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The Ultimate Book of Useless Information

A Few Thousand More Things You Might Need to Know (But Probably Don't)

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The Ultimate Book of Useless Information

A Few Thousand More Things You Might Need to Know (But Probably Don't)

By: Noel Botham

Bigger, better, and more useless than ever! In their groundbreakingly useless book, The Book of Useless Information, the members of the Useless Information Society proved that knowledge doesn't have to be useful to be entertaining. Now they present a new collection of their most fascinating, hilarious, and wholly trivial findings. The Ultimate Book of Useless Information includes such "did you knows" as: - Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite - The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing - And giraffes have no vocal cords

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1101051035

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9781101051030

Valentino - The First Superstar

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Valentino - The First Superstar

By: Noel Botham

This is the real and, until now, untold story of Rudolph Valentino - the most amazing tale you will ever read - and the story Valentino himself said was too 'wild and improbable' for his public to believe...The legendary Latin Lover who was the silver screen's first and greatest male sex symbol was also the first to be attacked in public by his own adoring, hysterical fans fighting to touch their idol or snatch a tiny piece of his clothing or hair as a keepsake. When he died at just thirty-one, he left behind a legion of broken-hearted women and as many unanswered questions.Bestselling author Noel Botham has spent more than twenty-fice years, and travelled over 30,000 miles, searching for, and unravelling, the missing answers which explain Valentino's brief but incredible life, and has spoken to many of the people who shared, at first hand, as they happened, the good - and the bad - times of the cinema's first superstar.He has conducted frank and revealing face-to-face interviews with the movie star of Valentino's time - Carmel Myers, Viola Dana, Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri, Gertrude Astor and others, enabling him to paint this rounded and unique portrait of th screen's most exciting and enduring legend.By cutting through the rumours and following up previously ignored leads he has uncovered the shameful secrets of Rudolph Valentino's early yearsi n America, which the smouldering-eyed screen idol tried to keep hidden from his fans, and learned the full and shocking truth about his two disastrous marriages.This first-ever intimate and searingly accurate biography explores Valentino's childhood in rural poverty, through his groundbreaking appearance in The Sheik, which made woman audiences swoon for the first time, to his tragic early death, and conclusively shows why he so justly deserved the epithet 'the world's first heart-throb'.

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Metro Publishing

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1782195181

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9781782195184

Margaret - The Last Real Princess

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Margaret - The Last Real Princess

By: Noel Botham

Princess Margaret was not like the other royals. A free spirit, she broke away from the conventions that others imposed upon her and lived a life that has seemed to some scandalous, to others liberating.It was Margaret who had an illicit love affair with jazz musician Robin Douglas-Home and letters from that relationship are reprinted here. When Douglas-Home was rejected by Margaret, he killed himself and was replaced by another lover.It is stories such as this, revealed in this book, that paint a portrait of one of the most secretive members of Britain's royal family.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1784187224

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The Amazing Book of Useless Information

More Things You Didn't Need to Know But Are About to Find Out

By: Noel Botham

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The Amazing Book of Useless Information

More Things You Didn't Need to Know But Are About to Find Out

By: Noel Botham

From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information comes another fun, foolhardy and completely frivolous, fact-filled book. The Useless Information Society's latest collection, The Amazing Book of Useless Information, will answer questions readers never even knew they had. From space travel to the history of jelly beans, this wideranging, brain-teasing, and altogether useless book will give readers information to out-trivialize even their cleverest of companions. Features such fascinating facts as: - There is a town in West Virginia called Looneyville - Women can talk with less effort than men - Lemons have more sugar than oranges And answers to these life-changing questions: - What was the Ancient Roman cure for a stomachache" - What is a "buckle bunny?? - Where is the coldest place in the universe?

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1440635714

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The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information

If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn't Need to Know - Think Again

By: Noel Botham

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If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn't Need to Know - Think Again

By: Noel Botham

From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information-a collection of even greater insignificance. More useless than ever before! Impress know-it-all friends with this all-new hodgepodge of frivolous facts and silly statistics that no one really needs to know. But honestly, how cool is it to find out that... ? There is a place in Maryland called Monkey's Eyebrow ? Giving yellow flowers is a sign of bad luck in Russia ? One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns ? Paper can be made from asparagus This is the book that will also tell you... ? The meaning of 'mageirocophobia' ? Where it is illegal to kill a butterfly ? Huckleberry Finn's remedy for warts ? What bodily fluid the Romans used as a hair treatment And much, much more!

