A Double Life and the Detectives

• Author : Allan Pinkerton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 22 April 1884

• Author : Alyque Padamsee
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 14 October 2000

A Double Life traces the life and times of Alyque Padamsee, godfather of Indian advertising and patriarch of English theatre in India. Padamsee takes the reader backstage with him on an exciting, and sometimes hilarious, trip as he unfolds scenes from a career that has encompassed the launch of some of India's most successful brands, such as Liril and Kama Sutra, and blockbuster theatre productions like Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar.

• Author : Каролина Павлова
• Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis
• Release : 22 April 1978

• Author : Charlotte Philby
• Publisher : HarperCollins UK
• Release : 09 July 2020

The Times Thrillers of the Year 2020 ’Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore. A new star has arrived in the thriller firmament’ The Times, Book of the Month

• Author : Michael Bittman,Jocelyn Pixley
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 27 August 2020

The modern family is under strain. What we crave most from our families is intimacy, warmth and self-fulfilment but we often find this difficult to achieve. We hold onto these expectations of our families even in the face of contradictory experiences, so the family sustains a double life. The authors explore the gap between our values, expectations and yearnings, and our experiences of everyday family life. Family ritual, political rhetoric, advertising images and television family sitcoms are all windows onto

• Author : Frederic Raphael
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 22 April 2021

The life of Guy de Roumegouse is one of imposture, of playing roles, and of being constantly untrue to himself. In retirement in the south of France, he begins to write his memoirs, and in doing so confronts the betrayals and dislocations that have shaped and warped his life. At the heart of Guy's duplicity is the repression of his homosexuality during a time when the Vichy government controlled all in war-torn France. At an age when this young man

• Author : Rosalinda Haddon
• Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
• Release : 15 November 2020

Tall, handsome, and wealthy, Mafia-connected Thomas James Sinclair has again been recruited by the FBI to work with Interpol and the Secret Service to find and apprehend an international counterfeiter. Thomas, “Tommy,” is anxious and ready to get back into his alternative identity, in which he enjoys a life of travel, gambling, womanizing, and working at the edges of the law. A dangerous life that takes him from his home in New Jersey and his life with his wife, Hannah,

• Author : Alan Stewart
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 31 October 2011

Courtier, poet, soldier, diplomat - Philip Sidney was one of the most promising young men of his age. Son of Elizabeth I's deputy in Ireland, nephew and heir to her favourite, Leicester, he was tipped for high office - and even to inherit the throne. But Sidney soon found himself caught up in the intricate politics of Elizabeth's court and forced to become as Machiavellian as everyone around him if he was to achieve his ambitions. Against a backdrop of

• Author : Thomas F. O'Higgins
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 22 April 1996

• Author : Louisa May Alcott
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 22 April 1988

• Author : Flynn Berry
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 31 July 2018

'A THRILLING PAGE-TURNER' Paula Hawkins 'SHOCKING AND SATISFYING' New York Times, Editor's Choice 'WHAT A BOOK!' Clare Mackintosh 'BEAUTIFULLY PACED AND SATISFYINGLY OMINOUS' Observer WHO IS CLAIRE'S FATHER? A privileged man, surrounded by devoted friends and a family he adores? Or the deranged killer who attacked Claire's mother and then vanished in thin air? For thirty years Claire has been obsessed with uncovering the mystery at the heart of her life, and she knows her father's friends - wealthy,

• Author : Patrick McGilligan
• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• Release : 01 February 2013

One of the highest-paid studio contract directors of his time, George Cukor was nominated five times for an Academy Award as Best Director. In publicity and mystique he was dubbed the “women’s director” for guiding the most sensitive leading ladies to immortal performances, including Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Judy Garland, and—in ten films, among them The Philadelphia Story and Adam’s Rib—his lifelong friend and collaborator Katharine Hepburn. But behind the “women’s director” label lurked the

• Author : Karolina Pavlova
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release : 06 August 2019

An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative prose that details balls, tea parties, and horseback rides with poetic interludes that depict her protagonist’s inner world—and biting irony that pervades a seemingly romantic description of a young woman who has everything. A Double Life tells the story of Cecily,

• Author : J. Michael Lennon
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 28 October 2014

Drawing on extensive interviews and unpublished letters, as well as his own encounters with Mailer, this authoritative biography of the eminent novelist, journalist and controversial public figure chronicles his entire career and his self-conscious effort to create a distinctive identity for himself.

• Author : Jonathan Holden
• Publisher : Sandhill Press
• Release : 22 April 2021

In Holdens latest memoir, the poet/critic discovers an ongoing competition between his identical twin brother and himself. He delves courageously into the equally tumultuous times of adulthood, of success in writing and publishing, but of failure in marriage.