Biography
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Marcel Proust: A Life
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Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the publication of “A la recherche du temps perdu” one hundr...
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Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
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Deals with Sarah Bernhardt from her obscure birth to her glorious career to her amazing romantic life to her indomi...
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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Shows us that the inspiration for the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Alex Dumas’ own father, Alex &ndash...
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Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography
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The story of two lone geniuses and the extraordinary race to invent photography
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Family Life: Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing
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An extraordinary and moving memoir of an unconventional, unforgettable family.
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Maggie and Me
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It’s 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher s...
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My Life as a Wife: Love, Liquor and What to Do About Other Women
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A story of laughter and hope as well as sadness – the healing power of children, the comfort of the kitchen t...
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Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the twentieth century. With the possible exception of Wi...
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Still Life: Klipfisk, Cloudberries and Life After Kids
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Funny, uplifting and insightful, “Still Life” is memoir which explores new worlds through the kitchens,...
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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
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The defining experience of author’s life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriag...
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The Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography (Volume One, Not for Turning)
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It’s depressing to suppose that fortune favours the people who can keep going longest. But it does. That is o... See details
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Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
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This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novel...
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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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