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In the mid 1970s, John Hanson Mitchell discovered over 2,000 antique glass plate negatives in the attic of an old estate in Massachusetts, the work of a little-known African American named Robert Gilbert. "Looking for Mr. Gilbert" is filled with music, natural history, African-American history, and the world of early photography as Mitchell uncovers the life of this remarkable American.

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Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot.

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[A] very welcome [biography] . . . Booth is an excellent guide to just why a Larkin poem can merit being called great. - Clive James, The New York Times Book Review

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As the creator of Sherlock Holmes, 'the world's most famous man who never was', Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favourite writers; his work is read with affection - and sometimes obsession - the world over. This is his biography.

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A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising.

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A story of a childhood defined by loneliness, the absence of a father and the grim experience of a Quaker boarding school. But with gun-wielding school masters and sub-standard living conditions, Quaker boarding school wasn't much better.

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The story of the most famous detective in the world; a fast-paced and exciting living portrait of a phenomenon and icon of popular culture.

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Offers a portrait of five relationships between artists who treated love as the last frontier for creative expression. This title sheds light on the love lives of Lou Andreas-Salome and Rainer Maria Rilke; Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe; Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir; Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo; and, Henry Miller and Anais Nin.

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Lively and immensely readable, The Science of Sherlock Holmes looks at the advancements in crime-solving and general science from late Victorian times to the modern day.

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A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022 A Waterstones Best Book of 2022: Biography

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The mystery of Hanging Rock has everlasting appeal, and the life of the author Joan Lindsay is just as fascinating

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Collects Kate Jennings' best short work from the last four decades. She writes incisively about manners and morals, politics and economics, feminism and the writing life. She describes America with the keen eye of an outsider, and looks back at Australia with an expatriate's frankness. A fragmented autobiography and a record of remarkable times.

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Enlisted in 1910 by a Cambridge University sponsored expedition of Western Australia, Grant Watson served as biologist and research aide to celebrated anthropologists A R Brown and Daisy Bates, recording Aboriginal marriage customs. This title presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E L Grant Watson.

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