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By: David Price
ISBN: 9781789542714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The intimate telling of the life of an Avro Lancaster crew during World War Two, bringing together the story of this iconic RAF bomber and its service with the lives of those who flew her.
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By: Miriam Pawel
ISBN: 9781608197132
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"The Crusades of Cesar Chavez is a biography for readers who find real human beings more compelling than icons." --Los Angeles Times
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By: Lisa Jardine
ISBN: 9780007151752
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A biography of a brilliant, largely forgotten maverick a major figure in the 17th-century cultural and scientific revolutions.
(Paperback)
By: Shelley Puhak
ISBN: 9781801109178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Stephen R. Matthews
ISBN: 9781789462074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 11th June 2020
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
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The true story of one British child's journey from Nazi-occupied Guernsey to a German prison camp.
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By: Martin Pollack
ISBN: 9780571228010
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Many people discover the secret lives of their parents, few find they reveal a monster.
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By: Friedrich Reck
ISBN: 9781590175866
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2013
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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A moving testament of a decent if sometimes deluded man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world.
(Hardback)
By: John Eve
ISBN: 9781857152913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2006
Publisher: Everyman
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Evelyn was a scholar, a scientific amateur, a garden designer and architect, and a founder member of the Royal Society who published a magisterial book about trees, Sylva, and many pamphlets on assorted subjects. This work is a vivid portrait of the social, personal and political life of a society in ferment by one of its major players.
(Paperback)
By: Tariq Ali
ISBN: 9781786631114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Verso Books
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The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia
(Hardback)
By: Mardi Jo Link
ISBN: 9781455554744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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An inspiring and heartfelt memoir about the friendship between eight women forged over two decades.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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