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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| DAVID CLARK Book Number: 90762 |
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Lord Clark of Windermere has always believed the Lake District a special place. His memoirs of the 1940s and 50s give a unique insight into a thriving rural community of working people which is no...
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| MARY CREIGHTON Book Number: 90831 |
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'You're all fallen women. You've sowed the seed of Satan. You are nothing.' When Mary Creighton found herself pregnant at just 15 out of wedlock in 1960s Ireland, she dreamed of a happy life with ...
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| DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Book Number: 90904 |
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Welcome paperback reprint of a book first published in 1980 under the title 'The Zoo Quest Expedition: Travels in Guyana, Indonesia and Paraguay.' In 1954 a young David Attenborough had the opport...
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| DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Book Number: 90905 |
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A companion to 90904 Adventures of A Young Naturalist, the book was first published in 1981 under the title 'Journeys to the Past: Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the Northern Territory of A...
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| GRAHAM HOWE & B. GATES WARREN Book Number: 90770 |
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During his 50-year career, Edward Weston (1886-1958) blazed a trail in Photo-Modernism capturing portraits, landscapes, still life and nudes. This has established him as one of the most revered pr...
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| VICTORIA RISKIN Book Number: 90771 |
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Fay Wray was most famous as the blonde in a diaphanous gown who captured the heart of the mighty King Kong, the 25 foot 60 tonne gorilla as he placed her, nestled in his 8 foot hand, on the ledge o...
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| OLIVER CRASKE Book Number: 90865 |
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Ravi Shankar became a household name when the Beatles started promoting his music in 1968, but he was already a prominent figure in the American West Coast scene, with David Crosby of The Byrds pro...
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| MITCH ALBOM Book Number: 90913 |
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A tender, transporting and deeply moving story of a young man asked to give the eulogy of his childhood rabbi, intersected with sermons and fables and meetings with his pastor. We see that both th...
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| JONATHAN EIG Book Number: 90990 |
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Winner of the Sports Book of the Year 2018 this is the most definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best and wit...
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| MOHANDAS K. GANDHI Book Number: 91012 |
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Known as Mahatma Gandhi, this popular and influential book covers the period from his birth in 1869 to the year 1921, describing his childhood, schooldays, early marriage, journeys abroad, legal st...
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| HADLEY FREEMAN Book Number: 91091 |
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A moving memoir following the Glass siblings throughout the course of the 20th century exploring assimilation, identity and home, the book is the story and secrets of a 20th century Jewish family. ...
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| PHILIP NORMAN Book Number: 91132 |
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Sub-titled 'The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix', this first-rate analysis is an engaging memorial to a rock revolutionary. 'Arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock m...
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| JOHN HUMPHRYS Book Number: 91134 |
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The bombshell book that everyone was talking about by the radio genius and maestro of Mastermind, John Humphrys has been a journalist with the BBC for a record-breaking 50 years. He has reported f...
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| JAY JAYAMOHAN Book Number: 91195 |
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On a daily basis Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon Jay Jayamohan makes life-and-death decisions on the most vulnerable and fragile members of society - babies and children. Daily, parents and car...
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| Marina Benjamin Book Number: 91311 |
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A sublime view of the treasures and torments to be found in wakefulness, this is an entertaining and existential nocturnal reverie in search of lost sleep. Rich in imagery, beautiful, jagged and p...
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| CLAIRE MESSUD Book Number: 91281 |
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In 29 intimate, brilliant and funny essays, Claire Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia, the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fier...
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| MARTIN GAYFORD Book Number: 91486 |
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Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling and Howard Hodgkin were among a number of acclaimed artists painting in London from the Secon...
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| MICHAEL ROSEN Book Number: 91339 |
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The Professor of Children's Literature broadcast his programme Zola In Norwood on BBC Radio 3 in 2015. He tells the incredible story of Zola's escape to London in the aftermath of the scandalous D...
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| CHRISTOPHER SNYDER Book Number: 91351 |
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Sub-titled 'Scott, Zelda, and The Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904-1929' this extraordinary history shows how the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's creation of Jay Gatsby, war hero and Oxford man at...
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| JONATHAN COTT Book Number: 91401 |
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Sub-titled 'The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak', Jonathan Cott first interviewed the artist in 1976 for Rolling Stone following the publication of the trilogy that began with 'Where the Wild Thing...
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| WILLIAM MANN Book Number: 91332 |
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Marlon Brando's most famous line, "I coulda been a contender", was uttered in the film On the Waterfront, one of several successes that brought Brando fame and the reputation for being an actor who...
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| DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Book Number: 91372 |
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Amphibians and reptiles were the first vertebrates to venture forth from the seas some 300 million years ago. Exactly when and which kind of fish was the first to make the move is not known with an...
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| XIAOLU GUO Book Number: 91381 |
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A fascinating portrait of China in the 1980s and 1990s, how the Cultural Revolution shaped families, and how the country's economic ambitions gave rise to great change. Xiaolu Guo is one of the mo...
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| HARVEY SACHS Book Number: 91405 |
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Arturo Toscanini was once one of the most famous people in the world, recognised as the most celebrated conductor of the 20th century. Toscanini (1867-1957) enjoyed an illustrious 68 year career. ...
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| SIR PETER SCOTT Book Number: 91591 |
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Sir Peter Scott was the only son of legendary explorer Captain Scott. His godfather was J. M. Barrie and he was married to Elizabeth Jane Howard. He represented GB and Northern Ireland at sailing...
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| RODERIC FENWICK OWEN Book Number: 91593 |
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Top ranking bestseller, Roderic Fenwick Owen (1921-2011) was at one time or another a travel writer, biographer, beachcomber, husband to a Polynesian princess, painter, court poet and a Royal Air F...
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