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Nedum Onuoha enjoyed a brilliant career as a footballer and is proving to be one of the sport's most perceptive commentators. But this book is about so much more than just football. In Kicking Back, Nedum explores themes of identity, family, race, society and life itself with thoughtfulness and insight.

(Hardback)

Enter the glamorous domain of world-famous jewellery house, Harry Winston, and discover the true rags-to-riches story of the immigrant family behind the phenomenon.

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Robert Marsden Hope, a NSW Supreme Court judge, shaped the structures, operations and doctrines of Australia's intelligence agencies more than any other individual. This landmark biography is a groundbreaking account of the life and times of a man who shaped the way Australias intelligence agencies have operated for four decades.

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Lars T. Lih gives a non-partisan,vivid portrait and a striking new interpretation of a key revolutionary thinker and founder of the Soviet Union, Lenin, and shows that underneath the sharp polemics, Lenin was more a romantic enthusiast than a sour pragmatist.

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An insightful biography of Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest novelists of all time.

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Original publication and copyright date: 2010.

(Paperback, New in B-Paperback)

Little Wondertells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the first great heroine in womens sports. Dod was a champion tennis player, golfer, hockey player, tobogganist, skater, mountaineer, and archer.

(Hardback)

A superb overview of pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer and historian Machiavelli.

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This book offers the first full length biography of legendary explorer Mungo Park for over forty years. Tracing the expeditions who followed him it documents how and why he was commemorated long after his death. This is not simply one of the great stories of world exploration but a rich and varied account of Africa and its cultures at the time.

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(Paperback)

Based on a decade of research, including in-depth interviews with many leading figures in the story, this edition is essential for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the turmoil engulfing the Middle East, from civil wars to the rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

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(Paperback)

(Hardback)

An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson.

(Hardback)

The first ever biography of one of the most influential and maligned women in British politics in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Matt Monro is one of Britain's most iconic singers. This title traces Monro's life from his poverty stricken upbringing in post-war Britain to his day job as London bus driver to the steady rise to fame that saw the singer battling the highs and lows of the entertainment industry to become one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.

(Paperback, New edition)

(Hardback)

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

(Hardback)

The book will lift the lid on this most enigmatic and secretive of Prime Ministers during the most tumultuous period in modern British political history.

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Written by one of Britain's leading political and social commentators, May at 10 describes how Theresa May arrived in 10 Downing Street in 2016 with the clearest, yet toughest, agenda of any Prime Minister since the Second World War: delivering Brexit. What follows defies belief or historical precedent. This story has never been told.

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(Paperback)

The author had interviewed, or reported on hundreds of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century. In this title, he has collected his memories of more than a score of them: they include actors and generals, a jazzman, an intensely scholarly woman and a casually funny one, an architect, a publisher, and several politicians.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)