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By: Charles Jennings
ISBN: 9781780330464
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A witty and accessible guide to Jane Austen's life, works and the world she lived in.
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By: Hugh Small
ISBN: 9781472140289
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The true story of Florence Nightingale's life, focusing on her real legacy: how she put a sanitary disaster in her wartime hospital to good use in reducing the very high mortality from epidemic disease in the civilian population at home.
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By: Michael Paterson
ISBN: 9781472142245
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A newly updated biography of life behind the Palace doors - a celebration of the 60 year reign of Elizabeth II.
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By: Anthony Blond
ISBN: 9781845297190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Even more scurrilous than the TV series Rome, A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors tells the true story of toga parties, banquets, and the scandalous life of the Caesars. Ancient history with all the boring bits taken out.
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By: Brian Robb
ISBN: 9781472110565
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 16th October 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The animation genius and the entertainment giant he created
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By: Richard B. Pelzer
ISBN: 9780751536003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Richard, brother of Dave 'A Child Called It' Pelzer, tells his harrowing story of being physically abused by his mentally unstable mother -- the Number 1 Sunday Times hardback bestseller.
(Hardback)
By: James Franco
ISBN: 9781608872022
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Insight Editions
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By: Donald Hall
ISBN: 9780358056140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York Times bestseller Essays After Eighty, a treasure of a book in which he balance[s] frankness about losses with humor and gratitude (Washington Post).
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By: David Sedaris
ISBN: 9781408707876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Picking up where Theft by Finding left us, A Carnival of Snackeries brings David Sedaris's wickedly funny, sometimes bizarre and often poignant diaries up to 2019.
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By: Rachel Cohen
ISBN: 9781681378107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2024
Publisher: New York Review Books
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(Paperback)
By: Drew McIntyre
ISBN: 9781529109191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2022
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Rob Beckett
ISBN: 9780008468217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Pacy, witty and affectionate Guardian
Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television and comedy, hes the laddy, cockney geezer but to his mates down the pub in south-east London, hes the theatrical one, a media luvvy. Even his wife and kids are posher than him.
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By: Jonny Bairstow
ISBN: 9780008232696
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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WINNER OF THE WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
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By: Larry McDonald
ISBN: 9780091936150
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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A news-breaking explanation that answers the question everyone still asks: "why did it happen"
Larry McDonald, a former vice-president at Lehman Brothers in charge of distressed debt trading and convertible securities, was right at the centre of the meltdown of the company and gives an intimate look at the madhouse that Lehman became.
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By: Richard Fortey
ISBN: 9780008324001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th October 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: John S. Hendricks
ISBN: 9780062128553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The founder of Discovery Communications tells the story of how he built some of the most beloved channels on televisionNDiscovery, TLC, and Animal Planet, among othersNand ultimately grew one of the most successful media empires in the world.
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By: Gillian Lynne
ISBN: 9780099555773
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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London during Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope. For the author - a budding ballerina - it was also a time of great change as she was evacuated from war-torn London to a crumbling mansion, where dance classes took place in faded ballroom. This book shows what life was really during hard years of Blitz and brings to life a lost world.
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By: Barbara W. Tuchman
ISBN: 9780345349576
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1987
UK Publication Date: 10th March 2014
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Frequently issued with the same ISBN but with slightly differing bibliographical details.
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By: Samanth Subramanian
ISBN: 9781786492814
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The bold and brilliant biography of maverick British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, one of the twentieth-century's greatest thinkers, by an award-wining author.
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By: Samanth Subramanian
ISBN: 9781786492845
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2021
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The bold and brilliant biography of maverick British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, one of the twentieth-century's greatest thinkers, by an award-winning author.
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By: John Gross
ISBN: 9780099422266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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John Gross was the son of a Jewish doctor who practised in Mile End at the time of WW2. A Double Thread is a marvellously vivid picture of a lost London and a vanished culture but it is also the story of an imaginative boy discovering his own path, through books andfilms and school - away from the East End into the new freedoms of a literary life.
(Hardback)
By: Mark Critch
ISBN: 9780735235090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
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(Hardback)
By: Rodrigo Garcia
ISBN: 9780063158337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Adam Henson
ISBN: 9781785942488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Explores the unique relationship between a farmer and his most loyal friend. Beginning by introducing us to the dogs who have been faithful companions to the Henson family over the years, the author goes on to explore the impact made by the UK's hardest working breeds.
