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By: Jann Parry

ISBN: 9780571243037
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The first complete biography of one of the greatest choreographers of the twentieth century, a real life Billy Elliot!


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By: Marcus ODair

ISBN: 9781846687600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2015
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The first and definitive biography of Robert Wyatt, Britain's greatest cult musician, with an introduction by Jonathan Coe.


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By: David Plante

ISBN: 9781681371498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In the first, Plante describes his relationship to the aging Jean Rhys, a no-holds-barred alcoholic who after years of failure has just published The Wide Sargasso Sea and is at last enjoying the recognition she should have long had. Sonia Orwell is Plante's second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess.


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By: Yvonne Innes

ISBN: 9781785121692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2024
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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Neil and Yvonne met at Goldsmiths College in the 1960s and they went on to walk hand-in-hand through life for over fifty years, until Neil's untimely death in 2019.

This book is a heartfelt, eyewitness tale of the life of one of British culture's quiet geniuses.


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By: Tony Laithwaite

ISBN: 9781788161251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The remarkable first-hand account of how a family start-up turned into a wine empire worth 340 million pound.


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By: Ted Kotcheff

ISBN: 9781770413610
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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With six decades in show business under his belt, legendary director Ted Kotcheff looks back on his life.


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By: Terri Schneider

ISBN: 9781578266029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press,U.S.
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By: Saira Ahmed & Andrew Crofts

ISBN: 9780755318186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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This is more than straightforward misery. It shows us the difficulty faced by Muslim girls growing up in 1980s Britain; deals with the horror of arranged marriages and the fall out when it goes wrong; what it means to be alienated from those you love and details the trauma involved in being a prostitute who loathes what she does, whilst celebrating the freedom it brings


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By: Anderson Cooper

ISBN: 9780061136689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Gives us a glimpse of what happens when the normal order of things is suddenly turned upside down, whether it's a natural disaster, a civil war, or a heated political battle. This book explores various dangerous crises, and the impact they have had on the author's life. It discusses the devastating tsunami in South Asia and the suffering Niger.


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By: David Halton

ISBN: 9780771038204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
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By: Douglas Hurd

ISBN: 9780753828328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 13th March 2014
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A 'gripping, succinct and lethal' (Matthew Parris, THE TIMES) reappraisal of the life of Benjamin Disraeli, the most celebrated and colourful politician of the nineteenth century.


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By: Gary Snyder

ISBN: 9781619025462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Shares nearly 250 letters exhanged between the authors from 1973 to 2013 on topics ranging from religion, spirituality, and environmentalism to the relationship between art and commerce.


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By: Patricia Jordan

ISBN: 9781409138709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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In the bestselling tradition of Call the Midwife, an honest and moving account of working as a district nurse in 1950s England.


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By: Lyndall Gordon

ISBN: 9781844088911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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From the renowned and award-winning biographer of Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and Mary Wollstonecraft among others, a universal story about mothers and daughters.


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By: Teri Pizza

ISBN: 9781098303228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Laurie Rubin

ISBN: 9781609804244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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By: Neil Corcoran

ISBN: 9781784706807
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'. This collection of essays by leading poets and critics examine Dylan's poetic genius, as well as his cultural and musical influence,


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By: Lynn Vincent

ISBN: 9781455516230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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The true story of Dog Company commander Capt. Roger Hill, who defended the lives of his men in combat and then was forced to defend himself against the same military he served.


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By: Mark Doty

ISBN: 9780224080910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Presents reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about life, love, and loss. This book describes the vulnerability of dogs, the energy and joy they bring, and the gift they bear us of unconditional love.


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By: Charly Wegelius

ISBN: 9780091950941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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**Winner - Sweetspot Cycling Book of the Year**

For 11 years I was a professional cyclist, competing in the hardest and greatest races on Earth. I was the hired help.

When my mum dropped me off in a small French town aged 17, I was full of determination to be a professional cyclist, but I was completely green.


(Hardback)

By: Michael Seth Starr

ISBN: 9780806541723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2022
Publisher: Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.
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By: Michael Seth Starr

ISBN: 9780806541730
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2024
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
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By: Alexandra Fuller

ISBN: 9781447275084
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2015
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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With an introduction by Anne Enright.


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By: Maura Murphy

ISBN: 9780755313051
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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The extraordinary memoir of an Irish matriarch - the Angela of ANGELA'S ASHES

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