The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Susan Dworkin; Edith H. Beer
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Category: Biography
#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged ...Show more
The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi
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Category: Biography
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of mor ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher - The Authorised Biography Volume Two by Charles Moore
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Category: Biography | Series: Margaret Thatcher Biography Ser.
The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of h ...Show more
Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
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Category: Biography
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This ...Show more
Rosetta: A Scandalous True Story by Alexandra Joel
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Category: Biography
Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls. The pair reinvented themselves in London, where they beguiled European societ ...Show more
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré
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Category: Biography
"Recounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur -- by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr , the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the ...Show more
Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska
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Category: Biography
A stunning new memoir from one of Australia's most highly acclaimed writers Beginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years that have shaped her writing, her reading and the way ...Show more
Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith
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Category: Biography
Claire Bidwell Smith, an only child, is just fourteen years old when both of her charismatic parents are diagnosed with cancer. What follows is a coming-of-age story that is both heartbreaking and exhilarating. As Claire hurtles towards loss she throws herself at anything she thinks might help her cope ...Show more
Pour Me: A Life by A. A. Gill
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Category: Biography
'A. A. Gill, the man who makes a living getting beneath the skin of things, whether it's television, restaurants or places round the world - has skinned himself' Vanity Fair A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon. He ...Show more
The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt
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Category: Biography | Series: Valtesse de la Bigne
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 scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamourous existence hid a ...Show more
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly
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Category: Biography
‘A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.’ Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don’t confine themselves to grand houses and they were not wr ...Show more
Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography by Ingrid Carlberg
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Category: Biography
An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by ...Show more