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1101061359

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9781101061350

The Book of Royal Useless Information

A Funny and Irreverent Look at The British Royal Family Past and Present

By: Noel BothaM & Bruce Montague

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The Book of Royal Useless Information

A Funny and Irreverent Look at The British Royal Family Past and Present

By: Noel BothaM & Bruce Montague

Continuing the sensational success of the Useless Information Series, the Official Useless Information Society brings you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. A celebration of the Queens Diamond Jubilee this amazing volume contains all things royal such as: The popular misconception that the royal family cannot vote in political elections. It is only the Queen, herself, who is not allowed to vote. Other members of the family merely choose not to; • The Queen learned to drive in 1945 when she joined the wartime army but has never held a driving license; On the occasion of the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday, a Royal gun salute is fired, and the Union Jack is flown on government buildings from 8am until sunset; Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles's uncle, tried to arrange a betrothal between his own grand-daughter, Amanda Knatchbull and Charles. Amanda's father and Prince Philip did not approve and put a stop to it; Harry has two secretaries to handle his fan-mail, which invariably comes from teenage girls asking him for a date. Hopefuls should be made aware that no royal contender may be adopted, divorced, Catholic or born of unmarried parents. In Tudor times Catholics were forbidden from living within 10 miles of the throne.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1857827252

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The Book of Useless Information

By: Noel Botham

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The Book of Useless Information

By: Noel Botham

What you may so cavalierly call useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to The Useless Information Society, any fact that passes its gasp-inducing, not-a-lot-of-people-know-that test merits inclusion in this fascinating but ultimately useless book... Did you know (or do you care)... • That fish scales are used to make lipstick? • Why organized crime accounts for ten percent of the United States’s annual income? • The name of the first CD pressed in the United States? • The last year that can be written upside-down or right side-up and appear the same? • The shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar®? • How much Elvis weighed at the time of his death? • What the suits in a deck of cards represent? • How many Quarter Pounders can be made from one cow? • How interesting useless information can be? The Book of Useless Information answers these teasers and is packed with facts and figures that will captivate you—and anyone who shares your joy in the pursuit of pointless knowledge.

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1101203250

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9781101203255

How Fast Can You Fart? And Other Weird, Gross and Disgusting Facts

By: Noel Botham

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How Fast Can You Fart? And Other Weird, Gross and Disgusting Facts

By: Noel Botham

DID YOU KNOW THAT. . .There are TWICE AS MANY CHICKENS in the world as humans, or that ONE IN THREE MEN PICKS HIS NOSE while driving?DO YOU WANT TO KNOW . . .The average WEIGHT of a human EYEBALL, or how many HEARTS a WORM has?AMAZE YOUR FRIENDS . . .By telling them about PURPLE ANIMALS, the HEAVIEST SUMO WRESTLER, and the LONGEST BOUT of HICCUPS!How Fast Can You Fart? marks the launch of John Blake's brand new children's imprint, Dino Books, and is the first instalment in Dr Dino's Learnatorium. Written by Noel Botham, author of the ever-popular Useless Information series, and decorated throughout with eye-catching hand illustrations, this book is packed with the wildest, weirdest, funniest, grossest, fastest, longest, brainiest and best facts about history, science, food, geography, words, and much more!

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Dino Books

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1784181730

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9781784181734

Do Turtles Really Breathe Out Of Their Bums? And Other Crazy, Creepy and Cool Animal Facts

By: Noel Botham

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Do Turtles Really Breathe Out Of Their Bums? And Other Crazy, Creepy and Cool Animal Facts

By: Noel Botham

DID YOU KNOW THAT. . .The SMELLIEST animal on earth can be SMELLED up to HALF A MILE AWAY?DO YOU WANT TO KNOW . . .How much ELECTRICITY is generated by an ADULT ELECTRIC EEL?AMAZE YOUR FRIENDS . . .By telling them about VENOMOUS FROGS and SHRIMPS so LOUD they can SHATTER GLASS!Do Turtles Really Breathe Out Of Their Bums? is the ultimate collection of totally awesome, totally useless animal facts.Ever wanted to know how much electricity an electric eel generates? Want to amaze your friends by telling them all about the world's most venomous frog?No animal is too crazy and no trivia is too trivial for Noel Botham, author of the hugely successful Book of Useless Information.Decorated throughout with eye-catching hand illustrations, this book is packed with the wildest, weirdest, funniest, grossest, fastest, longest, brainiest and best facts about animals!

