Biographies & Memoirs

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Glimmers of Grace: A Doctor's Reflections on Faith, Suffering, and the Goodness of God
Kathryn Butler
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£14.50   £6.99

In Glimmers of Grace, Christian physician Kathryn Butler draws from her experience as a trauma surgeon and a Bible teacher to reflect upon how God's word remains living, active, and trustworthy in the midst of illness.


Adventuress: The Life and Loves of Lucy, Lady Houston
Teresa Crompton
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£20.00   £5.99

Lucy, Lady Houston's extraordinary life is revealed here in full for the first time


Forbidden Wife: The Life and Trials of Lady Augusta Murray
Julia Abel Smith
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£20.00   £5.99

The first and definitive tale of the tumultuous and tragic life of Lady Augusta Murray, the forbidden wife of a royal prince in Georgian England


Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop: As Portrayed on SMALL AXE, A Collection of Five Films
Dr Leroy Logan
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Closing Ranks is the enthralling autobiography of Leroy Logan, brilliantly portrayed by John Boyega in Steve McQueen's award-winning film anthology Small Axe.


JOY
Abigail Santamaria
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The first full biography of Joy Davidman brings her out from C. S. Lewis's shadow to reveal a powerful writer and thinker.


Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Bate
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£25.00   £6.99

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES


Dr. Quin, Medicine Man
John Quin
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Powerful, sad and painfully funny, this book brilliantly distils the highs and lows of a lifetime's experience working in the NHS.


Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite A Gentleman
Charles Williams
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£25.00   £6.99

First major biography to be published on Beaverbrook in over twenty-five years.


Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Salman Rushdie
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£15.70   £7.99

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to ...


Utterly Brilliant!: My Life's Journey
Timmy Mallett
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In this entertaining and surprisingly moving autobiography, Timmy shares his journey through TV stardom, cycling the Camino and his passion for art


Ticket to Ride: My Adventures in Making Big Money and Giving it Away
Sir Peter Lampl
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The candid tale of one of Britain's most outstanding contemporary philanthropists.


The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Gregory Nobles
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The first full-length biography of an extraordinary woman born into slavery who, through grit and determination, became a historic social and educational leader.

The life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798-1865) is a remarkable story of a Black woman's journey from slavery to ...


Modern Women: 52 Pioneers
Kira Cochrane
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Modern Women is a celebration of 52 influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions


Scott of the Antarctic: Life of Courage & Tragedy
David Crane
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£25.00   £7.99

A richly illuminating biography of Robert Falcon Scott, and the first to transcend the myths that have taken root in the story of his life.

Since Scott’s death in 1912, he has been the subject of innumerable books―some declaring him a hero, others dismissing him as an irresponsible fool. But in ...


Now All Roads Lead to France: A Life of Edward Thomas
Matthew Hollis
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£25.00   £6.99

A biography of Edward Thomas but more particularly an account of the last 5 years of the poet's life, along with the cultural and literary world he inhabited with fellow travellers such as his great friend Robert Frost. Sadly it was all to come to an end on the battlefield in France.


Rodin: Fugit Amor, An Intimate Portrait
Eddy Simon
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This comics biography of one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived is brought to life by a collaboration with the Rodin Museum and includes a preface by its director. It views the artist's story through the eyes of the three women who shared his life, for good or for bad. One was his lifelong on-and-off ...


Sagan, Paris 1954
Anne Berest
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"Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework." Francoise Sagan


Parisian Lives
Deirdre Bair
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National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted ...


Prince Albert
A.N. Wilson
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In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort’s birth. For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. ...


Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
Alex Halberstadt
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Can trauma be inherited? In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a family history that still haunts him. Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge ...

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