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A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation Oldie

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Afascinating glimpse into the life of a wife of one of the nation's most notorious and wealthy mobsters. A story of redemption that will touch the heart of any woman who's faced hardship and lonliness in her marriage.

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Thomas Carlyle is an account of a major figure in Victorian literature and a unique commentator on nineteenth-century life.

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Thomas Carlyle was a major figure in Victorian literature and a unique commentator on nineteenth-century life. Born in humble circumstances in the Scottish village of Ecclefechan in 1795, his rise to fame was marked by determination and the development of a distinctive literary voice. This book traces Carlyle's personal and intellectual career.

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This is the first biography of Thomas Harris: confidant of George III, 'spin doctor', philanthropist, sexual suspect, brothel owner, and the man who controlled Covent Garden theatre for nearly five decades. -- .

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Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014

A rich historical biography of those wild Wyndhams three cultured aristocratic sisters born into great privilege in late Victorian Britain.

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At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. It is Sizwe's deep ambivalence, rooted in his deep sense of the cultural divide, that becomes the key to understanding the dynamics that thread their way through a terrified community.

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'Looking back at The Libertines is like catching flashes of sunlight between buildings as you race by on a train. An old film reel where the spools are weathered and worn, leaving empty frames on the screen'

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They said it couldn't be done. Sceptics warned that as a car approached 750 mph the shock waves generated when it hit the sound barrier would either force it off the ground like an aeroplane or tear it apart. Richard Noble, the modern embodiment of the swashbuckling British speed seeker of yesteryear, was used to that kind of blinkered thinking.

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Tells the story of ordinary Tibetans in the twentieth century. This title refutes China's claim that Tibet has been part of China since the seventh century AD, showing how the relationship between the two countries was symbolic and ceremonial, rather than one of political suppression.

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Sarah tries to make sense of the vast new country she's won. After a lifetime of winning nothing but the right to be designated driver, Sarah Darmody strikes it rich in a contest so bizarre most people think it's an urban legend - the Green Card lottery.

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Actor and writer, Jane Lapotaire, was one of the lucky ones who survived 'a brain attack' (cerebral haemorrhage), the third biggest killer after cancer and heart attacks. This is her story.

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When Jill was just thirteen, she and her best friend donned the tightest satin pants they could find, poufed up their hair and squeezed into Candies heels, then headed to downtown Chicago in search of their one-and-only true loves forever: the members of whichever rock band was touring through town.

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Liza Campbell was the last child to be born at Cawdor Castle, as featured in Macbeth. Her father Hugh, the 25th Thane of Cawdor, inherited good looks,wealth, an ancient title, three stately homes and 100,000 acres of land.

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In 1829 Eliza Shaw left England with her husband, six children, two servants, some livestock and tools. They settled on the upper Swan River. This book presents a story that is recorded through the eyes of a remarkable woman.

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As a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipoli, Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first hand. His journal of what he saw became a book on his return to Australia. Hoping to avoid military censorship, his publishers dubbed Loch's book a novel: The Straits Impregnable.

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Autobiography depicting the life and times of Greg X in South Jamaica, Queens-NYC.

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The first biography of the elusive musician who influenced an entire generation of country songwriters as his tragic life became the stuff of legend