Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
The getaway car skidded to a halt. Jack grabbed the money from the back seat and sprinted off, for his own vehicle was parked nearby.
It is 900 pages of closely typed text, in French, with harrowing details of torture, mass executions, the bureaucratic battles at the heart of the Third Reich, incest, matricide and homosexual encounters — and now it has sparked an international publishing feeding frenzy.
The compass which helped to create the legend of Lawrence of Arabia, steering him across the desert on a camel during the Arab revolt against the Turks in 1916-18, has been sold for $494,146, together with a cheap watch and an inscribed cigarette case.
A poem by Robert Frost that has lain unpublished and forgotten for 88 years has been rediscovered by a student in Virgina. The poem, War Thoughts at Home, casts light on the development of Frost’s First World War poetry.