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1784181706

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Did Romans Really Wash Themselves In Wee? And Other Freaky, Funny and Horrible History Facts

By: Noel Botham

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Did Romans Really Wash Themselves In Wee? And Other Freaky, Funny and Horrible History Facts

By: Noel Botham

DID YOU KNOW THAT. . .The ROMANS carried on EATING until THEY WERE SICK, or that the SMELLY VIKINGS had NO TOILETS on their SHIPS?DO YOU WANT TO KNOW . . .Which ROMAN EMPEROR loved his HORSE so much he made him CONSUL?AMAZE YOUR FRIENDS . . .By telling them about INCAN EXECUTIONS, CHEESY FOOD FIGHTS and WARRIOR BATS! Bursting with brilliant hand-drawn illustrations this book is packed with the wackiest, wittiest, filthiest, foulest, oldest, wisest and best facts about history!Forget boring old school history textbooks! For all the coolest history facts they'd never tell you in class, look no further than Did Romans Really Wash Themselves in Wee?Noel Botham, author of the hugely popular and successful Useless Information series, really makes history come alive for children in this hilarious offering.

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1784181765

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World's Greatest Book Of Useless Information

By: Noel Botham

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World's Greatest Book Of Useless Information

By: Noel Botham

Did you know that snails can sleep for three years without eating? Or that the average four-year-old asks over 400 questions a day? The Useless Information Society was formed by some of Britain's best-loved journalists, who meet regularly to swap new nuggets of trivia. This is the third collection of their incredible, fascinating, and utterly trivial findings. Each page is packed with off-the-wall, mind boggling facts guaranteed to amuse and delight in equal measure.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1844541665

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9781844541669

The Mammoth Book of Useless Information

By: Noel Botham

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The Mammoth Book of Useless Information

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Did you know... The Sumerians were the first to brew beer, and all the brewers were women? If you didn't - then read on. If you are intrigued by the odd, fascinated by the fantastic or tickled by trivia, then this is the book for you. The Useless Information Society was formed by some of Britain's best-loved journalists, writers and entertainers, including Keith Waterhouse, Richard Littlejohn, Suggs, Noel Botham, Ken Stott and Brian Hitchen. They meet regularly to swap new nuggets of trivia. This is the eighth collection of their absorbing, hilarious and wholly useless facts. An absolutely enormous collection, lose yourself in hundreds of pages of endlessly diverting facts that will keep you amused for hours.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1782190872

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9781782190875

The Murder Of Princess Diana

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The Murder Of Princess Diana

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Argues that the death of Princess Diana was not accidental, examining events and circumstances surrounding the car accident and the subsequent investigation.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786007001

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The Book of Useless Information

By: Noel Botham

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1101203250

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Failure of Empire

Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.

By: Noel Lenski

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Failure of Empire

Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.

By: Noel Lenski

Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Persians, Isaurians, and Saracens were threatening the east; the economy was in disarray; and pagans and Christians alike had been exiled, tortured, and executed in his religious persecutions. Valens had not, however, entirely failed in his job as emperor. He was an admirable administrator, a committed defender of the frontiers, and a ruler who showed remarkable sympathy for the needs of his subjects. In lively style and rich detail, Lenski incorporates a broad range of new material, from archaeology to Gothic and Armenian sources, in a study that illuminates the social, cultural, religious, economic, administrative, and military complexities of Valens's realm. Failure of Empire offers a nuanced reconsideration of Valens the man and shows both how he applied his strengths to meet the expectations of his world and how he ultimately failed in his efforts to match limited capacities to limitless demands.

