More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
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Category: Biography
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. It is a heady tale of the late Eighties and early Nineties, in which Stephen - ever more driven to create, perform and entertain - burned bright and partied hard with a host of famous and infamous friends ...Show more
The Wright Brothers: The Dramatic Story-Behind-the-Story by David McCullough
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Category: Biography
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how wa ...Show more
Stranger Thingies by John Birmingham
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Category: Biography
John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer. The pieces contained within t ...Show more
Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami
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Category: Biography
Alice Keppel, lover of Queen Victoria's son Edward VII and great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles, was the acceptable face of Edwardian adultery. She partnered the King for yachting at Cowes and helped him choose presents for his wife Queen Alexandra while remaining calmly married to her complaisant ...Show more
The Queen by A. N. Wilson
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Category: Biography
Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous critical and commercial success, turns his clear eye to our own Queen, Elizabeth II, as she turns 90. In this unusual and vibrant examination of the life and times of Britain's most iconic living f ...Show more
Six Square Metres : Reflections from a Small Garden by Margaret Simons
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Category: Biography
Life lessons from the ground up. Sometimes you reap what you sow. Sometimes you reap what other people sowed. Sometimes you haven't got a clue what you are sowing, and sometimes you just get lucky, or unlucky. All these things are true of life, as of gardening. In this thoughtful and beautifully observe ...Show more
Where Hummingbirds Dance by Susi Prescott
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Category: Biography
Susi Prescott had it all. A large, busy family, a school teaching job she loved, a home on Sydney's leafy North Shore. But with the sudden demise of her thirty-year marriage, her world crumbles. To everyone's surprise, especially her own, Susi makes a momentous decision. She packs up her former life an ...Show more
Dying to Wake Up by Rajiv Parti
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Category: Biography
Before his near-death experience, Dr Rajiv Parti was a wealthy man of science with a successful career as the Chief of Anaesthesiology at the Bakersfield Heart Hospital in California. All in all, Dr Parti was the last man to believe in heaven or hell - that is, until he saw them with his own eyes...When ...Show more
Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell
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Category: Biography
Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers. For anyone who wants to know more about the man, David Mendell's Obama is essential ...Show more
Forgotten Women: The Leaders by Zing Tsjeng
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Category: Biography | Series: Forgotten Women Ser.
Forgotten Women is a brand-new series, which will uncover the lost histories of the women who, over thousands of years, have refused to accept the hand they were dealt, and have changed the course of our futures forever. Forgotten Women: The Leaders shines a light on the rebellious women who defied the ...Show more
Year to Live by Stephen Levine
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Category: Biography
In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller "Who Dies?, " teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the highest form of wisdom. Levine decided to live ...Show more
High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese by Gay Talese
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Category: Biography
When Gay Talese left the New York Times in 1965 to write for Esquire, he brought with him a journalistic style entirely his own, which combined his literary sensibility and craftsmanship with a talent for cultural observation and an interest in American everyday life--in taboo topics and overlooked trut ...Show more