Richard E Grant
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 3
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What's your worst hotel misdemeanor? 'Accidentally' left with a towel in your bag? Sneaked something out of the minibar? Richard E. Grant's looking for something a little more… scandalous. He finds it at Hollywood's exclusive Chateau Marmont – where Jean Harlow and Clark Gable conducted a steamy affair, Lindsay Lohan amassed a $46k unpaid bill and Howard Hughes got up to no good in the penthouse.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 1
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Take a tour of the rooms, restaurants and bars where the rich and famous have lived, died and fallen in love.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 5
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Star Wars actor Richard E. Grant invites us to hop on his celebrity coat-tails and check into the world's most exclusive hotels. We visit London's Goring to discover the lengths it's taken to become the British Royal Family's unofficial favorite. Then it's back to LA to see how Hollywood royalty tie the knot, meeting the wedding planner who's organized weddings for Gwen Stefani and Katy Perry.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 8
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You can be certain that a few hoteliers will think back with alarm about the celebrity secrets they've spilled in this series. It's entirely down to the charm of our host, who is so outrageous and wildly funny that they clearly can't help but spill the beans. Grant finishes up in the French Riviera, the highlight of which is the Hotel Byblos where Bianca and Mick Jagger tied the knot.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 4
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Imagine being so important that when you're displeased with the bathroom decor, your hotel instals a pink marble suite for you instead. Richard E. Grant discovers the lengths that top hotels will go to wow A-list guests. From Elizabeth Taylor's bespoke bathroom at London's Dorchester to Dalí's demands at Paris's Le Meurice. Plus, Grant samples the high life with an eye-watering $5,000 burger.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 7
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Oscar-nominated actor Richard E Grant heads on a madcap tour of the Emerald Isle: discovering juicy gossip about Brad Pitt's night-time eating habits at Ireland's 5-star Ashford Castle, snooping hilariously through U2 frontman Bono's bathroom cabinet in his Dublin hotel, The Clarence, and visiting the most bombed hotel in Europe.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 6
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Imagine if hotel walls could talk… Luckily they don't have to, as Star Wars actor Richard E. Grant extracts juicy details of the dangerous liaisons that have steamed up the windows of the planet's top getaways. From the secret stairway used by one of Tinseltown's most notorious ladies' men, to L'Hotel in Paris, where Serge Gainsbourg whispered more than a "je t'aime" or two.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 2
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How would you like to spend a night in the hotel where your hero has died? Sounds morbid, but Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant makes this a fascinating romp, breathlessly exploring the Bastille's L'Hotel in Paris where dying Oscar Wilde quipped "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One… of us has to go" to New York's Chelsea Hotel, where Dylan Thomas spent his last days.
10) 1st Night
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Fearing he is little more than a city suit, a frustrated amateur opera singer decides to put on an opera, and may just win the hand of a female conductor he's been pursuing.
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This epic fantasy tale, about the history of a land that never was, begins when an ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant. He falls to its darker temptations and in so doing, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, it falls to people of different ilk and culture to attempt to stop him. Among those who stand against him are a daring tomb-robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer,...
12) A Royal Scandal
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The true story of a royal marriage that fell apart - a story of adultery, bitterness and betrayal. A relationship entered into for all the wrong reasons disintegrates under the eager gaze of the press and culminates in a very public washing of private dirty laundry.
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Richard E. Grant's acting career has included memorable roles in some of Hollywood's most critically acclaimed films, including Robert Altman's Gosford Park and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. But he attributes his success to his first film role, starring as a flamboyantly pathetic Shakespearean in the underground hit Withnail and I. As Grant explains, "I had no notion that, almost without exception, every film offered since would be the result of...
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This collectable hardcover edition will feature a beautiful cover and deluxe packaging, including color interior text and illustrations! From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda comes the story of a not-so-lovely grandma, a boy, and a magical medicine.George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure...
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected.
World Without End is its equally irresistible sequel—set two hundred years after The Pillars of the Earth and three hundred years after the
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Spectacular color animation and technological wizardry bring viewers a load of thrills in five brilliant Doctor Who releases. Decades after a strike stopped production of Shada with Fourth Doctor Tom Baker, animation filled the gaps and solved the mystery of the prison planet. By following the original soundtrack of the lost episode The Power of the Daleks with Second Doctor Patrick Troughton, master animators recreated the Doctor's first regeneration....
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Lee Israel who made her living in the ́70s and ́80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack. An adaptation of the memoir, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats).
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The epic fantasy tale, about the history of a land that never was, begins when an ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant. He falls to its darker temptations and in so doing, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, it falls to people of different ilk and cultures to attempt to stop him. Among those who stand against him are a daring tomb robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer,...