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A Brief Guide to Agatha Christie by Nigel Cawthorne
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A Brief Guide to
Agatha Christie's 80 novels and short-story collections have sold over 2 billion copies in more than 45 languages, more than any other author. When Christie finally killed off her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, the year before she herself died, that 'detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric litt ...Show more
A Brief Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien: A Comprehensive Introduction to the Author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by Nigel Cawthorne
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Category: Cooking | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This title offers a very readable overview of Tolkien and his work, incorporating a brief biography, an examination of the books and a look at the process of filming his work, including "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings saga". It explores how Tolkien's background as a medievalist and linguist info ...Show more
A Brief Guide to James Bond by Nigel Cawthorne
$14.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction
The world's fascination with Bond is unstoppable. James Bond is the greatest British fictional hero of the post-war era. He also has a huge following in the US - and around the world - as a legendary Cold War warrior, and now as a daredevil able to take on the villains of the post-Cold War world. The Bo ...Show more
A Brief Guide to Jeeves and Wooster by Nigel Cawthorne
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Category: Fiction | Series: Brief Histories
This title is a comprehensive guide to P. G. Wodehouse's two best-loved comic characters, Bertram Wilbeforce Wooster and his valet ('Reggie') Jeeves, Bertie's friends and relatives and their world of sunshine, country houses and champagne. Although the stories may seem quintessentially English, they wer ...Show more
Flight MH370: The Mystery by Nigel Cawthorne
$17.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
On 8 March, 00:41, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. At 01:19, the pilot bid air traffic control 'good night'. Two minutes later, the plane and its 227 passengers vanished from the skies. No trace has been found. The disappearance of flight MH370 has horri ...Show more
Ghislaine Maxwell: The Fall of America's Most Notorious Socialite by Nigel Cawthorne
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On 2 July, multi-millionaire Ghislaine Maxwell - Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover and a close friend of Prince Andrew’s and ex-President Donald Trump’s - was arrested in new Hampshire on charges relating to the serial abuse of underage girls. On 2 July, multi-millionaire Ghislaine Maxwell - Jeffrey Epstei ...Show more
I Know I Am Rude: Prince Philip's Life in His Own Words by Nigel Cawthorne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of twenty-one, the future Prince Philip wrote to a relative: 'I know you will never think much of me. I am rude and unmannerly.' This affectionate compendium, brings together many known and less well-known stories about the prince, giving an insight into the royal world where he 'traipses aro ...Show more
Prince Andrew: Epstein and the Palace by Nigel Cawthorne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Buckingham Palace’s greatest fear came true when the FBI arrested Prince Andrew’s friend Jeffrey Epstein on charges of under-age sex trafficking. Just before the marriage of Kate and Wills, a snapshot of Andrew with his arm around the naked midriff of the billionaire’s most articulate victim had surface ...Show more
Sex Lives of the Hollywood Goddesses by Nigel Cawthorne
$12.99 AUD
Category: Cooking
Sex has been the common currency of Hollywood from the beginning. The early tycoons packed their epics with ravishing dancing girls and frequently used the casting couch method of employment. Hollywood has always used sex to sell, but in the early days went to great lengths to cover up the erring ways o ...Show more
Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens by Nigel Cawthorne
$12.99 AUD
Category: Cooking
The headlines of Royal infidelity and divorce that are the bread and butter of today's tabloid press is nothing new. People have always been captivated by the sexual behaviour of Royalty, and as author Nigel Cawthorne reveals, there has been plenty of it. Historically this fascination has not been merel ...Show more
The Strange Laws of Old England by Nigel Cawthorne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed into the city of Chester after dark? In THE STRANGE ...Show more