Biographies & Memoirs

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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.


The Child that Books Built: 'A memoir about how and why we read as children.' NICK HORNBY
Francis Spufford
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'Anyone who reads or ever read children's books - read this. It's a joy.' Irish Times 'Exhilarating.' New York Times Book Review 'Sublime.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times ** An Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Guardian and Irish Times Book of the Year.


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.


Bucking the Trend
Chris Rogers
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Most Australian Test players do things a certain way. Get into the Australian cricket pathway early. Go to the Academy. Win favour with senior players. Think long-term about your career at a young age. Think first of attack, and leave defence as a last resort. Do things the Australian way, never mind ...


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


Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
Amy Tan
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From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory.


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 ...


Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
Ferdinand Mount
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'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel

'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman

'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate Summerscale

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021
A SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF 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 ... ...


The Globalist: Peter Sutherland - His Life and Legacy
John Walsh
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THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today.


Simon Cadell: The Authorised Biography
Brian Slade
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`Simon Cadell: The Authorised Biography' tells for the first time the story of the beloved Hi-de-hi! star. From troubled childhood, through theatre school at the Bristol Old Vic and onto a 20-year award-winning stage career, Cadell was cut down in his prime at forty-five as he had seemed set to become one of the greatest actors of his generation.


Golden Len Goulden: The Life and Times of a West Ham Legend
Brian Belton
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The biography of one of West Ham United's greatest ever players and the history of the club during his time in claret and blue. During those dozen years, Len Goulden became an England star. In May 1938, he scored the final goal in the defeat of Germany; the game became infamous due to players being obliged to give a Nazi salute prior to kick off.


Sabine Baring-Gould: The Life and Work of a Complete Victorian
J. E. Thomas
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The life story of an important and eminent - but largely unsung Victorian


Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
Peter Ames Carlin
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A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames Carlin


POPism
Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett
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A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody (from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens) and everybody knew Andy. His studio, ...


The Irresistible Con
Francis Wheen
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No-one suspected a thing when a new figure appeared on the London academic scene. Charlotte Bach was a former lecturer at the University of Budapest, and had a new theory of sex and evolution which was soon being heralded as one of the greatest intellectual advances of the 20th century.

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