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Corridors of Death

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Battered to death with a piece of abstract sculpture titled "Reconciliation", Whitehall departmental head Sir Nicholas Clark is claimed by his colleagues to have been a fine and respected public servant cut off in his prime. Bewildered by the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Whitehall, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Jim Milton recognizes a potential ally in Clark's young Private Secretary, Robert Amiss. Milton soon learns from Amiss how Whitehall works: that it can be Machiavellian and potentially homicidal, that Sir Nicholas was obnoxious and widely loathed, that he had spent the weeks before his murder upsetting and antagonizing family and associates, and that his last morning on earth had been spent gleefully observing the success of his plan to embarrass his minister and his department publicly. And they still need to discover who wielded the blunt instrument. This is the first of Ruth Dudley Edwards' witty, iconoclastic but warm-hearted satires about the British Establishment

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1615950583

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Carnage on the Committee

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Carnage on the Committee

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

When the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances, Robert Amiss (the token sane member of the judging panel) wastes no time in summoning Baroness "Jack" Troutbeck to step into the chair. Speculation that a killer may be targeting the judges does not worry the baroness in the slightest - it's the prospect of immersing herself in modern literature that fills her with dread. But noblesse must oblige, even when it means joining the ranks of the superciliati sitting in judgment of the literati. With the baroness at the helm, the judges resume the task of whittling away at the shortlist. But the killer, too, has resumed work and is whittling away at the judges one by one....

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1615950567

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9781615950560

Murder in a Cathedral

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Murder in a Cathedral

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

This blithe series puts itself on the side of the angels by merrily, and staunchly, subverting every tenet of political correctness."—The Independent For many years Westonbury Cathedral has been dominated by a clique of High Church gays, so when Norman Cooper, an austere, intolerant, happy-clappy evangelist, is appointed dean, there is shock, outrage and fear. David Elworthy, the gentle and politically innocent new bishop, is distraught at the prospect of warfare between the factions; contentious issues include the camp lady chapel and the gay memorial under construction in the deanery garden. Desperate for help, Elworthy cries on the shoulder of his old friend, the redoubtable Baroness Troutbeck, who forces her unofficial troubleshooter, Robert Amiss, to move into the bishop's palace. Amiss, Troutbeck and the cat Plutarch address themselves in their various ways to the bishop's problems, which very soon include a clerical corpse in the cathedral. Is it suicide? Or is it murder? And who is likely to be next?

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1615950621

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9781615950621

The Saint Valentine's Day Murders

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The Saint Valentine's Day Murders

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

The plotting and the mechanics of the solution are in the best traditions of the classic British mystery...Try not to miss this one." —New York Times Life in a dismal bureaucratic cul-de-sac is not what Robert Amiss expects when the British civil service lends him for a year to the British Conservation Corporation. In fact, he finds himself condemned to a non-job in a backwater, managing disgruntled and demoralized timeservers who deeply resent him. Morale is not improved by the arrival of Melissa, a radical feminist lesbian separatist. Only Amiss's sense of humour and the joys of visiting Rachel, his new love in Paris, keep him sane. The malice, envy and anger that burgeons among the filing cabinets is first expressed in pettiness and then in unpleasant practical jokes. Then it escalates and finally culminates in callous murder by means of boxes of poisoned chocolates sent to the bureaucrats' wives. With the help of Ellis Pooley, a young detective obsessed with fictional sleuths, Amiss and his friend, Superintendent Milton, search for motives in an office where marital discord and broken dreams might drive anyone to murder.

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1615950656

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An Atlas of Irish History

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards,Bridget Hourican

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An Atlas of Irish History

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards,Bridget Hourican

Fully revised and updated with over 100 beautiful maps, charts and graphs, and a narrative packed with facts this outstanding book examines the main changes that have occurred in Ireland and among the Irish abroad over the past two millennia.

