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Russia : a 1,000-year chronicle of the wild East
\"Combining in-depth research with his personal experiences as the BBC Moscow correspondent for almost twenty years, Sixsmith tells Russia's ... story, from its foundation in the last years of the tenth century to the first years of the twenty-first ... tracing the conundrums of modern Russia to their roots in its troubled past\"--Publisher's description.
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Putin's oil : the Yukos affair and the struggle for Russia
Putin's Oil relates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos.
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Putin and the return of history : how the Kremlin rekindled the Cold War
An original and informative look at Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics.
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Philomena : a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search
\"When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a \"fallen woman.\" Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena's son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother. A gripping exposâe told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation.\" -- Publisher's description.
Martin Sixsmith: 'We were both consumed by a search for the truth'
[Ayesha Rahman] was a second-generation British Pakistani woman; and she too had been through a devastating family tragedy. Her father, Ibrahim, had come to Britain from Karachi at the age of 16, settling in Burnley, Lancashire, where he found work in a textile mill. In Ayesha's telling, he had been the perfect parent. Her eyes welled with tears as she spoke about his kindness to her as a child; about the toys and presents he had showered on her; and about his refusal to accept traditional prejudices that disadvantage girls in favour of male children. We were looking for more than just the identity of Ibrahim's killers. We wanted to know why he was killed. And we wanted to know who he was -- honest family man, or someone with dangerous secrets hidden from the world? On that depended Ayesha's sense of herself. She had grown up with an image of her father that had shaped her perception of the world. To discover now that it had been a lie would have been a heavy blow. Her father's identity was at stake -- and so was hers. Ayesha and I were now consumed by an obsessive search for the truth about someone we had loved, and that shared understanding brought us together. I went back to Pakistan. I resumed the investigation. And I discovered the identity of Ibrahim's murderer and what sort of man he had been. I answered Ayesha's questions about her father, but I am not sure I have answered those in my own life.
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MOBY DiCk by Herbert melville Penguin Classics, Pounds 7.99 I'm a bit obsessive myself so I love Captain Ahab and the blinkered consuming passion he has.
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