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By: Robert B Silvers
ISBN: 9781590173343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other.
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By: Robert B Silvers
ISBN: 9781590174876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: New York Review Books
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A companion volume to The Company They Kept, in this book more of our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other.
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By: Bill Yenne
ISBN: 9780785846550
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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The Complete Book of US Presidentsis rich with photos and short biographical essays about the social, cultural, and political lives of 47 United States presidents, as well as some of the quirks and oddities from the Oval Office.
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By: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847088482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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Collected in one spellbinding volume for the first time, these are the digressive, exuberant, rip-roaringly funny diaries of one of Britain's best playwrights and heaviest smokers
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By: Walter Thompson-Hernandez
ISBN: 9780062910615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Thompson-Hernndez's portrayal of Compton's black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton's young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in the west.
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By: Walter Thompson-Hernandez
ISBN: 9780062910608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Thompson-Hernndez's portrayal of Compton's black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton's young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in the west.
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By: Caleb Franz
ISBN: 9781637589892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2024
Publisher: Permuted Press
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Known in his day as the Father of Abolitionism, Reverend John Rankin is one of the greatest heroes previously lost to history.
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By: Augustine
ISBN: 9781857151282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2001
Publisher: Everyman
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Illustrated with vivid portraits of friends, family, colleagues and enemies, this book provides an account of the passage from a life of sensuality and superstition to a genuine spiritual awakening. It is narrative of one man's religious journey which continues to shape the way we write and behave today.
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By: Augustine of Hippo
ISBN: 9780451531216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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In his 1,500-year-old "Confessions," Augustine of Hippo tells the story of his remarkable life, interwoven with his insights of endless wisdom. This contemporary translation features an inspiring new package. Revised reissue.
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By: William J. Mann
ISBN: 9780062427724
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: William J. Mann
ISBN: 9780062427649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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An award-winning film biographer presents a deeply textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the 20th century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before.
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By: Tom Quinn
ISBN: 9781444735895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A revealing memoir of life below stairs
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By: Susan Stachler
ISBN: 9781492637837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2018
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
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By: PATRICK BISHOP
ISBN: 9781782390251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2016
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The true wartime story of William Ash - the inspiration for Steve McQueen's character in The Great Escape. A thrilling tale of incredible courage and resilience, from one of Britain's bestselling military historians.
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By: Ji Xianlin
ISBN: 9781681376578
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th January 2022
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Dave Bassett
ISBN: 9780857503251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Promoted to the Football League in 1977, Wimbledon FC was a small team from south London that against the odds went all the way to the top of the First Division, then to win the FA Cup, in only just over a decade. With no money, scant resources and a blend of youth players and offcuts from other clubs, they were christened 'Rag-Arse Rovers'.
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By: David Price
ISBN: 9781789542714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The intimate telling of the life of an Avro Lancaster crew during World War Two, bringing together the story of this iconic RAF bomber and its service with the lives of those who flew her.
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By: Robert Lacey
ISBN: 9781788701822
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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The fascinating royal and social history that inspired the second and third seasons of The Crown, from the show's historical consultant.
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By: Miriam Pawel
ISBN: 9781608197132
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"The Crusades of Cesar Chavez is a biography for readers who find real human beings more compelling than icons." --Los Angeles Times
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By: Lisa Jardine
ISBN: 9780007151752
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A biography of a brilliant, largely forgotten maverick a major figure in the 17th-century cultural and scientific revolutions.
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By: Alejandro Jodorowsky
ISBN: 9781620552810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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A glimpse into the mind and life of one of the most creative and enigmatic visionaries of our time, filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky
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By: Daphne Du Maurier
ISBN: 9781844082353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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This companion to the work of one of Britain's best-loved bestselling novelists which celebrates the centenary of her birth.
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By: Shelley Puhak
ISBN: 9781801109178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mark Wallington
ISBN: 9780099472674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2006
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Mark Wallington, who want to change the face of British comedy, is going to finance this dream by becoming a gardener. The result is an account of a year spent working in other people's gardens. This is the story of nights spent in the back room of a pub trying to write scripts, and of days spent understanding the British obsession with gardening.
