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This is the definitive biography of John Stonehouse, Labour cabinet minister and Privy counsellor, spy for the Czech State Security (StB), and convicted fraudster. Stonehouse rose to Privy Counsellor and Cabinet Minister in Harold Wilson Labour government in the late 1960s, but then fell dramatically, committing fraud and betraying his wife and family through an affair with his secretary, Sheila Buckley, before faking his own death off a Miami beach in 1974. He was soon apprehended, though, in Australia, where he was initially thought by the police to be Lord Lucan, that other notable fugitive from justice of the time. As a British MP he was able to stay in Australia without a valid passport and he could not be extradited. When Stonehouse eventually returned to the UK, he continued, much to the dismay of Wilson, to work as an MP for a full year before he faced trial at the Old Bailey for fraud in 1976. Stonehouse sacked his legal team and conducted his own defence - with calamitous results. He was subsequentl
One Law. Two men either side of it. The war's come home. The war's deadly. John Whicher is a US Marshal, a criminal investigator in today's American southwest.'Fans of John Sandford will love this modern Western series that's as thoughtful as it is action-packed.' (Bookbub) ★★★★★ Spellbinding... for
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'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time. What is James Bond's middle name? How does Jacob Rees-M
An essential collection from the leading figure of Chinese poetry translation, presenting work of insight, humor, and musicality that continues to resonates across thousands of years. Red Pine is one of the world's finest translators of Chinese poetic and religious texts. His new anthology, Dancing
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Geerhardus J. Vos (1862-1949) was a Dutch-American theologian. He studied at Calvin College and Princeton Seminary, then pursued doctoral work in Semitics at the University of Berlin and the University of Strasbourg. After returning to teach at Calvin in 1888, he joined Princeton's faculty as the fi
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