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Paul Theroux
Figures in a Landscape: People and PlacesDrawing 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... -
Fiona Sampson
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browningow do I love thee? Let me count the ways,' Eliz...ow do I love thee? Let me count the ways,' Elizabeth Barrett Browning famously wrote, shortly before defying her family by running away to Italy with Robert Browning.But behind the romance of her e... -
Wendy Moore
Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military HospitalWhen 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... -
Angela Y. Davis
An AutobiographyA 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... -
Simon Callow
Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man BandIn 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... -
Stuart Cosgrove
Cassius X: A Legend in the MakingA young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on th...A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is training in the 5th Street Gym for his heavyweight title clash against the form... -
Philippe Sands
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi FugitiveAs Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto F...As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the aut... -
Rebecca Solnit
Orwell's RosesIn 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... -
Antoine Leiris
Life, AfterA 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... -
Jenni Calder
The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi MitchisonNaomi Mitchison was born towards the end of the...Naomi Mitchison was born towards the end of the nineteenth century and grew into an era of change, political, social and sexual. All of these she embraced and influenced in the course of her long l... -
James Campbell
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James BaldwinJames Baldwin was born into the squalor of a Ha...James Baldwin was born into the squalor of a Harlem tenement and transcended an early life of setbacks and racism. A storefront preacher at the age of fourteen, he supported his entire family - mot... -
Naim Attallah
A Scribbler in Soho: A Celebration of Auberon WaughProbably the greatest journalist since George O...Probably the greatest journalist since George Orwell, Auberon Waugh produced an astonishing amount of biting satire, spoof diaries and consistently riveting observation during three of the most tra...
