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Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled ...
'Your brother or sister, it might be said, is your other self - your grander, sadder, braver, shrewder, uglier, slenderer self . Your sibling is your most ...
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The great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) worked with his second wife, Florence, on this account of his life. It was published under ...
In the last eight years of his life and he died when he was only thirty-three Denton Welch wrote three novels, umpteen short stories, hundreds ...
Boy is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood, including tales of sweet-shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plot ...
Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it ...
In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Drawn to the exquisite beauty of Africa, she spent her happiest ...
Charles Mingus, bassist, composer and bandleader, was one of the towering figures of American twentieth-century music. In this acclaimed memoir, Mingus documents his childhood on ...
It s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia s Far East. The tiger isn t ...
This book traces an Afghan refugee's extraordinary journey-from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern Afghanistan to his forced ...
The highly-acclaimed, definitive biography of one of history's most compelling artists
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any ...
Elizabeth David was born into a upper-class family and pursued a rebellious and bohemian life as a student of art and then an actress in ...
Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination ...