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Psychology Press

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0415278597

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Clubbed to Death

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Clubbed to Death

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

When members of London's ffeatherstonehaugh club begin dying one by one, Robert Amiss agrees to help his friends at the police department get to the bottom of things. By the author of The English School of Murder.

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St Martins Press

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0312081634

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9780312081638

The Anglo-Irish Murders

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The Anglo-Irish Murders

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs Robert Amiss, her young friend and reluctant accomplice, into becoming conference organizer. It is a conference to remember in more ways than one. When a delegate plummets off the battlements, no one, not even the authorities, can decide whether it was by accident or design. The next death poses the same problem and causes warring factions to accuse each other of murder even as the politicians are busily trying to brush everything under the carpet in the name of peace.

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1615950559

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Ten Lords A-leaping

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Ten Lords A-leaping

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

Praise for Ten Lords A-Leaping "Edwards ably skewers fox-hunters and anti-fox hunters alike, as well as a slew of other targets in this farcical and appealing mystery." -Publishers Weekly "Acerbic narration, ready wit, strong characterization, and comic emphasis on food....An appealing follow-up to Matricide at St. Martin's." -Library Journal The House of Lords will never be the same. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, "Jack" Troutbeck-assisted by her old friend Robert Amiss-plots vigorously with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she violently disapproves. But she hadn't expected the campaign of intimidation mounted by the animal activists and the attempt on the life of one of her allies. And now there are scenes of horrifying carnage amongst the peers.... Dr. Ruth Dudley Edwards was born in Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in England, where she has been a teacher, a Cambridge postgraduate student, a marketing executive, a civil servant and, finally, a freelance writer, journalist, and broadcaster. She uses her knowledge of the British establishment in her satirical crime novels targeting (so far) the civil service, gentlemen's clubs, Cambridge colleges, the House of Lords, the Church of England, publishing, literary prizes and-always-political correctness. www.ruthdudleyedwards.com

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0002325209

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Aftermath

The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Aftermath

The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

On Saturday 15th August, 1998, a massive bomb placed by the so-called Real IRA ripped through the town of Omagh, killing twenty-nine people, including eleven children, and injuring over two hundred. It was the worst massacre in Northern Ireland's modern history- yet from it came a most extraordinary tale of human resilience, as the families of ten of the dead channelled their grief into action. Taking for their motto, 'For evil to triumph, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing', they decided to pursue the men whom the police believed responsible for the atrocity through the civil courts, where the burden of proof is lower. This is the remarkable account of how these families- who had no knowledge of the law and no money- became internationally recognised, formiddable campaigners and surmounted countless daunting obstacles to win a famous victory. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2010

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1446485781

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Publish and be Murdered

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Publish and be Murdered

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

Robert Amiss, lapsed civil servant, is approached by Lord Papworth, owner of the Wrangler, to step in as business manager for the august journal and do something about its steady drain on his lordship's finances. The magazine's editor, Willie Lambie Crump, and his staff are firmly mired in the 1950s, technologically speaking; ideologically, the journal has always been strongly conservative. Prodded by Baroness "Jack" Troutbeck, his rather menacing guardian angel, Amiss takes on the job and soon has his hands full trying to further the journal's progress toward the latter half of the 20th century without unduly upsetting the staff. When the political editor, Henry Potbury, is found dead under odd circumstances and Crump is murdered, Amiss discovers once again that trying to keep a job can be a lethal occupation.

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1615950648

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Killing the Emperors

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Killing the Emperors

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

The outrageous Baroness Troutbeck, Mistress of St Martha's, has another cultural battle to win against the British Establishment: this time, against the horror of modern art, as demonstrated by the likes of Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst. But shortly after she enthusiastically announces the war to her close friends, Baroness Troutbeck is kidnapped. Panic spreads throughout the London art world when they realise that nine more victims are missing. Could the perpetrator be a traditionalist with a grudge against contemporary art? Baroness Troutbeck's sidekick Robert Amiss and other loyal friends must work with Scotland Yard to find her. But can they reach her in time?

