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By: Catherine Ostler
ISBN: 9781471172564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2021
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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The remarkable story of the 18th century aristocrat who scandalised the nation
(Paperback)
By: Catherine Ostler
ISBN: 9781471172588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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The remarkable story of the 18th century aristocrat who scandalised the nation
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By: Lord John Julius Norwich
ISBN: 9781398709225
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)
'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES
(Paperback)
By: Susan Jaques
ISBN: 9781681774206
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world and turning St. Petersburg in to a world wonder. The Empress of Art brings to life the creation of this captivating woman's greatest legacy
(Paperback, Main)
By: Ian Gibson
ISBN: 9780571209040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Henry Spencer Ashbee seemed a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. Acclaimed biographer Ian Gibson has created an engrossing portrait of Ashbee, which examines the evidence that Ashbee himself may have been the author of the most famous work of Victorian erotica, My Secret Life.
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By: Mahatma Gandhi
ISBN: 9781400030507
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Taken from Gandhi's own writings throughout his life, this title introduces readers to his thoughts on politics, spirituality, poverty, suffering, love, nonviolence, civil disobedience, and his own life. The pieces collected here, with explanatory head notes by Gandhi biographer Louis Fischer, offer the clearest, most thorough portrait of one of the greatest spiritual leaders the world has known.
(Paperback)
By: Sebastian Faulks
ISBN: 9781804944134
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback)
By: Sebastian Faulks
ISBN: 9780099518013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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He begged to be allowed to return to flying, and died mysteriously in a night training operation, aged 23.
Jeremy Wolfenden was born in 1936, the son of Jack, later Lord Wolfenden.
(Paperback)
By: Ophelia Field
ISBN: 9781474605359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2018
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The scandalous true story of the duchess who became her beloved queen's blackmailer, published in a new and updated edition to coincide with the Oscar-winning film starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz.
(Paperback)
By: Marcus Rediker
ISBN: 9781786634726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Verso Books
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The extraordinary story of one of the first British men to oppose slavery
(Hardback)
By: Simon Shuster
ISBN: 9780008599171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd January 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound inKyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides.
(Paperback)
By: Roger Shattuck
ISBN: 9781681379777
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2025
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Ahmed Errachidi
ISBN: 9780099572299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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On 11 September 2001, in a caf in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed.
(Hardback)
By: Christine A. Berger
ISBN: 9781098391454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)
By: Cam Simpson
ISBN: 9780062449719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Tomiko Higa
ISBN: 9781568365312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
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"Originally published in Japanese as Shirahata no shaojo by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, 1989"--Title page verso.
(Paperback)
By: Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
ISBN: 9781444730999
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 12th April 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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For fans of Downton Abbey, this is the riveting real-life story of the Vanderbilt heiress who married the Duke of Marlborough in 1895. A fascinating insight into upstairs-downstairs life and the highest circles of Edwardian aristocracy.
(Hardback)
By: Kara Cooney
ISBN: 9781426221965
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Explores the lives of five pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today
(Paperback)
By: Hester Grant
ISBN: 9781784707224
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Gary Mead
ISBN: 9781782392248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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At the centenary of the commencement of the First World War, here is a new edition of this evocative biography of Douglas Haig - one of the most controversial commanders of the Great War.
(Paperback)
By: Xinran
ISBN: 9780099440789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2003
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves.
(Hardback)
By: Peter S. Canellos
ISBN: 9781501188206
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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"The definitive, sweeping biography of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan"--
(Paperback)
By: Simon Pearson
ISBN: 9781444760668
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2014
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The thrilling true story of the real Great Escape, published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the escape.
(Paperback)
By: Ian Mortimer
ISBN: 9780099552222
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II.
One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London.
