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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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| FRANK HARRIS Book Number: 56217 |
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Written in 1930, Harris begins with Shaw’s family background and ends with a chapter on the future, this kaleidoscopic attempt to pin Shaw down succeeds mainly by indirection, in its casual insight...
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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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| FRANK HARRIS Book Number: 56222 |
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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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| BOB MCCABE Book Number: 75743 |
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The authorised biography of the Monty Python Graham Chapman who was the quiet, pipe-smoking, tweed-jacketed one who had actually qualified as a doctor. His calm demeanour belied his true anarchic ...
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| ASA BRIGGS Book Number: 76485 |
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One of our most respected British historians describes how he got his unusual name, a question often put to him, and considers whether having been born in Bradford, an industrial town surrounded by...
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| DAVID CARTER Book Number: 76504 |
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Freud claimed that his ancestors fled persecution by moving eastward in the 14th and 15th centuries and in the course of the 19th century moved further from Lithuania to Galicia. There the family ...
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| MIKE PANNETT Book Number: 76980 |
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Here is another in the popular series based on the real-life experiences of a policeman who returns to his North Yorkshire roots and finds that working a rural beat throws up even more challenges t...
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| Allan Levine Book Number: 77291 |
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Described by the conclusion of this massively detailed book as 'Canada's Greatest Prime Minister', and in the Winnipeg Free Press as a 'character of baffling complexity', Mackenzie King actually he...
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| CHARLES VALLANCE & D. HOPPER Book Number: 77574 |
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Every era, every society has its gentry and ruling élite. Wealth, authority and power are seldom static for long. Dynasties come and go, political systems rise and fall, money changes hands in ne...
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| ANDREW MARR Book Number: 77448 |
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Published 2012 in the USA to coincide with the 60th year of her reign, the book was originally published as "Diamond Queen, Elizabeth II and Her People" in GB in 2011. Our Queen Elizabeth is one o...
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| KATHLEEN FLINN Book Number: 78324 |
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Sub-titled 'Love, Laughter and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School' here is a vibrant portrait of Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. 'I flip open my binder, reading the rules, the chef bios, the...
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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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| RANDALL SULLIVAN Book Number: 77566 |
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Sub-titled 'The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson', at a staggering 776 pages here is the definitive life of the most enigmatic superstar of modern times. Michael Jackson was the mo...
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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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| ALEXANDRA POPOFF Book Number: 79216 |
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Sub-titled 'The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants' here are the muses and editors, saviours and publishers. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway used their wives for inspiration, yet their...
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| PETER JACOBS Book Number: 79480 |
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Sub-titled 'The Life and Times of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham' here is the eagerly awaited authorised biography of the last Chief of the Air Staff to have flown in the face o...
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| MICHAEL HOLROYD Book Number: 79543 |
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An acclaimed biographer of George Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey and other post-Victorian rebels, Michael Holroyd has now written an unforgettable book about his own relationship with the Motor Car....
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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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| JOAN LOCK Book Number: 79987 |
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First published as 'Reluctant Nightingale' in 1970, repackaged for the modern reader is this life of a student nurse in the 1950s. When Joan Lock began her formal training as a nurse, she was unpr...
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| BEN FALK Book Number: 79742 |
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Professor Brian Cox is probably the best known physicist and former pop star in the world today. Here we have the unauthorised biography of the man who has brought science to the nation presenting...
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| JEREMY SCOTT Book Number: 80412 |
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Richard Byrd retired from the active duty list in his late twenties due to a severe ankle injury, knowing that he would not pass physically his annual medicals in the US Navy. Just a few years befo...
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| CAROLINE MOOREHEAD Book Number: 80214 |
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From her birth in St Louis in 1908 to her death in London in 1998, the tall, glamorous blonde passed through Africa, Cuba, Panama and most of the great cities of Europe. Martha Gellhorn's heroic c...
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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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| CARLOS SANTANA Book Number: 80471 |
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The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a guitar legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist played a blistering solo that announc...
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| ELVIS COSTELLO Book Number: 80353 |
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The son of a jazz trumpeter, Elvis Costello was never in any real doubt that his career would be that of a singer-songwriter and by the end of the 1970s he had achieved major hits with albums such ...
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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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| CHRIS TRWOGA Book Number: 81028 |
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The Holy Grail is lost. It never existed. It is the stuff only of legend. Lost only through lack of faith, a legend that permeates people's deepest felt needs and its physical existence is irreleva...
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| CHARLIE CONNELLY Book Number: 80980 |
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The true story of one family and one street in Silvertown, in the East End of London, a stone's throw from Bibliophile's HQ. Through the Great War, the Roaring Twenties, the Depression and the out...
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| WILL HODGKINSON Book Number: 80989 |
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In this charming autobiography, Will and his brother Tom live with their parents Nev and Liz in London. Liz is a feminist writer while Nev is a laid-back medical correspondent. Liz is so determined...
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| GORDON LEWIS & ANDREW CROFTS Book Number: 80998 |
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Sub-titled '1950s Dublin - A Young Boy Hidden From His Family', this is the unforgettable and inspiring true story of a young boy born an 'unfortunate' onto the rough streets of Dublin and raised a...
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