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0750539445

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The English School of Murder

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The English School of Murder

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? It's murder....''Adroit, inspiring, and written with a rare lightness of touch, '' - The London Times Literary Supplement ''Believable plotting, a memorable cast of characters, and three - count 'em - three beguiling sleuths in a warm, gently raunchy, crisp, and literate caper.'' - Kirkus Reviews ''Amiss is bumblingly appealing and howlingly funny.'' - The Chicago Sun Times. He's also a civil servant down on his luck and out of a job - and thus ripe for a post as a police spy at the Knightsbridge School. Robert's cover will be to teach English as a foreign language. His mission soon becomes, well, murder....''Quirky, highly intelligent, and thoroughly entertaining....'' - The Washington Post Book Worl

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1459656261

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The Seven

The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The Seven

The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of Dublin, the Seven were arrested, court-martialled and executed. Cutting through the layers of veneration that have seen them regarded unquestioningly as heroes and martyrs by many, Ruth Dudley Edwards provides shrewd yet sensitive portraits of Ireland’s founding fathers. She explores how an incongruous group, which included a communist, visionary Catholic poets and a tobacconist, joined together to initiate an armed rebellion that changed the course of Irish history. Brilliant, thought-provoking and captivatingly told, The Seven challenges us to see past the myths and consider the true character and legacy of the Easter Rising.

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Simon and Schuster

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1780748728

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Killing the Emperors

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Killing the Emperors

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

Lady (Jack) Troutbeck is missing. So too, is Sir Henry Fortune, celebrity curator, and his partner in love and money, louche art dealer Jason Pringle. Panic begins in the London art world when no one can locate Anastasia Holliday, sensational abject artist, Jake Thorogood, the critic who catapulted her into stardom, or Dr Hortense Wilde, notorious for having influenced generations of art students to despise craftsmanship. Spotting that the victims' common link is that their careers blossomed when they whole-heartedly embraced newly-fashionable conceptual art, there is media hysteria. Are they hostages? If so why? Ransom? Revenge? What bewilders the police and her friends is that Baroness Troutbeck is a standard-bearer of conservative values in education and art who recently publicly described admirers of conceptual art as knaves and fools. Can Troutbeck's friends rescue her before her own worst fantasies are turned into reality?

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1590586387

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The School of English Murder

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The School of English Murder

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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0575037881

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Newspapermen

Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Newspapermen

Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

They were 'Cudlipp' and 'Mr King' when they met in 1935. At 21, gregarious, extrovert and irreverent Hugh Cudlipp had many years of journalistic experience: at 34, shy, introspective and solemn Cecil Harmsworth King, haunted by the ghost of Uncle Alfred, Lord Northcliffe, the great press magnate, and bitter towards Uncle Harold, Lord Rothermere of the Daily Mail, was fighting his way up in the family business. Opposites in most respects, they were complementary in talents and had in common a deep concern for the underdog. Cudlipp, the journalistic genius, and King, the formidable intellect, were to become, in Cudlipp's words, 'the Barnum and Bailey' of Fleet Street. Together, on the foundation of the populist Daily Mirror, they created the biggest publishing empire in the world. Yet their relationship foundered sensationally in 1968, when - as King tried to topple the Prime Minister - Cudlipp toppled King. Through the story of two extraordinary men, Ruth Dudley Edwards gives us a riveting portrait of Fleet Street in its heyday.

