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The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt from Granta Books (£1.09) is the Amazon UK
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Patrick deWitt, a young writer whose “stop-you-in-your-tracks writing has snuck up on the world” (Los Angeles Times), brings us The Sisters Brothers, a darkly comic, outrageously inventive novel that offers readers a decidedly off-center view of the Wild, Wild West.
Set against the back-drop of the great California Gold Rush, this odd and wonderful tour de force at once honors and reshapes the traditional western while chronicling the picaresque misadventures of two hired guns, the fabled Sisters brothers.
The most original western since the Coen Brothers re-interpreted True Grit—you’ve never met anyone quite like The Sisters Brothers.
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Diamonds at Dinner - My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home by Hilda Newman and Tim Tate from John Blake (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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’I THOUGHT I’D GONE TO A PRISON’
This was Hilda Newman’s first impression when, at the age of 19, she left her parents’ little terraced cottage in Lincolnshire and embarked on a new life as a lady’s maid at Croome Court, the enormous stately home of Lord and Lady Coventry.
The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gown; of tiaras and a Coronation. As personal maide to Lady Coventry, Hilda had a unique insight into the leisured life of one of Britain’s most noble families.
In her fascinating memoir of life upstairs and down, Hilda takes us back to a gilded era which would be brutally swept away by the Second World War. Hers is a very personal story of being transplanted from a tiny house with no bath or hot water to an eighteenth-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by parkland landscaped by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
But it also the remarkable story of the family who service she entered – and that of Croome Court itself: during World War Two, it housed the Dutch Royal Family – who had fled the Nazi occupation – and it was also home to the top-secret RAF base where radar was developed. This is Hilda’s story.
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On The Beat: My Story by Graham Cole from Splendid Books Limited (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Actor Graham Cole has pounded the beat in ITV1 police drama The Bill for more than two decades and has won plaudits for his carefully crafted portrayal of dependable PC Tony Stamp, the television cop most like the real thing.
While on screen Tony Stamp has become a Sun Hill stalwart and the sort of old-fashioned policeman you would want on your side, off-screen Graham has worked tirelessly with the real police to make sure he's kept up to date with frontline officers.
Graham worked in the NHS as a porter before starting his acting career doing summer seasons and working in holiday camps. His television break came as an extra playing monsters in Doctor Who and appearing in episodes of shows such as Only Fools and Horses and Secret Army.
Later his skill at stage fighting landed him work as an extra in The Bill and it wasn't long before he was given a full-time job as area car driver and all round good guy Tony Stamp.
Now, in a witty and candid memoir, he reveals just what it's like to star in one of television's most enduring series, the key events he's seen during his time on the show and how he really feels about leaving after 25 years.
On The Beat is the entertaining autobiography of a likeable star who reveals the inside story behind the scenes of Britain's favourite police drama and the ups and downs of an actor's life.
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