Biographies & Memoirs

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Wise Guy: A Memoir
Guy Kawasaki
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Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life and the lessons we can draw from them. Guy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple's original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He's widely respected as a source of wisdom about ...


A Brief History of Biographies: From Plutarch to Celebs
Andrew Brown
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Andrew Brown explores one of the most enduring, captivating and eternally popular literary genres, the biography.


Before I Am Rendered Invisible: Resistance from the Margins
Ros Martin
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In this inspirational volume of spoken word, social commentary, play, essay and memoir, Ros Martin peels apart the onion layers of our deeply fragmented society. By presenting the author's personal journey, the book throws a harrowing spotlight on issues behind racial inequality. It achieves what so ...


Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian
Bernard Lewis, Buntzie Ellis Churchill
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The memoirs of the greatest historian of the Middle East, Professor Bernard Lewis.


Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness
Elizabeth Speller
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In 1880, Ada Curtis bore Gerald Howard, the first of several illegitimate children. Ada was a housemaid, the daughter of a Lincolnshire butcher. Inspired by the stories Ada's great-granddaughter sets out to trace the criss-crossing lines of their history. She wonders if the history offered any explanation of what had happened in her own life.


A Short Thousand Years: A Childhood in the Third Reich
Robert Hallmann
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For a ten-year-old, with explosions all about him and with the world seeming to be burning the war made a vivid impression. His Westphalian village consisted largely of traditional homesteads built of wattle and daub. The U.S. Third Army lit up the village with phosphor grenades from several mountains away. The world seemed to be coming to an end.


Hitler's Insanity: A Conspiracy of Silence
Andrew Norman
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The aim of the author is to discover what light Hitler's associates were able to shed on the personality and modus operandi of the Fuhrer, and to determine the extent to which they (and indeed, Hitler himself) realized that their leader was insane.


Untold Valor: The Second World War in the Pacific
Rob Morris
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Rob Morris spent three years interviewing veterans of the war in the Pacific, focusing on men who had undergone extreme combat, imprisonment, or sinking. Each chapter tells the reader, through the eyes of one to three survivors, what is was like to live through some of the greatest challenges of the Pacific War. From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima.


Born to Rewild: Triumphs of a Now Fearless Woman
Manda Kalimian, Dr. Simon Mills, Simon Mills
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When Manda Kalimian began her mission to help America's wild horses-through rewilding-to regain their rightful place as a native species of the open plains, little did she know the challenges ahead would redefine everything she understood about who she thought she was. Born to Rewild follows Manda as ...


Hitch 22: A Memoir
Christopher Hitchens
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Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.


Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter
Diana Athill
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A sequel to the Costa Award-winning Somewhere Towards the End: a rich, humorous and intelligent consideration of growing old and what really matters in the end.


Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma
Matthew Parris
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Matthew Parris, presenter of Great Lives on BBC Radio 4, explores the surprising connection between trauma and greatness through vivid case histories.


Member of the Family: Manson, Murder and Me
Dianne Lake
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Following the recent death of Charles Manson - the leader of the sinister 60s cult - Dianne Lake reveals the true story of life with Manson and his `family', who became notorious for a series of shocking murders during the summer of 1969.


Unpopular Culture
Guvna B
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Guvna B, one of the UK's biggest Christian rap artists, shares his own story and testimony and helps young people to rediscover their purpose, live out their faith, and transform the world


Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise: A Jihadist's Own Story
Khaled Al-Berry
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In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as “strong Muslims,” his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in its activities. ...


Lucky Child, A: Memoir of Auschwitz
Thomas Buergenthal
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Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation ...


Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence
Frances Wilson
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE**
**FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH AWARD**

D. H. Lawrence is no longer censored, but he is still on trial - and the jury is still out on the ...


Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, An Unofficial Biography
Matthew Dennison
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A concise life of Roald Dahl - much-loved author and creator of numerous iconic literary characters.


The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
Max Chafkin
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A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politics

Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater global impact than ...


The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011
William Feaver
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR
THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

'Explosively enjoyable, bursting with life and art ... ...

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