Biography
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The Philosopher of Auschwitz: Jean Amery and Living with the Holocaust
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Who was Jean Amery? Victim or survivor? Agnostic or Jew? Austrian or exile? Philosopher or journalist? This biograp...
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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A memoir of the author’s time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris. It documents a wo...
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Diaghilev: A Life
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A biography of the impresario of the arts and creator of ‘The Ballets Russes’.
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My Father Joseph Conrad
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Much has been written about Conrad the author. This work offers a glimpse of the family man. It describes him as a ...
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In Tangier
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A haven for many Western writers in the twentieth century, Tangier drew the likes of Paul Bowles, Jean Genet and Te...
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
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Do we need another biography of Marx to go alongside the many we already have? The justification given by J... See details
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Ben Jonson: A Life
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Soldier, satirist, duellist, principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, tutor to the son of Sir Walter Rale...
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Mom and Me and Mom
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‘In the first decade of the twentiety century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America....
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My Animals and Other Family
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Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life with more t...
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Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir
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In this warm, affectionate, yet strikingly honest look inside the life of one of America’s greatest 20th-cent...
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The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain’s First Special Agent of World War II
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The remarkable story of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, George Medal, OBE and Croix de Guerre.
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True Story
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The author’s brother, Martin, was her closest ally and friend. He suddenly became ill and died in just a few ...
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Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography
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When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into...
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Among the Hoods: Exposing the Truth About Britain’s Gangs
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In 2008 the author – report-writer, “Daily Mail” journalist – befriended a teenage gang in ...
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