Charles and Barbara Blackman: A Decade of Art and Love by Christabel Blackman
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Category: Biography & Memoir
When Christabel Blackman's mother turned ninety, they celebrated by sifting through Barbara's old documents: diaries, photos, manuscripts - and a fragile old folder, tied with a ribbon. This held letters from a love long past between Christabel's parents. It was a portal into a decade of art and love be ...Show more
As It Turns Out - Thinking about Edie and Andy by Alice Sedgwick Wohl
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Category: Biography & Memoir
As It Turns Out is a family story. Alice Sedgwick Woh! is writing to her brother Bobby, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1965, just before their sister Edie Sedgwick met Andy Warhol. After unexpectedly coming across Edie's image in a clip from Warhol's extraordinary film Outer and Inner Space, Wohl ...Show more
Lady Caroline Lamb - A Free Spirit by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb, whose scandalous love affair with Lord Byron overshadowed her own creativity and desire to break free from society's constraints. From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting ...Show more
War of the Windsors by Nigel Cawthorne
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew. Raised for vastly different futures, one burdened with the responsibility of becoming the future king ...Show more
The Fall - The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Null Ser.
THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH - AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. In his irresistibl ...Show more
Takedown by Laila Mickelwait
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Category: Biography & Memoir
For over a decade, Pornhub has been one of the most popular websites on the internet and its parent company created a billion-dollar empire from monetizing online pornography. But one day, anti-trafficking expert and mother of two Laila Mickelwait discovered a secret hidden in plain sight: Pornhub and ...Show more
Opening The Gates of Hell: The untold story of Herbert Kenny by Mark Hodkinson
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945. He kept his story from the world until a chance correspondence with a trainee journalist brought it to light. Now, forty years on, that reporter is ready to share Herbert's incr ...Show more
Churchill: a Life in Cartoons by Tim Benson
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Following an unrivalled political career that spanned a remarkable sixty years and reached both the heights and the depths of political fortune, Sir Winston Churchill undoubtedly became the world's most caricatured politician of all time. From entering Parliament in 1900 through to his retirement in 196 ...Show more
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here by Benji Waterhouse
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Humane, hilarious and heart-breaking - an enlightening and darkly comic window into the world of psychiatry 'Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent' HENRY MARSH, author of Do No Harm 'This is honestly my dream book. Both fascinating and bleakly funny' FERN BRADY, author of Strong Female C ...Show more
Defiant Dreams - The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz; Malaina Kapoor
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Category: Biography & Memoir
A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. "Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future."―BILL GATES Sola Mahfouz was born ...Show more
My Battle of Hastings by Xiaolu Guo
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy Embodiment, assimilation, integration - these are big words, but they seem to name a stage or a state I ought to be able to achieve in my brief life. In winter 2021, Xiaolu Guo moved into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront, a r ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon: the Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43 by Chips Channon
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'A masterpiece - a time machine that transports the reader back to British politics and high society at the end of the 1930s.' Robert Harris 'An unrivalled guide to the social and political life of Britain in the first half of the 20th century.' Books of the Year, The Times 'Fascinating.' New Statesma ...Show more