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Who was Frank Sinatra? And how did who he was lead to him creating such incomparable music? In FRANK, fans finally have a biography that goes more deeply into who he really was than any previous...
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Available 03/05/2012
'I first found her in my teens in our family tree: an unknown, invisible great-aunt. "Who and where is Pannonica?" I asked my father, Jacob'
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A memoir by the iconic singer-songwriter chronicling her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed musical talents, to her present...
Available 10/04/2012
In her bestselling first volume of autobiography, <I>Testament of Youth</I>, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War, lamenting the destruction of...
Available 22/03/2012
A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the...
Paperback: £14.99
Available 01/03/2012
David Bowie - famously described as rock's greatest chameleon - has lived an extraordinary life. From his early years in post-war, bombed out Brixton to a troubled later childhood in Bromley, to...
Paperback: £9.99
In 1980 seven-year-old Sabine Kuegler and her family went to live in a remote jungle area of West Papua among the recently discovered Fayu - a tribe untouched by modern civilisation. Her childhood...
For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell’s poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries...
Paperback: £12.99
India’s lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone Ashoka turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion and set up a new...
Hardback: £25.00
Available 21/02/2012
Why is Christina Rossetti, probably the major woman poet of Victorian Britain, so invisible today? This is the central question addressed in this biography. Rossetti, author of Goblin Market , My...
Paperback: £10.99
From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of...
Audiobook (CD): £34.99