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Tracking the development of a collection from concept to catwalk, onto the front pages of Vogue and then to the high street, it reveals the shocking mark-ups, the fabulous extremes and the shoddy shortcuts which the fashion industry would rather you didn't know about...

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'She should never have kept the business going after her husband died. Running a betting shop is no job for a woman. Especially when she's got bad legs.' After a short stay at hospital herself, Evelyn Prentis wondered what was in store for her when she returned to work.

The only biography of Thorez available in English.

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'Max knows more secrets of the rich and famous than anyone in the world'
Piers Morgan

Max Clifford is the media guru everyone calls when they want to know about a celebrity story or a celebrity's relationship with the media. What is less known is the other side to Max: the stories he keeps out of the papers;

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Max Perutz himself explored the protein haemoglobin and his work, which won him a shared Nobel Prize in 1962, launched a new era of medicine, heralding today's astonishing advances in the genetic basis of disease.

Max Perutz's story, wonderfully told by Georgina Ferry, brims with life;

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This book provides an informal biography of the wunderkind who became one of America's greatest living artists and most well-known architects.

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Vic Reeves' vivid, enchanting, and utterly hilarious childhood memoir is a comic masterpiece.

Before there was Vic Reeves, there was a boy called James Moir who was much the same as any other lad.Obsessed with owning a pet crow, a master at writing his name and terrified of his father's immense moustache.

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A tale of how one man can touch the lives of many. Australian street-kids are the forgotten underclass of society, and this book tells of Father Riley's faltering first steps to helping such children, and his determination to pledge the rest of his life to giving them back their dreams.

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This volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir that first appeared in the LRBs pages.

Here, Lorna Sage remembers growing up with her grandfather during the Second World War, Jenny Diski imagines her own burial, and Hilary Mantel tackles a strongman on her hospital bed.

Youngest son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., David Rockefeller was chairman and CEO of the Chase Bank, patron of the Rockefeller Center and was involved with many New York development projects, including the World Trade Center.

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Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes).

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The life and times of Barbados born lawyer, Lewis Stephenson Hunte, Q.C., from his ancestral background to the pinnacle of his career.

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Sunday Times Celebrity Book of the Year 2010

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From ballet classes in Brisbane to principal dancer at The Lido in Paris, Shay Stafford takes us through all the highs and lows of trying to make it as a dancer in the city of lights.

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The book is about a man that worked for the telephone company for twenty years. A journey of putting people's phones back in service when they lose dial tone. The different kinds of people he met each had their own personality and set of troubles. Troubles that the telephone repair technician was there to fix.

* The extraordinary roller-coaster story of Anne Robinson's life from alcoholism and a vicious custody battle for her daughter - which haunts her to this day - to her triumphant fight back.
* A brave and remarkable book by a woman at the height of her career.

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Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his memoirs, which were posthumously edited by his friend Lord Sheffield. Recounting Gibbon's sickly childhood in London, he distils his genius for history into a remarkable gift for autobiography.