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An Unquiet Heart by Martin Sixsmith
Category: Fiction
1917. Russia is dying amid war, revolution and terror. The birth pains of the new world are a foretaste of the cruellest century. At their heart is Sergei Yesenin, 22, a poet, lover, wounded veteran, beautiful and afraid. Damaged by childhood abandonment, Sergei fears the world, drinks, brawls and wo ...Show more
An Unquiet Heart by Martin Sixsmith
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of Philomena comes a beautiful and heartbreaking tale about Sergei Yesenin, one of Russia's most beloved poets. It vividly captures the extraordinary life of a man navigating love, loss and loneliness in the midst of the Russian Revolution. Sergei Yesenin is a young poet ...Show more
Ayesha's Gift: A daughter's search for the truth about her father by Martin Sixsmith
Category: Fiction SPECIALS
**FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING PHILOMENA, MADE INTO THE AWARD-WINNING FILM STARRING STEVE COOGAN AND JUDI DENCH**Ayesha's Gift is the true story of a young woman, born in Pakistan, living in Britain, whose life is thrown into desperate turmoil by the violent death of her father. The Pakistani auth ...Show more
Ayesha's Gift - A daughter's search for the truth about her father by Martin Sixsmith
Category: Biography
From the author of the bestselling Philomena, made into the award-winning film starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, comes the story of a young woman, born in Pakistan, living in Britain, whose life is thrown into desperate turmoil by the violent death of her father. The Pakistani authorities talk of su ...Show more
My Sins Go With Me: A Story of Heroism and Betrayal in the Dutch Resistance by Martin Sixsmith
Category: Biography
The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War saw the most extensive collaboration on the part of a civilian population in territories controlled by the Nazis. More Dutchmen elected to fight with the Germans and more Jews were betrayed than in any other country. Holland's Jewish lea ...Show more
Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search by Martin Sixsmith; Judi Dench (Foreword by)
Category: Biography
The book that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan."The touching story of a mother's fifty-year search for her son." Sunday TimesWhen she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a fallen woman. S ...Show more
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith
Category: History
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar ...Show more
Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
Category: History
"Accompanying the landmark BBC Radio 4 series, and marking the 20th anniversary of the dissolution of the USSR, Russia- The Wild East tells the epic story of this vast nation, tracing the conundrums of modern Russia to their roots in its troubled past. Russia is a country of contradictions, a nation of ...Show more
Russia : A 1,000-year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
Category: History
Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist', with an ingrained eagerness to sacrifice the individual for the collectivist cause. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex i ...Show more
The Lost Child: A Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away by Martin Sixsmith
Category: Biography
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced ...Show more
The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith
Category: Biography
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced ...Show more