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1446485633

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The English School of Murder

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The English School of Murder

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

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Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? It's murder...."Adroit, inspiring, and written with a rare lightness of touch,"--The London Times Literary Supplement "Believable plotting, a memorable cast of characters, and three--count 'em--three beguiling sleuths in a warm, gently raunchy, crisp, and literate caper."--Kirkus Reviews "Amiss is bumblingly appealing and howlingly funny."--The Chicago Sun Times. He's also a civil servant down on his luck and out of a job--and thus ripe for a post as a police spy at the Knightsbridge School. Robert's cover will be to teach English as a foreign language. His mission soon becomes, well, murder...."Quirky, highly intelligent, and thoroughly entertaining...." --The Washington Post Book World

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1890208787

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Murdering Americans

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Murdering Americans

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Academia (n.): a profession filled with bad food, knee-jerk liberalism, and murder... Being a member of the House of Lords and Mistress of St Marthas College in Cambridge might seem enough to keep anyone busy, but Baroness (Jack) Troutbeck likes new challenges. When a combination of weddings, work, and spookery deprives her of five of her closest allies, she leaps at an invitation to become a Distinguished Visiting Professor on an American campus. With her head full of romantic fantasies inspired by 1950s Hollywood, and accompanied by Horace, her loquacious and disconcerting parrot, this intellectually-rigorous right-winger sets off from England blissfully unaware that academia in the United States is dominated by knee-jerk liberalism, contempt for Western civilization, and the institutionalisation of a form of insane political-correctness. Will the bonne viveuse Baroness Troutbeck be able to cope with the culinary and vinous desert that is New Paddington, Indiana? Can this insensitive and tactless human battering-ram defeat the thought-police who run Freeman State University like a gulag? Does she believe the late Provost was murdered? If so, what should she do about it? And will she manage to persuade Robert Amisswho describes himself bitterly as Watson to her Holmes and Goodwin to her Nero Wolfeto abandon his honeymoon and fly to her side?

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161595063X

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Patrick Pearse

The Triumph of Failure

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Patrick Pearse

The Triumph of Failure

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

There has always been argument about whether Pearse's leadership of the Easter Rising in 1916 represented a failure or a triumph. Pearse, who found himself on Easter Monday proclaimed President of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Republic, took on himself the most bitter of roles at the finish: he was the first to make the move to surrender - and he was the first to be executed. In this re-issued major biography Ruth Dudley Edwards has placed Patrick Pearse in his historical, political and cultural context: she discusses his involvement with the Gaelic League, his role as a military leader in the nationalist movement and his claims as a socialist. Her account of his life does full justice to the story, recording its irony, absurdity and courage. This book will do much to arouse fresh interest in Patrick Pearse; it is sympathetic, balanced, meticulously researched, and above all highly readable.

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0716528355

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The Pursuit of Reason

The Economist, 1843-1993

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The Pursuit of Reason

The Economist, 1843-1993

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

Since its founding by James Wilson in 1843, The Economist has been the world's most enduring and distinguished proponent of free markets and free trade. In celebration of this influential paper's 150th anniversary, Ruth Dudley Edwards has written The Pursuit of Reason, an authoritative history over 10 years in the making. Now published for the first time in the United States, this edition features a new foreword by Bill Emmott, editor of The Economist since 1993. Edwards's narrative is the product of hundreds of interviews and exhaustive research - a herculean effort exacerbated by the fact that most of the paper's records had been destroyed in 1941 during the London Blitz. The Pursuit of Reason tells the stories of a distinguished group of men - and some women - who managed the paper and reported on the leading issues of their day. Of particular interest to those concerned with the future of the press is Edwards's account of the steps taken in 1928 by Wilson's descendants to preserve the independence of The Economist in a transfer of ownership, and of the endurance of this unusual trust arrangement over time as similar efforts throughout the newspaper industry have failed. The Pursuit of Reason is the story of a powerful newspaper, and of how quality journalism is made. It is also a chronicle of modern ideas and a sweeping history of the major international economic, business and political issues of the past 150 years.

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Harvard Business Press

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0875846084

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9780875846088

Matricide at St. Martha's

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Matricide at St. Martha's

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

In St. Martha's College, Cambridge, rival factions battle over a bequest. One lot wants it spent on fellowships, another on redecoration, a third on a politically-correct ethnics study center. When people start dying, the college calls in Scotland Yard's Jim Milton.

