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By: Will Swift
ISBN: 9781451676952
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Andrew Bacevich
ISBN: 9781250832498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th October 2023
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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Fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan offer first-hand perspectives on what made America's post-9/11 wars such costly and misguided exercises in futility, documenting how the world's self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray.
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By: Nikolai Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780008350628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An intimate portrait of Patrick OBrian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.
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By: Philip Roth
ISBN: 9780099914303
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1992
UK Publication Date: 16th April 1992
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.
Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that will kill him.
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By: Christopher de Bellaigue
ISBN: 9780099540489
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. Above all, the life of Muhammad Mossadegh is a warning to today's occupants of Downing Street and the White House, as they commit us all to intervention in a volatile and unpredictable region.
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By: Anna Beer
ISBN: 9781786076700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh
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By: Paul O'Grady
ISBN: 9780552169653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Paul's life at home in the country with his animals
Paul O'Grady's Country Life for the first time gives a glimpse into the home life of one of Britains best loved stars, alongside the animals he adores.
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By: Paolo Hewitt
ISBN: 9780552156097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 16th June 2008
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career.
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By: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9780063021792
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Fred Dawson
ISBN: 9781943612710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)
By: Fred Dawson
ISBN: 9781483599465
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Gnter Grass
ISBN: 9780099507598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, one of Gunter Grass' finest works. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum.
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By: Julie Peakman
ISBN: 9781782067764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2016
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The extraordinary life of the Georgian era's most famous whore
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By: Mary Dearborn
ISBN: 9781844080601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Now in paperback, this fabulous biography of Peggy Guggenheim charts the life of the infamous, multi-talented art collector and personality
'An engrossing and fond portrait of an extraordinary woman' Sunday Express
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By: Anton Gill
ISBN: 9780006531357
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The wayward life (1898--1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists.
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By: Pel
ISBN: 9781416511212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Hermione Lee
ISBN: 9780099546597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the Year
Penelope Fitzgerald (19162000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms.
(Hardback)
By: David Katz
ISBN: 9781399601542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th December 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The definitive bio of the most celebrated figure in Jamaican reggae, Lee Scratch Perry
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By: David Katz
ISBN: 9781474622530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The definitive bio of the most celebrated figure in Jamaican reggae, Lee Scratch Perry
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By: Vita Sackville-West
ISBN: 9781784871161
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSON
Vita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women this book tells their stories.
(Hardback)
By: Pepsi Demacque-Crockett
ISBN: 9781787399013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A tale of the 80s and pop stardom, from the two singers who found fame as backing singers in Wham! then going on to form their own band.
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By: Pepsi Demacque-Crockett
ISBN: 9781802792164
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A tale of the 80s and pop stardom, from the two singers who found fame as backing singers in Wham! then going on to form their own band.
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By: Richard Kaczynski
ISBN: 9781556438998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2010
Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
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By: Justin Wintle
ISBN: 9780099491156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi is an iconic figure, and the best-known prisoner of conscience alive today. Yet if her exemplary fortitude has earned Aung San Suu Kyi world-wide admiration, inside Burma itself little has changed - as Justin Wintle's comprehensive biography makes hideously plain.
