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  Graeme Edge The Moody Blues -...

  Cyril Taylor-Carr

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  Graeme Edge was born on 30th March 1941 in Rochester, Staffordshire. His mother was a pianist for the silent movies and his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all music-hall singers. 
   
  Edge trained as a draughtsman but soon went into music full time. He never started out to be a drummer, he was, in fact the manager of a group called the Blue Rhythm Band. Graeme always watched the drummer in the group and fooled around on the drums, but never really drummed professionally until that drummer quit and he had to fill in. He then bought his first drum kit. 
   
  The first band he formed was the Silhouettes followed by The Blue Rhythm Band. He then helped to form Gerry Levene and the Avengers, who recorded a single for Decca, and appeared on TV in "Thank Your Lucky Stars". Following the collapse of this group in April 1964 Edge formed The R & B Preachers, which included Denny Laine and Clint Warwick. When that group disbanded the three of them linked up with Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder to form The M & B 5, which later changed its name to The Moody Blues.

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  Upstairs Downstairs - A Musical...

  Karina Marais

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  A first-of-its-kind musical memoir that blends storytelling with lyric readings, original songs, and videos. 
  “Knock-knock, anybody home?” 
  For 20 years, Karina Marais and her partner have lived apart together in a shared residence—his bachelor pad upstairs, her retreat downstairs—connected by a staircase that links their spaces while preserving their independence. No unannounced visits, no dull routines—just passion, freedom, and a love story shaped on their terms. 
  In Upstairs Downstairs, Marais shows how they successfully manage a Living Apart Together relationship where love, ambition, and independence coexist. But her memoir isn’t just about love after divorce—it’s also about passion and daring to dream. Some of her dreams took flight, others fell short, but she didn’t want to leave this world without chasing them.  
  That drive makes her jump out of bed every morning, a trait many aspiring entrepreneurs share. Through multisensory storytelling with words, lyric readings, and music, she brings to life the emotions behind love, loss, and the pursuit of dreams in this South African memoir.

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  The Yank - The True Story of a...

  John Crawley

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  1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible—then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict. 
   
   
   
  In a powerful, brutally honest recounting of his experience, John Crawley details, first, the grueling challenges of his Marine Corps training, then how he put his hard-earned skills to use back in Ireland in service of the Provos. It is a story that will see him running guns with notorious American mobster—and secret IRA fundraiser—Whitey Bulger; running, under cover of night, from safe house to safe house in the Irish countryside, one step ahead of British troops; being captured, imprisoned, and being part of a mass escape attempt; fending off a recruitment offer from the CIA; and being one of the masterminds behind a campaign to take out London's electrical system. 
   
   
    
  Along the way, Crawley is blisteringly candid about the memorable people he worked with, including behind-the-scenes portrayals of revered IRA leader Martin McGuinness, and of the psychopathic Whitey Bulger, as well as others in the Boston IRA support network. There are vivid portraits of colleagues and enemies, and Crawley is unflinching in his commentary on IRA leadership and their tactics, both military and political.

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  The Book of Five Rings - The...

  Musashi Miyamoto, Tim Zengerink

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  What if you could master the art of strategy, overcome any opponent, and live with discipline and focus in every area of your life? 
  The Book of Five Rings: The Samurai’s Handbook for Strategy, Combat, and Mastery brings you the timeless teachings of Miyamoto Musashi, Japan’s greatest swordsman and strategist, now adapted for today’s listeners. 
  Written in the 17th century, The Book of Five Rings distills Musashi’s profound insights on strategy, combat, and personal mastery. These lessons extend beyond the battlefield, offering guidance for success in business, leadership, and life. Grounded in clarity, discipline, and adaptability, this modern audiobook makes Musashi’s wisdom accessible and actionable for contemporary listeners. 
  This isn’t just a guide to samurai tactics—it’s a roadmap for sharpening your mind, mastering your craft, and adopting the warrior’s mindset to conquer challenges and achieve victory. 
  What You’ll Discover in This Modern Audiobook: 
  - Master the Art of Strategy: Learn to anticipate, adapt, and outthink challenges in any situation. 
  - Cultivate Discipline and Focus: Build the mental toughness and clarity needed to master your skills and reach your goals. 
  - Timeless Lessons from the Samurai: Explore principles of preparation, timing, and decisiveness that lead to success. 
  - Clear, Modernized Language: Enjoy Musashi’s teachings in a contemporary style that’s easy to understand and apply. 
  Miyamoto Musashi’s wisdom has inspired warriors, leaders, and strategists for centuries. His insights on discipline, adaptability, and mastery remain as relevant today as ever, providing a powerful guide to overcoming obstacles and achieving excellence. 
  Imagine thinking strategically, leading with focus, and facing life’s challenges with unshakable confidence. 
  Download your copy today and start your journey toward mastery with the timeless teachings of Miyamoto Musashi.

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  My Mother's Murder - A...

  Gina McGavin, Jane Hamilton

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  A 35-year-old unsolved murder. Mary’s murder gripped the town of Partick for years after her death. 
   
   
  A cold case reawakened because of the Daily Record with women at the heart of it. The victim, the daughter, the detective, the forensic scientist, the reporter. 
   
   
  For 35 years Gina McGavin hunted for her mother’s killer. 
   
   
  Mary McLaughlin’s senseless brutal murder ignited in Gina a deep sense of injustice and an insatiable need to seek the truth about her death. 
   
   
  The two women had only just begun to work on their broken relationship with Gina finding ways to forgive her mother for abandoning the family home when Gina was just two years old. Now she felt abandoned again and it awakened in her an obsessive quest that would overshadow her whole life. 
   
   
  Gina unravels family secrets and revelations about her mother as she began to suspect that some close to her knew more about Mary’s murder than they were letting on. 
   
   
  She puts family members on the spot and rakes over every detail she can find to not only lead her to a killer but to understand who her mother was and why she abandoned her family. 
   
   
  Gina delves into potential suspects, discovers shocking details about her family and explores how her mother’s death has impacted her own life, her marriage, her relationships and when the case is finally solved by police, it leaves Gina with unanswered questions. She doesn’t believe the man convicted acted alone. 
   
   
  This is the extraordinary journey of a daughter’s search for truth and justice for the mother she never really knew.

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  A Dead Secret - From their pens...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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