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Estimates suggest over 2m Kindles have been sold in the UK over the
last three years. The Kindle is now one of the most iconic consumer
objects in our culture, changing the way we read books. 101 Uses of
a Dead Kindle is a celebration of that status, taking a sideways
look and what happens when, eventually, your beloved Kindle dies.
With 101 beautiful and hilarious cartoons showing all the different
ways you can recycle (or up-cycle) your Kindle, no matter how
weird, ludicrous and extraordinary. 101 Uses of a Dead Kindle will
become a cult classic for Kindle owners (and e-book haters)
everywhere.
"Close Distance" is both an exhibition and a collaborative artist's
book by Portuguese artist Juliao Sarmento and British writer Adrian
Searle. Searle reviews Sarmento's output in painting, sculpture,
installation, performance and film, which for Searle "speaks of
sex, violence, the repressed, the unconscionable and the
deliberately--provocatively--inexplicable."
She was the daughter of an alcoholic Isle of Wight smuggler. Much
of her childhood was spent in the island's workhouse. Yet Sophie
Dawes threw off the shackles of her downbeat formative years to
become one of the most talked-about personalities in
post-revolutionary France. It was the ultimate rags to riches story
which would see her become the mistress of the fabulously wealthy
French aristocrat Louis Henri de Bourbon, destined to be the last
Prince of Conde. Her total subjugation of the ageing prince, her
obsessive desire for a position among the highest echelon of French
royalist society following the Bourbon restoration, and her designs
upon a hefty chunk of Louis Henri's vast fortune would lead to
scandal, sensation and then infamy The Infamous Sophie Dawes takes
an in-depth look at her island background before tracing her
extraordinary rise from obscurity to becoming a baroness who ruled
the prince's chateau at Chantilly as its unofficial queen and
intrigued with the King of the French to get what she wanted. But
how far did she go? The book examines the mysterious death of Louis
Henri in 1830 and uses newly discovered evidence in a bid to
determine the part Sophie may have played in his demise.
It's been a State secret for more than 70 years: The official line
in the UK has always been that it never happened - but this new
work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on
British soil during World War Two (the Channel Islands excepted),
on active military service. Churchill's Last Wartime Secret reveals
the remarkable story of a mid-war seaborne enemy raid on an Isle of
Wight radar station. It describes the purpose and scope of the
attack, the composition of the raiding German force and how it was
immediately, and understandably, 'hushed-up' by Winston Churchill's
wartime administration, in order to safeguard public morale.
Circumventing the almost complete lack of official British archival
documentation, the author relies on compelling and previously
undisclosed first-hand evidence from Germany to underpin the book's
narrative and claims; thus distinguishing it from other tales of
rumoured seaborne enemy assaults on British soil during the 1939-45
conflict. After examining the outcome and repercussions of this
astonishing incident, what emerges is an event of major symbolic
significance in the annals of wartime history.
Dorothy O'Grady is uniquely placed in the annals of espionage. She
was the first Briton condemned to death under the Treachery Act of
1940 after she was frequently spotted on the outskirts of Sandown
(a prohibited area on the Isle of Wight), insisting time and again
that her dog had strayed. Had her appeal not saved her from the
gallows, she would have been the only woman of any nationality to
suffer death under the Act during the Second World War - indeed,
the only woman to be executed in Britain for spying in the 20th
century. Yet the full story of her extraordinary brush with
notoriety and its enduring legacy has never been told, despite the
fact that it has more than once dominated the front pages of the
British press and inspired both a BBC radio drama and a novel. Now,
with the benefit of access to previously classified documents, the
truth underpinning the O'Grady legend can finally be revealed.
Following her appeal she served nine years in prison for her
wartime crimes - but was she really a spy in the employ of Germany?
Or was O'Grady, as she insisted years later, a self-seeking tease
who committed her apparent treachery 'for a giggle'? Or was there
some other motivation which drove her to wartime infamy in a case
which reverberated around the world? In The Spy Beside the Sea,
author and journalist Adrian Searle examines all the evidence to
reach a disturbing conclusion.
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