When the British Government asked Harry Delamere to courier a secret document from Constantinople to Paris on the Orient Express, it seemed such a simple way to cover a couple of months' rent and some outstanding bills; pleasant, even. But somebody knows a lot more than he does, nobody trusts him, and pretty much everybody's trying to kill him.All the glamour of the Orient Express, melodrama, excitement, sinister foreign gentlemen, exotic foreign ladies, bandits, revolutionaries, assassins, other exotic foreign ladies, interruptions to the regular timetable, disguises, explosions, outrages, breath-taking escapes from death and an unfortunate incident in a Viennese lavatory.Yes indeed, ladies and gentlemen, following the highly-regarded entertainment of 'Death and the Dreadnought' (the one with the burlesque dancer and the duck pâté sandwich, though not at the same time) it's another extract from the memoirs of Sir Henry Delamere, and another he could have well done without.

Poison in Paris (The Gentleman Adventurer)

Literature & Fiction

Wilton, Robert

Genre Fiction

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A journey through two centuries of Balkan history in the company of eight inspiring women: pioneers and fighters in very diverse ways, they were determined to build lives for themselves, and in doing so they influenced the lives of others. Each was distinctive and distinguished and swam against the social current; and yet each was a representative of their land and their time, and has something to teach us about the realities for women in all countries and ages.\nStaka Skenderova (1831-1891) Bosnia-Herzegovina 
Maria Jurić Zagorka (1873-1957) Croatia 
Xenia Petrović-Njegoš (1881-1960) Montenegro 
Maga Magazinović (1882–1968) Serbia 
Margaret Hasluck (1885-1948) Albania 
Shote Galica (1895-1927) Kosovo 
Musine Kokalari (1917-1983) Albania 
Esma Redžepova (1943-2016) North Macedonia

No Man's Lands: eight extraordinary women in Balkan history

Biographies & Memoirs

Gowing, Elizabeth

Community & Culture

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