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Salinger: A Biography.

The great writer lived much of his life as a recluse in a small New Hampshire town. This provides us with 'an eerie portrait of an increasingly eccentric writer whose attempts to maintain his privacy (were) actually a manipulative way of promoting...

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Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952.

Lady Diana emerges as highly intelligent, funny, fiercely loyal, a woman who disliked extravagance and who was often cripplingly shy. It is a record of a time of dramatic events and provides a fascinating lesson in long-gone social history. Features b/w...

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Dickens and Massachusetts: The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits.

Although Charles Dickens saw a lot he disliked in America, he enjoyed both his visits (25 years apart) to Massachusetts. It offered him an alternate view of the country, which influenced his writings, and he formed some deep and enduring friendships...

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Francis: Pope of Good Promise.

Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio was handed the Catholic Church's highest office at a time of institutional crisis. This examines his childhood and formation as a priest, and the extent to which both his religious orthodoxy and social conscience were...

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Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM.

Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-Female Genital Mutilation activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower. Safa was chosen to play the young Waris in a movie of...

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A Blue Hand: The Beats in India.

Allen Ginsberg and his troubled lover, Peter Orlovsky went to India in 1961 in a restless, comic and often tortured search for meaning. Baker draws on previously undiscovered letters, journals and memoirs to weave a many-layered literary mystery out of...

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Stieg Larsson: Our Days in Stockholm.

Larsson is best known as the author of the Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, etc.), but he was also a journalist and crucial protagonist in the battle against racism in Sweden and Europe. Baksi first met him in 1992 after organising a...

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Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds.

Diamonds! Just why are they so alluring? Bergstein provides us with a fascinating cultural biography of the diamond, largely focusing from the nineteenth century onward as she details: the source of diamonds; the diamond engagement ring's rise to...

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Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham.

She came from a wealthy family in the American South. Her father became Ambassador to Great Britain, and she became friends with members of the Bloomsbury Group, spending time at Ham Spray with the Carringtons. She was seductive, brilliant and drove both...

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Once A Saint: An Actor's Memoir.

Educated at Eton and RADA, Ogilvy had a long career as an actor. He has had roles in such programs as Upstairs Downstairs, and I, Claudius, and is best known for taking over the role of Simon Templar (The Saint) from Roger Moore. He appeared on the West...

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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond.

A biography that concentrates on Thoreau's earlier years, before his writing reached much of an audience, when he was just young man trying to find his way through life. It offers a fascinating look into the forces that shaped his character but also...

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The Destroyers.

As boys, the pair played a game called Destroyers - a game, he now realizes, they may never have stopped playing. Expansive, vivid and suspenseful, The Destroyers is a mesmerizing drama of power and fate, fathers and sons, self-invention and...

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Arthur Miller: A Playwright's Life and Works.

Publisher Description A timely concise biography of Arthur Miller, one of the most highly regarded and widely performed playwrights of the 20th century, whose classics of modern theatre have enthusiastic audiences all over the world. Enoch Brater...

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Cissie's Abattoir.

Growing up in Waterford, Ireland, this homage to his beloved Grandmother Cissie evokes mid-century Ireland - smoking in the car with the heater on full, The Late Late Show, Jackie Kennedy Onassis on a visit, as well as the excruciatingly funny Midnight...

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Peake in China: Memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake.

Dr Ernest Cromwell Peake was the first medical missionary to arrive in the region of Hankow, inland China. His memoirs provide a fascinating account of a Westerner in China at the turn of the last century. He witnessed the historic events of the Chinese...

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Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert.

Gustave Flaubert is one of the most famous French authors of modern times. During his lifetime he delighted and scandalised readers with his short stories and novels in particular his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. This beguiling idiosyncratic biography...

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The Other 'Ariel'.

Publisher Description With great care and critical insight, Lynda K. Bundtzen examines Plath's original typescript for "Ariel" and compares it to the version that was published by her estranged husband, Ted Hughes.

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Body of Truth: D.H. Lawrence: The Nomadic Years 1919-1930.

A poignant and revealing story of the artist at the close of his life. He was a quintessential English exile, scraping by on very little but with a zest for life undiminished by shaky health. Here we learn of his tempestuous relationship with Frieda and...

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Brief Lives: E. M. Forster.

A good little introduction to the work of E.M. Forster through the prism of his biography. He is still widely read today (A Room With a View, Howard's End and A Passage to India) and is known for his uncompromising criticism of hypocrisy. Though he was...

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Brief Lives: Alexander Pushkin.

Pushkin is Russia's greatest poet, with a prodigious output. He also experimented with other genres such as the short story and the historical novel. This lovely little biography is a succinct examination of Pushkin as a writer, lover, and public figure...

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Wits and Wives: Dr Johnson in the Company of Women.

Kate Chisholm argues it is time to consider how Johnson lived his life, not just what he said. She proposes that the heart of the man, the truth of his character, can more clearly be seen via his many - close, generous, equal - relationships with women...

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Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller.

I remember when reading Catch-22 for the first time that I howled with laughter at the paradox that Heller presented, but the tears flowing down my cheeks actually opened my eyes to the horror and comic absurdity of war - it was life changing. Anyone...

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Being Berlusconi: The Rise and Fall from Cosa Nostra to Bunga Bunga.

The first account to fully document the rise and fall of Italy's former prime minister. Silvio Berlusconi, with no political experience and with suspected ties to organized crime served as prime minister three times between 1994 and 2011 for a total of...

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Mailer: A Biography.

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