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By: Simon Fenwick

ISBN: 9781909717213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Hodder Education
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An intimate portrait of the life of Eleanor 'Erlund' Hudson (1912-2011), the watercolourist, etcher and designer who was best known for her evocative depictions of women at work during the Second World War.


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By: Joanna Biggs

ISBN: 9781474621243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A piercing blend of memoir, criticism and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves, and how others might do the same - 'A compelling anti-guide to art and life' Literary Review


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By: John Richardson

ISBN: 9781845951559
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. After Picasso's death, his widow Jacqueline collaborated in the preparation of this work, giving Richardson access to Picasso's studio and papers.


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By: John Richardson

ISBN: 9781845951566
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Intends to recreate the Pablo Picasso's life and work during the decade of 1907-17 - a period during which the artist and Georges Braque invented Cubism and to that extent engendered modernism. Bringing a fresh light to bear on the artist's sensationalised private life, this title presents a view of this paradoxical man of his paradoxical work.


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By: John Richardson

ISBN: 9781845951290
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into Picasso's life and work.


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By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780712697545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2002
Publisher: Vintage
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Wilson's subtle, entertaining and frequently provocative critical biography looks back through the indifference which has surrounded Walter Scott in recent times, and the distortions of his Victorian idolaters, to recapture the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries.


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By: Jill Halfpenny

ISBN: 9781035037582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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With warmth and compassion, Jill shares her own experiences of loss and helps you through the most difficult time of your life.


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By: Sarah Sak

ISBN: 9781841883991
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A powerful and searing account of love, loss and a mother's relentless fight for justice.


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By: Ronald Reng

ISBN: 9780224091664
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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On 10 November 2009 German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. He was thirty two years old. Viewed from outside, Enke had it all. Here was a professional goalkeeper who had played for a string of Europe's top clubs including Jose Mourinho's Benfica and Louis Van Gaal's Barcelona. This title presents his story.


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By: Matthew Pinsent

ISBN: 9780091903381
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2005
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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With his last-gasp victory as part of the Great British coxless four team at the Athens Olympics, Matthew Pinsent clinched an historic fourth Olympic Gold to add to the three already won with his legendary rowing partner Steve Redgrave.


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By: Peter Doherty

ISBN: 9781408715475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The long-awaited, candid memoir from Peter Doherty, whose talent as a musician has more often been eclipsed by a Herculean appetite for self-destruction: drugs, prison, prostitution, court, murder, death, robbery, car crashes and hospital emergencies.


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By: Peter Doherty

ISBN: 9781408715482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th June 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The long-awaited, candid memoir from Peter Doherty, whose talent as a musician has more often been eclipsed by a Herculean appetite for self-destruction: drugs, prison, prostitution, court, murder, death, robbery, car crashes and hospital emergencies.


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By: Ginger Zee

ISBN: 9781368042000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Hyperion
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By: Evelyn Waugh

ISBN: 9780140183092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th January 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author's childhood was warm, bright and serene. The Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed were sometimes agreeable, but often not. His life at Oxford - which he evokes in Brideshead Revisited - was essentially a catalogue of friendship. This title presents a portrait of his recollection of those hedonistic days.


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By: Tom Brokaw

ISBN: 9780375759352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The television journalist describes life growing up in the heart of the American Midwest and his early journalism career in the 1960s, reflecting on the people, places, culture, and values that shaped him and continue to shape him today.


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By: Edward O. Thorp

ISBN: 9781786071972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The unimaginable success of a gambling and investment legend


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By: Jonny Steinberg

ISBN: 9780099563778
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, living in a bewildering number of places, from the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Nairobi to towns deep in the Ethiopian desert.


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By: Gilbert M Grosvenor

ISBN: 9781426221538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2023
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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The captivating inside story of the man who helmed National Geographic over the course of six decades is a front-row seat to iconic feats of exploration, offering a rare portrait of one of the most iconic media empires in history and making an impassioned argument for our enduring need to know and care for our world.


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By: Harry Redknapp

ISBN: 9780091955533
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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The autho shares a lifetime's experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first hand - the good, the bad and the unbelievable. In this book, he shares stories of some of the legends and journeymen he played, coached, argued and drank with, Harry picks a team for each decade from the 1950s to the present.


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By: Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN: 9781644214886
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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By: Donald McRae

ISBN: 9781471132360
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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By: Danny Fingeroth

ISBN: 9781471185779
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A biography of Stan Lee, beloved comicbook writer and formerpresident and chairman of Marvel Comics by Lee's handpickedregular interviewer and colleague for over three decades.


(Hardback)

By: Tess Chakkalakal

ISBN: 9781250287632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2025
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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A biography of Charles Chesnutt, one of the first American authors to write for both Black and white readers.


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By: Anthony Summers

ISBN: 9780062405524
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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