Piers Dudgeon Ordine dei libri

Born into the bleak industrial heartland of Tyneside in 1906, an illegitimate child, with the courage to escape and discover her true self, denies her people, reaches rock bottom, and then writes her way back into their hearts as Catherine Cookson, the multi-million-selling writer. Illustrated with 30 striking personal photographs, this is the REAL Jarrow Lass, the ultimate rags-to-riches romance delivered hard-edged by folk who lived in the same street as Catherine as a child and knew first-hand the pain that hardship and alienation brings. 'A powerful story and Piers Dudgeon tells it with skill and feeling' Daily Telegraph

'Astonishing... A fascinating and obsessively close look at one of the great rags-to-riches stories of our time.' Sunday Express From working-class dreamer on the cobbled streets of Yorkshire to one of the world's most successful authors on the sweeping avenues of Manhattan, the rise of Barbara Taylor Bradford is by any standard extraordinary. In this incredible story of suffering, loss and triumph over adversity, fact and fiction proceed side by side in a unique collaboration, the first time that Taylor Bradford has participated in a memoir of any kind, and one that has turned out to be as much a revelation to her as it will certainly be to her readers. 'A woman of Real substance: the amazing story of how Barbara Taylor Bradford discovered she was the secret grandchild of a philandering aristocrat.' The Mail on Sunday 'Enthralling - a story no less gripping than any of her blockbusters.' You Magazine 'Dudgeon is a fine writer with a dogged determination to find out what makes his subject tick.' The Glasgow Herald

This is the first book to pull together all of Hahnemann's other writings. It contains a number of valuable essays including his first major essay that defined homeopathy "essay on new curative principles for ascertaining the curative power of drugs " and many more. Experience for yourself Hahnemann's genius and genuine philanthropy in "Similia similibus curantur".

Michael Llewelyn Davies was the fourth of five brothers who provided the inspiration for J. M. Barrie's characters Peter Pan, the Lost Boys and the Darling brothers. Barrie struck up an intense friendship with the children and their parents when he encountered them playing in London's Kensington Gardens, an area that would become the Neverland of his most enduring work. Something of the innocence of Michael, who stood out even among his brothers, went on to influence the creation of Barrie's most famous character, Peter Pan. Such was Barrie's closeness to the Llewelyn Davies family that he became trustee and guardian to the boys following the deaths of their parents. Theirs was an enduring relationship, particularly that between Barrie and Michael, to whom he wrote daily, but it was punctuated by the fiercest of tragedies. Throughout the heart-rending saga of Barrie's involvement with the Llewelyn Davies brothers, it is the figure of Michael, the most original and inspirational of their number, and yet also the one whose fate is most pitiable, that stands out. The Real Peter Pan is a captivating true story of childhood, friendship, war, love and regret.

The extraordinary story of one of Britain's best-loved authors, now in paperback.

A compelling oral history of life in Glasgow and the second title in our Disappearing Britain series

and with his enigmatic granddaughter, Daphne du Maurier, author of Rebecca and Barrie's final victim, whose life and work can never again be considered without reference to 'Unlce Jim'.

The definitive biography of Barbara Taylor Bradford is every bit as dramatic as any of her novels.