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Univ of California Press

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0520928539

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9780520928534

The Book of Royal Useless Information

A Funny and Irreverent Look at The British Royal Family Past and Present

By: Noel BothaM & Bruce Montague

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A Funny and Irreverent Look at The British Royal Family Past and Present

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The Best Book of Useless Information Ever

By: Noel Botham

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The Best Book of Useless Information Ever

By: Noel Botham

From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information comes another enlightening, entertaining, and ultimately useless assortment of trivia. If you find yourself transfixed by the most trivial of trivia, or mesmerized by the most minor of minutiae, The Useless Information Society's latest findings can satisfy your every need. This wide-ranging collection will fill every nook and cranny of your brain with information you'll surely never need, but will enjoy learning anyway! Did you know... - that penguins can jump six feet out of the water? - that everyone is color-blind at birth? Would you care to know... - what the first meal eaten on the moon was? - what country drinks the most Coca-Cola? (Hint: It's not the United States.) In 1995, a secret society was formed comprising Britain's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists to trade and share in useless information (or, as founding member Keith Waterhouse, playwright and journalist, would have it, "totally bloody useless").

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1101203463

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The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information

If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn't Need to Know - Think Again

By: Noel Botham

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If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn't Need to Know - Think Again

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1101061359

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Catch That Tiger - Churchill's Secret Order That Launched The Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War II

By: Noel Botham,Bruce Montague

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Catch That Tiger - Churchill's Secret Order That Launched The Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War II

By: Noel Botham,Bruce Montague

Unleashed by Hitler in 1942, the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank ever built at the time. The 60-ton monster could destroy any Allied tank from more than a mile away, and it soon became the most feared tank in the world. Desperate to discover the secret technology used in the Tiger's manufacture, Winston Churchill close a brilliant young army engineer, Major Doug Lidderdale, as his special agent. In a late-night briefing in the subterranean War Rooms under Whitehall he ordered him: 'Go catch me a tiger'. Doug did not hesitate and by February 1943 was facing Rommel's desert army. After several unsuccessful and hair-raising efforts to bag a Tiger on the battlefields of Tunisia, Doug and his team put their lives on the line in a terrifying, close-hand shoot-out with the five-man crew of a Tiger, capturing the tank intact. The morale boost to the Allies was such that both Churchill and King George VI flew to Tunis to examine the Tiger first hand. But the Germans were not finished with Doug. They did not want the secrets of the Tiger benefitting the Allies' war efforts, and constant attacks by the Luftwaffe and U-boats pursued Doug and his men on every step of the journey back to England. But eventually, by October 1943, the Tiger - number 131 - was delivered to London and gifted to Churchill, who had it placed on London's Horse Guards Parade. Lidderdale went on to use some of the Tiger technology to develop war machines for the D-Day landings and was promoted to Colonel. Tiger 131 is now kept at Bovington Tank Museum and is the only working Tiger in the world.The full extent of Doug Lidderdale's adventures in North Africa only came to light after his son, Dave Travis, revealed the existence of his father's diaries. With exclusive access to these and dozens of photographs, Catch That Tiger tells the incredible story of one of the most dangerous and thrilling secret missions of World War II.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1857829697

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Do Turtles Really Breathe Out Of Their Bums? And Other Crazy, Creepy and Cool Animal Facts

By: Noel Botham

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Do Turtles Really Breathe Out Of Their Bums? And Other Crazy, Creepy and Cool Animal Facts

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Dino Books

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The Assassination of Princess Diana

Revealed: the Truth Behind the Murder of the Century

By: Noel Botham

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The Assassination of Princess Diana

Revealed: the Truth Behind the Murder of the Century

By: Noel Botham

Since Princess Diana's untimely death, the public has become increasingly aware that there may have been more to the car crash than the establishment would like us to believe.

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MetroBooks

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1843581396

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Sinners and Saints - The Irreverent Diaries of Britain's Most Controversial Saint

By: Father Michael Seed

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Sinners and Saints - The Irreverent Diaries of Britain's Most Controversial Saint

