal while I was away, and I met up with Hendricks and Nagib for a catch-up on how ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 5,2023 )
Micky Flanagan--Funny Geezer by Abi Smith
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Abi Smith [Abi Smith]

There was no doubting Micky’s success now. The fans loved him and he himself was getting a buzz out of performing for audiences of such vast numbers. This was what ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 5,2023 )
Kings of Comedy--The Unauthorised Biography of Matt Lucas and David Walliams by Neil Simpson
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Neil Simpson [Neil Simpson]

CHAPTER 10 THE POWER OF RADIO Taking a job on sleepy old Radio Four might have seemed like a backwards step for a pair of twenty-something comedians who had finally ...
( Category: Movie Directors January 5,2023 )
From Yellow Star to Pop Star by Dorit Oliver-Wolff
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Dorit Oliver-Wolff

ADANA We had an exclusive contract with an artist agency for the Middle East. They were responsible for all of our bookings, wages and the venues we performed at. Our ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 5,2023 )
After the Hero's Welcome by Dorothy H. McDaniel
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Dorothy H. McDaniel

14 ON CAPITOL HILL By the time Red left Lexington, his anger about national defense priorities was at the boiling point. “Sailors should not have to hold their ships together ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 5,2023 )
Murder in Connecticut by Michael Benson
epub |eng | 2008-09-24 | Author:Michael Benson

The affidavit requesting the search warrant was signed by Detectives James Canon and Joseph Vitello. When the search warrant was executed by Detective Canon, he seized at the Komisarjevsky home ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem January 5,2023 )
No One Listened by Isobel Kerr
epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Isobel Kerr [Isobel and Alex Kerr]

Chapter Thirteen Alex When our foster parents first told us they would give us twenty pounds a week pocket money each from whatever they were being paid by social services ...
( Category: Survival January 5,2023 )
A Brief Guide to Agatha Christie by Nigel Cawthorne
epub |eng | | Author:Nigel Cawthorne

5 THE SLEUTH OF ST MARY MEAD Jane Marple is thought to have had her genesis in Caroline Sheppard, the sister/housekeeper of Dr Sheppard in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. ...
( Category: Authors January 5,2023 )

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