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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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| CATHERINE CARSWELL Book Number: 56218 |
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Catherine Carswell was one of the most loyal and dependable of D. H. Lawrence’s friends. When he died in 1930, with the controversy over 'Lady Chatterley’s Lover' still raging, the abuse heaped on...
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New OSCAR WILDE |
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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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| ROSAMOND BERNIER Book Number: 74573 |
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Bernier's father chaired the directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and when she herself was a young harp student she met all the great musicians of her day, from Otto Klemperer, who threw food a...
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| RICHARD BRADFORD Book Number: 79206 |
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'Martin projects his perplexities and horrors onto the fictional canvas, but not to dispose of them. He feels he has a duty to his audience, to challenge, infuriate, entertain, but not to use his w...
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| JOHN ANDERSON Book Number: 79663 |
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John Anderson got into commentating by the obvious route: he took a course in journalism at his local college. More surprising is that he was the only person to fail the course; everyone else passe...
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| DEB OLIN UNFERTH Book Number: 80231 |
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Sub-titled 'The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the Sandinistas' this is a very funny, honest memoir of being young, semi-idealistic, stupid and in love. It is an utterly captivating memoir o...
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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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| HELEN WALMSLEY-JOHNSON Book Number: 81129 |
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There are two sides to the business of ageing - the psychological side and the physical side - and they craftily embrace during the fraught process of getting proper clothes on in the morning and p...
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| DAVID HOCKNEY Book Number: 81103 |
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Taschen's brand new SUMO-sized David Hockney monograph is as spectacular in format as it is in scope. In it, the artist takes stock of more than 60 years of work, from his teenage days at the Brad...
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| KELLY MURPHY & HALLIE FRYD Book Number: 81777 |
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Here is a completely new way of doing history: work your way through the movers and shakers by giving them a rating out of five for sexiness. Che Guevara is the irresistible intellectual on a motor...
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| JANE MILLER Book Number: 81838 |
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By the author of 'Thoughts on Being Old' and the acclaimed 'Crazy Age', Jane Miller first worked in publishing then as an English teacher in a London comprehensive and finally as a Professor at the...
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| BRIAN DILLON Book Number: 83051 |
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Winner of the Irish Book Award for Non-Fiction 2005, here is a Penguin reprint of one of the best memoirs about an unhappy childhood. It is a meditation on the nature of memory, a dazzling achieve...
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| KEITH HAYWARD Book Number: 83349 |
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With his very heavy spectacles and dodgy haircuts, but unique singer song writing talent, someone in Denmark Street Soho spotted the talent of Reg Dwight. Not just about the emergence of one of Br...
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| MICHAEL PEPPIATT Book Number: 83230 |
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As a student, the would-be journalist Michael Peppiatt was desperate to get an interview with the artist Francis Bacon, famous for his visceral studies of screaming popes and dismembered bodies. Ne...
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| JAMES RHODES Book Number: 83233 |
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This is the book they tried to ban on the grounds that it would be too disturbing for the author's children. After court cases and appeals, however, it eventually burst into print and was praised b...
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| MARTIN SMITH Book Number: 84105 |
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From the era-defining brilliance of Muhammad Ali to the tactical and man-management genius of Alex Ferguson and the single-mindedness of Ellen MacArthur and Ayrton Senna, gathered together here for...
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| VERNER BICKLEY Book Number: 83826 |
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Educated in Wales and London, Verner Bickley has lived in Asian and Pacific countries for over 50 years and in his engrossing memoirs he retraces his steps as a 19 year old naval officer in pre-ind...
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| ELIZABETH KENDALL Book Number: 83990 |
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An Oxford University Press publication which offers some of the loveliest prose in recent dance writing. Kendall's portrait of Balanchine's first 20 years is now the standard reference for this pe...
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| ELENA LAPPIN Book Number: 84319 |
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At the age of 47 and during a busy bustling family meal with her husband and three children in 2002, Lena received an unexpected phone call naming her biological father as Joseph Schneider, his rea...
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| MICHAEL EDWARDS Book Number: 84359 |
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A friend of Giacometti, Balthus and Bacon, born in 1922, Raymond Mason established an international reputation chiefly through a number of monumental works in Paris, Montreal, New York, Washington ...
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| STANLEY JOHNSON Book Number: 84383 |
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The colourful father of Leo, Boris, Rachel and Jo was never going to be less flamboyant than his offspring, and in this second volume of memoirs we pick up his story at the beginning of a relations...
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| MORIZ SCHEYER Book Number: 84197 |
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Written in 1944 while the author was hiding from the Nazis in a French convent, this survivor's account of the persecution and genocide of the Jews has an immediate quality which is fuelled by his ...
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| DAVID HARE Book Number: 84199 |
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Playwright David Hare wanted to reform society from the very beginning. Applying to Cambridge in the hope of being taught by the socialist thinker Raymond Williams, he found that Williams never tur...
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| EDITED BY BARRY DAY Book Number: 84238 |
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The master of "hardboiled fiction" grew up in London and was educated at Dulwich College before transforming the crime genre with his stories of the mean streets of California's urban scene. Chandl...
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| RICHARD O. SMITH Book Number: 84514 |
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Suffering from acute acrophobia and also a bathmophobic - a fully functioning adult who is afraid of stairs - Richard O. Smith emanates from Oxford's Town not Gown and his admiration for an histori...
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| DAVID OLIVER RELIN Book Number: 84434 |
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When Harvard medical graduate Geoff Tabin joined Sanduk Ruit at the newly established Tilganga eye centre in Nepal, he was an ophthalmologist who could already work with precision using the latest ...
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| SIMON DE PURY & W. STADIEM Book Number: 84437 |
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Flamboyant television auctioneer Simon de Pury, nicknamed "the man with the golden gavel", tells his own diamond-encrusted story. Realising he will never make a creative artist himself, he finds em...
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| ELENA LAPPIN Book Number: 84440 |
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A multiple émigré, Elena's decision to write in English was the result of many wanderings. Russian, Czech, German, Hebrew and finally English, each language is a link to a different piece of her r...
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| IAN OGILVY Book Number: 84750 |
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A veteran actor who has starred with Helen Mirren, Penelope Keith, James Mason and Trevor Howard, Ian Ogilvy was educated at Eton and RADA and developed his acting talents early. Forced to enter a ...
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| EARL FERRERS Book Number: 84935 |
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A charming and poignant memoir by the 13th Earl Ferrers 'A farmer who got caught up in the slipstream of politics'. He reflects on a life very well lived in contemplative musings on politics, reli...
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