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1890208922

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9781890208929

Victor Gollancz

A Biography

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Victor Gollancz

A Biography

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

Victor Gollancz was a teacher, publisher, author and campaigner who spent his life passionately trying to make people see the truth as he saw it. If it's as a publisher that he is remembered above all, nonetheless in many ways he epitomised the social conscience of the mid-twentieth century: he founded the Left Book Club, Save Europe Now and the Campaign Against Capital Punishment. For this biography, first published in 1987, Ruth Dudley Edwards had access to all the Gollancz family and firm papers, and produced an honest, searching work which not only reveals an extraordinary man but throws light on many of the political and social events of his times. 'Frequently gripping and always readable.' John Gross, Observer 'Consistently enthralling and a brilliant achievement.' Hilary Rubinstein, Spectator 'One of the fullest and richest portraits of a contemporary individual we have had.' Anthony Curtis, Financial Times 'I would trust anyone's life to Ruth Dudley Edwards.' Terence De Vere White, Irish Times

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Faber & Faber

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0571294804

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9780571294800

Publish and be Murdered

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Publish and be Murdered

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

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Robert Amiss, lapsed civil servant, is approached by Lord Papworth, owner of the Wrangler, to step in as business manager for the august journal and do something about its steady drain on his lordship’s finances. The magazine’s editor, Willie Lambie Crump, and his staff are firmly mired in the 1950s, technologically speaking; ideologically, the journal has always been strongly conservative. Prodded by Baroness “Jack” Troutbeck, his rather menacing guardian angel, Amiss takes on the job and soon has his hands full trying to further the journal’s progress toward the latter half of the 20th century without unduly upsetting the staff. When the political editor, Henry Potbury, is found dead under odd circumstances and Crump is murdered, Amiss discovers once again that trying to keep a job can be a lethal occupation.

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1890208132

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Aftermath

The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice

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Killing the Emperors

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

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Corridors of Death

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Ten Lords A-Leaping

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Ten Lords A-Leaping

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

The House of Lords will never be the same again. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, Jack Troutbeck, assisted by her old friend Robert Amiss, plots vigorously with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she violently disapproves. But she hadn't reckoned with the campaign of intimidation mounted by the animal activists and the attempt on the life of one of her allies, shortly followed by scenes of horrifying carnage amongst the peers...

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1615950664

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The English School of Murder

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The English School of Murder

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

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The Saint Valentine's Day Murders

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Matricide at St. Martha's

A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery

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1890208922

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An Atlas of Irish History

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards,Bridget Hourican

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0415278597

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Clubbed To Death

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Clubbed To Death

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

Robert Amiss is persuaded by his friend Detective Sergeant Pooley of the CID to take a job as a waiter in ffeatherstonehaughs (pronounced Fanshaws), a gentlemen's club in St James. The club secretary has allegedly jumped to his death from the gallery of this imposing building. Against most of the evidence, Pooley believes he was murdered. Amiss finds himself in a bizarre caricature of a club, run by and for debauched geriatrics, with skeletons rattling in every cupboard. Why are there so few members? How are they financed? Will Amiss keep his job despite the enmity of the ferocious, snuff-covered Colonel Fagg?

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1615950575

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Murder in a Cathedral

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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1615950621

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Newspapermen

Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street

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629

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Random House

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1446485633

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Death, Dissection and the Destitute

By: Ruth Richardson

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Death, Dissection and the Destitute

By: Ruth Richardson

In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered dissection a punishment for poverty. Providing both historical and contemporary insights, Death, Dissection, and the Destitute opens rich new prospects in history and history of science. The new afterword draws important parallels between social and medical history and contemporary concerns regarding organs for transplant and human tissue for research.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226712397

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9780226712390

Victor Gollancz

A Biography

By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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A Biography

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Faber & Faber

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0571294804

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