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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| FIREFLY ENTERTAINMENT Book Number: 85132 |
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The King of Pop was due to play in London shortly before his untimely death in 2009. He is still much missed, but his music and legacy lives on. This special 75 minute colour DVD is a profile of ...
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| TINA BROWN Book Number: 85241 |
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Vanity Fair represented the last word in literary prestige, social glamour and visual ravishment. It was published by Condé Montrose Nast (1872-1942), the dashing Casanova and publishing entrepren...
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| HISHAN MATAR Book Number: 84981 |
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'I am reluctant to give Libya any more than it has already taken.' 'In the 36 years since we left Libya, my family and I had built associations with several surrogate cities: Nairobi, where we wen...
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| Christopher Warwick Book Number: 73173 |
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Her Majesty the Queen, Royal Edition by Vivienne Westwood is limited to 500 copies with special cover and clamshell case designed by British fashion legend Vivienne Westwood. Comes with the number...
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| CHRISTOPHER WARWICK Book Number: 81198 |
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Her Majesty the Queen, Royal Edition by Vivienne Westwood limited to 500 copies with special cover and clamshell case is designed by British fashion legend Vivienne Westwood. A hand-crafted coutur...
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| MICHAEL WHITE & JOHN GRIBBIN Book Number: 85406 |
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During his lifetime anything about Stephen Hawking was newsworthy and this would never have happened to any other scientist in the world. But Stephen Hawking was no ordinary scientist. His book A...
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| Judith Wills Book Number: 85741 |
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Sub-titled 'The Swinging '60s, The Glam '70s and Me', Judith Wills sang with Freddie Mercury, got high with Jim Morrison, had a strange encounter with David Bowie, babysat Kate Beckinsale, accompan...
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| JEREMY PAXMAN Book Number: 85647 |
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Paxman "looks disdainful and contemptuous and furious with his guest because he by and large is." - Andrew Marr. The no-nonsense star of BBC Newsnight, Jeremy Paxman is an incisive political inter...
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| ANDREW MOTION Book Number: 85942 |
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Appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, here is a personal selection of Andrew Motion's best non-fiction writing from over 30 years. He has had a significant career as a prize-winning biographer and as a...
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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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| TRACY TYNAN Book Number: 85836 |
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A candid, entertaining memoir told through clothes. Tracy Peacock Tynan grew up in swinging London and New York in the 1950's and 60s, privy to her parents' glamorous parties and famous friends - ...
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| SOPHIA LOREN Book Number: 85840 |
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Mambo! In her first memoir, the Academy Award-winning actress Sophia Loren tells her incredible life story from the struggles of her childhood in war-torn Naples to her life as a screen legend, ic...
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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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| FOREWORD BY ANTONIA FRASER Book Number: 86023 |
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The celebrated historical biographer Elizabeth Longford only began her writing career in her late 50s. These fascinating memoirs cover the first 60 years of Lady Longford's eventful life, ending i...
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| PASCAL MÉRIGEAU Book Number: 85962 |
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Hailed by his friend and contemporary Orson Welles as "very probably the greatest of all directors", Jean Renoir was the son of the Impressionist painter and grew up in turn-of-the-century artistic...
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| DOROTHY WICKENDEN Book Number: 85895 |
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Sub-titled 'The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls In The West', from the élite ethos of Smith College, to the raw frontier of northwestern Colorado, two friends dared to defy the convention...
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| FREDERICK FORSYTH Book Number: 86219 |
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Trained first as a pilot, then as a journalist, Freddie Forsyth finally turned to fiction and has become one of the most lauded thriller writers of our time. Just as exciting as his fiction, his a...
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| VICTOR BOCKRIS Book Number: 86277 |
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Entertainment weekly said, "Blending informed biographical narrative with abundant quotes and a dishy conversational style, Bockris captures the many moods - and mood swings - of a true rock and ro...
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| HOWARD MARKS Book Number: 86229 |
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Howard Marks is Britain's most famous drug smuggler having served seven years in a US penitentiary before becoming the bestselling author of Mr Nice. A former Oxford physics graduate, he was relea...
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| KAREN BLIXEN Book Number: 86254 |
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Karen Blixen was born in Denmark in 1885 and studied art before marrying her cousin, a baron, in 1914. Together they managed a coffee plantation in Kenya until they divorced in 1925. She continue...
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| ERIC HOBSBAWM Book Number: 86283 |
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With honorary degrees from universities in several countries, historian Eric Hobsbawm died in 2012 but when he was 85 years old, wrote that Latin America was the only region in the world outside Eu...
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| ELSABÉ BRITS Book Number: 86658 |
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During the Anglo-Boer War, it is estimated that over 27,000 Boer women and children died. Although Emily Hobhouse has been little celebrated in her own country, she is still lauded in South Africa ...
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| JOHN TUSA Book Number: 86664 |
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Always outspoken, John Tusa is a Renaissance man who has had a huge influence on broadcasting, the arts, politics and even academic life in Britain. Tusa was only a single generation away from pro...
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