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The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The Inspiration Behind the World's Greatest Detective
Author: Andrew Lycett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Questing was Sherlock Holmes's business. He famously adopted the latest forensic techniques, channelled the Victorian passion for enquiry, kept abreast of...
Born For War: One SAS Trooper's Extraordinary Account of the Falklands War
Author: Tony Hoare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A no holdout account of the Falklands War from a man who was in the fight.' Andy McNab Tony Hoare always...
Calling the Shots: How to Win in Football and Life
Author: David Dein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The long-awaited memoir from international football ambassador, former co-owner of Arsenal FC and legend of the game: David Dein. There's no...
The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820-43
Author: Charles Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Prisoner of Kathmandu is the story of Brian Hodgson, Britain's "father of Himalayan studies." Born in 1801, Hodgson joined the...
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Author: Joanna Biggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I took off my wedding ring - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
Author: Mary Trevelyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Completely fascinating, revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' - WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling . . . compulsive.' - MARGARET DRABBLE,...
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me
Author: Bernie Taupin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John 'Orgasmic....
Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue that seeks to restore to Romanticism its radicalism, and...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
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Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the legendary physicist's...
The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles' Hairdresser Who Defined an Era
Author: Leslie Cavendish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort
Author: Raffi Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a...
Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
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Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...