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Autobiographies, Biographies & Memoirs

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  • Figures in a Landscape : People and Places by Paul Theroux. Illustration two people on camels in the desert with large sun.
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    Paul Theroux

    Figures in a Landscape: People and Places
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    Drawing together a fascinating body of writing ...
    Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate...
  • Endell Street : The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital by Wendy Moore. Book cover has a colourised photograph of six military nurses.
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    Wendy Moore

    Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital
    £9.99
    When the First World War broke out, the suffrag...
    When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett An...
  • An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis. Book cover has a black and white photograph of the author sitting down.
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    Angela Y. Davis

    An Autobiography
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    A powerful and commanding account of the life o...
    A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis. Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Libera...
  • Orson Welles, Volume 3 : One-Man Band by Simon Callow. Book cover has a black and white photograph of Orson Wells smoking a cigar.
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    Simon Callow

    Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band
    £16.99
    In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic s...
    In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the tw...
  • Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit. Book cover has an illustration of white roses on a red background.
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    Rebecca Solnit

    Orwell's Roses
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    In 1936 Orwell planted roses at his cottage in ...
    In 1936 Orwell planted roses at his cottage in Hertfordshire. Over eighty years later Rebecca Solnit encounters them, and is inspired to explore a different side to the great writer and activist to...
  • Life, After by Antoine Leiris. Book cover has a black and white photograph of two people on swings.
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    Antoine Leiris

    Life, After
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    A moving account of single fatherhood in the wa...
    A moving account of single fatherhood in the wake of bereavement. When Antoine Leiris lost his wife, Hélène, in a terrorist attack in Paris, he was left to care for their baby alone. In this wry an...
  • Endless Flight : The Life of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim. Book cover has a photograph of a man in a hat and suit sitting down, with an illustration of a town behind him.
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    Keiron Pim

    Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth
    £25.00
    The first English language biography of the gre...
    The first English language biography of the great European writer Joseph Roth, exploring his genius and his tragic life story, lived in the shadow of war. The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologisi...
  • Land of Milk and Honey : Digressions of a Rural Dissident by Jamie Blackett. Book cover has an illustration of a farmer in a field with two cows, a red kite and a bee, with flowers in the foreground.
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    Jamie Blackett

    Land of Milk and Honey : Digressions of a Rural Dissident
    £20.00
    Land of Milk and Honey is the long-awaited sequ...
    Land of Milk and Honey is the long-awaited sequel to Red Rag to a Bull. Author Jamie Blackett finds himself in danger of losing the family estate as his beef business encounters difficulties and th...
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