When a guidebook to Ireland described his family as being 'mildly eccentric', Desmond Leslie took offence and wrote to the publishers informing them that, on the contrary, the Leslies were very eccentric.
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A stirring portrait of a family and its legacy of secrets, After Visiting Friends is the story of a son who goes in search of the truth and finds not only his father, but a rare window into a world of men and newspapers and fierce loyalties ...
Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous ...
Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia.
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... Robert Dallek , Flawed Giant : Lyndon Johnson and His Times , 1961–1973 ( Oxford University Press , 1998 ) , pp ... in author's possession . 7. Thomas L. Hughes , Perilous Encounters : The Cold War Collisions of Domes- tic and ...
Born in Holland in 1910 but raised in Java, Robert Hans van Gulik explored esoteric Buddhism and translated ancient texts, including an authentic Chinese 16th century detective novel, around which he created a fictional series.
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... Robert Hall , a pleasure . It is believed to be the pro- Baptist Minister of Leicester , a gentle- man not unknown to the world as an head and to the heart of the reader , in author . It is a powerful appeal to the limits will not admit ...