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The Adventures of Casanova
Giacomo Casanova
Frances Wilson has selected Casanova’s most formative and brilliant adventures to provide the highlights of one of the most entertaining autobiographies ever written.
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An Innkeeper's Diary
John Fothergill
An intriguing, witty and provocative diary on the art of innkeeping by one of Britain's best known hoteliers.
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Aristocrats
Stella Tillyard
An irresistible tour de force, Stella Tillyard’s award-winning biography of the four great-grand-daughters of Charles II – Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox – has produced a history of the Georgian period as exciting as any novel.
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Blake
Peter Ackroyd
In his luminous, lyrical and highly acclaimed portrait of one of the most intriguing creative figures in history, Peter Ackroyd proves himself the definitive biographer of William Blake.
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The Brontes: A Life in Letters
Juliet Barker
Haworth parsonage sits above the village on the very edge of the Yorkshire moors. Windswept, treeless and bleakly beautiful, this was the landscape that nourished one of the most remarkable of all literary families, offering unfettered freedom and feeding the rampant imaginations of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell.
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Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Extensively revised and updated, with 600 new entries for 2007, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume biographical dictionary available, covering all areas of human achievement across the arts, science, technology, sport, politics, philosophy and business.
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Churchill: A Life
Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert's award-winning biography is a revealing portrait of one of the most remarkable men of the 20th century
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
For more than two years, the Franks and another Jewish family lived like ghosts in a cramped set of rooms at the back of an office building in Amsterdam.
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If This is a Man
Primo Levi
On arriving at Auschwitz in February 1944, more than 500 of his fellow deportees were sent straight to the gas chambers, but Primo Levi was one of the 'lucky' ones.
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Jane Austen's Letters
Jane Austen
In her correspondence as in her novels, Jane Austen's voice is unmistakable. Witty and observant, intimate and gossipy,
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My Early Life
Winston S. Churchill
For those who know Churchill only in his later years as a dignified statesman, the story of his early life is an unexpected delight – the stuff of a Boys’ Own adventure. Widely acknowledged as Churchill’s finest book, My Early Life describes his military adventures with enormous zest, but also paints a poignant picture of life before the First World War.
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