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FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical

One of Britains premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever historical murder mysteries, featuring Oscar Wilde as the detective.

5th edition. Brandreth's personally selected, favourite humorous quotations, in a completely revised edition with new themes, new authors and new quotations. Add sparkle to speeches and presentations, or just enjoy a good laugh in company with Oscar Wilde, Joan Rivers, Mark Twain, Frankie Boyle Kathy Lette and friends.

Published to tie-in with Gyles Brandreth's Edinburgh fringe show, this book leads readers through an A-Z and Z-A of the wonderful world of words. Full of puns, palindromes, pangrams, acrostics, crosswords, vese malaprops, famous (and infamous) last words, and everything in between.

Published to tie in with Gyles Brandreth's Edinburgh fringe show, this is a ride around the awesome world of words and wordplay. Includes puns, palindromes, pangrams, malaprops, euphemisms, mnemonics, acronyms, anagrams, alphabeticals, tweets, verbiage and verbarrhea!

Gyles Brandreth hat das definitive Buch über Charles und Camilla geschrieben, über die ungewöhnlichste Liebesgeschichte unserer Zeit. Brandreth, Intimus des britischen Königshauses, entwirft das authentische Porträt der Beziehung zwischen dem Prince of Wales und der Frau seines Lebens. Alle Welt glaubt sie zu kennen, aber wie sind Charles und Camilla wirklich? Welches Erbe hat sie geprägt? Und wie wurden sie zu denen, die sie heute sind? Eine...

This shining star of historical crime fiction returns with the eagerly anticipated addition to the series that "Booklist" has hailed as pitch-perfect.

One of the shining stars of historical crime fiction returns with this eagerly anticipated addition to the series featuring Victorian playwright Oscar Wilde as a brilliant and insightful sleuth ("Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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Oscar Wilde's powers as a detective are put to the test in his most compelling case so far. When a series of macabre discoveries is made amongst the fan mail Arthur Conan Doyle has received - a severed finger, a lock of hair and finally an entire severed hand - the game is once more afoot. The trail leads to Rome, to the very heart of the Eternal City, the Vatican itself. To uncover the mystery, Wilde and Conan Doyle must penetrate the innermo...

Lovable British comedian Gyles Brandreth's look at the pursuit of happiness and why it matters-refreshingly free of wishy-washy, feel-good mumbo-jumbo and full of straightforward, down-to-earth guidance On June 17, 2013, Gyles Brandreth delivered the Baggs Memorial Lecture at the University of Birmingham-an annual conference on the theme of happiness and how it can be achieved. His speech was met with thunderous applause and a widespread deman...

The former Conservative MP and regular TV presenter continues his crime series which features Oscar Wilde as a sleuth. It's 1897, and Wilde has been released from Reading Gaol, but the governor turns to him for help when a warder and the chaplain are found murdered. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith

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Paperback edition of Brandreth's political memoir, which ranges from the demise of Margaret Thatcher in 1990 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997. Gives an insider's account of working as a government whip.

Words are magic. Words are fun.Join Gyles Brandreth - wit and word-meister, Just A Minute regular, One Show reporter, denizen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, founder of the National Scrabble Championships, patron of The Queen's English Society, QI, Room 101, Have I Got News For You and Pointless survivor - on an uproarious and unexpected magic carpet ride around the awesome world of words and wordplay. Puns, palindromes, pangrams, Malaprops,...

Two fleas were leaving the movie theater and one said to the other: "Shall we walk or take a dog?''" Warning: get ready for irrepressible, unrestrained giggles, because these super funny jokes will bring on super sized laughs! Whether the subject is a fly in the food, animal antics, wacky doctors, or classroom hijinks ("Teacher: I wish you'd pay a little attention. Angie: I'm paying as little as I can"), this collection will have kids rolling ...

This is the first major biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh-both royal, both great-great-great grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but in temperament and upbringing very different people. Her childhood was loving and secure, his turbulent: the Duke's grandfather was assassinated, his father arrested, his family exiled, his parents separated by the time he was ten. For almost sixty years theirs have been among the most famous faces in...

La aritmética, debido a sus notaciones y sus formas especiales, se encuentra aislada del mundo circundante, como por una elevada muralla. La ruptura de esta aureola es parte del objetivo del autor. Así pues, Brandreth ha sabido dar vida a las cifras, demostrando cómo puede ir desapareciendo la aversión hacia las matemáticas a través de ejemplos de los diversos fenómenos numéricos y dando a entendersu valor intrínseco.El autor nos anticipa: "Ha...