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1) The dig
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Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
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But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find ... And pretty soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In February 1991, the media mogul and former MP Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. Crowds lined the quayside to watch his arrival, taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand and children asked for his autograph. But just ten months later, Maxwell disappeared from the same yacht off the Canary Islands, only to be found...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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In 1979, Jeremy Thorpe, the rising star of the Liberal Party, stood trial for conspiracy to murder. It was the first time that a leading British politician had stood trial on a murder charge. It was the first time that a murder plot had been hatched in the House of Commons. And it was the first time that a prominent public figure had been exposed as a philandering homosexual. With all the pace and drama of a thriller, 'A Very English Scandal' is an...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Ent
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw star in this three-part drama based on the book 'A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment' by John Preston. Up-and-coming politican Jeremy Thorpe (Grant) is vying for the position of leader of his Liberal Party but with his homosexuality threatening to make the headlines, he makes a decision to do everything in his power to silence his former lover Norman (Whishaw). The cast includes...