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Suitable for art lovers, this work helps you learn about the artists behind your favourite artworks: Michelangelo had such repellent body odour that his assistants couldn't stand working for him; Vincent Van Gogh sometimes ate paint directly from the tube; and Gustav Klimt allegedly fathered at least 40 illegitimate children.

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Contains irreverent and fun-filled bios of writers you were forced to read in school, from Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson to JD Salinger and Sylvia Plath. It covers Franz Kafka, who chewed his food 45 times before swallowing; WB Yeats, who paid surgeons to transplant monkey glands into his scrotum; and, JRR Tolkien, who slept in his bathroom.

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Scandals, Seduction, Addiction, Adultery, Horrific Fashions And the White House!

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Helps you learn that: Frederic Chopin had his heart removed before burial, due to his grave fear of being buried alive; Sergei Rachmaninoff hated the sound of his own music and despised performing it; and, Gustav Mahler was rarely invited to dinner parties because he would eat nothing but whole wheat bread and apples.

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Offers a look at screen legends ranging from D W Griffith and Charlie Chaplin to Martin Scorcese and the Coen Brothers. This book helps to discover that Alfred Hitchcock lost his belly button during abdominal surgery; he loved to shock his leading ladies by pulling up his shirt and revealing his curiously smooth belly.

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A redesigned and rejacketed Quirk favourite, now with 2016 election results.