By: Father Michael Seed

Father Michael Seed has been at the privileged centre of events for a quarter of a century, and has played a uniquely influential role. In this explosive memoir Britain's 'priest to the stars' covers his encounters with some of the most prominent political and public figures of a generation, and gives a rare and fascinating glimpse of behind-the-scenes events in the corridors of power. His remarkable disclosures of life at the top, in parliament, palace and church, are revealed through a series of hilarious anecdotes that will have you laughing out loud.For years he secretly gave Mass to the Blairs in Downing Street, initially slipping in through the rear ground floor window, before it was leaked to the press in 2006.His has been a turbulent ride through life and envied by those who dislike his champagne style of Catholicism, loved by those who declare him a saint, and so admired by The Times that it demanded he be made instantly a bishop.His friendship with people like best chum Ann Widdecombe, Alan Clark, The Duchess of Argyll, Lord Longford, George Carman QC, John Paul Getty, the Duke of Norfolk, a host of royals and half a dozen prime ministers, has left little room for dullness. His insights into life in Westminster Cathedral and with Cardinal Basil Hume make all religion-based television sitcoms seem deadly boring by comparison with the real thing.This is a revealing and extremely humorous memoir from a truly unique figure in British society.

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1782195920

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Margaret

The Untold Story

By: Noel Botham

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Margaret

The Untold Story

By: Noel Botham

This work reveals the extraordinary and tragic story of the passionate, adulterous affair between the Queen's sister and jazz musician Robin Douglas-Home. When finally rejected, Douglas-Home was devastated. One year later he killed himself.

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1857821149

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Valentino

The Love God

By: Noel Botham,Peter Donnelly

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Valentino

The Love God

By: Noel Botham,Peter Donnelly

Valentino was the hero-worshipped, legendary Latin lover of the silent screen, the smouldering-eyed fabled Sheik to whom the world's women swooned. The author talked to friends of the star wh ohave until now remained silent; and followed up leads, coming up with the truth about about his childhood, his sex-life, and his mysterious death.

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0903925494

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Catch That Tiger

Churchill's Secret Order That Launched the Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War Ii (Large Print 16pt)

By: Noel Botham,Bruce Montague

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Catch That Tiger

Churchill's Secret Order That Launched the Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War Ii (Large Print 16pt)

By: Noel Botham,Bruce Montague

Unleashed by Hitler in 1942, the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank ever built at the time--the 60-ton monster could destroy any Allied tank from more than a mile away. Desperate to discover the secret technology used in its manufacture, Winston Churchill chose a brilliant young army engineer, Major Doug Lidderdale, as his special agent. In a late-night briefing in the subterranean war rooms under Whitehall he ordered him "Go catch me a tiger." Doug did not hesitate, and by February 1943 was facing Rommel's desert army.

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1459647777

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Noel Streatfeild's Holiday Stories

By the author of 'Ballet Shoes'

By: Noel Streatfeild

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Noel Streatfeild's Holiday Stories

By the author of 'Ballet Shoes'

By: Noel Streatfeild

*'Classic Noel Streatfeild at her warm-hearted best. I absolutely loved it' Hilary McKay, author of THE SKYLARKS' WAR *'Such rewarding reading' Daily Telegraph There are stories for every reader in this delightful collection - exciting crime-solving adventures; nervous young actors in the spotlight for the first time; unforgettable holidays and unlikely friendships. Featuring beautiful illustrations by PETER BAILEY Stories include: The Plain One; Devon Mettle; Chicken for Supper; Flag's Circus; The Secret; Coralie; Ordinary Me; Cows Eat Flowers; Andrew's Trout; The Old Fool; Let's Go Coaching; Howard; The Quiet Holiday; Roberta; Green Silk Originally written for annuals and magazines from the 1930s-70s, these newly discovered stories make captivating reading for Noel Streatfeild fans of all ages.

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Virago

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0349010951

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9780349010953

Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories

By: Noel Streatfeild

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Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories

By: Noel Streatfeild

The wonderful Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories collects, for the first time, nine festive stories originally written for annuals and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s . . . As ever, Streatfeild's children always feel utterly real and relatable. A beautifully produced treat' Anna Carey, Irish Times In this captivating collection of stories by the author of Ballet Shoes, there are auditions on stage and antics on ice, trips to the pantomime, holiday adventures, and laughter shared with family and friends. Charming, heartwarming and funny, this collection will bring joy to readers of all ages. Originally written in 1940s-60s for annuals, magazines and the radio, these stories have never been collected before. With enchanting line drawings by by Peter Bailey. Stories include: The Audition The Bells Keep Twelfth Night The Moss Rose Thimble The Princess The Chain Christmas at Collers The Pantomime Goose Skating to the Stars

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