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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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| 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: 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| HISHAM MATAR Book Number: 86592 |
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Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His first novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Pr...
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| LYNN RUSSELL Book Number: 87162 |
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Sub-titled 'The Lives, Loves and Friendships of the Butlin's Girls', here are the stories of seven girls who worked as Redcoats from the 1950s to the 1970s. From pranks and feuds to falling in lov...
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| JENNIFER KRAMER, G. CRANMER Book Number: 86971 |
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Kesu - meaning 'wealth being carved' - was the name given to Doug Cranmer, a whittler and doodler who embodied 'indigenous modern' art long before the term was coined. His art is energetic, colour...
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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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| ELIZABETH WINDER Book Number: 87858 |
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In 1954, Marilyn Monroe left Hollywood behind and along with it a failed marriage and a frustrating career. She needed a break from the scrutiny and insanity of Los Angeles. She needed Manhattan....
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| ROB JOVANOVIC Book Number: 87804 |
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'I've always been pretty self-analytical and my songs have always been like that. But then I am probably a lot of things I wouldn't have been had I not become famous.' - George Michael. From the f...
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| LES HINTON Book Number: 88088 |
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When 15-year-old Bootle-born Les Hinton blagged his way into a job on the Australian paper The News he had no idea it was about to be taken over by Rupert Murdoch in a scenario that was repeated ag...
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| ELIZA KLEINHENZ Book Number: 88090 |
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One of the most influential women of the 20th century, Germaine Greer has always been an outstanding personality, tall, unconventionally dressed and telling it how it is. A convent school educatio...
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| MARIE ARANA Book Number: 88120 |
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Peruvian by birth, Marie Arana uses three contemporary lives in Latin America to examine the history and social conditions that have made the sub-continent what it is today. Leonor Gonzales is a s...
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| FRANK TURNER Book Number: 88307 |
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"Life is about love, last minutes and lost evenings" is an evocative line from folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner's song "I knew Prufrock before he got famous". Like Paul McCartney's "Yesterd...
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| MARTIN HUGHES-GAMES Book Number: 88383 |
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Many of us will know Martin as part of the BBC's Springwatch and Autumnwatch team, but before he began presenting he had for over three decades been a cameraman on some of the finest wildlife docum...
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| CARLY SIMON Book Number: 88581 |
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Rock star, poet, feminist icon, seductress, survivor, Carly Simon's life and career is one of the last great untold stories of popular music. Her lyrics, sung in that instantly recognisable husky,...
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| JOHN MCENROE Book Number: 88583 |
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A book we seed at number one. 15 years after his massive bestseller Serious, John McEnroe came back and was ready to talk about the game of tennis, its winners and losers. What's it like playing ...
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| JACK KEROUAC Book Number: 88681 |
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Kerouac used his 'spontaneous prose' to record the life of the American 'traveller' and the experiences of the Beat generation of the 1950s. This was made most famous in his novels On the Road and...
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| MO MOULTON Book Number: 88859 |
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Renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers is the focus of this group biography of Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights and feminism. In 1912 she and five friends founded a writin...
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| LORNA SAGE Book Number: 88761 |
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Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Biography and a number one bestseller, from a childhood of gothic proportions through teenage pregnancy in the 1960s, Lorna Sage wittily and vividly brings to life...
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| JEAN-DOMINQUE BAUBY Book Number: 88775 |
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Born in Paris in 1952, in 1996 he set up ALIS, the Association du Locked-In Syndrome. He died in March 1997, having famously written this book literally with the blink of an eye. It was in 1995 t...
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| ELIZABETH DAY Book Number: 88782 |
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Full of wisdom, humour, humility and tenderness, this painfully honest celebration is of things going wrong. 'Out of crisis has come clarity, and sometimes even catharsis.' Part memoir, part mani...
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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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| RICHARD CORK Book Number: 88805 |
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A beautiful glamorous Royal Academy of Arts 2016 first edition publication. Ann Christopher is primarily a non-figurative sculptor who works in cast bronze, stainless steel and Corten and who crea...
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