James Fox

Som gitarist og låtskriver i Rollling Stones var Keith Richards med på å skape låtene som skaket verden, og han levde - og lever fortsatt - det ultimate rock' n roll-livet. Nå forteller endelig hovedpersonen selv om sitt stormfulle liv - fryktløst og uten filter. Som en ekte og ruvende original har han alltid har gått sine egne veier, sagt hva han har ment, og gjort sine egne ting. En motvillig fredløs, rock n' rolls ubestridte hellraiser og en av de største gitargudene gjennom tidene - Keith Richards har formet et liv de fleste av oss bare kan drømme om - og ofte misunne. Nå har rockens største ikon endelig gitt oss rockens desidert viktigste selvbiografi. “Keith Richards lever opp til forventningene i sin selvbiografi. (…) Dette er ikke bare blitt en høyt lesverdig, men også en svært velskrevet bok.” VG “… den som vil ha noen en fartsfylt og fargerik fortelling av hjertet av rock’n’roll-industrien har noen underholdende lesetimer foran seg.” Dagbladet “Verdens mest myteomspunne rocker dreper noen myter og forsterker andre i tettpakket og underholdende selvbiografi.” Adresseavisen

Few people know that Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the Second World War. This expatriate outpost grew around the British ex-servicemen who cared for the war memorials and cemeteries of 'Flanders Fields'. Many married local women and their children grew up multi-lingual, but attended their own school and were intensely proud to be British. When Germany invaded in 1940 the community was threatened: some children managed to escape, others were not so lucky. But, armed with their linguistic skills and local knowledge, pupils of the British Memorial School were uniquely prepared to fight Hitler in occupied territory and from Britain. Still in their teens, some risked capture, torture and death in intelligence and resistance operations in the field. An exceptional patriotism spurred them on to feats of bravery in this new conflict. Whilst their peers at home were being evacuated to the English countryside, these children were directly exposed to danger in one of the major theatres of war. James Fox was a pupil at the British Memorial School in 1940 and he has made it his mission to trace his former school friends. The Children Who Fought Hitler is their story: a war story about people from an unusual community, told from a fresh and human perspective. Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance, published recently by Hodder & Stoughton, tells the story of one of James's former school friends, Stephen Grady, and his role in the French Resistance.

The beautiful Langhorne sisters lived at the pinnacle of society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War, Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora eventually made their way across two continents, leaving rich husbands, fame, adoration, and scandal in their wake. At the center of the story is Nancy, who married Waldorf Astor, one of the richest men in the world. Heroic, hilarious, magnetically charming, and a bully, Nancy became Britain's first female MP. The beautiful Irene married Charles Dana Gibson and was the model for the Gibson Girl. Phyllis, the author's grandmother, married a famous economist, one of the architects of modern Europe. Author James Fox draws on the sisters' unpublished correspondence to construct an intimate and sweeping account of five extraordinary women at the highest reaches of society.

Ferrets continue to be popular pets and research models. This Second Edition is thoroughly revised, and emphasizes the clinical component of veterinary medicine particular to the ferret, reflecting recent advancements of knowledge and the authora s work at MIT. New techniques for routine diagnostic and surgical procedures are covered, as well as discussion of eosinophilic gastroenteritis; hormone--dependent cystitis; lymphomas; rabies vaccines, Aleutian disease; insulinoma; alopecia; adrenal neoplasia; bleeding disorders; and anesthesia protocols.

Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi, with a bullet in his head.