Biographies and Autobiographies
In their own words or from the pen of a biographer, the lives of others hold a magnetic intrigue for. Indulge your curiosity here…
Featured Books
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Letting Go A True Story of Murder, Loss and Survival by Rachel Nickell's Son Alex Hanscombe May 2017 Non-Fiction Book of the Month. A truly touching, considered, and frank life story. In 1992 Rachel Nickell was sexually assaulted and stabbed 49 times in front of her nearly three year... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017 
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Sound Stories of Hearing Lost and Found Bella Bathurst May 2017 Non-Fiction Book of the Month. Much needed light is shed on the isolating world of the deaf through the author’s own personal journey recounting how she gradually lost her hearing... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Girl from Aleppo Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom Nujeen Mustafa, Christina Lamb May 2017 Book of the Month. Poignant and honest this is one teenager’s experience of fleeing her homeland, a place that had once meant family and tradition but is now torn apart... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/04/2017
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East West Street On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Philippe Sands May 2017 Non-Fiction Book of the Month. This immersive book works as both a personal and public examination of the legal attempts to hold Nazi warmongers to account at Nuremberg, some of the first stirrings of... Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2017
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Dad, You Suck Tim Dowling Tim Dowling’s candid and highly humorous weekly Guardian column charts his life with his wife and three sons… unless they are cross with his exposés when they become ‘Sean his life partner and their three adopted research chimps’. Cherry picking... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017
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Blood Sisters Julie Shaw A tense, vivid, standalone tale set in the early 1980’s from the author of ‘The Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family’ series. Vicky and Lucy are best friends, when they leave school they take different paths as they fall... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/04/2017
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Four Mums in a Boat Janette Benaddi, Helen Butters, Niki Doeg, Frances Davies Ordinary women doing the extraordinary. This book is testament to following your dreams and that you can do anything you put your mind too if you work hard enough. Four middle aged friends who met at a local Saturday morning... Format: Hardback - Released: 09/03/2017
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Female Tommies The Frontline Women of the First World War Elisabeth Shipton The First World War saw one of the biggest ever changes in the demographics of warfare, as thousands of women donned uniforms and took an active part in conflict for the first time in history. Female Tommies looks at the... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2017
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to the Eagle Has Landed Mike Ripley, Lee Child An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. Drawing upon conversations with... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017
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Quiet Genius Bob Paisley, British Football's Greatest Manager Ian Herbert Quiet Genius is the story of how one modest man accomplished more than any other football manager, found his attributes largely unrecorded and undervalued and, in keeping with the gentler ways of his generation, did not seem to mind. It... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Battle Paul O'Connell As the heartbeat of Munster, British and Irish Lions captain in 2009, and captain of the first Ireland team to defend a Six Nations championship, O'Connell has emerged as perhaps the most beloved of the golden generation of Irish rugby... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Barry Sheene The Official Photographic Celebration of the Legendary Motorcycle Champion Rick Broadbent Published to mark the 40th anniversary of his second world championship win, this is the Barry Sheene story as told like never before by the people who knew him best. It delves deep into the family history to get inside... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Believe Nicola Adams Growing up in Leeds, Nicola stumbled into boxing in her local sports centre while her mum was at aerobics. Age 13 she decided that she would win an Olympic Gold: nobody was going to stop her. Years of relentless training,... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017
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Passchendaele A New History Nick Lloyd Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned - and many of the bodies were never found. The climax was one of the worst battles of... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Greedy Queen Eating with Victoria Annie Gray Voracious and adventurous in her tastes, Queen Victoria was head of state during a revolution in how we ate - from the highest tables to the most humble. Bursting with original research, The Greedy Queen considers Britain's most iconic monarch... Format: Hardback - Released: 11/05/2017
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The True Story of Maxwell Knight Maxwell Knight: MI5's Greatest Spymaster Henry Hemming Known simply as M, Maxwell Knight is seen today as one of MI5's greatest spymasters. He was the first in MI5 to grasp the potential of training female agents. This book reveals the names and stories of seven men and... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Pigeon Tunnel Stories from My Life John le Carre In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Other Exile The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost Abdul Rahman Azzam A tale of a real-life Robinson Crusoe and his total retreat from human society. Based on brand new research by A R Azzam, author of the acclaimed Saladin (Longman, 2007), The Other Exile is at once a historical adventure... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography Phil Collins As one of only three musicians to sell over 100 million records both in a group and as a solo artist, Collins breathes rare air. This book tells Phil Collins' candid, witty, unvarnished story of the songs and shows, the... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017
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Mockingbird Songs My Friendship with Harper Lee Wayne Flynt Beautifully written, intelligent and telling, this remarkable compendium of letters - a correspondence that lasted for a quarter century, from 1992 until Harper Lee's death in February 2016 - offers an incisive and compelling look into the mind, heart and... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Durrells of Corfu Michael Haag Michael Haag's book covers the background to the Durrell family's years in Corfu, including their time in India, where all the children were born, and where their father, a brilliant civil engineer, had died. It recalls the real life characters... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/04/2017
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