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Biography/Autobiography
Biography/Autobiography
Biography, Autobiographies of interesting people in the 20th century and beyond. Real lives are often stranger than fiction.
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Written in 1910 and privately published in New York in 1916, Harris's 'Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions' gained almost instant notoriety. Attacked by critics for its extravagant inventions, vi...
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| NELSON MADELA & JOHN CARLIN Book Number: 80658 |
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In 2005, Reader's Digest spoke with Nelson Mandela and explored his hopes, concerns and faiths for the future of his beloved South Africa. In 1990 he walked out of prison, free after 27 years, to ...
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| RICHARD SCHICKEL Book Number: 85816 |
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"That indomitable spirit is an integral part of the make-up of the screen Charlie Chaplin" Churchill wrote. At age 28, Charlie Chaplin was a millionaire and one of the world's most famous personal...
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| FERGUS BYRNE Book Number: 86019 |
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Sub-titled 'The Extraordinary Life of Felix Dennis', when he died in 2014, Dennis was a multi-millionaire. Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, a true maverick, Felix left Harrow Col...
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| PETER TRACHTENBERG Book Number: 86556 |
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When his favourite cat Biscuit goes missing, Peter Trachtenberg sets out on a journey to find her which takes him 700 miles and many years into his past. He delves into the history of his relation...
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| MICHAEL PENNINGTON Book Number: 87715 |
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Recently a triumphant King Lear in New York, Michael Pennington has been a leading actor for 50 years in the RSC and English Shakespeare Company and played leading roles plus solo shows on Shakespe...
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| ALEXANDER MASTERS Book Number: 88793 |
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Told backwards - Stuart's idea - it starts with a deeply troubled 32 year old stepping out in front of the 11.15 train from London to King's Lynn, and ends with a 'happy-go-lucky little boy' of 12....
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| STEVE ROSS Book Number: 89365 |
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Steve Ross was born Szmulek Rozental near Lodz, Poland, in 1931. Aged just eight when the Nazis invaded his village, he spent the next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive in the ten conce...
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| ANGELA HUTH Book Number: 89371 |
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In 1943, at the age of five, Angela Huth decided that she wanted to be a writer. She and her mother Bridget had decamped to California just before the outbreak of war but her film director father H...
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| PROFESSOR STEPHEN WESTABY Book Number: 89417 |
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A dramatic head trauma sustained during university rugby was a horrific experience for Professor Stephen Westaby but he emerged from his recovery with the qualities of an exceptional heart surgeon:...
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| VERONIQUE MORTAIGNE Book Number: 89028 |
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When the young Jane Birkin met film star Serge Gainsbourg in 1968, he had recently divorced from Brigitte Bardot and was contemptuous of the debutante who was presented to him as his co-star. Jane...
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| BARBRA PASKIN Book Number: 89392 |
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When Dudley Moore was ill with the neurological disease PSP, his friend and biographer Barbra Paskin asked hundreds of friends and admirers to contact him with a cheerful message. This memoir is he...
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| BRET EASTON ELLIS Book Number: 89611 |
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In the words of the Sunday Telegraph about this author 'A rebel whose work is controversial precisely because its sinister themes are so dextrously written.' One of the most gifted and serious nov...
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| NEIL YOUNG Book Number: 89632 |
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Southern Man has a fantastic music and song writing career spanning 40 years and 34 studio albums of rock and roll, folk and country. From his early days with Buffalo Springfield and his solo care...
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| BRUCE FOGLE Book Number: 89852 |
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Sub-titled 'My Life As A Young Vet In 1970s London' Bruce Fogle was the husband of respected actress Julia Foster and the father of author and broadcaster Ben. In-between, he became the world's be...
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| PHILIPPE PETIT Book Number: 89974 |
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Translated by Paul Auster, this poetic handbook was written when the hire wire artist was just 23 years old. Philippe Petit became world famous with his feats such as walking between the towers of...
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| TIMOTHY BENTINCK Book Number: 89786 |
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A self-deprecating dual biography of character and actor, juxtaposing the simple life of farmer David Archer with the rollercoaster ups and downs of being an actor. When Tim Bentinck landed the pa...
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| VICTORIA JAMES Book Number: 89822 |
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The groping patron she learned to handle, but behind the scenes, the world of high dining was a mess of fractious relationships and unacknowledged abuse. Aged 13, Victoria James started her first j...
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| Melanie Reid Book Number: 89847 |
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From the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine Spinal Column, a deeply moving and darkly funny and inspirational memoir on how we survive, despite everything. On Good Friday 2010, Melanie Rei...
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| JAMES HERRIOT Book Number: 90028 |
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A few months of married bliss, a lover's nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. RAF training proves tough for James, but...
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| KATE GARRAWAY Book Number: 90114 |
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Why do we not talk about how important big knickers are? Will the menopause be a nightmare? How do we make love last? Kate Garraway, TV and radio presenter, turned 50 and questioned everything: 'F...
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| DYLAN JONES Book Number: 90131 |
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Who was the real Jim Morrison? Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27, having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly immortalised among the rock 'n' roll deit...
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| CHRISTINE TEMPLE Book Number: 90212 |
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Picasso believed that intelligence was relevant to the creative process, saying "one can see the intelligence in each of Manet's brushstrokes", and although there is no psychometric assessment of h...
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| ROSEMARY SULLIVAN Book Number: 90036 |
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More than 30 years after the publication of 'The Handmaid's Tale', Margaret Atwood, International award winning and bestselling Canadian author, continues to be a household name and now the TV adap...
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| LYNDA BELLINGHAM Book Number: 90276 |
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The much-loved actress, famous from the Ah! Bisto adverts was a tremendously gifted storyteller. She brings a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter, often laugh-out-loud funny as she...
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| JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ Book Number: 90414 |
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Stalin's daughter was a difficult, complicated and deeply sympathetic woman. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeve, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, abandoned...
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| TREVOR MCDONALD Book Number: 90432 |
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Sir Trevor McDonald, now in his eighties, has been a leading figure in British news reporting for 50 years. Starting his career in Trinidad on the island's radio station, he had parents who taught ...
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| ROY STRONG Book Number: 90553 |
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'I first became national news in 1967 when, at the age of thirty-one, I was appointed Director of the National Portrait Gallery. Thereafter there is a torrent of material; but what about the three ...
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| CHRISTOPHER WARWICK Book Number: 88646 |
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Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has for over six decades steadfastly and loyally carried out her duty on behalf of her country. German art p...
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| PIERS BRENDON Book Number: 90802 |
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'From beak to tail feather and from flipper to fin, this is a book that will long be known, read and savoured.' - James W. Muller of the International Churchill Society. One of Winston Churchill's...
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