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Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India.

He had incredible drive, was a major political leader and pioneered the use of non-violent resistance. He has inspired civil rights movements all over the world. But he was not a saint. He was a pacifist, but the treatment of his wife and son was cruel;...

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Famous Scots and the Supernatural.

Halliday has been investigating the paranormal for over thirty years and here he examines the achievements of famous Scots through the ages showing how their lives and decisions have been affected by unusual and unlikely influences. He argues that the...

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Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance.

They were an unlikely couple. Mary Anne was 12 years older than Benjamin. Daughter of a sailor, she was married to someone else when they met. She was very eccentric, liable to misbehave, and, alarmingly for the social mores of Victorian Britain, was...

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Einstein At Home.

Einstein's well-known idiosyncrasies come to life in the post-war reminiscences of his housekeeper from 1927-1933 in Germany: his dishevelled hair that was only poorly trimmed by his myopic wife; his love of classical music; his playing of the violin to...

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Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen.

She evokes heroism through the telling of eight famous lives Achilles, Odysseus, Alcibiades, Cato, El Cid, Francis Drake, Wallenstein, and Garibaldi, a real portrait gallery of charismatic men and elegantly told. She provides fascinating anecdotes and...

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Shakespeare's Bastard: The Life of Sir William Davenant.

Reassesses the life and achievements of the man (1606-1668) who liked to be thought of as Shakespeare's illegitimate son. He was a Civil War hero (on the side of the Royalists) and Britains second Poet Laureate. He did a great deal to secure...

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Walter Dew: The Man Who Caught Crippen.

Dew was a detective constable in Whitechapel, and was involved in many important investigations of the day. This story of his life from his humble beginnings to chief inspector at Scotland Yard in charge of the most celebrated murder investigation of the...

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Lucia in the Age of Napoleon.

Publisher Description In 1797, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a Venetian statesman, was married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families of the once glorious maritime Republic. They were a...

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The Lifeboat Baronet: Launching the RNLI.

Sir William Hillary founded the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He was an impecunious baronet with a shady past', but he decided to do something to prevent the needless loss of life and property by shipwreck around the coast of the British Isles...

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King's Cross Kid: A London Childhood Between the Wars.

Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life. His story begins at the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag...

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The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret.

This offers an intriguing insight into the precarious glamour of life as a 19th-century courtesan. Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his...

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House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann.

Heinrich and Nelly's story is crossed with others from their circle of friends, relatives, and contemporaries: Heinrichs brother, Thomas Mann; his sister, Carla; their friends Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Doblin, and Joseph Roth; the writers James Joyce,...

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Casanova: Actor Lover Priest Spy.

Casanova is remembered today for his sex life. But he originally trained as a priest, and was at various times a violinist, soldier, alchemist, faith-healer and librarian. He made and lost a couple of fortunes, founded a state lottery, wrote 42 books,...

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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir.

Best known for her Tuscan trilogy Mayes offers a charming and thoughtful meditation of her youth in Fitzgerald, Georgia. She re-creates the intense relationships of the past, eventually escaping to California and finally falling in love with Tuscany and...

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Anna, Countess of the Covenant.

Publisher Description Like the heroine of an historical novel, Lady Anna Mackenzie lived a life shaped by extraordinary events. Famed for her beauty, Anna, daughter of Lord Seaforth, married Alexander Lindsay, later 1st Earl of Balcarres, at the age of...

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Caravans and Wedding Bands: Memories of a Romany Life.

Though she was a Romany (gypsy) she married an outsider (a gorger). Her memoir vividly captures a time when life was changing forever for these people. She describes her business as a clairvoyant and how she became famous, with celebrities lining up to...

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Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke.

He published only one small book of poems before he died in 1915 aged 21. It was on St. George's Day and he was on his way to Gallipoli . He was a charming and good looking young man and very gifted. He is revealed here as having suffered mental illness,...

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Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed.

Rickenbacker was the son of poor, German-speaking Swiss immigrants in Ohio. He overcame the spectre of his father's violent death, a debilitating handicap, and accusations of being a German spy to become the foremost American Ace in WWII and received the...

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Osama Bin Laden.

The author was chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999 and remained a counterterrorism analyst until 2004. Here he provides a hard-headed, closely reasoned portrait of bin Laden, showing him to be a figure of remarkable leadership skills,...

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Polly: Memories of an East End Girl.

Mary Rebecca Chambers, known to all as Polly, was born in 1911 and spent her formative years in the heart of the East End. The author, her son, has written down her stories of two world wars, the Depression and early post-war years. They are tales of...

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The Outcasts' Outcast: A Biography of Lord Longford.

Lord Longford was associated in the public mind with two causes in particular, his anti-pornography crusade and his campaign to have Myra Hindley, the convicted child murderer, freed on parole. Stanford has written a full and fascinating account of the...

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Friendship and Betrayal: Ambition and the Limits of Loyalty.

He explores the fragility of friendship in public life, examining three in detail. They are 17th century Anne of England and her intense attachment to one of her ladies-in-waiting; Benjamin Franklin and his colleague Joseph Galloway whose ideological...

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A Cat in the Window: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm.

Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind cosmopolitan London in the late 50s and bought a farm in Cornwall where they lived for nearly 50 years. Every couple of years he would publish a book about their lives and the animals they loved. This is about their...

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Oscar Slater: The Immortal Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Publisher Description In 1909, Oscar Slater, a German Jew, was convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal murder of Marion Gilchrist, an elderly Glasweigan spinster. His trial is known to have been one of the most scandalous miscarriages of...

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