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By: Alan Johnson
ISBN: 9780552172158
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016
From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnsons multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in todays Britain.
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By: Slavomir Rawicz
ISBN: 9781845296445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The ultimate story of human endurance, over 4,000 miles on foot escaping from a Soviet gulag in Siberia, across the Gobi Desert in China, over the Himalayas and through Tibet into India.
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By: Andrew Gailey
ISBN: 9781444792430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An eagerly anticipated biography of one of the greatest statesmen of the Victorian age.
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By: Andrew Gailey
ISBN: 9781444792454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2016
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An eagerly anticipated biography of one of the greatest statesmen of the Victorian age.
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By: Alison Weir
ISBN: 9780099546467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader The Times
The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns.
Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins.
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By: Mark Salter
ISBN: 9781982120948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Justice John Paul Stevens
ISBN: 9780316489669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A 'timely and hugely important' account of his life on the Supreme Court (New York Times)
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By: Jean Becker
ISBN: 9781538735305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A heartfelt portrait of President George H.W. Bush -- and post-presidential life -- by the confidante who knew him best.
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By: Jean Becker
ISBN: 9781538735312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A heartfelt portrait of President George H.W. Bush-and his post-presidential life-by a confidante who knew him well.
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By: Christopher Simon Sykes
ISBN: 9780008121938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.
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By: Susan Page
ISBN: 9781538713631
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history.
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By: Sasha Colby
ISBN: 9781770417359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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The relatively unknown story of the Leitz family, the Third Reich's use of Gentile forced labor, and its prisons. It is a life-affirming story of survival, resilience, and the ways World War II continues to influence our present moment.
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By: Paul Strathern
ISBN: 9780099522973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Tells the history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe. This title explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage.
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By: Josephine Ross
ISBN: 9780753818336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The story of the many suitors of Elizabeth I - one of the most eligible brides in 16th century Europe.
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By: Natalie Livingstone
ISBN: 9780099594727
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: Cornerstone
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'It covers three centuries of high living, high politics and high drama [...] it is so fascinating' MEL SYKES
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A Sunday Times bestseller
Five women.
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By: Lance Price
ISBN: 9781473610910
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Political strategist Lance Price reveals the amazing story behind Narendra Modi's 2014 Indian election vistory
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By: Daniel Schulman
ISBN: 9781101973011
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Buzz Bissinger
ISBN: 9780062879936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Tobias Churton
ISBN: 9781594774744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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This book investigates John the Baptist's links with Freemasons, the Essenes and the Gnostics and exposes how the apostle Paul twisted John's message to create the image of him as "merely" a herald. It shows that John and Jesus, as equal partners, launched an operation to overcome corruption in the Temple and re-initiate Israel.
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By: Lucinda Hawksley
ISBN: 9781845951542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 20th November 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumour and gossip than hard facts
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By: Jean Kennedy Smith
ISBN: 9780062444233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Kai Bird
ISBN: 9780451495242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2022
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Martin Pugh
ISBN: 9780099520436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The suffragettes outraged Victorian society but their personal lives were just as dramatic as their public actions. adn Adela, banished to Australia after a bitter rift.
The result is a narrative that reads like a novel, and a brilliant insight into the history of a family that changed the face of British society for ever.
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By: Robert A Caro
ISBN: 9781847922953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 23rd January 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Provides a perspective on Kennedy's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and penetrates deep into what it was like for him to assume a position of such power at a time of national crisis.
